A rain of heavy winter day in February 2019. The sky over Hamburg hangs low over the river Elbe. In his apartment in St. Pauli, we sit together, have a Cup of instant coffee. Jan and I, the author of “Jan Fedder – Immortal” (Heyne Verlag) that of Fedder authorized memories that have just appeared. For a year I was allowed to accompany, Tim Pröse, for Jan Fedder. Shortly before his death, I sent him the tell full manuscript ended, with many of his quotes – the authorized biography, in the Jan, his wife, Marion, of friends and companions talk about him, the story of his life.
on the first day, it radioed in the “big city area”
Since 1992, Jan, who had previously been made famous in “The boat”, the police officer Dirk Matthies played. And it sparked in the first Minute. As he came through the door for the first day of shooting, it was immediately clear that it is not him, a door was opened, but that he had opened up to the “big city area” a door. He pulled on the black leather jacket and was Dirk Matthies. And when he came to the rotary home in his apartment in St. Pauli, then he was still. Rather, Dirk Matthies to Jan Fedder. “If I’m doing something, then one hundred percent!”
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contains The biography “Jan Fedder – Immortal” (Heyne Verlag, 252 pages, 22 euros) by Tim Pröse many previously unknown Interviews and photos.
“Jan Fedder – Immortal” on Amazon. Jan Fedder, who was raised in the deepest of St. Pauli, with all its precipices, recalls: “My boys from the neighborhood thought I was tick not right. The Director Jürgen Roland sent me a Casting request for the main role, Dirk Matthies in the urban area. That was really a blast. Could not believe the all. I as a police officer – so-n-series hack. Also, my acting colleagues hit on the leg. I real-time is left with the decision. Four Months. COP or breakage. I would have to be Criminal… And then was clear for me: Now I’m a COP!“
Oiled and hung over to the audition
it was Then that Jürgen Roland was looking for a youngster that turns a bed scene with Mareike Carrière, the later strips colleague of Jan. “Somehow the have found but no.” Fedder looks back: “Jürgen saw, finally, a photo of me and says: to believe no man, that a guy with Mareike went to bed.’ What do we do now? Is the only Chance this guy!“ And so he calls Jan simply times personally. Heyne Verlag
but it had tags celebrated in birthday in and took just one of his favorite vintage car, a Peugeot, from the workshop. This car had no seats, and so chuggled Jan at a walking pace, and on a petrol canister squatting from Altona to his apartment in St. Pauli. Oiled, the rest drunk from the celebrations, in work overalls.
So his girlfriend at the time Connie drove her Jan there. “I could not go, such a hangover I had. And so I am because. Still in work coveralls. And before a show: “Fifty years of ARD”, and as Dieter Hildebrandt appeared and made jokes about the ARD, and none of them laughed. It only celebrities were there. None of them laughed. There were good jokes.
Rotzigkeit on the role of his life
And then I thought: What the hell is wrong with these Celebrities?’ And Jürgen Roland was sitting in between. So I went to the show in this Studio. To him. He had a long Afghan coat, and I said to him, ‘ You’re a coward, you are! You are all cowards! At the time of your event, no one laughed at the jokes of Hildebrandt, and the were good. What the fuck is that?’ And so I left the so together shit that sat and thought ,For God’s sake …'”
slowly, Jürgen Roland out of his shock dissolved, and a half a lot more offended, but impressed with this angry “audition”, and says laconically, as his role candidate can: “Well, it’s no use. We find now anyway, and no other more.“ The only reason why the production Manager to Jan says: Okay, tomorrow morning at seven, here, and here. Later today, the Manager still calls Mareike Carrière, to warn you: “For God’s sake, for God’s sake!”, he stammers out to her. “But I can find no other more. Get dressed warm! Because tomorrow … there’s a Berserker comes…. This is very bad. Really. But you’ll get there … I’m with you. I’ll protect you.“
The Berserker hits the target
And then this Berserker appeared on the next day a changed man. A good-humored young man who played his role perfectly. Everything is wonderful. And Jürgen Roland to storm after the shooting in the production office and yells at his people: “Why nobody in this town tells me that there is such a good actor in Hamburg?!” This was the beginning of their friendship. And Jan had found the role of his life.
This is a by the authors Tim Pröse a slightly modified excerpt from the just published biography, “Jan Fedder – Immortal” (Heyne Verlag, 22 Euro, 252 pages, many previously unknown photographs), for which the author Jan Fedder in his last year of life was accompanied. German film ball: Uschi Glas found touching words for Jan Fedder PCP German film ball: Uschi Glas touching words for Jan Fedder
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