He was 100 years old

He was 100 years old

“The old” star Rolf Schimpf is dead

As chief commissioner Leo Kress in the ZDF crime series “The Alte”, he became famous: Rolf Schimpf. Now the actor has died at the age of 100.

Rolf Schimpf is dead. The long-time ZDF star from “The Alte” died at the age of 100. This was confirmed by his biographer Detlef Vetten from the German Press Agency. First, the Bavarian Radio and the “Bild” newspaper reported on Saturday. They referred to their own information, both on the family environment and the facility in which Schimpf lived.

Most recently, the actor was housed in a nursing home, suffered from a dementia. In November last year he celebrated his 100th birthday with the family and with close friends. There is said to have been good food, white sausages and non -alcoholic beer. Schimpf is dead around five months later.

As chief commissioner Leo Kress, the actor went on a criminal hunting in the ZDF crime series “The Alte”. He shaped the format of success for around 20 years Munich. So much that the Bavarian Ministry of the Interior also became aware of it. In 1989 he was appointed honorary commissioner. “Refuge, ingenious and always personable, we imagine a good police officer nowadays,” said CSU Interior Minister Joachim Herrmann on the occasion of the 100th birthday. With his acting performance, he had certainly inspired some to choose a police career.

The acting was not the first choice of young Rolf Schimpf. After the Second World War, he wanted to study medicine in my early 20s, but did not get a place of study. So he decided to turn his passion for hunting and fishing and wrote down for forestry, but did not last long. It was too exhausting and too long for him, recalled Schimpf. Only when he came to the theater and tried to act in acting did he get clarity. “Then it was going, then I knew where I belonged!”

He attended the drama school in Stuttgart and played theater since the 1950s. In addition to his parade role on ZDF, he also stood for the “crime scene” in front of the camera or for the television rows “SOKO 5113” and “Mensch Bachmann”. Overall, Schimpf as an actor in front of the camera participated in over 120 productions.

In 2007 he got out of “the old”. After that it became quiet around him. He played one of his last roles in 2009 as Dr. Korbinian Niederbühl in the ARD telenovela “Sturm der Liebe”. A year later he moved to a senior citizen residence in Munich with his wife, actress Ilse Zielstorff. When his wife died after almost 50 happy years of marriage in 2015, Schimpf was insertable. In 2023 he had to give up the two -room apartment in the senior residence for financial reasons at the age of 99.

Then Schimpf moved into a cheaper facility. “The patients are kept and fed in the old people’s home in the south of Munich. There is no time for more,” wrote long -time companions in their biography “survived – Rolf Schimpf was 100” at the end of November last year. Now there is certainty: the place of nursing should become the place where Schimpf now died.