
Fritz Diez
Born
February 28, 1901
Died
October 19, 1979 (78 years old)
Known For
Acting
Place of Birth
Meiningen, Thuringia, Germany
Fritz Diez was a German actor, producer, director and theater manager.
Grew up in a poor family, started earning a living as a boy. He was a newspaper salesman, moonlighted on tennis courts, then learned to be an electrician. Graduated from the Academy of Dramatic Art in Meiningen. Upon graduation, he was an actor in provincial theaters in Eisenach, Hanau, Flensburg, Eger, Baden-Baden. Fritz Dietz adhered to leftist views, so he emigrated with his wife to Switzerland in 1935. Played in theaters in Switzerland. In 1946 he returned to Germany. He worked as a general manager, actor and theater director in Dresden. Since the early 1960s at the Volksbühne Theater in Berlin. In the cinema since 1952 - "Shadow over the Islands" (Arne Roge, 1952). In 1955, for the first time, he played the role of Adolf Hitler in the famous film "Ernst Thalmann - the leader of his class". In 1967, he played the role of Hitler in two films of the DEFA studio at once. Soviet film director Yuri Ozerov invited Fritz Dietz to play the role of Hitler in the film epic "Liberation", but the actor was tired of portraying this image both in theater and in cinema, he was afraid of becoming a hostage to one role, and refused. Only under the influence of Erich Honecker, Fritz Dietz was forced to give his final consent to the performance of the role so hated by him. Fritz Dietz - the best performer of the role of Hitler of the XX century. An accurate psychological characterization of the character, an inflated and, at the same time, realistic drawing of the character of the Nazi leader - those features of Fritz Dietz's game that allowed him to play Hitler convincingly and non-cartoonically in the film epic "Liberation" (1968-1970). He played Hitler in the television series "Seventeen Moments of Spring" (1973), "Soldiers of Freedom" (1977) and other films. In 1980 Dietz's last film "Gluck im Hinterhaus" was released, in which he played the father of Karl Jägr.
Known For

The Great Commander Georgy Zhukov
1995

Glück im Hinterhaus
1980

Soldiers of Freedom
Adolf Hitler · (4 episodes)
1977

Choice of Purpose
Hitler
1975

Neues aus der Florentiner 73
1974

Der wunderbare Schatz
1973

Seventeen Moments of Spring
Adolf Hitler · (3 episodes)
1973

Hooray! We Have a Vacation!
1972

Liberation: The Last Assault
Adolf Hitler
1971

Liberation: Battle for Berlin
1971

Tscheljuskin
1970

Liberation: Direction of the Main Blow
Hitler
1970

Liberation: The Break Through
Hitler
1969
Rote Bergsteiger
Kurt Kunst · (13 episodes)
1968

Liberation: The Fire Bulge
Adolf Hitler
1968

I, Justice
Hitler
1968

Marketa Lazarová
Armiger (voice)
1967

Frozen Flashes
Adolf Hitler
1967

Flucht ins Schweigen
1966

Der Staatsanwalt hat das Wort
Nölle · (1 episode)
1965

Der Staatsanwalt hat das Wort
Hannemann · (1 episode)
1965

Carbide and Sorrel
1963

Carl von Ossietzky
Hellmut von Gerlach
1963

Der Teufelstaler
1963
Ein Mann und sein Schatten
1963

Die Nacht an der Autobahn
1962
Zwei Ziegen
(voice)
1961
Da helfen keine Pillen
Narrator (voice)
1961

Five Cartridges
Major Balanos
1960

Die Entscheidung des Dr. Ahrendt
1960

Zu jeder Stunde
1960

The Punch Bowl
1959

Musterknaben
1959

SAS 181 antwortet nicht
1959

Ware für Katalonien
Captain Gerner
1959

Im Sonderauftrag
Lieutenant Wegner
1959

Thomas Müntzer
Feldhauptmann Hoffmann
1956

Ernst Thälmann – Leader of the Working Class
Hitler
1955

Jacke wie Hose
1953

Schatten über den Inseln
1952