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Bleibtreu used to forge his mother’s signature
Moritz Bleibtreu plays the art forger Konrad Kujau in the new series “Faking Hitler”. Photo: Markus Scholz / dpa
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Forging a parent’s signature for an apology at school – that’s what many people used to do. Also actor Moritz Bleibtreu. However, he failed to get another signature.
As a teenager, the Hamburg actor Moritz Bleibtreu occasionally forged his mother’s signature.
«Fortunately, my mother has a very simple one. I’ve done that a couple of times. But that’s the only thing I’ve faked, ”the 50-year-old told the dpa. He used that mainly to excuse not to have to go to school.
«Or if you had to give something to countersign. When you overheard a letter like that that said, “Your son behaved very terribly. Drawn and read.” And then I did that too. ” His mother did not find out about it. “But I told her at some point.”
“Faking Hitler”
Bleibtreu plays the art forger Konrad Kujau in the new series “Faking Hitler”, which is available on the RTL + streaming service. He had forged Adolf Hitler’s diaries in the early 1980s and sold them to the news magazine Stern for a lot of money. The scandal was exposed a little later. Lars Eidinger, Daniel Donskoy, Ulrich Tukur and Sinje Irslinger play alongside Bleibtreus in the six-part series.
Hand double
In the series, he did not himself take over the scenes in which, as Kujau, he forged Hitler’s writing. “Of course not. They have found a good hand double. ” He is still impressed today that his colleague Uwe Ochsenknecht in the film “Schtonk!” wrote large parts of the diary himself. “This is impressive. He must have sat on it for a long, long time. I really couldn’t have done that so well. “