Television viewers know him as a long-time ship’s doctor on the ZDF “Dream Ship”: The German television actor Horst Naumann is dead. The Duisburg resident died last Monday at the age of 98, as a ZDF spokeswoman told the German Press Agency when asked. Previously he had Munich Mercury reported about it.
Naumann was able to look back on a career in theater, film, television and radio plays that spanned more than 50 years. Of his around 150 roles, the TV audience probably particularly liked his portrayal of the ship’s doctor Dr. Horst Schröder is remembered in the ZDF series “Das Traumschiff”. He appeared in more than 50 episodes from 1983 to 2010. In the ZDF series “The Black Forest Clinic” he was Dr. from 1986 to 1989. Romans.
Naumann was a trained theater actor. His screen career began in the early 1950s in films from the East German DEFA studios. He moved to West Germany and was seen in numerous popular ZDF series from the 1960s onwards.
The Dresden native was also a sought-after voice actor with hundreds of speaking roles. For example, he gave his voice to the US actor Patrick McGoohan in the psychedelic spy series “Number 6”. He voiced the Italian Ugo Tognazzi in the queer cult film “A Cage Full of Fools”. He also occasionally stood in for Christopher Plummer and Pierre Brice in the dubbing studio.
He also appeared several times in various radio plays, for example in “The Three ???”. In the episode “The Three ??? and the Invisible Enemy” he played the shady Ed Snabel. He was also the narrator on “Masters of the Universe.” His widow Martina Linn-Naumann wrote in an obituary: “We will fulfill his last wish and he will live on in our garden as a real hawthorn tree.”