Mourning for TV and stage actors: Herbert Köfer died at the age of 100

The actor Herbert Köfer is dead. He died at the age of 100, as his widow announced. Köfer was on stage and in front of the camera for more than eight decades.

Herbert Köfer, one of the most famous actors in the GDR and also successful after the fall of the Berlin Wall, died on Saturday at the age of 100. This was announced by his widow Heike Köfer.

Born in Berlin, he was on stage for around 80 years. He was a theater and film actor, presenter and voice actor. Especially in his star role as Grandpa Paul Schmidt in the GDR television series “Pensioners never have time”, he played himself into the hearts of the audience.

From the very beginning, Köfer was a defining face of GDR television: in 1952 he read the first news there – in the “Current Camera”. He was also there for the last broadcast on New Year’s Eve 1991. The mime played in DEFA films such as “Nackt unter Wölfen” (1963) and, after the fall of the Wall, in popular TV series such as “In allerfreund”, “SOKO Leipzig” or “Ein starkes Team”. Work keeps him young, he had repeatedly emphasized.