TV actor
“Dream Ship” ship doctor Horst Naumann dies
The actor Horst Naumann has died at the age of 98. photo
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Viewers knew Horst Naumann primarily as a friendly doctor from ZDF. But in over 50 years of career, the actor has left behind a tremendous opus. For radio play fans he was a star.
Millions of viewers know him as a long-time ship’s doctor on the ZDF “Dream Ship”: the popular German television actor Horst Naumann is dead.
The man from Duisburg died last Monday at the age of 98, as a ZDF spokeswoman told the German Press Agency when asked. The “Münchner Merkur” had previously reported on 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.
Horst Naumann’s career
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.
Appearances in several radio plays
“Radio play fans will also remember him with his incomparable voice in numerous radio plays,” emphasized industry expert Thomas Birker in an obituary on Instagram. Naumann wasn’t just the narrator on “Masters of the Universe.” For example, he also voiced Locke’s father in “Tom & Locke”. In the series “The Three ???” he also appeared several times. In the episode “The Three ??? and the Invisible Enemy” he played the shady Ed Snabel.
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.”