Helmut Fischer

In 1972 he played in the Bavarian Televisions first episode of the Tatort series as assistant to thentime Inspector Veigl played by Gustl Bayrhammer When Veigl was retired in 1981 Fischer was promoted to Commissioner Ludwig Lenz and as such he solved a total of seven cases until 1987 In 1974 Helmut Fischer in his favourite café Münchner Freiheit met director Helmut Dietl The latter recognised his friends true talent and in 1980 gave him a major role in the TV series Der ganz normale Wahnsinn in which Fischer for the first time got to play a manquéed playboy The final breakthrough came in 1983 with Helmut Fischers series Monaco Franze der ewige Stenz Again Helmut Dietl was the director Patrick Süskind cooperated on the scripts to almost all episodes In the series which has now reached cult status among fans Fischer alongside Ruth Maria Kubitschek Karl Obermayr and Erni Singerl in inimitable way embodied an easygoing dandy charmer and ladies men who always manages to master awkward situations with a sheepy smile Famous sayings by the character role like A bisserl was geht immer Anything goes were adapted into daily language use Matching this Fischer also recorded a successful single titled Spatzl Schau wia i schau Sweetheart Look like Im looking From now on the actor was busy with roles whose character were always based on Stenz though Until the end of his life Fischer kept assuring that the figure of Monaco Franze had nothing to do with his real life In the mid1980s Fischer played with Thomas Gottschalk and Michael Winslow in the two Zärtliche Chaoten films from 1987 to 1992 he could be seen as Josefbärli along Veronika Fitz and Ilse Neubauer in the series Die Hausmeisterin The House Keeper Fischer enjoyed his last success in the series Ein Schloß am Wörthersee A castle on theWörthersee where he played the absentminded estate manager Leo Laxeneder and as the fictitious mayor of Hohenwaldau Peter Elfinger in Peter and Paul alongside Hans Clarin In 1993 Helmut Fischer was diagnosed with cancer He kept this diagnosis largely secret only his wife Utta knew about it In 1996 the actor underwent treatment by the wellknown and controversial cancer specialist Julius Hackethal In November he celebrated his 70th anniversary with a great number of friends and colleagues At the occasion the told the press Das Leben macht sich ja mehr und mehr aus dem Staub Life is more and more buzzing off Eight months later Fischer to the surprise of the common public died in Chiemgau More than 1000 people participated in the funeral service at the mortuary of Munichs northern cemetery and the subsequent funeral at the Bogenhausen cemetery gravesite no 242 on 19 June 1997 In his funeral speech Munichs Lord Mayor Christian Ude a friend and neighbour of Fischer said  Populär war er in ganz Deutschland in München wurde er geliebt He was popular throughout Germany in Munich he was loved