The actor Günter Lamprecht, who became famous with Fassbinder films and as a "Tatort" commissioner, is dead. He died on October 4 at the age of 92 in Bad Godesberg in Bonn, as his agent Antje Schlag told the German Press Agency on Friday . Lamprecht was celebrated by critics and audiences alike for his prime role as Franz Biberkopf in Rainer Werner Fassbinder's miniseries "Berlin Alexanderplatz". He gained popularity in the 1990s through the role of Berlin "Tatort" inspector Franz Markowitz. Lamprecht leaves behind his wife and a daughter.

Lamprecht was born on January 21, 1930 in Berlin. Shortly before the end of the war he was drafted as a Hitler Youth and was wounded in the final days of the war. From 1953 he took private acting lessons in Berlin.

He made his debut at the Schiller-Theater, followed by a permanent engagement at the Schauspielhaus Bochum, where he returned in 1974 after stints on all the major stages in Germany and played under Peter Zadek. It was here that he met Rainer Werner Fassbinder for the first time. Overall, Lamprecht played about 75 leading and title roles at the theater.

Lamprecht played his first leading film role in 1976 in "The Baker's Bread" and won the Lubitsch Prize with it. Well over 150 film and television roles followed, accompanied by numerous awards.