Walter Jupé

Walter Jupé (6 April 1916 – 16 November 1985) was a German actor, screenwriter and dramaturge.

Life

After his acting training with Helene Lackner, Jupé made his debut in 1943 on a stage in Oldenburg. He was primarily active in Weimar, before moving to Maxim-Gorki-Theater in East-Berlin, where he acted until 1982. In addition to his activity on the stage, Jupé also started a film and television career at the DEFA and Television of the GDR (DFF) in the middle of the 1950s, where he primarily played villains in historical films such as The Heyde-Sawade Affair (1963).

In collaboration with writer Friedrich Karl Kaul, he wrote more than 40 episodes of the thriller-like Fernsehpitavale (television pitavals), where past criminal cases were reviewed; some episodes of which were later realised as motion pictures, e.g. Lebende Ware (1966) or Der Mord, der nie verjährt (1967).

Selected filmography

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