Klaus Barner’s career lasted around 50 years. During this time he can be seen in numerous TV formats. But that’s not all: Many people may also know the actor as a speaker for radio plays. Barner has now died at the age of 89.
The television and theater actor Klaus Barner is dead. He died at the age of 89, according to information from his family.
Barner has appeared in more than 60 roles on television during his 50-year career. The viewers know him from the youth film “Die Vorstadtkrokodile” from 1977, in which he played the father of the young bully Egon (Martin Semmelrogge).
He celebrated his breakthrough on television in 1974 in the literary adaptation “Griseldis” alongside Sabine Sinjen. He also appeared in the crime series “Derrick”, “Tatort” and “SOKO 5113”, the family series “Die Drombuschs” and in the entertainment classic “Das Traumschiff”. There were important roles for him in the ZDF Christmas series “The Black Boomerang” and the ARD multi-part series “The Troubled Head”.
Barner began his career in theater before accepting his first film roles in the mid-1950s. He was also a sought-after speaker and storyteller, who was valued in the industry for his skillful handling of complicated texts. Among the numerous radio plays in which he was heard were the Georges Simenon setting “The Man Who Watched the Trains” (1998) and the crime thriller “Sherlock Holmes and the Whitechapel Murders” (1997), in which he spoke to the detective.
Barner has lived a very reclusive life for the past 20 years. According to his daughter Nora, who is also an actress, his death was a few weeks ago. On July 26, near Tübingen, he “passed away peacefully after a short, serious illness.”
