Traugott Buhre was a German

Germany

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 actor.

Buhre was born at Insterburg, East Prussia

East Prussia

East Prussia is the main part of the region of Prussia along the southeastern Baltic Coast from the 13th century to the end of World War II in May 1945. From 1772–1829 and 1878–1945, the Province of East Prussia was part of the German state of Prussia. The capital city was Königsberg.East Prussia...

, Germany (today Chernyakhovsk, Russia

Russia

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) the son of a Lutheran Pastor. His parents divorced in his childhood and after World War II he started his actor's education at the stage school of Hanover

Hanover

Hanover or Hannover, on the river Leine, is the capital of the federal state of Lower Saxony , Germany and was once by personal union the family seat of the Hanoverian Kings of Great Britain, under their title as the dukes of Brunswick-Lüneburg...

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Buhre appeared at the Frankonian Theater of Wetzhausen. He was a member of the ensembles of the Badisches Staatstheater Karlsruhe

Badisches Staatstheater Karlsruhe

The Badisches Staatstheater Karlsruhe is a theatre and opera house in Karlsruhe, Germany. It has existed in its present form and place at Ettlinger Tor since 1975...

, the Staatstheater Stuttgart

Staatstheater Stuttgart

The Staatstheater Stuttgart ' is an opera house in Stuttgart, Germany. It is also known locally as the Grosses Haus, having been the larger of two theatres of the former Königliche Hoftheater....

, the Schauspielhaus Bochum

Bochum

Bochum is a city in North Rhine-Westphalia, western Germany. It is located in the Ruhr area and is surrounded by the cities of Essen, Gelsenkirchen, Herne, Castrop-Rauxel, Dortmund, Witten and Hattingen.-History:...

, Thalia-Theater

Thalia Theater (Hamburg)

The Thalia Theater is one of the three state-owned theatres in Hamburg, Germany. It was founded in 1843 by Charles Maurice Schwartzenberger and named after the muse Thalia...

 Hamburg

Hamburg

-History:The first historic name for the city was, according to Claudius Ptolemy's reports, Treva.But the city takes its modern name, Hamburg, from the first permanent building on the site, a castle whose construction was ordered by the Emperor Charlemagne in AD 808...

, Deutsches Schauspielhaus

Deutsches Schauspielhaus

The Deutsches Schauspielhaus is a theatre in the St. Georg quarter of the city of Hamburg, Germany. With a capacity for 1192 spectators, it places it as Germany's largest theatre...

 Hamburg, the Schaubühne

Schaubühne

The Schaubühne am Lehniner Platz is a famous theatre in the Wilmersdorf district of Berlin, located at almost the middle of the famous Kurfürstendamm. It is a conversion of the Kino Universum, designed by Erich Mendelsohn in 1926. This was perhaps the first Modernist cinema built in the world, as...

 in Berlin

Berlin

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, Burgtheater

Burgtheater

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 in Vienna

Vienna

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 and the Berliner Ensemble

Berliner Ensemble

The Berliner Ensemble is a German theatre company established by playwright Bertolt Brecht and his wife, Helene Weigel in January 1949 in East Berlin...

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His last stage appearance was in Thomas Bernhard's Immanuel Kant at the Schauspielhaus Zürich

Schauspielhaus Zürich

The Schauspielhaus Zürich is one of the most prominent and important theatres in the German-speaking world. It is also known as "Pfauenbühne" after its location on the Pfauen Square in Zürich, Switzerland. The large theatre has 750 seats...

 in 2009.

Buhre was popular among a wider audience for his TV roles in Derrick

Derrick (TV series)

Derrick is a German TV series produced by Telenova Film und Fernsehproduktion in association with ZDF, ORF and SRG between 1974 and 1998 about Detective Chief Inspector Stephan Derrick and his loyal assistant Inspector Harry Klein , who solve murder cases in Munich and surroundings Derrick is a...

and Tatort

Tatort

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and in the German movie production Anatomy

Anatomy (film)

Anatomy is a 2000 German horror film written and directed by Stefan Ruzowitzky that stars Franka Potente. A sequel, Anatomy 2 was released in 2003...

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Buhre was married twice and had seven children.

Selected filmography

• Derrick
  Derrick (TV series)
  Derrick is a German TV series produced by Telenova Film und Fernsehproduktion in association with ZDF, ORF and SRG between 1974 and 1998 about Detective Chief Inspector Stephan Derrick and his loyal assistant Inspector Harry Klein , who solve murder cases in Munich and surroundings Derrick is a...
  
  
  • Season 2, Episode 9: "Ein Koffer aus Salzburg" (1975)
  • Season 4, Episode 3: "Eine Nacht im Oktober" (1977)
  • Season 5, Episode 4: "Ein Hinterhalt" (1978)
  • Season 9, Episode 2: "Eine Falle für Derrick" (1982)
• Just a Matter of Duty
  Just a Matter of Duty
  Just a Matter of Duty is a 1993 German drama film directed by Thomas Mitscherlich. It was entered into the 43rd Berlin International Film Festival.-Cast:* Marquard Bohm as Jean Blome / Hans Blome* Traugott Buhre as Direktor der Dresdner Bank...
  
  (1992)

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