- He and his partner Claudia Amm were severely wounded by a mad gunman in Bad Reichenhall, Germany (altogether there were 6 injured and 4 dead including the 16-year-old amok runner who committed suicide) (November 1, 1999)
- The first actor to appear on screen in the long running German police series Tatort (1970).
- He was first announced as part of the cast of Remember (2015), but then had to be replaced because of a knee injury. Finally actor Jürgen Prochnow was cast. While Lamprecht had nearly the right age for the part of 'Rudy Kurlander #4', Prochnow was much younger, so extensive special make-up had to be used to make him look older.
- Trained with European Heavyweight Champion Bubi Scholz when he was an amateur boxer in his youth.
- Made an apprenticeship as orthopedic mechanic (someone who makes prosthesis's) until he attended classes at the Max Reinhardt acting school in Berlin.
- He published his autobiography "Und wehmütig bin ich immer noch. Eine Jugend in Berlin" ("I'm still melancholy. A youth in Berlin") in 2002.
- Specialised in playing loners and tough guys with a soft centre.
- Trained at the Max Reinhardt Academy in Berlin and made his stage debut at the Schiller Theater in 1954.
- Son of a taxi driver. As a kid earned his pocket money by carrying suitcases for passengers at a railway station.
- Toward the end of World War II, when he was 15, Günter served as a paramedic and buried bodies during the Battle of Berlin.
- In 1982, Lamprecht won the actor's prize "Chaplin-Schuh".
- He made his movie debut in 1975 in Ottokar Runze's "Das Messer im Rücken" ("Knife in the Back") and became known to a larger audience for his role as bankrupt baker Georg Baum in Erwin Keusch's "Das Brot des Bäckers" ("Baker's Bread").
- Lamprecht's memoirs, And Sadly I'm Still: A Youth in Berlin was published in 2000, where he discusses his experiences in Nazi Germany and the postwar years. His second book, A Hellish Thing, Life was published in 2007.
- After the war, he trained as an orthopedic technician, a trade he practiced for a few years. In his free time he danced at a West Berlin jazz club frequented by actors. Getting to know the performers there inspired him to pursue a stage career, he recalled in an interview with the German broadcaster ARD in 2020.
- In Oberhausen, where he worked from 1959 to 1961, he won praise for his portrayal of Stanley Kowalski in Tennessee Williams's "A Streetcar Named Desire.".
- At the Hagen Short Film Festival Eat My Shorts, Günter Lamprecht was awarded the Honorary Actor Award 2018.
- Filmmaker Rainer Werner Fassbinder gave Lamprecht the lead role of Franz Biberkopf in his acclaimed 1980 miniseries Berlin Alexanderplatz, based on Alfred Döblin's 1929 novel of the same name. Turner Classic Movies wrote of his performance: "Lamprecht was quite extraordinary as the hapless center of gravity as Biberkopf is drawn into and betrayed by Berlin's underworld in the days spanning from the end of WWI to the Nazi era."[3] The role won him Best Actor at the Munich Film Festival, and he came in third place at the American National Society of Film Critics Awards.
- In 2007, he received both the Ehrenpreis des Hessischen Ministerpräsidenten for exceptional achievements in film and television and the Herbert-Strate-Preis for his contributions to German cinema. Also in 2007, Lamprecht was one of the leads in the multi-award winning short "Der Fährmann".
- In 1976, Lamprecht won the Ernst Lubitsch Award for his performance in Das Brot des Bäckers , and in 1978 won the Goldene Kamera award for Best German Actor for Rückfälle.
- He had early engagements with theater companies in two West German cities, Bochum and Oberhausen.
- In the 1990s, Günter Lamprecht became a familiar face to television viewers in the newly reunified Germany as the lovable police inspector Franz Markowitz on the long-running crime procedural "Tatort.".
- Before "Berlin Alexanderplatz," Günter Lamprecht appeared in a number of Rainer Werner Fassbinder's films and television series, including the 1973 science-fiction epic "The World on a Wire" and the director's breakthrough international hit, "The Marriage of Maria Braun," in 1979. But it was his herculean performance in "Berlin Alexanderplatz" that won him the greatest praise of his career. Reviewing its United States theatrical release in 1983 Vincent Canby of The New York Times wrote: "At the center of the film is the remarkable performance of Günter Lamprecht as Franz. He is a large, doughy-looking fellow with small eyes, a big stomach and a certain sweetness that makes understandable the loyalty he inspires in the series of women who live with him. Mr. Lamprecht must rant, rave, laugh crazily, booze, brawl and never - not for a minute - be ridiculous while behaving in ridiculous ways.".
- From 1955 to 1985, Lamprecht performed at theaters in Bochum, Oberhausen, Wiesbaden, Heidelberg, Essen, Cologne, Hamburg, at Berlin's Freie Volksbühne and at Recklinghausen Festival and Schwäbisch Hall Festival.
- Lamprecht also appeared in several radio plays from 1990 till 2017.
- After finishing elementary school, he started as a roofer's apprentice, worked at a button factory, and for three years as a trained orthopedic technician.
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