Background
Lamprecht was born in Berlin, the son of a taxi driver.
Lamprecht was born in Berlin, the son of a taxi driver.
After training at the Max Reinhardt Seminar, he had his first theatre engagement at the Schauspielhaus Bochum. He joined the Theater Oberhausen in 1959, and remained with them until 1961. His roles there included Stanley Kowalski in A Streetcar Named Desire and John in Gerhart Hauptmann"s The Rats.
Lamprecht began appearing on television in the 1960s.
He was cast in the series Kara Ben Nemsi Effendi, which ran from 1973 to 1975. His first film role was in Ottokar Runze"s A Knife in the Back (1975).
He played the leading role in the 1979 television movie Frontiers of Darkness. In 1973, filmmaker Rainer Werner Fassbinder cast Lamprecht in his series World on a Wire.
He recruited him again for The Marriage of Maria Braun (1979).
Fassbinder then 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. Lamprecht had a role in the World World War II submarine film Das Boot (1981), playing the captain of the Steamship Weser, and has continued to appear regularly on German television Personal life
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.