Career
He is considered one of the greatest actors Bergen has produced in recent times, with roles such as Bosch, in "January Herwitz", Wing Rice in Nordahl Grieg"s "Our Honor and Our Glory", a variety of roles in Shakespeare plays, Njegus in "The Merry Widow", Leopold in "Summer in the Tyrol", and Loman in Death of a Salesman. He will be remembered for the songs "The tram song" and "Bauekorpsgutten". Lindtner began his career as an 8-year-old where he got the role as the smallest Claus in "Journey to the Christmas Star" in 1925.
After that he played in nearly 400 different productions.
Through most of his career, he collaborated extensively with Rolf Berntzen, and the two became known as a Bergen radarpar on stage. He lived in Bergen all his life, with the exception of two periods in Trondheim (1946-1948 and 1979-1982) and in the period 1959–1961 when he was at the Cecil Theatre in Oslo.
He had three children, one of which followed in his father"s footsteps, actor Lasse Lindtner. Lothar Lindtner died in Bergen at the age of 87 years.
