Horst Fritz Otto Giese[1] (31 January 1926 – 29 December 2008) was an East German actor.
[2] Giese had a long correspondence with actor Klaus Kinski, who has once visited him in East Berlin during 1956.
[3][4] Shortly before the building of the Berlin Wall, Giese bought a West-German television device, and was arrested by the Stasi.
[5] He was later accused of aiding the Stasi to arrest a man who helped residents of Berlin to flee to the west, who was subsequently imprisoned for 26 months.
He continued to produce three other radio dramas: The Extremely Peculiar Film Adventures of Mr. Lehmann, The Case of Leonardo and If Goebbels Would Have Gone to Japan.