When the war ended, in May 1945, Frohriep, by now aged 17, found that his home city had become part of the Soviet occupation zone in what remained of Germany.
[1] Fairly early on he also became involved with the FDJ (Freie Deutsche Jugend / Free German Youth) amateur theatre movement.
[1] In Wolf Among Wolves (1965, but based on a novel written three decades earlier by Hans Fallada) he played the part of Lt. Fritz, an officer in the illicit Black Reichswehr, for which he won a "silver laurel crown" (Silber Lorbeer).
[4] In 1966 he appeared in the biographical film "No victory without a fight" ("Ohne Kampf kein Sieg"), portraying the Mercedes-Benz racing driver Manfred von Brauchitsch.
[7] His wife had suspended her own career as an actress to concentrate on their family when they had married some two decades earlier, but now she started to study Psychology, after which she relocated to Switzerland and opened a Psychotherapy practice in Walenstadt as Kati Székely-Frohriep.
In a reunited Germany, the National Broadcaster, ARD decided that "Polizeiruf 110" was one of a handful of previously East German television shows that should have a future.