Jürgen Holtz (10 August 1932 – 21 June 2020) was a German actor on stage and in film, and an artist and author.
[1] On stage he played leading roles in East Berlin, including with the Berliner Ensemble, and from 1983 in the West, in both classics such as Shakespeare and Brecht, whose Galileo he played at age 86, and contemporary theatre, such as the title role in the premiere of Moritz Tassow by Peter Hacks.
Born in Berlin, Holtz attended the Humboldt-Oberschule [de] in Berlin-Tegel in 1943, and from 1943 to 1945 the Oberschule in Neustadt bei Coburg, where he was evacuated.
[1] With other students, he left for East Berlin in 1949 when the director was fired;[2] there he went to boarding schools in Döllnkrug and Himmelpfort, achieving the Abitur in 1952.
[1] At age 86, Holtz performed from January 2019 the title role in Brecht's Leben des Galilei, adapted by Frank Castorf for the Berliner Ensemble to a six-hour event;[2][3] he sometimes appeared naked.