Walter Jupé

Walter Jupé (6 April 1916 – 16 November 1985) was a German actor, screenwriter and dramaturg.

After his acting training with Helene Lackner, Jupé made his debut 1943 on a stage in Oldenburg, played then in Weimar, before shifting to Maxim-Gorki-Theater in East-Berlin, where he acted until 1982.

Here he often played bad characters in historic flicks like in the telefilm The Heyde-Sawade Affair (1963).

Together with writer Friedrich Karl Kaul he wrote more than 40 episodes of the thriller-like Fernsehpitavale (television pitavals), where historic criminal cases were cleared.

Jupé shines in this successful television series of the DFF as writer and main actor.