Sebastian Bezzel: The crowd’s favorite turns 50

Sebastian Bezzel
The crowd’s favorite turns 50

Sebastian Bezzel can currently be seen in the very attractive comedy “The Boandlkramer and Eternal Love” on Amazon Prime Video. But not only the last film by cult director Joseph Vilsmaier (1939-2020) is a reason to celebrate. At the end of April, the feature film “Leberkäsjunkie” (2019) was awarded the new “Audience Film of the Decade” prize at the Bavarian Film Prize. Bezzel has played the main role of the Niederkaltenkirchen provincial police officer Franz Eberhofer in the film adaptations of the Eberhofer thriller since 2013. And today, Tuesday (May 18th), the Bavarian actor’s 50th birthday is due.

Sebastian Bezzel already received great advice on his birthday from his friend and Austrian Eberhof crime colleague Simon Schwarz (50) when he congratulated him on his 50th birthday on January 10th: “Just accept, he has [Schwarz] meant, “said Bezzel with a laugh in an interview with the news agency spot on news. Schwarz plays the private detective and suspended policeman Rudi Birkenberger in the crime comedies.

What about “Kaiserschmarrndrama”?

The next Eberhof thriller “Kaiserschmarrndrama” should finally hit the cinemas in midsummer 2021 after a one-year postponement. “The cinema release is planned for August. So exactly one year later than originally. It is a tradition that the Eberhofer films start during the holiday season in Bavaria,” explains Bezzel, “and now we’re all just hoping for August, because the cinemas will come out at some point yes also have to open again “.

And even the traditional cinema tour, on which Bezzel, Schwarz and many other cast and crew members, along with author and Eberhof creator Rita Falk (56), could take place again this year. “I hope that there will be at least a slimmed-down cinema tour. A cinema tour like this is exhausting, but the contact with fans is really very nice and important, especially with the Eberhofer films. We probably also owe the ‘Audience Award of the Decade’ to us was crazy, “says the actor.

What’s next with “Bezzel & Schwarz”?

The basic idea for the travel documentary “Bezzel & Schwarz – Die Grenzgänger” was born on these cinema tours. The executive producer, Thorsten Berg, is the husband of Lisa Maria Potthoff (42, also an Eberhofer crime star). “Thorsten just found that we also work very well in our private lives – and that’s true too. We actually have similar interests and don’t like the same things,” said Bezzel at the start of the series. The next season is in July. BR TV is expected to show the four new episodes from July 5, every Monday at 8:15 p.m.

What, was he once a “crime scene” inspector?

With all the success as an Eberhofer star, it has almost been forgotten that it is Bezzel’s second crime career. From 2004 to 2016 he investigated as detective inspector Kai Perlmann in the Lake Constance “crime scene”. Bezzel met his then Sunday crime colleague, Eva Mattes (66), who played Chief Inspector Klara Blum, in the aforementioned “Leberkäsjunkie”. “Director Ed Herzog was very happy that she played in”, Bezzel enthused about his new old colleague at the BR Film Brunch 2019.

And how does he celebrate his milestone birthday now?

Sebastian Bezzel was born on May 18th in Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Upper Bavaria. For many years he has lived with his wife (since 2009), the Hamburg actress Johanna Christine Gehlen (51, “Da is’ ja nix”), and their two children in their north German hometown. And contrary to all clichés, the Bavarian likes it wonderfully in Hamburg, as he always emphasizes in interviews.

He will not “celebrate big” his milestone birthday “for the well-known reasons,” he says spot on news. But postponed is not canceled, because: “Last year my wife turned 50, so we couldn’t celebrate. At some point we will make up for that with a big party, if it is allowed again.” And what does the number mean to him? “Mei, that’s the way it is,” replies Sebastian Bezzel in good Bavarian language.

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