and 1024 performances, Mitić gave his last performance for the time being. Appropriately, this year Winnetou III was played, in which Winnetou finally dies. Seven years later, Mitić returned to Bad Segeberg in the role of Intschu tschuna, the father of his former character. From 2007 to 2009 Mitić played the chief Bromden in the play One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest in the Schwerin State Theater. At the same theater he played the leading role in a musical based on the novel Alexis Sorbas by Nikos Kazantzakis at the 2009 Castle Festival. In 2012 Gojko Mitić u. a. with Uwe Jensen with "Music at the campfire" or "Christmas at the campfire". In 2013, Gojko Mitić returned to TV screens as the level-headed Comanche chief Tahmahkera in the Sat1 western production In einem wilden Land (with Benno Fürmann, Emilia Schüle and Nadja Uhl, among others). It is the first Native American film in which Mitić can be heard singing his own voice, albeit entirely in a Comanche dialect. Since 2015 there has been a fan meeting dedicated to him at El Dorado in Templin, where Mitić always appears as a guest of honour. In December 2019 he received the Lifetime Achievement Award from the DEFA Foundation. The eulogy was given by the singer Ute Freudenberg. Gojko Mitić lives in Berlin-Köpenick and has one daughter (* 1992). He is a German and Serbian citizen. Career Mitić is known for a numerous series of Red Westerns from the GDR DEFA Studios, featuring Native Americans as the heroes, rather than white settlers as in John Ford's Westerns. Beginning with The Sons of Great Bear (1966), he starred in 12 films of this type between 1966 and 1984. He contributed to the popular image of Native Americans in German-speaking countries. In an attempt to move away from his fame based on these Westerns, Mitić, in his later career, increasingly sought to appear in other genres, on film, on television and on stage. Among other roles, he played Spartacus on stage and presented several TV shows. He also played Karl May's Winnetou in seasons at the "Karl-May-Festspiele" until 2006 in Bad Segeberg near Hamburg, Germany. In one episode he played a role at the German television program Schloss Einstein. Awards and honors In 1998, Bulgarian rock band Hipodil composed a song, "Bate Goiko", dedicated to Mitić. In 2010, he received the Brothers Karić Award in