Manfred Krug (; 8 February 1937 – 21 October 2016) was a German actor, singer and author. Life and work Born in Duisburg, Krug moved to East Germany at the age of 13, and worked at a steel plant before beginning his acting career on the stage and, ultimately, in film. By the end of the 1950s he had several film roles, and in 1960 he appeared in Frank Beyer's successful war movie Fünf Patronenhülsen (Five Cartridges). Many more film roles followed, with Krug often cast as a socialist hero. Krug also achieved notability as a popular jazz singer, often in collaboration with composer Günther Fischer. In 1976 the East German government (GDR) forbade Krug to work as an actor and singer because he participated in protests against the expulsion and stripping of GDR citizenship of Wolf Biermann. On 20 April 1977 he requested to leave the GDR and as soon as he got the approval he left the GDR and moved to Schöneberg in West Berlin. After moving back to West Germany he very soon got new roles as an actor but very rarely sang in public for a long time. In 1978 Krug appeared as one of the male leads of the action-drama television series Auf Achse, and would continue to appear on the series until 1995, one year before the show ended its long run. Krug's various television roles even included a two-year stint on the children's program Sesamstraße, the German version of the American children's program Sesame Street. In the 1980s and 1990s, he also starred as Hauptkommissar Paul Stoever in the Tatort series of TV crime movies, which would eventually run for forty installments in total. He died on 21 October 2016 in Berlin. Filmography Film 1957: Ein Mädchen von 16½ 1959: Goods for Catalonia 1959: Der Freischütz 1959: Reportage 57 1959: Before the Lightning Strikes (cameo) 1960: Was wäre, wenn...? 1960: 1960: Five Cartridges 1961: Professor Mamlock 1961: Guten Tag, lieber Tag 1961: Urfaust 1961: Bei Anruf Mord 1961: Drei Kapitel Glück 1961: On the Sunny Side 1962: Midnight Revue 1962: 1962: Star-Crossed Lovers 1962: 1962: The Boxer and Death 1963: 1963: Beschreibung eines Sommers 1964: Follow Me, Scoundrels 1965: 1965: Die antike Münze 1966: Trace of Stones (released: 1990) 1967: Frau Venus und ihr Teufel 1967: The Banner of Krivoi Rog 1968: Hauptmann Florian von der Mühle 1968: 1969: Weite Straßen – stille