Uwe Karpa

Uwe Karpa (born 18 September 1945) is a German actor and voice actor.

Uwe Karpa
Karpa in 2009
Born	(1945-09-18) 18 September 1945 Berlin, Germany
Occupations	Actor voice actor
Years active	1965–present

Acting career

He has been performing roles in theatre, film, and television since 1965. Karpa received his acting training in Karl-Marx-Stadt. He performed in theatres in, among others, Frankfurt an der Oder, Berlin, Dresden, and Bad Segeberg. On television, he was particularly well known between 1996 and 2005 in the role of staff nurse Brenneke (Oberpfleger Brenneke) in the series Alphateam – Die Lebensretter im OP. He had his cinematic debut in 1965 in Berlin um die Ecke. In 2007 in Der Baader-Meinhof-Komplex, he played the role of the police chief.

Selected filmography

Film

List of film appearances, with year, title, and role shown

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1965	Denk bloß nicht, ich heule	Bubi
1988	Bear Ye One Another's Burden	Second comrade
2007	The Baader Meinhof Complex	Police chief
2012	Der Gründer	Glenny Rosenberg

Television

List of television appearances, with year, title, and role shown

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1971	Rottenknechte	Anton Roth	multi-part television film
1980	Archiv des Todes	Patrolman	multi-part television film
1988–91	Polizeiruf 110	Various roles	4 episodes
1993–95	Wolffs Revier	Schröder	3 episodes
1997–2006	Alphateam – Die Lebensretter im OP	Helmut Brenneke	233 episodes
2019	SOKO Potsdam	Tänzer Erwin	1 episode

External links

• Uwe Karpa at IMDb
• Deutsche Synchronkartei entry (in German)
• Uwe Karpa at Ramona Mohren talent agency