- Although being one of East Germany's most popular actors, he emigrated to West Germany (1982).
- Father of Robert Glatzeder.
- Worked as mechanical engineer before started his acting studies in 1965.
- His father was a doctor, who died in a Soviet camp for prisoners of war, his mother worked as a weaver.
- Gained enormous popularity in the former East Germany due to his role on La légende de Paul et Paula (1973).
- Graduated from the School of Television and Film in Potsdam.
- Played together with Ludger Bökelmann and Oliver Masucci in Dark (2017). In the time-bending series they played the same character in different stages of aging.
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