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First news presenter at East-German Television in 1952.

Father of Andreas Köfer and Mirjam Köfer

Chief of his own Theater group "Köfers Komödiantenbühne".

He went to acting school and started his career in 1940 with first engagements at the theatre in Brieg, Lower Silesia.

Köfer was a German actor, voice artist, and television presenter.

From 1952, he worked for the East German TV channel Deutscher Fernsehfunk and was on 21 December 1952 the first German TV presenter, moderating Aktuelle Kamera.

From 1941 to 1945 Köfer served in the Wehrmacht.

He was a prisoner of war; when he returned, he worked in different theatres in Berlin, including the Volksbühne, Deutsches Theater and Kabarett Kleine Bühne.

He was the first German TV news presenter for the East German Deutscher Fernsehfunk, and also presented the station's last news before the reunification of Germany.

After the reunification of Germany, he continued his career.

In March 2008 he published his biography Nie war es so verrückt wie immer ... (It is never as crazy as always).

He was known for detective series such as Polizeiruf 110 and for comic roles and he was popular as Opa Paul Schmidt in the family/comedy TV series Rentner haben niemals Zeit (Senior citizens never have time).

Beginning in the late 1950s, he had roles as an actor in films and TV series, and he also became part of the cabaret Kabarett-Theater Distel.

His first theatre engagement was in 1940, and he kept acting until the age of 100.

Köfer was both the presenter of the first moments of East German television and the host of the final show nearly 40 years later on 31 December 1991.

In September 2020, Köfer appeared the last time in front of the camera, for the ARD series Polizeihauptmeister Krause. The film, entitled Krauses Zukunft, was broadcast on "Das Erste" on February 5, 2021 in honor of his 100th birthday.

In September 2017, he received an entry in the German Record Institute as the "oldest active actor in the world".

In February 2021, he took part in the quiz show Wer weiß denn sowas? together with Barbara Schöne on his 100th birthday in the Bernhard Hoëcker team, where he was the oldest participant and winner of the show to date.