Eberhard Storeck

Eberhard Storeck (March 13, 1933-2015) was a German actor and dubbing director, who adapted the scripts and voice directed the German-language versions of many Muppet projects, including Die Muppet Show (The Muppet Show) and Die Fraggles (the co-production of Fraggle Rock), as well as most of the specials and films. He served as script adaptor only on the German dub of Dog City.

For Die Muppet Show, Storeck directed and played a variety of roles, including the Swedish Chef, Beaker, Crazy Harry, Robin the Frog, Uncle Deadly, Link Hogthrob and Animal (sharing the latter two with Harald Baerow), and the singing voice of Scooter. He reprised all of the above in most later specials and features (with Hartmut Neugebauer taking over as Animal), and voiced Statler and the desk guard in It's a Very Merry Muppet Christmas Movie. Storeck was also the singing voice of Gobo Fraggle and played Gunge and various others on Die Fraggles, and Baby Beaker on the dub of Muppet Babies.

In a rare on-camera appearance, Storeck and Jim Henson were guests on Na sowas! in 1986, where they performed the Swedish Chef live and in unison. Afterwards, host Thomas Gottschalk interviewed Storeck and inquired about the decision to make the character Danish. Storeck explained that he lived on the northernmost German island of Sylt from 1979 to 1988, right across the Danish border, where he honed his mock-Danish which he would then bestow on the Scandinavian character.

Storeck also served as director/adapter and voice actor on the anime series Maya the Bee (as Willie) and Pinocchio (Coco), as well as The Pink Panther Show (for which he wrote rhyming narration). He translated The Marx Brothers movies and The 39 Steps for TV airings, as well as Magnum, P.I., The Golden Girls, installments of Columbo, and DuckTales. He dubbed actor Kumar Pallana in Steven Spielberg's The Terminal.

He later lived out his life in Berlin.

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