Alfred Schieske

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Alfred Schieske (born September 6, 1908 in Stuttgart , † July 14 or July 15, 1970 in Berlin ) was a German actor .

biography

The son of a German and a French woman took acting lessons from Willy Reichert and made his debut at the Landestheater Stuttgart at the age of 19 . He then played in Heidelberg , Esslingen am Neckar , Bochum and Cologne . In 1940 he followed Gustaf Gründgens' call to the Berlin State Theater . At the end of the war, he was still on the God-gifted list .

After the war, he first worked in Cologne before he took up an engagement at the Theater am Schiffbauerdamm in Berlin in 1947 , where he worked until 1950. Then he worked at the Schillertheater and Schlossparktheater in West Berlin , as well as in Düsseldorf , Recklinghausen , Jagsthausen and guest performances.

His roles included Milota in King Ottokar's Happiness and End , Klesel in A Brotherly Quarrel in Habsburg , Colonel Henry in The Dreyfus Affair (by Wilhelm Herzog ), Phil Cook in A Country Girl (by Clifford Odets ), Bolingbroke in Richard II. , Vladimir in Waiting for Godot , Clarence in Richard III. , Tobias in What you want , Adam in The Broken Jug , Götz in Götz von Berlichingen and Big Daddy in The Cat on the Hot Tin Roof . From 1961 he had great success in Berlin and Hamburg as father Doolittle in the musical My Fair Lady .

Since 1941 Schieske was also seen in feature films. He received his most important role in 1948 in the DEFA strip Affaire Blum as a criminalist Otto Bonte, who saves the accused Jew Blum and brings the real perpetrator to life. In the 1960s, he made a name for himself as a television actor in literary adaptations such as Whoever Eats Out of the Tin Bowl and Everyone Dies for Himself with Edith Schultze-Westrum and Anneli Granget , based on Hans Fallada . His son Geriet Schieske (* 1945) also became an actor.

Alfred Schieske died at the age of 61 and rests in the Zehlendorf cemetery in the Berlin district of the same name .

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  1. ↑ The date of death according to the grave is July 15th. All other sources mentioned in the article cite July 14th as the date of death
  2. ^ Knerger.de: The grave of Alfred Schieske
personal data
SURNAME Schieske, Alfred
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German actor
DATE OF BIRTH September 6, 1908
PLACE OF BIRTH Stuttgart
DATE OF DEATH July 14, 1970 or July 15, 1970
Place of death Berlin