André Kallenbach

André Kallenbach (* 1957 in Berlin-Friedrichshain ) was a German actor , who as a leading actor in a DEFA - children's film has been known.

Life

In the 1960s, Kallenbach had already starred in a children's film with the title Hopping has not yet jumped when he was selected by director Winfried Junge from among 3,000 applicants as the leading actor in his children's film The Brave truant in 1966 . In the film, which is based on a true case, Kallenbach plays the boy Thomas, who skips school and on his day off in Berlin notices a house fire, alerts the fire brigade and becomes a lifesaver. Since he escapes undetected and the next day at school justifies his absence with a visit to the dentist, he cannot reveal himself to his surroundings. Director Junge “found in André Kallenbach, among 3000 children, Thomas, the hero of his story, who is truly capable of looking at new, beautiful and occasional things and dreaming about them”, so the criticism of the cast. The film was shot in two parts in the fall of 1966 and in the spring of 1967, as Kallenbach was in the hospital in between because of appendicitis. The film had its world premiere on December 17, 1967 in the Berlin cosmos . For his acting performance, Kallenbach was awarded the Golden Flimmerkiste as the best child actor in Erfurt .

In contrast to other child actors from the GDR, Kallenbach was also cast in films after The brave truant and stood until he was 20, among other things, for television series such as Polizeiruf 110 , The prosecutor has the floor and ask Professor Kaul in front of the camera. He also worked as a voice actor and on the radio. He then trained as a car mechanic, passed his Abitur and began studying engineering, which he broke off. After reunification , Kallenbach became an advertising consultant and later an employee at BZ

Filmography (selection)

• 1966: Hopping has not yet jumped (TV)
• 1967: Criminal cases without example - The Timo Rinnelt case, directed by Hubert Hoelzke (TV series)
• 1967: The brave truant , directed by Winfried Junge
• 1976: Julia next door, directed by Rainer Bär (TV)
• 1979: A man and his wife, director: Georg Schiemann (TV)
• 1979: Polizeiruf 110 - straw fire, director: Werner Röwekamp (TV series)

literature

• The brave truancy - André Kallenbach . In: Knut Elstermann : I used to be a film child. DEFA and its youngest actors . Das neue Berlin, Berlin 2011, ISBN 978-3-360-02114-4 , pp. 78-91.
• The pigeon called . In: Jens Rübner: Snot noses. Film children from days long gone . Engelsdorfer, Leipzig 2009, ISBN 978-3-86901-092-2 , pp. 32-34.
• As an eleven year old in front of the camera . In: Berliner Zeitung , March 15, 2011.
• André Kallenbach, an ex-child star . In: BZ , March 24, 2011.

Web links

• André Kallenbach in the Internet Movie Database (English)
• André Kallenbach at filmportal.de
• Katja Iken: A budgie as a gage . In: one day , April 21, 2011.

Individual evidence

1. ^ Eo in: Neue Zeit , December 17, 1967.
2. ↑ Katja Iken: As Gage a budgie . In: one day , April 21, 2011.