Arno Paulsen

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Arno Paulsen (born January 3, 1900 in Stettin as Gustav Zubke ; † September 17, 1969 in Baden-Baden ) was a German actor and voice actor .

Life

The son of a tailor attended a middle school in Stettin and received singing lessons from Kammersänger Wilhelm Bültemann. He made his debut as a choir singer at the Stettin City Theater in 1917. In the same year he was hired as tenor buffo there. He then performed in Osnabrück , Hanover and Hamburg .

From 1941 to 1943 he played in front theaters in the sense of troop support , then he participated in the war as a cook. In 1945 he was able to continue his career at the Metropoltheater in Berlin, mostly in operettas . He was seen as a diplomat in The Merry Widow , and as Senator Clutterbuck in Jean Gilbert's Die Kinokönigin . At the Theater am Schiffbauerdamm he was involved in the revue Höllenparade Rudolf Plattes in 1946 as a grotesque local group leader.

This is where director Wolfgang Staudte discovered him , who was looking for a fat actor for his film The Murderers Are Among Us , which was not easy at the time. Paulsen played a company commander and war criminal in the film who quickly regained prosperity in post-war Germany. He then took on roles in 13 other DEFA strips, but from 1950 he played exclusively in German productions. The corpulent actor remained primarily committed to embodying participants in the German economic miracle such as merchants, company owners and factory directors, mostly with a more negative character as in Das Mädchen Rosemarie (1958).

From 1954 on he played frequently at the Schillertheater in Berlin, as well as at the Deutsches Theater and the Schlosspark Theater . Since 1950, as the German voice of Oliver Hardy, alongside Walter Bluhm as Stan , he has dubbed almost all German adaptations of Laurel and Hardy's films . He also lent Oliver Hardy his voice again when the films were re-dubbed in 1965. Soon afterwards Paulsen fell seriously ill and could no longer continue his career. He was married three times.

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personal data
SURNAME Paulsen, Arno
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Zubke, Gustav (real name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German film actor
DATE OF BIRTH January 3, 1900
PLACE OF BIRTH Szczecin
DATE OF DEATH 17th September 1969
Place of death Baden-Baden