Carl-Heinz Schroth

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Memorial for Carl-Heinz Schroth as a painter on Lake Orta in Northern Italy , 2005

Carl-Heinz Schroth (also: Karl-Heinz , Carl Heinz or Karl Heinz ; born June 29, 1902 in Innsbruck ; † July 19, 1989 in Munich ) was an Austrian - German actor , director , radio play and voice actor .

life and work

Carl-Heinz Schroth grew up in a family of artists : his mother Else Ruttersheim was an actress in Vienna , his father Heinrich Schroth a well-known stage actor and dandy from Pirmasens , who made a career in Berlin . Schroth's stepmother was the famous actress Käthe Haack , his half-sister was Hannelore Schroth, who was later also successful as an actress . Schroth's parents separated early, and he spent his school days with an aunt, an opera singer , in Bolzano (then Austria-Hungary ).

Schroth studied law , literature and theater in Munich and took acting lessons from Arnold Marlé . In 1922 he got his first engagement in Frankfurt / Oder , where he could be seen in pieces like Schiller's Fiesko , but also in Peterchens Mondfahrt . After that, he initially hired himself temporarily at traveling theaters and in the following years played at theaters in Brno , Düsseldorf , Hamburg , Vienna and Berlin. Small in stature and as a young man with a goblin-like appearance, he played older people and batch roles at an early age . Occasionally he also took on minor directing work .

In 1927, he came through the mediation of the renowned actress Miriam Horwitz to the young Hamburg Kammerspiele and took over the title role in The Government Inspector by Nikolai Gogol that remained of his life by his own admission one of the main roles. He already played a leading role in 1931 in the film operetta Der Kongreß tanzt (1931, director: Erik Charell ) as Pepi alongside Lilian Harvey and Willy Fritsch .

Even during the Nazi era , Schroth continued to work as an actor in Germany and Austria. From 1937 he played alternately at the Münchner Kammerspiele and at the Deutsches Theater in Berlin. He made a handful of films and in 1945, before the end of the war, was involved in the last production of the German film industry, which Joseph Goebbels brought into line in 1942 : Shiva and the Gallows Flower (Director: Hans Steinhoff with Hans Albers in the leading role, made in Prague , remained unfinished). Schroth, however, was not a National Socialist and later distanced himself from these activities in his memoirs .

After the war, Schroth lived under difficult conditions with his wife Ruth, caretaker and child with Käthe Haack and Hannelore Schroth in a basement and made his way with his family as a black market trader in Berlin . His long-time colleague Viktor de Kowa got him his first theater engagement at his newly founded boulevard theater in the stands . The actor remained loyal to the boulevard for the next four decades of his career.

During the late 1940s and 1950s, Carl-Heinz Schroth played smaller roles in some quite successful films, but also extended supporting roles such as servants, secretaries, house friends, small crooks and circus people with humor and heart. His most famous film from this period is Wenn der Vater mit dem Sohne (1955, director: Hans Quest ) with Heinz Rühmann and Oliver Grimm ; Schroth plays the clown Peepe in it . After 1960 Schroth made no more movies.

As a radio play speaker , he has appeared in a large number of productions in various genres. At the end of the 1950s, Schroth had great success with the 51 episode series about the "greatest criminal since the invention of Chicago" Dickie Dick Dickens of the Bavarian Broadcasting Company , directed by Walter Netzsch , based on the novels by Rolf and Alexandra Becker , as well as with of the radio play series Permit, my name is Cox , in which he also played the main role . The first two seasons, which were produced in 1952 and 1954 by NWDR Hamburg under the direction of Hans Gertberg , were among the first street sweepers on German radio .

In the 1950s and 1960s, the actor occasionally directed German film and television productions. One of his best-known directorial works is the film Fräulein vom Amt (1954) with Renate Holm and Georg Thomalla based on a literary model by Curth Flatow ; the script was written by Schroth's third wife and colleague Karin Jacobsen in 1954 .

His fame increased through various television productions, such as the early satire Order for the child prodigies by Rainer Erler (1963) with Edith Heerdegen , in which the German addiction to the order was satirically discussed. Schroth and Heerdegen also appeared in various films together. This is how the ZDF special series The Old Coming , in which Schroth and Heerdegen played characters of older people with rare comedy, the series Jakob und Adele . It was only after Heerdegen's death at the start of production and thus before the series was first broadcast that the offer for the female lead went to Brigitte Horney .

A Star with a high level of awareness was Carl-Heinz Schroth only in old age. Mischievous and with a subtle sense of humor, over the years he became the icon of the vital, humorous senior and a fixture on the German television screen. Since the late 1950s, he has appeared in family stories, crime comedies, and serious TV productions such as Der Strafverteidiger (1961, directed by Franz Josef Wild ) alongside Eric Pohlmann and Barbara Rütting . In later years he also appeared more frequently in series such as Derrick or Die Schwarzwaldklinik . As a host, he led through the series My Black Hour , in which he presented horror and horror stories.

Of the television productions of his later years, the recording of Harold Pinter's play No Man's Land , directed by Boy Gobert (1975) with Richard Münch, is worth mentioning, as is his portrayal of Willie Clark in the television film Sonny Boys (1982) with Johannes Heesters as Al Lewis after the Successful piece by Neil Simon (director: Rolf von Sydow ). In addition, his participation in television series such as All Dogs Love Theobald (1969) and Jakob and Adele (from 1981 to 1989) with Brigitte Horney will be remembered.

As a voice actor, he lent his voice to Oskar Homolka (in Treffpunkt Moscow ), Wilfrid Hyde-White (in conflict of conscience ) and Eric Pohlmann (in Something Women Love ).

The actor settled in Vacciago di Ameno in northern Italy on Lake Orta in Piedmont in the 1970s . He was married four times: with Carola Krauskopf , Ruth Hausmeister , Karin Jacobsen and most recently with Barbara Hutterer (* 1933). Two daughters come from his marriage to Ruth Hausmeister; There is a son from his marriage to Karin Jacobsen.

A few years before his death, Carl-Heinz Schroth published two volumes of memoirs . He died shortly after completing the filming of the television film Money Doesn't Make You Happy in Munich. He is buried in the north cemetery in Munich (grave no. 66-1-6).

His written estate is in the archive of the Academy of Arts in Berlin.

Filmography

As a performer

cinemamovies

Television films

  • 1952: clouds are everywhere
  • 1957: Mammi's wandering years (also director)
  • 1958: Dr. med. Job Praetorius
  • 1958: Our father
  • 1960: the conceited sick man
  • 1960: Philomena Marturano
  • 1960: The Magic of Youth (also director)
  • 1961: family papers
  • 1961: biography and love (also director)
  • 1961: The defense attorney
  • 1962: Cecil ... or the school of the fathers
  • 1962: Advertisement theater
  • 1963: Order for the child prodigies
  • 1963: The grotto
  • 1963: The Revenge of Jebal Deek
  • 1965: Children of the gods
  • 1965: The dream house
  • 1965: Immortality with marching music
  • 1965: Obituary for Egon Müller
  • 1965: Don't do that, Angelika (also director)
  • 1966: The really big thing
  • 1966: the experiment
  • 1967: Neapolitan Wedding (also co-director)
  • 1967: Getting married is always a risk
  • 1969–1970: All dogs love Theobald (series)
  • 1971: The strange adventures of the secret office secretary Tusmann
  • 1972: Alexander Zwo (six-part)
  • 1974: Diary of a madman
  • 1974: strychnine and acidic drops
  • 1976: dog in the brain
  • 1976: Derrick (series), episode: An incomprehensible guy
  • 1978: Karschunke and son (series)
  • 1978: A hat of a very special kind
  • 1979: the old ones come
  • 1979: Anyone who digs a pit for others
  • 1981: Simply Lamprecht (series)
  • 1982: champagne comedy
  • 1982: And that for the 80th birthday
  • 1982: The Fine English Style (series)
  • 1982–1989: Jakob and Adele (series)
  • 1982: Sonny Boys
  • 1984: Er-Goetz-liches
  • 1984: my black hour
  • 1984: Getting married is always a risk
  • 1985: The Black Forest Clinic (series), episode: The man with the suitcase
  • 1986: The Secret of Lismore Castle
  • 1987: Long live it
  • 1987: The forger
  • 1988: Late luck not excluded
  • 1988: The professor and his dog
  • 1989: Ede and the child
  • 1989: Jacob - or love doesn't stop
  • 1989: Money doesn't make you happy
  • 1989: his best role

As a director

  • 1953: The Dog in the Brain (TV short film)
  • 1954: men of dangerous age
  • 1954: Miss from office
  • 1954: The missing miniature
  • 1955: Reach for the stars
  • 1957: Mammi's wandering years (television)
  • 1960: The Magic of Youth (television)
  • 1961: Paths of Chance (television)
  • 1961: Quadrille (television)
  • 1961: biography and love (television)
  • 1963: The Whole Truth (TV)
  • 1963: I love you (TV)
  • 1964: With best recommendations (television)
  • 1965: Simone, the lobster and the sardine (TV)
  • 1965: Don't do that, Angelika (TV)
  • 1967: Neapolitan Wedding (TV, co-director)

Radio plays

Works

  • Don't be afraid of bad times. Story of my life. Herbig 1984; 6th edition, Ullstein 1992, ISBN 3-7766-1330-0 .
  • What else I had forgotten. Herbig 1987; New edition: Ullstein 1990, ISBN 3-548-22232-3 .

Awards

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ knerger.de: The grave of Carl-Heinz Schroth
  2. ↑ Carl-Heinz-Schroth-Archiv Inventory overview on the website of the Academy of the Arts in Berlin.
personal data
SURNAME Schroth, Carl-Heinz
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Schroth, Karl-Heinz; Schroth, Karl Heinz; Schroth, Carl Heinz
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian actor, director and voice actor
DATE OF BIRTH June 29, 1902
PLACE OF BIRTH innsbruck
DATE OF DEATH July 19, 1989
Place of death Munich