Christoph Engel (actor)

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Christoph Engel (1968)

Christoph Engel (born November 13, 1925 in Worms , † December 9, 2011 in Kleinmachnow ) was a German actor .

Life

Engel studied in Frankfurt am Main and Mainz , where he gained his first experience as an actor and director at the student theater. In 1948 he made his theater debut in Eggenfelden and in the same year his first engagement in Plauen . In 1951 he moved to the Berliner Ensemble under Bertolt Brecht , in 1953 to the Landestheater Halle , in 1956 to the Hans-Otto-Theater in Potsdam and finally in 1963 to the Berlin Maxim-Gorki-Theater . He belonged to the ensemble of this stage under the directors Maxim Vallentin and Albert Hetterle until the beginning of the 1990s, after which he made guest appearances in Frankfurt am Main and Hamburg .

Engel had his first film roles at DEFA in 1954/1955 in three feature film debuts by young directors: Konrad Wolf's one time is never , Günter Reisch's young vegetables and Joachim Kunert's special characteristics: none . Engel then turned to directing and in 1959, supported by the experienced cameraman Erwin Anders (1908–1972), shot the children's film The Magic Man , a film adaptation of the fairy tale Rumpelstiltskin by the Brothers Grimm with Siegfried Seibt in the title role.

The fairy tale film was to remain Engel's only work as a film director. As an actor he was continuously present in film and television, mostly in supporting roles. One of the most memorable was the stork in the five-part television series Dr. Schlüter (1965/1966) by Karl Georg Egel and Achim Hübner , the school principal in the only fiction film by the documentarist Winfried Junge , Der brave truant (1967), and the father of the main character in Herrmann Zschoches Liebe at 16 (1974). His most important DEFA work was the leading role of old Gustav Wengler in Rainer Simon's family saga Wengler & Sons in 1986 .

After the fall of the Berlin Wall he was seen several times in Andreas Kleinert 's films, with whom he had already worked on his first feature film Farewell, Joseph (1989). For example, he played a bigger role together with Christine Gloger as the old parents in Kleinert's Lost Landscape (1992). Since the end of the 1990s, Engel has mainly played episode roles in television series such as Wolffs Revier , Alphateam - Die Lebensretter im OP , Liebesau - Die Other Heimat , St. Angela , Edel & Starck , Pastewka and Kinder, Kinder .

He could also be seen on stage in 1990 as father Knie in Zuckmayer's drama "Katharina Knie".

Engel was married to the actress Sina Fiedler . Occasionally the two played a married couple in the film, for example in Lothar Warneke's award-winning drama Die Beunruhigung (1982) and in the multi-part television series Sachsens Glanz und Preussens Gloria (1985/1987).

Filmography

Direction and script:

theatre

Radio plays

Web links

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Obituary ( memento from January 30, 2012 on WebCite ) in the Tagesspiegel from January 21, 2012
  2. ↑ The film was made in connection with the XI. Plenary banned and could not be performed until December 13, 1989.
  3. ↑ Since the lead actor Manfred Krug had applied for an exit visa, the film did not come to the cinema and was only premiered on GDR television in June 1979.
personal data
SURNAME Engel, Christoph
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German actor
DATE OF BIRTH November 13, 1925
PLACE OF BIRTH Worms
DATE OF DEATH December 9, 2011
Place of death Kleinmachnow