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Ernst Otto Fuhrmann ; better known as EO Fuhrmann (born December 31, 1924 in Siegen , North Rhine-Westphalia , † June 10, 1986 in Berlin ) was a German character actor.
Life
At the Staatstheater Oldenburg the carter, bald since his childhood, was seen as Torarin in Gerhart Hauptmann's Winter Ballad, as Podkoljessin in Gogol's Die Heirat and Lucky in Samuel Beckett's Waiting for Godot .
At the end of the 1950s he became known to the Berliner Ensemble as Pope in Brecht's Life of Galileo . In the 1960s he played at the Münchner Kammerspiele and in the 1970s at the Deutsches Schauspielhaus in Hamburg . In the theater as well as in the film, Fuhrmann was usually limited to the representation of bizarre marginal characters. In 1984 he took part in the Bad Hersfeld Festival and received the Hersfeld Prize that year .
Ernst Otto Fuhrmann died of heart failure one day after the premiere of a parody of the operetta Wiener Blut at the Theater des Westens on June 10, 1986 in Berlin. He was buried in the cemetery in Keitum on Sylt . There a white tombstone in the shape of a cross commemorates the actor.
Awards
- 1984: Hersfeld Prize
Filmography (selection)
- 1958: Emilia Galotti
- 1958: The story of poor Hassan
- 1960: The Bridge of Fate
- 1960: The black sheep
- 1962: He can't help it
- 1962: Woyzeck
- 1963: Two whiskeys and a sofa
- 1964: Risky game: danger for V.128
- 1965: Farewell to yesterday
- 1966: Melissa - Durbridge three-piece
- 1967: With oak leaves and fig leaf
- 1968: The castle
- 1969: Madame and her niece
- 1972: Bloody Friday
- 1973: My Uncle Benjamin (TV)
- 1974: The Maid of Orleans
- 1978: St. Pauli Landungsbrücken : A completely normal training course
- 1979: St. Pauli Landungsbrücken: The Runner
- 1979: A Murder Everyone Commits (TV)
- 1985: The wild clown
- 1986: door to door
theatre
- 1957: Bertolt Brecht : Life of Galilei (Pope) - Director: Erich Engel ( Berliner Ensemble )
- 1958: Wsewolod Wischnewski : Optimistic Tragedy - Director: Manfred Wekwerth / Peter Palitzsch (Berliner Ensemble)
Web links
- EO Fuhrmann in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- EO Fuhrmann at filmportal.de
- Fuhrmann's death report in DER SPIEGEL
Individual evidence
personal data | |
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SURNAME | Carter, EO |
ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Fuhrmann, Ernst Otto; Carter, Ernst-Otto |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German actor |
DATE OF BIRTH | December 31, 1924 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Siegen , North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany |
DATE OF DEATH | June 10, 1986 |
Place of death | Berlin , Germany |