Eddi Arent

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Eddi Arent (1971)

Eddi Arent , real name Gebhardt Georg Arendt (born May 5, 1925 in Danzig-Langfuhr , Free City of Danzig , † May 28, 2013 in Munich ), was a German actor and comedian .

Life

Eddi Arent was born in 1925 as the son of the manager of the Danzig waterworks, in the same civil servants' quarter and the same house in which the actor Wolfgang Völz was born in 1930 . Later, both of them were seen in films together on occasion. In Danzig he attended a humanistic grammar school until he graduated from high school and was then called up for military service.

After the Second World War , in which he was deployed on the Eastern Front , Arent began working as a cabaret artist in Blumberg, Baden . From 1948 he worked with like-minded people for two years in Jürgen Henckell's literary cabaret Der Widerspiegel , which was the first of its kind in the French zone of occupation . He also worked briefly with Werner Finck in his cabaret Mausefalle in Stuttgart and was a contributor to Onion in Munich. Arent, who saw himself as a “very ordinary, normal commercial actor ”, had his first slightly larger film role as an East Prussian camp inmate in The Doctor of Stalingrad in 1958 due to his Low Prussian accent . He was not drawn to the theater; In 1979, however, he appeared in the comedy Der müde Theodor in a guest role on the stage of the Millowitsch Theater in Cologne .

Eddi Arent 1971 (center) at a reception given by Federal Chancellor Willy Brandt

Arent became known in roles as a mannered butler, dodgy police photographer and detective assistant in Horst Wendlandt's Edgar Wallace films , including four times as a villain, including in his last Wallace film The Secret of the White Nun from 1966 and in The Unheimliche Mönch . He also became popular through his participation in three Karl May films , The Treasure in the Silver Lake from 1962, Winnetou Part 2 from 1964 and in Winnetou and Shatterhand in the Valley of the Dead from 1968, in which he played the adventure-seeking English Lord Castlepool . Arent created a character with an equally blasé gentlemanly attitude and simple-minded, inappropriate sensitivity, a mixture that could also take on eerie features in his shady roles. Because of his efficient way of working, a common saying among directors at the time was: "Shoot economically - shoot with Arent".

There were other film offers for crime novels, comedies and hit films . His intensive film work ended in the late 1970s. The director Hans-Jürgen Tögel cast him in 1978 for his first directorial work, the television crime comedy Räuber und Gendarm , as a rascal cheater who repeatedly fails Hans Putz as a commissioner. Despite good reviews, things grew quiet around him. With the sketch series Es ist dished , by and with Felix Dvorak , he again reached a larger audience from 1982 onwards. Arent, who also contributed texts, described the series as "the best I've ever done." At the side of Harald Juhnke with the sketch television series Harald and Eddi , he celebrated his last major successes in the late 1980s. The Wallace remakes, which were broadcast in two seasons in 1996 and 2002 by the broadcasters RTL and Super RTL and in which he also worked as Scotland Yard boss Sir John, did not achieve the popularity of the movies.

Private

Arent married the hotel specialist Franziska Ganslmeier in 1959 and lived with her and their son in Vaterstetten . In 1993 he took over the traditional Neustädter Hof hotel in Titisee-Neustadt, which was built in 1899 . He repeatedly invited crime fans and fellow actors to the hotel. The Edgar Wallace Awards were also awarded here by the Archive of German Crime Films as part of the annual Edgar Wallace Festival . The Neustädter Hof filed for bankruptcy in 2004 , and the hotel was closed at the end of February 2005. During this time, Arent fell into a depression , which was compounded by media reports about his financial situation.

Arent lived in a senior citizens' residence in Waldmünchen until his wife's death at the end of 2011, and most recently with his son in Munich. Arent, who had dementia , died on May 28, 2013 at the age of 88. His grave is in the community cemetery in Hochmutting , a district of Oberschleißheim .

Awards

In 1997 Arent received the Scharlih , the most famous award associated with the name Karl May and presented at the annual Karl May Festival . In 1999 he was awarded the Golden Honorary Prize at the Edgar Wallace meeting in Titisee-Neustadt.

Filmography

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literature

Web links

Commons : Eddi Arent  - Collection of Images

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Eddi Arent - actor , in CineGraph - Lexicon for German-language film
  2. ↑ On Eddi Arent's death: "Yes, Madame!" In: Spiegel Online from June 5, 2013
  3. ↑ Eddi Arent suffers from depression and dementia. ( Memento from January 26, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) In: Focus Online from January 12, 2012, accessed from the Internet Archive on June 5, 2013
  4. ↑ On the death of Eddie Arent - stick and hat. In: FAZ Online from June 5, 2013
  5. ↑ knerger.de: The grave of Eddi Arent
personal data
SURNAME Arent, Eddi
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Arendt, Gebhardt Georg (real name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German actor and comedian
DATE OF BIRTH May 5, 1925
PLACE OF BIRTH Danzig-Langfuhr , Free City of Danzig
DATE OF DEATH May 28, 2013
Place of death Munich