Eddi Arent
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 .
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
cinemamovies
- 1954: It was always so nice with you
- 1956: The model husband
- 1957: The doctor from Stalingrad
- 1958: That doesn't knock a seaman away
- 1958: The Scapegoat from Spatzenhausen
- 1958: Small people turn out to be big
- 1959: Mikosch in the secret service
- 1959: paprika
- 1959: The frog with the mask
- 1959: a summer you will never forget
- 1960: the red circle
- 1960: hit parade 1960
- 1960: The Gang of Terror
- 1960: Gustav Adolfs Page
- 1961: The green archer
- 1961: Schlager parade 1961
- 1961: The Dead Eyes of London
- 1961: The Forger of London
- 1961: The Hazy Osterwald Story
- 1961: The Strange Countess
- 1961: This is how people love and kiss in Tyrol
- 1962: The riddle of the red orchid
- 1962: The door with the 7 locks
- 1962: When the music plays on Lake Wörthersee
- 1962: The inn on the Thames
- 1962: The treasure in the Silbersee
- 1963: The curse of the yellow snake
- 1963: The zinc man
- 1963: The black abbot
- 1963: The Indian cloth
- 1963: The Black Widow's Secret
- 1964: Room 13
- 1964: The crypt with the riddle lock
- 1964: The Witcher
- 1964: Winnetou - 2nd part
- 1964: The Traitor's Gate
- 1965: News from the witcher
- 1965: The creepy monk
- 1966: The source of love
- 1966: The riddle of the silver triangle
- 1966: The hunchback from Soho
- 1966: Maigret and his greatest case
- 1966: The secret of the white nun
- 1967: Mister Dynamit - Tomorrow death will kiss you
- 1967: Fire on Frankie
- 1968: Inspector Blomfield's Case # 1 - I'll blow you all up
- 1968: Winnetou and Shatterhand in the Valley of the Dead
- 1969: The go-go girl from the blow-up
- 1969: Help, I love twins!
- 1970: The yellow house on Pinnasberg
- 1970: Hurray, our parents are not there
- 1970: when you're with me
- 1970: Neighbors are there to annoy you
- 1971: He who laughs last laughs best
- 1971: Help, the relatives are coming
- 1971: The Knallköppe Company
- 1972: Pediatrician Dr. Happy
- 1972: Always trouble with the Reverend
- 1972: The heather is green
- 1973: The gentian blooms blue
- 1973: Old boat and young love
- 1973: Mr. Müller loves hiking
- 1973: Our aunt is the last
- 1975: Opération Lady Marlène
- 1975: The keeper of secrets
- 1975: Lady Dracula (Premiere: 1978)
- 1978: Heaven, sheik and cloudburst
- 1980: Nobody kissed the horse
- 1990: A woman named Harry
- 1995: Mother's Courage
- 2000: Manila
watch TV
- 1960: steel net: burned traces
- 1974: The haunted castle of Baskermore
- 1977: Ask Ms. Erika
- 1978: My dear husband
- 1978: robbers and gendarmes
- 1979: The tired Theodor
- 1980: Hollywood, I'm coming
- 1981: The daring swimmer
- 1982–1986: It's done
- 1983: Kottan determined (TV series, episodes 6x02–6x03)
- 1983: Mary and Gordy in the country
- 1987–1989: Harald and Eddi (TV series)
- 1987: Vicky and Nicky
- 1987: Highest railway
- 1987: Mrs. Harris goes to Moscow
- 1989: Hessian stories (TV series, episode 1x10)
- 1989: No gondola for the corpse
- 1990–1991: Ein Schloß am Wörthersee (TV series, episodes 1x05, 2x07)
- 1991: a strange couple
- 1993: Happy Journey - Venice (TV series)
- 1993: A Bavarian on Rügen (TV series)
- 1993: Happy Holiday (TV series, 1x05)
- 1996: Salto Postale (TV series, episode 4x02)
- 1996: Edgar Wallace: The Kensington Cat
- 1996: Edgar Wallace: The Carousel of Death
- 1996: Edgar Wallace: The Blind
- 1997: Evelyn Hamann's Stories from Life - Paths to Fame
- 1997: Heimatgeschichten (TV series, 1 episode)
- 1999: Dr. Stefan Frank - The doctor whom women trust (episode 5x14)
- 1999: Evelyn Hamann's Stories from Life - Women's Choice
- 2000: The dream ship - Olympia 2000
- 2002: Edgar Wallace: The Castle of Horror
- 2002: Edgar Wallace: The Eerie Letters
- 2002: Edgar Wallace: The Four Just
- 2002: Edgar Wallace: The House of Dead Eyes
- 2002: Edgar Wallace: Whiteface
literature
- Rainer Dick, Ingrun Bewegungs: Eddi Arent - actor , in CineGraph - Lexicon for German-Language Films, Lg. 34 (2000)
- Eddi Arent in the Munzinger archive ( beginning of article freely accessible)
Web links
- Eddi Arent in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Eddi Arent at filmportal.de
- Article in the world for the 80th birthday
- Obituaries: Süddeutsche Zeitung , Der Spiegel Rheinische Post
Individual evidence
- ^ Eddi Arent - actor , in CineGraph - Lexicon for German-language film
- ↑ On Eddi Arent's death: "Yes, Madame!" In: Spiegel Online from June 5, 2013
- ↑ 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
- ↑ On the death of Eddie Arent - stick and hat. In: FAZ Online from June 5, 2013
- ↑ knerger.de: The grave of Eddi Arent
personal data | |
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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 |