Erich Dunskus

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Erich Adolf Dunskus (born July 27, 1890 in Pillkallen ( East Prussia ) (today Russia ), † November 25, 1967 in Hagen ( Westphalia )) was a German actor .

Life

After an apprenticeship as a pharmacy assistant, Erich Dunskus emigrated to America at the beginning of 1914 , but tried to return home when the First World War broke out in 1914. The neutral, Dutch ship, however, was seized in the English Channel by French forces; German nationals were interned in France. During the year of internment he met the interned director Georg Wilhelm Pabst , who had previously directed one of the four German-speaking theaters in New York and who now improvised for and with the interned German theater performances. Erich Dunskus was later repatriated to Germany via Switzerland.

As a result of his military training, he first came to the Eastern Front as a medic, and later to the Western Front , where he was wounded by a poison gas attack. He experienced the end of the war on vacation in Germany.

After 1918 he took acting lessons at the Reicherschen Hochschule für Dramatic Kunst and first played at the State Theater in Eisenach . This was followed by engagements at different stages and finally from 1925 at the Prussian State Theater in Berlin, which was later directed by Gustaf Gründgens . After the Second World War he was initially engaged at the Deutsches Theater in East Berlin, later at the Schiller Theater and the Schlosspark Theater in West Berlin.

In addition to his work at the theater, Erich Dunskus appeared in leading and supporting roles in almost all Ufa films from around 1930 , including in Unter den Brücken and Nacht fell over Gotenhafen in the 1940s . After his film and stage career, Erich Dunskus continued to live in Berlin , but moved with his wife Elisabeth to Lübeck after the wall was built and then to Hagen, where he died and was buried in 1967.

He played a total of almost 150 films and appeared on the Berlin stages around 3500 times. As a voice actor he has been involved in more than 600 film and television productions.

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SURNAME Dunskus, Erich
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Dunskus, Erich Adolf (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German film and theater actor
DATE OF BIRTH July 27, 1890
PLACE OF BIRTH Pillkallen ( East Prussia )
DATE OF DEATH November 25, 1967
Place of death Hagen