Erich Schellow

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Erich Schellow (right) at the presentation of the Berlin Art Prize 1960

Erich Schellow (born February 27, 1915 in Berlin ; † November 25, 1995 there ) was a German actor . Occasionally he was also active as a voice actor.

Life

The son of a merchant, Schellow, already played a large amount of theater during his school days and graduated from the Prussian State Theater's drama school under Walter Franck , Lothar Müthel , Hermine Körner and Maria Koppenhöfer between 1935 and 1937 . In 1937 he made his stage debut as Mortimer in Friedrich Schiller's Maria Stuart at the Deutsches Volkstheater in Hamburg-Altona, where he was engaged until 1940. In 1941 he moved to the Prussian State Theater in Berlin, where he remained under contract until 1945. Apart from another brief engagement in Hamburg and guest performances in Zurich and Vienna ( Burgtheater ), Berlin should remain the center of his artistic work. From 1948 on, Schellow was part of the ensemble of the Staatliche Schauspielbühnen in Berlin and remained a constant in Berlin's cultural scene until it was closed in 1993. Schellow sued against the closure of the theaters, which he saw as his "second home", and the dismissal he had received, and took an active part in the streets with colleagues to protest.

For his services to the theater, Schellow has received the Berlin Art Prize , the German Critics' Prize and the Federal Cross of Merit several times . In 1966 he was named Berlin State Actor . In addition, from 1965 he was a full member of the Berlin Academy of the Arts , from which he resigned in 1992 in protest against the entire takeover of academy members from the former GDR.

Schellow's grave in the Wilmersdorf cemetery

The renowned theater actor Schellow rarely took on roles in film and television. He played under directors like Helmut Käutner ( In those days , portrait of a stranger ), Fritz Kortner ( The city is full of secrets ) and Josef von Báky (in his family saga Hotel Adlon ) and alongside colleagues like Hans Albers ( Before Sunset ). In Falk Harnack's July 20th, he was seen as a Protestant pastor and in Käutner's Der Hauptmann von Köpenick he embodied the very captain who relocated his uniform after completing his military service, giving it the title hero embodied by Heinz Rühmann . In 1967 Schellow also slipped into the role of Sherlock Holmes alongside Paul Edwin Roth's Dr. Watson - a performance for which the German Sherlock Holmes Society Von Herder Airguns Ltd made him its first honorary member in 1991.

Besides borrowed Schellow, who himself never to be a voice actor understood his voice prominent fellow actors as Rex Harrison ( Mitternachtsspitzen ), Peter Cushing (u. A. Dracula and Revenge of the Pharaohs ), Vittorio Gassman ( storm in the East ), Charlton Heston in the miniseries ( The Police Chiefs from Delano ) and Mel Ferrer ( War and Peace ).

Erich Schellow suffered a severe stroke in 1993, as a result of which he suffered from severe paralysis and died in 1995 in his hometown of Berlin. He was buried in the Wilmersdorf cemetery.

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SURNAME Schellow, Erich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German actor and voice actor
DATE OF BIRTH February 27, 1915
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH November 25, 1995
Place of death Berlin