Erich Schleyer

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Erich Schleyer with Maria Bill (2014)

Erich Hermann Schleyer (born March 1, 1940 in Dresden ; † July 6, 2021 in Vienna ) was a German actor , screenwriter , presenter , journalist and children's book author .

Life

Schleyer studied at the Leipzig Theater School . From 1961 until his death he worked as an actor. After fleeing the GDR in 1968, he worked in Düsseldorf , Cologne , Hamburg , Munich , Zurich , Berlin and Salzburg ( Salzburg Festival ) and the Bad Hersfeld Festival, among others . In Vienna Schleyer worked with Tabori at the Burgtheater and the Akademietheater . At the Schauspielhaus Wien under the direction of Hans Gratzerhe became known with the role of Frank N. Furter from the Rocky Horror Show . He was a member of the Theater in der Josefstadt in Vienna; He also played in the Volksoper , the Volkstheater , the Theater an der Wien and the Vienna State Opera.

In Germany, he moderated children's television series and took part as an actor (brother Tom in Das feuerrote Spielmobil , role of the village policeman in Die Rote Zora and their gang ) and the series Clown & Co. , which started in 1977. In the early 1990s, the series Erichs Chaos with the Austrian actress Gusti Wolf was broadcast on behalf of ORF . Schleyer's program The Leaning Tower was shown between February 2005 and September 2008 on ORF's Confetti TiVi ; books for children were presented in this program. Schleyer also wrote children's books himself; The storyteller was published in 2017 by the Austrian Kral publishing house .

He moderated and designed documentaries on ORF such as When the Heiden Christians were by Jos Rosenthal. In the ORF program Compas , headed by Franz Hlavac , Schleyer reported a place on the border in Berka / Werra three times within 20 years about the end of the GDR. Erich Schleyer died in July 2021 at the age of 81 in Vienna.

Erich Schleyer (2006)

Filmography

Awards

Web links

Commons : Erich Schleyer  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Fixed size in Viennese theater life: Erich Schleyer is dead. July 7, 2021, accessed on July 7, 2021 .
personal data
SURNAME Schleyer, Erich
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Schleyer, Erich Hermann (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German screenwriter, presenter, actor, journalist, children's author
DATE OF BIRTH March 1, 1940
PLACE OF BIRTH Dresden
DATE OF DEATH July 6, 2021
PLACE OF DEATH Vienna