Erik Ode

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Erik Ode in the early 1930s

Erik Ode (born November 6, 1910 in Berlin , † July 19, 1983 in Kreuth -Weißach; bourgeois Fritz Erik Signy Odemar ) was a German actor , director and voice actor . He played his most famous role as the leading actor in the television series Der Kommissar .

Life

His parents were the actors Fritz Odemar and Erika Nymgau-Odemar . Fritz Odemar worked a. a. in numerous UFA feature films .

As a twelve-year-old, Erik Ode played in the silent film I. N. R. I. in 1923 . He temporarily visited the Free School Community of Wickersdorf and began an apprenticeship in a photochemical institute after completing secondary school in 1927.

After his training as an actor, he played theater and had in 1928 his first stage appearance in November Studio of the Theater am Schiffbauerdamm in dormitory by Herbert Minnich under the direction of Leopold Lindtberg . Together with Max Colpet , he founded the cabaret Anti in Berlin in 1928 . Ode appeared on numerous Berlin theaters and from 1930 had small roles in talkies. Friedrich Luft described him as a “chatting talent” who could be both funny and casual, but also strict and sharp.

In 1933 he was hired to succeed Max Hansen at the Metropol Theater . There, as well as in the Theater am Nollendorfplatz and in the Admiralspalast , Ode was seen in operettas like Clivia and Frau Luna . In 1936 he played on the Isle of Wight and in London , then in revues at the Berlin Scala and at the Renaissance Theater . In 1939 Alexander Golling signed him to the Bavarian State Theater . In 1942 Ode married the Viennese actress Hilde Volk , with whom he was married until the end of his life. In 1943 he moved to the Berlin artist theaters. During the Second World War he worked in the troop support and came to Norway and France. Ode was drafted as a radio operator towards the end of the war and interned in the Fürstenwalde camp in 1945.

After the war he played in the comedy on Kurfürstendamm and did cabaret again. In addition, he directed the new NWDR radio play. In 1948 he became senior director at the station RIAS . On stage Ode was in such plays as Pygmalion by George Bernard Shaw and Charley's Aunt to see. In Berlin he also directed dubbing for the MGM dubbing studio and acted as dubbing actor for Frank Sinatra , Fred Astaire , Gene Kelly , Bing Crosby and Cary Grant . In the German dubbed version of Singin 'in the Rain , Ode Gene Kelly not only spoke, but also took over his vocal parts, as the songs were also translated into German.

As a film director in the 1950s, Ode mainly directed revue and hit films , as well as remakes of successful comedies from the 1930s. From 1961 Ode worked for television. He directed television plays and occasionally directed the stage, for example in 1967 in No corpse without Lily with Grethe Weiser .

He became known to a wide audience primarily through the television crime series Der Kommissar , written by Herbert Reinecker , in which he played the role of Kommissar Keller in 97 episodes from 1968 to 1975. a. accompanied by Fritz Wepper in the role of assistant Harry. Along with the Derrick series, also written by Reinecker, this series was the most successful crime series of the first decades of television in Germany . From 1978 to 1980, Ode played the main role of the retired policeman Eric Ott in the ARD regional program in the crime series Sun, Wine and Hard Nuts , who supported the local criminal investigator Giraud in solving cases in his retirement home in Provence .

He also made stage guest appearances and occasionally directed, for example in 1977 in Don Juan or Die Liebe zur Geometrie ( stages in the Hanseatic city of Lübeck ) and in 1980 in Horst Pillaus Und Buddha laughs ( Ernst-Deutsch-Theater Hamburg ).

After Ode suffered a faint attack on a Munich theater stage in 1982, he retired from professional life. Erik Ode died on July 19, 1983 in Weißach / Tegernsee. At his request, his ashes were buried at sea .

Filmography (selection)

as an actor

as a director

as a voice actor

Awards

Autobiography

  • Erik Ode: The commissioner and me. The Erik-Ode-Story (= Goldmann-Yellow. Vol. 3376). Approved paperback edition, license from Schulz-Verlag, Munich / Percha. Goldmann, Munich 1975, ISBN 3-442-03376-4 (first edition. Schulz, Munich / Percha (am Starnberger See) 1972).

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. Friedrich Luft: Blessing and curse of the serial hero . In: Die Welt July 22, 1983, quoted in Erik Ode - actor, director , at CineGraph - Lexikon zum deutschsprachigen Film , vol. 17 (1990)
  2. The man who was more than just the inspector , Hamburger Morgenpost, November 6, 2010.
  3. ^ Klaus Nerger: Burial at sea. In: knerger.de. Retrieved December 2, 2019 .