Erik Schumann

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Erik Schumann as Hans Schott in the film Night fell over Gotenhafen , illustration by Helmuth Ellgaard , 1959.

Erik Schumann , also: Schuman, (born February 15, 1925 in Grechwitz , † February 9, 2007 in Munich ) was a German actor and voice actor .

Life

In addition to training as a musician for piano and trombone, he took acting lessons at the Dresden Conservatory. From 1943 onwards he received his first engagements at the Dresden State Theater , the Berlin Schloßparktheater and in Frankfurt am Main , Stuttgart and Munich.

Erik Schumann had his first film role, apart from an appearance as a teenager in a propaganda film in 1942, in the DEFA film Semmelweis - Savior of Mothers as a Corps Student. In 1954 he first played a role in a Federal Republican film, in Konsul Strotthoff . His breakthrough came with the East-West love story starless sky of Helmut Käutner . From then on he was at the side of Heinz Erhardt , Bernhard Wicki , Hansjörg Felmy , Ulla Jacobsson , Sonja Ziemann and Gunnar Möller u. a. see in different roles. In 1960 he performed in the officers' factory alongside Helmut Griem and Horst Frank . He also worked in numerous television productions. He had guest appearances in television series such as Der Kommissar and Derrick . His use as an investigator in the television series Tatort was limited to one episode in 1981.

In 1987 he was the first Jedermann at the Berliner Jedermann Festival .

Erik Schumann was married twice (his first marriage to actress Erika Dannhoff ) and had two children. He last lived in Straßlach near Munich, where he succumbed to cancer in February 2007 and was buried there.

Synchronizations

He began dubbing as early as 1949 and in the following decades lent his voice to actors like Tony Curtis in Some Like It Hot , Cary Grant in Leopards You Don't Kiss , Jack Nicholson in The Honor of the Prizzis , Robert Hardy in The Doctor and the Dear Cattle and above in addition Marcello Mastroianni , Jean-Louis Trintignant , Peter O'Toole and others. His distinctive voice was also in great demand on the radio for radio play productions , for example in 1968 he spoke to the Bavarian Radio in six Sherlock Holmes stories the Dr. Watson. Erik Schumann has also been heard in roles in numerous television series, for example for Martin Landau in the first dubbing phase of Kobra, you take over again for Pernell Roberts in Trapper John, MD or for Jack Klugman in Du . In the series A Terribly Nice Family , he directed the dubbing and was heard as the voice of the dog Buck . In the Brazilian telenovela Sinha Moça, he lent his voice to the local cinema star Rubens de Falco. This represented Colonel Ferreira.

In 2000, Schumann dubbed the role of the gold digger Stinke-Piet, originally spoken by Kelsey Grammer , in the animated film Toy Story 2 produced by Pixar .

Movies

Radio plays (selection)

Web links

Commons : Erik Schumann  - Collection of Images

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ knerger.de: Erik Schumann's grave
personal data
SURNAME Schumann, Erik
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German actor and voice actor
DATE OF BIRTH February 15, 1925
PLACE OF BIRTH Grechwitz
DATE OF DEATH February 9, 2007
Place of death Munich