Fred Tanner

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Fred Tanner (born September 12, 1920 in Rüschlikon , Switzerland as Gottfried Tanner ; † October 27, 1982 in Zurich ) was a Swiss actor .

Life

Tanner, according to his sponsor Leopold Lindtberg "a gentle giant of poetic form", received his acting training at the Zurich stage studio from 1941 , which he completed in 1944. Right at the beginning he stood for the first time in front of the camera with Reeta Stauffacher in Lindtberg's Landammann Stauffacher . A year later, in 1942, Lindtberg handed him the important part of the pan handle in his cinema production The Shot from the Pulpit . This was followed by supporting supporting roles in a number of other well-known Swiss films , including Lindtberg's Marie-Louise and Swiss Tour , Luigi Comencini's famous Heidi version from 1952 , where, as in the sequel from 1954, Franz Schnyder's Heidi and Peter , he played the pastor, as well as a number of other Schnyder productions, including May 10th , the two Anne Bäbi Jowäger films Anne Bäbi Jowäger - Part I: How Jakobli comes to a woman and Anne Bäbi Jowäger - Part II: Jakobli and Meyeli , The Moral Criminal , Money and Spirit and finally in 1967 The 6 Sorrowful Boys .

However, the main focus of his career was on his work on the stage, where under Lindtberg he was almost continuously (from 1941 to 1944, from 1954 to 1957 and from 1959 to 1980) to the ensemble of the Zurich Theater . During his free time in Zurich, Tanner played on stages in Basel , Bern and St. Gallen , and from 1957 to 1959 he was also engaged abroad, at the Landestheater Darmstadt .

In addition to Lindtberg, he was also cast by such important directors as Oskar Wältin , Heinz Hilpert , Giorgio Strehler and Kurt Hirschfeld . Tanner celebrated his greatest successes in modern plays in 1946 with the Oderbruch in the world premiere of Carl Zuckmayer's Des Teufels General , in 1948 with the redhead in the world premiere of Bertolt Brecht's Herr Puntila and his servant Matti , in 1954 with Lucky in Samuel Beckett's Waiting for Godot , with Beckmann in Wolfgang Borchert's Outside Front Door , with Kraler in the 1956/57 season in The Diary of Anne Frank and 1960 with Werner in Jean-Paul Sartre's The Enclosed . Fred Tanner also found employment in television. In the 1960s he also worked as a teacher at the Zurich Acting Academy . He found his final resting place in the Witikon cemetery .

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  1. ↑ quoted from Dumont: The History of Swiss Films. 1987, p. 360
personal data
SURNAME Tanner, Fred
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Tanner, Gottfried (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss actor
DATE OF BIRTH September 12, 1920
PLACE OF BIRTH Rüschlikon , Switzerland
DATE OF DEATH October 27, 1982
Place of death Zurich