Friedrich Schoenfelder

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Friedrich Schoenfelder at an Edgar Wallace meeting
Friedrich Schoenfelder's grave

Friedrich Schoenfelder (born October 17, 1916 in Sorau (Lausitz), Brandenburg province , † August 14, 2011 in Berlin ) was a German actor and voice actor .

Life

Schoenfelder, whose father was an architect , attended the Free School Community of Wickersdorf and then the drama school of the Prussian State Theater under Gustaf Gründgens in Berlin, where he also made his stage debut in 1936. He was employed here until 1939.

After military service and imprisonment, he was employed at the Württemberg State Theater in Stuttgart from 1946 to 1950 , at the Deutsches Theater in Göttingen in 1950 and at the Frankfurt Municipal Theaters from 1951 to 1958 . From 1958 he became a freelance actor. He mainly played at various houses in Berlin. But he also had engagements in Zurich , Vienna , Munich , Düsseldorf , Cologne , Frankfurt am Main , Dresden , Hagen , appeared at the festivals in Bad Hersfeld , Heppenheim and Jagsthausen and was employed on several touring stages. He was seen in productions by the directors Gustaf Gründgens , Jürgen Fehling , Lothar Müthel , Harry Buckwitz , Erwin Piscator and many others.

As a character actor who turned gray at an early age , he took over the role of distinguished gentleman or bon vivant from the late 1950s , especially in boulevard plays. One of his most famous theatrical successes is the musical My Fair Lady (1961), in which he appeared on stage around 1,200 times (alongside Paul Hubschmid and Karin Hübner, among others ). Here he first played Colonel Pickering and later also the role of Prof. Higgins. He had other appearances in Berlin at the Theater am Kurfürstendamm and at the Komödie am Kurfürstendamm in great audiences such as Father of a Daughter (1966) with Georg Thomalla , in Komödie im Dunkeln (1967, 1987, 1998) and Pension Schöller (1997-2008) Winfried Glatzeder and at the Hebbel Theater in Der Raub der Sabinerinnen (1972) with Rudolf Platte . Schoenfelder was also convincing in serious television and stage roles such as in Waterloo (1969) or at the Fritz-Rémond-Theater in Frankfurt am Main in One Moscow and Back (1983).

Since 1948 Schoenfelder also played roles in film . After a few major leading roles, he was a busy supporting actor from the late 1950s. He appeared in melodramas and homeland films of the late 1950s, in Edgar Wallace films of the 1960s and 1970s and also in entertainment films of the 1970s. In 1987 Schoenfelder played a major supporting role in the hit movie Otto - The New Film with Otto Waalkes .

Since 1956 Schoenfelder has also appeared in various television productions. Here, too, he was cast in different genres. Some theater productions were also televised. With over 140 film and television roles, he was a busy and well-known actor for over sixty years.

Since 1956 Schoenfelder also worked in dubbing and lent his voice to international actors in more than 400 films. These included Peter Cushing (among others in Star Wars and in Frankenstein's Monsters ), Henry Fonda (in roller coaster ), Alec Guinness (among others in Kafka and in Die Stunden der Komödianten ), Rex Harrison (among others in My Fair Lady and in Ashanti ), James Mason (in Jesus of Nazareth ), William Powell (in The Thin Man ), Vincent Price (among others in The Fly and The Horrible Mr. X ) as well as David Tomlinson in ( Mary Poppins and in The Daring Witch in her flying bed ). Actors like David Niven (in Casino Royale , Das Superhirn , Tod auf dem Nil, etc.) and John Gielgud (in Gandhi and others) owe a large part of their popularity in Germany to Schoenfeld's distinctive and nonchalant voice.

In the animal film series In the Realm of the Wild Animals , he lent his voice to the American zoologist Marlin Perkins in 140 episodes .

From 1990 to 1992 he ran the DFF television program Willi Schwabes Rumpelkammer under the title Rumpelkammer during the illness and after the death of Willi Schwabe , until it was finally discontinued after the station was closed.

Schoenfelder could be heard as a narrator in films such as Asterix the Gauls and The Shoe of Manitu . He also spoke in numerous radio play programs (HR) and in advertising. Schoenfelder presented the program Schoenfelders kleine Jazzmusik on Deutschlandradio Kultur, which was broadcast once a month from Saturday to Sunday as part of the Jazz Night . From 1973 onwards, he read at the broadcaster Free Berlin under the title Only for Strong Nerves, macabre-humorous horror stories. Since 2007 he has appeared on television as the spokesperson for the series Little Britain .

On the occasion of his 80th birthday in 1996 he published his memoir I was always me .

In 2006 Schoenfelder suffered a fracture of the femur when he fell on the bathroom tiles and received an artificial hip joint. In December 2006, at the age of 90, Schoenfelder was again on stage in the farce Damned Long ago in the Renaissance Theater in Berlin. A year later he played again in the successful piece. In July 2008 he could be seen in the resumption of the Schwank Pension Schöller and then in November / December 2008 again in the Renaissance Theater in the German premiere of the play November by David Mamet as an old, corrupt Indian chief. Schoenfelder's stage career spanned a period of over 70 years. In addition, he gave reading evenings in and outside Berlin even in old age, most recently in May 2010.

Friedrich Schoenfelder died on August 14, 2011 at the age of 94 in Berlin-Spandau of prostate cancer . His grave is in the Zehlendorf cemetery . (Field 016-452)

Filmography (selection)

cinemamovies

watch TV

Synchronized work

David Niven

James Mason

John Gielgud

Michael Gough

Peter Cushing

Peter Lawford

  • 1962: Longest Day as Lord Lovat
  • 1969: Jerry, the heart patient as Dr. Scott Carter
  • 1970: The Unlucky As Christopher Pepper

Rex Harrison

Tom Felleghy

Vincent Price

Movies

Series

Radio plays and audio books (selection)

Audiobooks (selection)

theatre

Awards

  • 2006 - German price for dubbing for his outstanding oeuvre in dubbing
  • 2007 - The Silhouette synchronous audience award in the Lifetime Achievement category

Autobiography

literature

  • Thomas Groom : Friedrich Schoenfelder. In other words: Stars and their German voices. Lexicon of voice actors. Schüren, Marburg 2009, ISBN 978-3-89472-627-0 , pp. 225-226.
  • Wolfgang Bittner , Mark vom Hofe: I was always me. Friedrich Schoenfelder . In: I have become a public person. Personalities from film and television . Horlemann Verlag, Bad Honnef 2009, ISBN 978-3-89502-277-7 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b knerger.de: The grave of Friedrich Schoenfelder
  2. ↑ Willi Schwabe's lumber room. Internet Movie Database , accessed June 10, 2015 .
  3. ↑ junk room. Internet Movie Database , accessed June 10, 2015 .
  4. ↑ bz-berlin.de: Friedrich Schoenfelder is dead Article from August 15, 2011
  5. ↑ sueddeutsche.de: Friedrich Schoenfelder died - death of a gentleman Article from August 15, 2011
  6. ↑ List of the audio books spoken by Schoenfelder in Audible
personal data
SURNAME Schoenfelder, Friedrich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German actor and voice actor
DATE OF BIRTH October 17, 1916
PLACE OF BIRTH Sorau
DATE OF DEATH August 14, 2011
Place of death Berlin , Germany