Friedrich Siemers

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Friedrich Siemers (born April 30, 1922 in Leer , † January 29, 1988 in West Berlin ) was a German actor and radio play speaker .

Life

Siemers attended grammar schools in Leer and Hanover and received artistic training from 1939 to 1941 at the Westphalian Drama School in Bochum . In 1941 he was taken over by the Schauspielhaus Bochum , but immediately afterwards drafted into the Wehrmacht. After the end of the war, Siemers began his theater career in 1945 with the Phaon in Franz Grillparzer's Sappho under the artistic direction of Saladin Schmitt . In 1947 he moved to the Wiesbaden State Theater under the direction of Karl-Heinz Stroux . From 1949 to 1952, Siemers played under Fritz Wisten at the East Berlin Theater on Schiffbauerdamm . In 1952, Boleslaw Barlog signed him to the Schiller- und Schlossparktheater , which he directed and to which he would remain connected for the coming decades.

Siemers played numerous character roles , especially in classical pieces, including Leander in Grillparzer's Des Meeres und der Liebe Wellen , Erich Spitta in Gerhart Hauptmann's Die Ratten , the Pylades in Iphigenie auf Tauris , the Masham in Eugène Scribes Das Glas Wasser , the Beckmann in Wolfgang Borchert Outside the door , the Clavigo the same Goethe-piece, the Mortimer in Friedrich Schiller's Mary Stuart , the hard man in Carl Zuckmayer's the devil's General , the Orsino in Shakespeare's Twelfth Night and the ways in the great world Theater of Pedro Calderon de la Barca .

Since his film debut at the side of Paul Wegener in The Great Mandarin , which he made in 1948 during his time in Wiesbaden under the direction of Stroux, Siemers has also been in front of the camera - initially at very irregular intervals. During the course of the early 1960s, television began to gain in importance in his career. Siemers often played dignitaries of all kinds: doctors, lawyers, and other academics. In Operation Valkyrie he played Field Marshal Erwin Rommel , and in walks through the Margraviate of Brandenburg he played the Prussian King Frederick the Great , one of his last television roles.

Friedrich Siemers has also spoken numerous radio plays since 1953 and dubbed a number of films. He was married to the dancer Marion Cito (* 1938).

Filmography

Radio plays

literature

  • Herbert A. Frenzel , Hans Joachim Moser (ed.): Kürschner's biographical theater manual. Drama, opera, film, radio. Germany, Austria, Switzerland. De Gruyter, Berlin 1956, DNB 010075518 , p. 695.
  • Johann Caspar Glenzdorf: Glenzdorf's international film lexicon. Biographical manual for the entire film industry. Volume 3: Peit – Zz. Prominent-Filmverlag, Bad Münder 1961, DNB 451560752 , p. 1611.

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personal data
SURNAME Siemers, Friedrich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German actor and radio play speaker
DATE OF BIRTH April 30, 1922
PLACE OF BIRTH Empty
DATE OF DEATH January 29, 1988
Place of death West Berlin