Fritz Decho

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Fritz Decho (born January 4, 1932 in Leipzig-Möckern , † December 25, 2002 in Berlin ) was a German actor and voice actor .

Life

Decho completed an acting education at the Leipzig Music Academy ; the actor Martin Flörchinger was one of his teachers . From 1950 to 1952 he was engaged in the Junge Ensemble Weimar under Maxim Vallentin . With Vallentin he moved to the Berlin Maxim-Gorki-Theater in 1952 . From 1960 he worked as an actor at the Berliner Volksbühne . In 1966 he became artistic director of the local studio theater, where he realized his own productions, including alphabet stories (1973). From 1977 Decho worked as a freelance actor and director. He also appeared with his own literary and musical solo programs.

From the beginning of the 1950s Decho also took on film duties at DEFA , where he was mainly employed as a character actor in high-profile supporting roles. He first played in several contemporary films, among others directed by Martin Hellberg , Slatan Dudow and Konrad Wolf . In 1954 he had a small role in the drama Leuchtfeuer, directed by Wolfgang Staudte . In the 1960s, he mainly took on roles in costume films , fairy tale films, and some coat-and-epee films . Courtiers, stewards and police commissioners were part of his spectrum of roles. In the fairy tale film Die goldene Gans he played the courtier Count Ohnewitz at the side of Karin Ugowski in 1964. In 1965 he had a similar role as nobleman Count Eitelfritz in the fairy tale film King Drosselbart , again with Karin Ugowski as a partner and Manfred Krug in the title role. In 1990 he got his first leading role in a cinema. In the family film The Quarrel over the Donkey's Shadow , he played the dentist Struthion.

Fritz Decho's grave

On GDR television he took on several leading roles in comedies, mostly in stage productions specially designed for television, such as in productions by the Moritzburg television theater such as Mihail Sebastian's Last Messages (1972), Margot Schölzels Binding Reserved (1981), Andor Koloszvaris The Unexcused Night (1983) and Valentin Katajews Pension Butterpilz - Das Freizeitparadies (1984). Decho also worked on the quill short film Last Subject lower right .

In the 1990s, Decho worked extensively as a voice actor ; Among other things, he worked on the re-synchronization (1994) of the cartoon Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs .

He continued to give solo evenings with his own programs and occasionally did theater. In addition to his work as an actor, Decho also frequently worked as a speaker for radio play productions . He also founded the cabaret "ULK" (Independent Literary Cabaret), the forerunner of the "Berliner Brettl", which was taken over in 1993 by Michael W. Hansen .

His grave is in the Dorotheenstadt cemetery .

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SURNAME Decho, Fritz
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German actor and voice actor
DATE OF BIRTH January 4, 1932
PLACE OF BIRTH Möckern (Leipzig)
DATE OF DEATH December 25, 2002
Place of death Berlin