Fritz Genschow

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Fritz Genschow
Grave in the forest cemetery Zehlendorf

Fritz Genschow (born May 15, 1905 in Berlin ; † June 21, 1977 there ) was a German actor , film director and film producer who also wrote screenplays .

Life

The son of a baker received his artistic training at the Reichersche Hochschule für Dramatic Kunst in Berlin. In 1924 he made his debut at the Meiningen Theater . In 1925/26 he played in Halle , from 1927 in Berlin at the Theater am Nollendorfplatz . Further engagements took him to the Prussian State Theater , the Volksbühne and the Theater am Schiffbauerdamm .

In 1930 he founded his own theater, the Children's Theater Berlin, with the actress Renée Stobrawa , his first wife. Here he performed, among other things, the play Revolte in the educational center . During the time of National Socialism his efforts in this direction came to a standstill.

Fritz Genschow began his film career as an actor in 1929 with the film Vererbte Triebe . In the 1930s he was a busy supporting actor; In the films Jenseits der Straße (1929), Morgenrot (1933), Straßenmusik (1936), One Talks about Jacqueline (1937) and Little Red Riding Hood and the Wolf (1937), he also played leading roles. He made his debut as a director in 1935 with the film The Interesting Case . In 1936 he spoke to Winnetou in the radio play Traces in the Prairie . As a screenwriter, director and actor, Genschow adapted the fairy tale film Little Red Riding Hood and the Wolf (1937) to the National Socialist ideology.

After the Second World War , Genschow was mainly active as a director and screenwriter and became known for numerous fairy tale films. He took over the production of his films himself and also appeared as an actor.

In 1947 he became director of the Zehlendorfer Freilichtbühne am Waldsee , later the Genschow-Stobrawa-Theater. After Stobrawa's death in 1971, he founded the Brothers Grimm Theater. In 1963 he was awarded the Brothers Grimm Prize. As “Uncle Tobias” he was a Berlin institution: from 1947–1972 he came to the children's room every Sunday at 10 o'clock on the radio ( RIAS ). The concept of the program was to create an idyll and to convey a trusting, comradely togetherness between children and adults. He succeeded when he sat together with "Aunt Erika" ( Erika Görner ) and his "RIAS children" in a happy group and accompanied Friederike with their singing on his guitar , listened to their problems and discussed them with them. There was also an exciting puppet theater piece, in which he himself spoke the character of the puppet.

His illegitimate daughter Heidi Genée was also active in the film business and learned the film trade from him. His legitimate children, who came from his second marriage to Rita-Maria Nowotny , also went to film: Marina Genschow became an actress, Gabriel Genschow (1954–2007) was a screenwriter and film producer. His legal heirs have been managing Genschow's films since 2007 under the company name "Medienproduktion und Vertrieb Genschow".

His grave is in the forest cemetery Zehlendorf in the department XIV-W-440a.

Filmography (selection)

As an actor

As a director

As a producer

As a screenwriter

theatre

Radio plays

Web links

Commons : Fritz Genschow  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ http://www.karl-may-hoerspiele.info/vpersonzuord.php?_id=910
  2. ↑ Deutschlandfunk Kultur: Uncle Tobias from RIAS memories of a popular children's program. Deutschlandfunk Kultur, January 1, 2020, accessed on April 9, 2020 .
  3. ↑ Sigrid Scherer et al. a .: Fairy tale worlds: the actor, director and producer Fritz Genschow. German Film Museum, 2005, p. 56.
  4. ↑ Genschow didn't actually play the guitar himself, but the professional guitarist Gerhard Tucholski , see: Rainer Stelle: Berliner Gitarristen im 20. Jahrhundert. An overview. In: The guitar on the move , edited by Jürgen Libbert. Munich 1994, p. 307.
  5. ↑ RIAS: rias1.de - The radio archive. RIAS, accessed April 9, 2020 .
personal data
SURNAME Genschow, Fritz
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German actor, film director and film producer
DATE OF BIRTH May 15, 1905
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH June 21, 1977
Place of death Berlin