Georg Helge

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Georg Helge (born November 15, 1910 in Hirschberg , Silesia , † June 3, 2001 in Berlin ) was a German actor .

Life

Georg Helge grew up as an illegitimate child at the Hotel Kaiserhof in his place of birth , where his mother worked as a carpenter. After a stopover in Szekszárd , Hungary , she moved to Reichenberg in North Bohemia and to the German House there . His owner made sure that Helge, who did not have a school leaving certificate, could volunteer as a young man in various hotels in Budapest , Piestany or Baden-Baden . He later worked as a sleeper waiter and was the companion of the Hungarian Countess Pallfy, who traveled with her racehorses between Budapest, Baden-Baden and Deauville ; Maisons-Laffitte or Pardubice traveled.

Ordered back by his mother to Reichenberg, Georg Helge got to know the Viennese revue ensemble Thousand Beautiful Legs here at the end of the 1920s and was taken by him to a guest performance in Paris, where, in addition to the soubrette Gitta Alpár, he played with the theater entrepreneurs Gebrüder Rotter - Alfred Rotter and Fritz Rotter - met. They hired him as a choir student and so Helge came to Berlin via Leipzig, where he performed as a chorister on stage with Fritzi Massary , Mary Losseff and Richard Tauber in the Plaza (Berlin) , in the Admiralspalast and at the Theater des Westens .

After an engagement at the Allenstein Theater , Helge got in touch with the Berlin experimental television station Paul Nipkow through a make- up artist in the mid-30s and was involved in the first live television plays. He became a member of the NSDAP and from 1938, together with the actor Horst Preusker, was one of the ten full-time actors of the television game crowd at Reichsdeutscher Fernsehen.

In 1941 Helge was drafted into the Wehrmacht. After training in Munster, he came to Dessau-Rosslau , briefly on the Eastern Front and in Italy, where he was captured by the British. While his former Reichsfernsehen colleague Preusker was employed again as a radio announcer after the war, Helge was initially unable to regain access to the Berlin radio, which was under Soviet control, due to his western imprisonment .

Through the director Jürgen Fehling he got connection to Berlin stage productions and worked as an actor in many DEFA and DFF film productions since the late 1940s . Usually in smaller roles as waiter, servant, sailor, porter or similar.

He worked well into old age as a speaker and assistant director in numerous radio play productions for the radio in the GDR . In the biographical original sound portrait feature In other roles: Georg Helge… he also told for the first time in 1991 about his temporary employment as a caretaker and valet of the GDR President Wilhelm Pieck .

Filmography (selection)

Radio plays (selection)

Sound carrier

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Klaus Winkler: Television under the swastika. Organization - program - staff. Böhlau, Cologne / Weimar / Vienna 1996, ISBN 3-412-03594-7
personal data
SURNAME Helge, Georg
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German actor
DATE OF BIRTH November 15, 1910
PLACE OF BIRTH Hirschberg , Silesia
DATE OF DEATH June 3, 2001
Place of death Berlin