Georg Lehn

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Georg Lehn (born February 7, 1915 in Darmstadt , † March 20, 1996 in Munich ) was a German actor .

Life

He attended the humanistic grammar school in Darmstadt and then graduated from the drama school of the Academy of Music in 1934/35 . In 1935 he passed his final exam in front of the Reich Theater Chamber in Berlin, followed by a year of Reich Labor Service and a year of traineeship in Darmstadt.

In 1939 Lehn received an engagement at the Lower Saxony State Theater in Hanover . From 1940 to 1942 he played at the municipal theater of Schneidemühl and from 1942 to 1944 at the municipal theaters of Bromberg . Mostly Lehn was used in the field of the young comedian. Due to the Second World War , Lehn had to interrupt his career, after which he worked at the Heidelberger Kammerspiele from 1945 to 1947, and at the Junge Theater in Munich in 1947/48. In 1950 he worked at the Baden-Baden Theater , from 1951 to 1953 at the municipal theaters in Essen and from 1953 to 1956 at the Bavarian State Theater in Munich. Afterwards he worked as a freelancer and made guest appearances at the Salzburg Festival and went on numerous tours.

In the film, Lehn started with a few tiny appearances, including as a rhyming student pilot in Quax, the Bruchpilot . In Bernhard Wicki's war drama Die Brücke , he played the sergeant who heads the demolition squad and is finally shot from behind by Fritz Wepper . Even later, his roles remained mostly small, he gained greater fame through television, where he played mostly simple people, but also dodgy characters and, finally, strange old men in a total of over 250 roles. He was the father of three children.

His grave is in the Munich forest cemetery .

Filmography

Radio plays

  • 1953: Carl Zuckmayer : Ulla Winblad or Music and Life of Carl Michael Bellmann - Director: Walter Ohm (radio play - BR / RB / SWF)

Web links

supporting documents

  1. ↑ Gerg Lehn's grave. knerger.de, accessed on January 13, 2018 .
personal data
SURNAME Lehn, Georg
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German actor
DATE OF BIRTH February 7, 1915
PLACE OF BIRTH Darmstadt
DATE OF DEATH March 20, 1996
Place of death Munich