Gerd Briese
Gerd Briese , also Gert Briese (born December 24, 1897 in Thorn , West Prussia , † August 1957 in Berlin ) was a German actor , screenwriter , director and general manager .
Life
Briese attended grammar school and then studied German at the universities of Munich , Frankfurt am Main and Rostock until he received his doctorate . In 1924, Dr. phil Gerd Briese started his acting career in front of the camera and sporadically tried his hand at writing as a screenwriter. At the end of the 1920s, Briese also made contacts with the theater, and later he also began staging plays. His career in cinema ended abruptly with the dawn of the sound film era. From then on Gerd Briese dedicated himself to the production of industrial films before he was drafted at the beginning of the Second World War.
After 1945, Briese returned to the theater. First he worked as head of the theater department in the Chamber of Artists in Berlin, and from 1946 to 1948 he was the artistic director of the Stadttheater Gießen . Between 1949 and 1954 Briese took over the management of the State Theater in Oldenburg . In 1955 he moved to the Theater der Jugend in Remscheid - Duisburg as the director of the play . In the same year he was seen again after a long time with two roles in movie productions.
Dr. Gerd Briese was killed in a traffic accident in Berlin.
Filmography (as an actor)
- 1924: Rose Monday
- 1925: Reveille, the great awakening (also screenplay)
- 1925: Die vom Niederrhein (script only)
- 1925: women and banknotes
- 1926: The Gasthaus zur Ehe (screenplay only)
- 1926: The pirates of the Baltic seaside resorts
- 1926: The flames lie
- 1926: The midshipman
- 1926: Forbidden love
- 1927: U 9 Weddigen
- 1927: I once had a beautiful fatherland
- 1927: The linden landlady on the Rhine
- 1927: Lützow's wild, daring hunt
- 1927: radio magic
- 1928: fair game
- 1928: Sex in chains
- 1929: Roses bloom on the heather grave
- 1929: Perjury
- 1929: The moral judge § 218
- 1955: behavior is a matter of luck
- 1955: It happened on July 20th
literature
- Wilhelm Kosch : German Theater Lexicon. Biographical and bibliographical manual. Volume 1: A - Hurk. Kleinmayr, Klagenfurt et al. 1953, p. 210.
- 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. 82.
- German stage yearbook. Vol. 66, 1958, ISSN 0070-4431 , p. 95.
- Johann Caspar Glenzdorf: Glenzdorf's international film lexicon. Biographical manual for the entire film industry. Volume 1: A-Heck. Prominent-Filmverlag, Bad Münder 1960, DNB 451560736 , p. 194 f.
Web links
- Gerd Briese in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Gerd Briese at filmportal.de
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Briese, Gerd |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German actor, director, artistic director and screenwriter |
| DATE OF BIRTH | December 24, 1897 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Thorn , West Prussia |
| DATE OF DEATH | August 1957 |
| Place of death | Berlin , Germany |