Gerd Ehlers
Gerd Ehlers , actually Gerd Szczerbicki , (born May 21, 1924 in Reinfeld , † June 27, 1988 in East Berlin ) was a German actor .
Life
After Ehlers gained experience as an actor on a traveling stage during the Second World War , he began an artistic career as a stage actor in Magdeburg after the end of the war . After further stints at stages in Wuppertal , Bremen , Hamburg , Basel and Rostock , he got a multi-year job at the Maxim-Gorki-Theater in East Berlin in 1958 , where he achieved his final artistic breakthrough.
In numerous film and television productions, such as the title character in the television play Der Tag des Ludger Snoerrebrod as well as in some Stingeltier short films, Ehlers was able to successfully display his comedic talent.
Health impaired, he devoted himself in later years to work for radio in the GDR and as a voice actor .
He moderated the first episodes of the GDR television entertainment program There is music in it .
Ehler's grave is located in the Grünau forest cemetery in Berlin-Köpenick .
Filmography (selection)
- 1959: TV epitaval: The Jakubowski case (TV series)
- 1959: The barbed animal: Krawatzke on the cure (short film)
- 1960: What if ...?
- 1960: No trouble with Cleopatra
- 1961: The barbed animal: You should have a horse (short film)
- 1961: TV epitaval: The Denke case (TV series)
- 1961: The day of Ludger Snoerrebrod
- 1962: TV epitaval: shot while trying to escape
- 1962: The green monster (TV multi-part)
- 1962: The one from 12b
- 1962: Oh, you happy ...
- 1963: Naked among wolves
- 1963: carbide and sorrel
- 1963: Sunday driver
- 1963: Now and at the hour of my death
- 1963: Bonner Pitaval: The Heyde-Sawade Affair (TV series)
- 1964: Beloved white mouse
- 1964: Pension Boulanka
- 1964: The Flying Dutchman
- 1966/2009: Hands up or I'll shoot
- 1966: Black panthers
- 1967: wedding night in the rain
- 1968: The prosecutor has the floor: Anchor criminal case (TV series)
- 1968: Shots under the gallows
- 1968: Routes across the country (TV series)
- 1968: Heroin
- 1968/1969: Krupp and Krause
- 1971: Death in the curve (TV movie)
- 1972: Zernik's corpse case
- 1972: Police call 110: The Dead in the Fliess (TV series)
- 1973: Knight von Bredow's pants
- 1973: A certain Katulla (TV play)
- 1974: The first day of vacation (TV movie)
- 1974: Ulzana
- 1974: Johannes Kepler
- 1975: Police call 110: It doesn't work out
- 1976: Beethoven - Days in One Life
- 1976: The Regentrude
- 1976: Police call 110: Black cargo
- 1977: On the way to Atlantis
- 1977: Critters (TV)
- 1978: Anton the magician
- 1978: Police call 110: Double game
- 1979: Brush Heinrich (TV film)
- 1980: Levin's Mill
- 1982: The Righteous von Kummerow
- 1984: The story of the golden thaler (TV)
- 1987: As the ancients sang ...
theatre
- 1958: Heiner Müller / Inge Müller : The wage pusher (fascist) - Director: Hans Dieter Mäde ( Maxim-Gorki-Theater Berlin)
- 1959: Maxim Gorki : Feinde (Rittmeister) - Director: Hans Dieter Mäde (Maxim-Gorki-Theater Berlin)
- 1959: Valentin Katajew : Time Ahead - Director: Horst Schönemann (Maxim-Gorki-Theater Berlin)
- 1961: Maxim Gorky: The Lower Depths (Medwjedew) - Director: Maxim Vallentin (Maxim Gorki Theater Berlin)
- 1962: Lajos Mesterházi : The Eleventh Commandment (Feri) - Director: Horst Schönemann / Helfried Schöbel (Maxim-Gorki-Theater Berlin)
- 1963: Lorraine Hansberry : A Raisin in the Sun - Director: Hans Dieter Mäde (Maxim-Gorki-Theater Berlin)
- 1963: Rainer Kerndl : His Children - Director: Horst Schönemann (Maxim-Gorki-Theater Berlin)
- 1964: Claus Hammel : Mrs. Jenny Treibel (Kommerzienrat Treibel) - Director: Horst Schönemann (Maxim-Gorki-Theater Berlin)
- 1964: Claus Hammel: At nine on the roller coaster (entrepreneur) - Director: Horst Schönemann (Maxim-Gorki-Theater Berlin)
- 1966: Max Frisch : Don Juan or The Love of Geometry (Don Gonzales) - Director: Wolfram Krempel (Maxim-Gorki-Theater Berlin)
- 1968: Luigi Pirandello : Liolà (Don Simuni) - Director: Hans-Georg Simmgen (Maxim-Gorki-Theater Berlin)
- 1968: Seán O'Casey : The star turns red (Mayor) - Director: Kurt Veth (Maxim-Gorki-Theater Berlin)
- 1969: Michail Schatrow : Bolsheviks (People's Commissar) - Director: Fritz Bornemann (Maxim-Gorki-Theater Berlin)
- 1970: Klaus Wolf : Campfire (Head Physician) - Director: Achim Hübner / Fritz Bornemann (Maxim-Gorki-Theater Berlin)
- 1972: Gotthold Ephraim Lessing : Minna von Barnhelm (Just) - Director: Albert Hetterle (Maxim-Gorki-Theater Berlin)
- 1972: William Congreve : Liebe für Liebe (Father Legend) - Director: Karl Gassauer (Maxim-Gorki-Theater Berlin)
- 1977: Rudi Strahl : Arno Prinz von Wolkenstein or Kader decide everything (caretaker) - Director: Karl Gassauer (Maxim-Gorki-Theater Berlin)
Radio plays
- Broadcasting of the GDR
- 1960: Walter Karl Schweickert : Pickhuhn's birthday (Pickhuhn) - Director: Helmut Hellstorff
- 1960: Georg W. Pijet : Love marriage (Director) - Director: Fritz Ernst Fechner
- 1960: Helmut Sakowski : Lost Land? (Gietel) - Director: Werner Grunow
- 1961: Karl-Heinrich Bonn : Nocturnal visit (Herr Lorenz) - Director: Helmut Hellstorff (radio play)
- 1961: Clifford Odets : Wo ist Lefty (Fatt) - Director: Fritz-Ernst Fechner (radio play)
- 1961: Anton Chekhov : The Swedish Match - Director: Peter Brang
- 1961: Horst Girra : Feuersalamander (Heinrich) - Director: Detlev Witte
- 1961: Reszö Szirmai : Everyone's Christmas Tree (orphan officer) - Director: Fritz-Ernst Fechner (radio play)
- 1961: Bernhard Seeger : Unterm Wind der Jahr e (Bullei) - Director: Theodor Popp (radio play)
- 1961: Günter Koch / Manfred Uhlmann : Brisson Mordsache - Director: Hans Knötzsch (documentation)
- 1961: Käte Seelig : As He Like It (Otto Bergmann) - Director: Helmut Hellstorff
- 1962: Nakamura Schinkichi : The Music Box - Director: Helmut Molegg
- 1962: Karel Čapek : An Evening with Karel Čapek (Hampl) - Director: Hans Knötzsch (radio play comedy)
- 1962: Rolf Schneider : November 25th. New York (Mc Intire) - Director: Helmut Hellstorff (radio play)
- 1963: Manfred Bieler : Night Watch - Director: Helmut Hellstorff
- 1963: Alexander Ostrowski : The Forest (Wosmibratow) - Director: Hans Knötzsch
- 1963: Joachim Goll : A little house music (Feinkost-Krause) - Director: Hans Knötzsch
- 1964: Heinz von Cramer : Die Ohrfeige (Head of Department) - Director: Hans Knötzsch
- 1965: Kurt Belicke : A safe for two (Hügli, bank director) - Director: Werner Grunow
- 1966: Manfred Streubel : Nico im Eis - Director: Joachim Staritz (children's radio play)
- 1967: Joachim Goll: Bankivahühner (director Ludwig) - director: Werner Grunow (radio play-Schwank)
- 1967: Gerhard Stübe : John Reed. Dramatic chronicle in three parts (Francisco Villa) - Director: Fritz Göhler (radio play)
- 1967: Leonid Leonow : Professor Skutarewski (Struw) - Director: Helmut Hellstorff (radio play)
- 1968: Day Keene / Warren Brand : Naked Fury - Naked violence (Larry) - Director: Helmut Hellstorff (detective radio play)
- 1968: Willi Bredel : Relatives and Friends (8 episodes) - Director: Fritz-Ernst Fechner
- 1969: Dimitar Gulew : On the way to the other bank (Constable on duty) - Director: Helmut Hellstorff
- 1969: Fritz Selbmann : A Long Way - Director: Fritz-Ernst Fechner (radio play (8 parts))
- 1969: Karl-Heinrich Bonn / Maria Bonn : The journey to K. (Mayor) - Director: Wolfgang Brunecker
- 1970: Helga Pfaff : Die Schildbürger (Marschall) - Director: Horst Liepach (children's radio play)
- 1971: Maximilian Scheer : The Way to San Rafael - Director: Wolfgang Schonendorf
- 1971: Günther Rücker : Portrait of a fat woman (man of the fat woman) - Director: Günther Rücker
- 1971: Heinrich Mann : The Youth of King Henri Quatre - Director: Fritz Göhler
- 1972: Rolf Schneider : Moving into the castle (mayor) - Director: Theodor Popp
- 1972: Ben Jonson : Volpone or the Fox - Director: Werner Grunow
- 1973: Otto Marquardt : Chile in September (Bonilla) - Director: Horst Liepach
- 1973: Lia Pirskawetz : Spinnen-Palaver (Elefant) - Director: Barbara Plensat
- 1974: Wolf D. Brennecke : Demolition of a House (Helmut Messinger) - Director: Fritz-Ernst Fechner
- 1974: Wolfgang Müller : The trace of Helfried Pappelmann (Senftleben, master) - Director: Wolfgang Schonendorf
- 1974: Hans-Ulrich Lüdemann : Blümlein has gone (gatekeeper) - Director: Fritz Göhler (radio play)
- 1974: Helga Schütz : Le Rossignol is called Nachtigall (Herr Meier) - Director: Werner Grunow
- 1975: Gabriel Garcia Marquez : Time to Die - Director: Wolfgang Schonendorf (radio play)
- 1975: Lothar Kleine : Michael Gaismair or Nine Sentences from the Holy Scriptures - Director: Werner Grunow
- 1975: Branko Hribar : Boom! Boom! Bang! And from! (Lion) - Director: Peter Groeger (children's radio play)
- 1976: Adolf Glaßbrenner : Antigone in Berlin (Rentier Buffey) - Director: Werner Grunow (radio play dummy head )
- 1976: Rodney David Wingfield : On a commission basis (Hicks) - Director: Helmut Hellstorff
- 1976: Hans Skirecki : Behind Wittenberge (The Great) - Director: Barbara Plensat
- 1977: Barbara Neuhaus : Schweigegeld - Director: Joachim Witte
- 1977: Juri Trifonow : The Exchange (Lena's father) - Director: Joachim Staritz
- 1978: Jacob Grimm / Wilhelm Grimm : Das Meerhäschen (father) - Director: Christa Kowalski (children's radio play / short radio play)
- 1981: Günter Eich : Dreams - Director: Peter Groeger (radio play)
- 1983: August Strindberg : Ein Traumspiel (Quarantine Master) - Director: Peter Groeger (fairy tales for adults)
- 1984: Zlatko Seselj : The Adventures of Little Magdica (Grunz, the Boar) - Director: Albrecht Surkau (children's radio play)
Web links
- Gerd Ehlers in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- DEFA great moments
personal data | |
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SURNAME | Ehlers, Gerd |
ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Szczerbicki, Gerd (real name) |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German actor |
DATE OF BIRTH | May 21, 1924 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Reinfeld |
DATE OF DEATH | June 27, 1988 |
Place of death | Berlin |