Gerd J. Pohl

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Gerd J. Pohl (actually Gerd-Josef Pohl; born October 21, 1970 in Bonn ) is a German puppet and actor who comes from the Bonn artist family Osterritter. His grandfather was the painter and caricaturist André Osterritter , his uncle the cabaret artist Maximilian Osterritter .

life and work

Pohl directs the Piccolo puppet shows as a travel stage and has also been director of the Bensberg puppet pavilion as a stationary theater in Bergisch Gladbach since January 2009 . As an actor, he has appeared in numerous theater productions - including Bertolt Brecht's Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny , Mr Puntila and his servant Matti, Pierre Corneilles L'Illusion and Herbert Achternbusch's On a Lost Post at the Schauspielhaus Bonn and in Love and Metamorphosis at Cassiopeia in Cologne Theater . In 1995, he initiated the children's theater series in the well-known Bonn cabaret theater Haus der Springmaus , in which he himself primarily appeared until 2004. His puppetry work took him to all regions of the Federal Republic as well as to Canada and Italy , where he was a guest at the German school in Rome .

He completed his stage training at the LAG Puppenspiel NRW under Karl-Hans Firsching and Karl-Heinz Drescher from the well-known Weilheimer Puppenspiele. He was trained as a television puppeteer at GUM television production in Cologne under the supervision of Robert Tygner ( The Jim Henson Company ) , and Udo Kier supervised his voice training . He took private acting lessons from Hans Falár , then the star of the Bonn theater. In addition, between 1987 and 1992, Pohl worked variously as a photo model and began writing poetry, prose and plays for his own puppet theater.

In the 1990s, Pohl made a name for himself in the field of classic fantastic film, for which he was intensely committed. He published twelve editions of the Vincent Price Appreciation Society journal . This work resulted in long-term friendships with greats in the genre such as Vincent Price , Ferdy Mayne , Arturo Dominici and Ray Harryhausen .

Pohl worked for television - among other things as a sketch partner of Harald Schmidt in his late night show - as well as an audio book speaker and reciter . Among other things, he appeared with texts by Edgar Allan Poe , Franz Kafka and Johann Wolfgang von Goethe . He also spoke German ballads and Antoine de Saint-Exupéry's The Little Prince and the Secret Revelation of John. With the pianist Marcus Schinkel and the violin soloist Konstantin Gockel , he designed various literary and musical stage programs.

Since the late 1990s, Pohl has been increasingly active as an author. Among other things, he wrote restaurant reviews and specialist articles for various theater magazines for a Bonn gastro guide. He initiated numerous exhibitions with exhibits from his extensive puppet theater collection and with pictures of his grandfather André Osterritter. In 2008 Pohl wrote the foreword for the book Kaspers Weg von Ost nach West by the former Pirna puppeteer Wolfgang Hensel, who had designed the western version of the Sandman .

In January 2013 he was the model for the character of the evil puppeteer Gerald Pole in the ghost hunter John Sinclair novel The Living Puppets of Gerald Pole by author Jason Dark (alias Helmut Rellergerd ).

Pohl is a trained educator and studied Catholic theology in the seminary in Lantershofen . The ordination did not receive Pohl however. Pohl is single and lives in Bergisch Gladbach .

Discography

  • Edgar Allan Poe: The mask of the red death (speaker: Gerd J. Pohl; music: Roland Poras). Pohl & Poras, 1990.
  • Piccolo puppet shows: Once upon a time ... fairy tales, fables and parables by the Brothers Grimm (speaker: Gerd J. Pohl; music: Konstantin Gockel). Bonn, 2003.
  • Marcus Schinkel Trio: News from Beethoven (Speaker: Gerd J. Pohl). Bosrecords, 2004.
  • The will-o'-the-wisps: Koboldstanz (speaker: Gerd J. Pohl). Musik & Tanz GbR, 2003.
  • Stephan Maria Glöckner: Ringo Tingo on the go (narrator: Gerd J. Pohl). TOCA Records, 2007.

Memberships

Gerd J. Pohl and / or his theater are members of the following associations:

  • Stadtverband Kultur Bergisch Gladbach (member of the board since 2009)
  • UNIMA (Union Internationale de la Marionnette)
  • VDP (Association of German Puppet Theaters)
  • Bärenfels cultural association
  • Word and Art Association, Bergisch Gladbach
  • Faszenario e. V. (Association of Puppet Theater in the Rhineland, was first chairman there for a while and has been again since 2009)

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personal data
SURNAME Pohl, Gerd J.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German puppet and actor
DATE OF BIRTH October 21, 1970
PLACE OF BIRTH Bonn