Gerhard Bienert

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Gerhard Max Richard Bienert (born January 8, 1898 in Berlin ; † December 23, 1986 in West Berlin ) was a German actor who starred in numerous cinema and television films.

life and work

Gerhard Bienert was born the son of an accountant and a housewife on January 8, 1898 in Berlin. He grew up in a middle-class household with his brother Reinhold Bernt , who later also became an actor, and volunteered for military service in 1916 after passing his Abitur. In the First World War he took part in the cavalry as a dragoon lieutenant .

After the end of the war, at the request of his father, he studied German and philosophy for two semesters at the Friedrich Wilhelms-Universität zu Berlin , when - encouraged by his work at a student theater - he broke off his studies prematurely to learn the profession of actor. From 1919 he took lessons at the Max Reinhardt Drama School of the German Theater in Berlin with Berthold Held .

First theater roles followed, initially as an extra and from 1921 as an actor on various Berlin theaters. In 1928, together with his brother Reinhold Bernt, Werner Pledath, Adolf Fischer and others, Bienert founded the “Group of Young Actors”, which mainly performed socially critical plays and went on tour with its program. In parallel to his work at the theater, from 1922 onwards, he initially took part in small roles in silent films , before larger film offers were made to him in the late 1920s. The man with the tree frog from 1928 and, above all, Phil Jutzi's mother Krausens Reise ins Glück gave Bienert his final breakthrough as an actor.

Many supporting roles in early sound films followed , such as in 1930 in Der Blaue Engel , 1931 in Berlin - Alexanderplatz or in 1932 in the nationalist film Morgenrot . During the time of National Socialism there were no major engagements in the theater, so that he concentrated more on his film work, which did not come to a standstill during the Second World War . At the time, Bienert was a very busy actor who appeared in around 70 films and was included in the God-gifted list shortly before the end of the war .

After the end of the war, Gerhard Bienert was a member of the ensemble of the German Theater in Berlin until his death. He was one of the few actors in West Berlin who was allowed to work in both East and West Berlin after the construction of the Berlin Wall . From 1953 he also worked again in film and television productions, but exclusively for DEFA and television in the GDR , as in 1954 in Ernst Thälmann - son of his class .

Bienert was married to the actress Inge Herbrecht for the third time. He was buried in the Zehlendorf forest cemetery in Berlin.

His written estate is in the archive of the Academy of Arts in Berlin.

Filmography (selection)

theatre

Radio plays

Awards

literature

  • Gerhard Bienert: A life in a thousand roles. Recorded from tape protocols by Dieter Reimer. Henschelverlag, Berlin 1989, ISBN 3-362-00249-8 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Harry Waibel : Servants of many masters. Former Nazi functionaries in the Soviet Zone / GDR. Lang, Frankfurt am Main et al. 2011, ISBN 978-3-631-63542-1 , p. 41.
  2. ↑ Gerhard Bienert Archive Inventory overview on the website of the Academy of the Arts in Berlin.
personal data
SURNAME Bienert, Gerhard
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Bienert, Gerhard Max Richard (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German actor
DATE OF BIRTH January 8, 1898
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH December 23, 1986
Place of death West Berlin