Gerhard Bienert
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)
- 1923: Man on the way
- 1928: The man with the tree frog
- 1929: Mother Krausen's trip to happiness
- 1929: Ludwig the Second, King of Bavaria
- 1930: the blue angel
- 1931: Berlin - Alexanderplatz
- 1931: preliminary investigation
- 1931: M
- 1931: The captain of Köpenick
- 1932: The pride of the 3rd company
- 1932: Man without a name
- 1932: Kuhle Wampe or: Who Owns the World?
- 1932: Eerie stories
- 1932: The heather is green
- 1932: The child's first right
- 1933: Dawn
- 1933: Leap into the abyss
- 1933: Inge and the millions
- 1934: A man wants to go to Germany
- 1934: Decoy
- 1935: Black roses
- 1935: Ferryman Maria
- 1935: A row in the Secret Annex
- 1935: executioners, women and soldiers
- 1936: thunder, lightning and sunshine
- 1936: The beggar student
- 1936: City of Anatol
- 1938: The Indian tomb
- 1938: Pour le Mérite
- 1938: Holm's murderous matter
- 1938: marriage fraud
- 1939: Riots in Damascus
- 1939: Gold in New Frisco
- 1939: Escape into the dark
- 1939: The Song of the Desert
- 1941: alarm
- 1941: Ohm Krüger
- 1941: The girl from Fanö
- 1943: I entrust you with my wife
- 1945: Shiva and the gallows flower (unfinished)
- 1948: Blum affair
- 1949: The Night of the Twelve
- 1952: You mustn't ask my heart
- 1953: The invincible
- 1954: Ernst Thälmann - son of his class
- 1955: A hen party
- 1956: Thomas Müntzer - A film of German history
- 1956: The Yvette's millions
- 1957: Polonia Express
- 1957: Lissy
- 1957: the most beautiful
- 1957: The Misery (Les misérables)
- 1958: Emilia Galotti
- 1958: A girl of 16 1/2
- 1958: The trial is adjourned
- 1958: Block on the leg
- 1959: Confusion of love
- 1959: Report 57
- 1960: cloudy water
- 1960: Those over 40 today
- 1960: Alwin the last
- 1961: Mother Courage and her children (theater recording)
- 1964: Much Ado About Nothing
- 1965: Without a passport in someone else's bed
- 1967: Little Man - What Now? (TV movie)
- 1967: wedding night in the rain
- 1967: The Slap in the Face (TV movie)
- 1968: Androclus and the Lion (TV movie)
- 1968: We're getting a divorce
- 1970: Effi Briest (TV movie)
- 1971: Relatives and acquaintances (TV film)
- 1972: The pictures of the witness Schattmann (TV film)
- 1973: The elixirs of the devil
- 1974: The naked man on the sports field
- 1974: Hallo Taxi (TV movie)
- 1975: Polizeiruf 110: Der Mann (TV movie)
- 1975: Flowers for the man in the moon
- 1976: The suffering of young Werther
- 1976: hostess
- 1977: The escape
- 1977: You and icke and Berlin (TV movie)
- 1978: Sabine Wulff
- 1979: Karlchen, hold on!
- 1979: Fall Time (TV movie)
- 1983–1987: Entry into Paradise (TV series)
- 1984: What shall become of you (TV movie)
theatre
- 1929: Friedrich Wolf : Cyankali (Paul) - Director:? ( Lessing Theater Berlin )
- 1947: Boris Lawrenjow : The Breach (First Lieutenant von Stube) - Director: Heinz Wolfgang Litten ( House of Culture of the Soviet Union )
- 1948 August Jakobson : The Kondor Brothers (Peter Kondor) - Director: Hans Stiebner ( Theater am Schiffbauerdamm Berlin)
- 1949: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe : Faust. A Tragedy (Saufkumpan) - Director: Wolfgang Langhoff ( Deutsches Theater Berlin )
- 1949: Bertolt Brecht : Mother Courage and Her Children - Director: Erich Engel ( Berliner Ensemble in the Deutsches Theater Berlin)
- 1950: Richard Brinsley Sheridan : Die Lästerschule (Peter von Quälgeist) - Director: Aribert Wäscher (Deutsches Theater Berlin - Kammerspiele)
- 1950: Bertolt Brecht: The Mother (Teacher) - Director: Bertolt Brecht (Berliner Ensemble in the Deutsches Theater Berlin)
- 1950: Nikolai Gogol : The Auditor (Servant) - Director: Wolfgang Langhoff (Deutsches Theater Berlin)
- 1951: Gerhart Hauptmann : The Beaver Fur and the Red Rooster (Father Wolff) - Director: Egon Monk (Berliner Ensemble in the Deutsches Theater Berlin - Kammerspiele)
- 1952: Heinrich von Kleist : The Broken Jug (Judge Walter) - Director: Therese Giehse (Berliner Ensemble in the Deutsches Theater Berlin)
- 1952: George Bernard Shaw : Pygmalion (Dolittle) - Director: Rudolf Noelte (Deutsches Theater Berlin - Kammerspiele)
- 1953: Friedrich Wolf: Thomas Müntzer, the man with the rainbow flag (Fuhrmann Mattes) - Director: Wolfgang Langhoff (Deutsches Theater Berlin)
- 1953: Bertolt Brecht after Anna Seghers : The Trial of Joan of Arc zu Rouen 1431 - Director: Benno Besson (Berliner Ensemble in the Deutsches Theater Berlin - Kammerspiele)
- 1953: Alexander Kron : Das tote Tal (geologist) - Director: Herwart Grosse (Deutsches Theater Berlin)
- 1955: Alfred Matusche : Die Dorfstraße (Landser) - Director: Hannes Fischer (Deutsches Theater Berlin - Kammerspiele)
- 1955: Arno Holz : Social aristocrats (Oskar Fiebig) - Director: Ernst Kahler (Deutsches Theater Berlin - Kammerspiele)
- 1956: Lillian Hellman : The Little Foxes (Ben Hubbart) - Director: Wolfgang Heinz (Deutsches Theater Berlin - Kammerspiele)
- 1957: William Shakespeare : King Lear (Kent) - Director: Wolfgang Langhoff (Deutsches Theater Berlin)
- 1958: Anton Chekhov : Three Sisters - Director: Heinz Hilpert (Deutsches Theater Berlin)
- 1959: Friedrich Schiller : Wallenstein (Buttler) - Director: Karl Paryla (Deutsches Theater Berlin)
- 1959: Maxim Gorki : Summer Guests (Dudakow) - Director: Wolfgang Heinz (Deutsches Theater Berlin)
- 1961: Carl Sternheim : Die Hose - Director: Carl M. Weber (Deutsches Theater Berlin)
- 1962: Gerhart Hauptmann: The Beaver Fur (Father Wolff) - Director: Ernst Kahler (Deutsches Theater Berlin - Kammerspiele)
- 1962: Friedrich Schiller : Wilhelm Tell (Walter Fürst) - Director: Wolfgang Langhoff (Deutsches Theater Berlin)
- 1962: Saul O'Hara : Inspector Campbell's last case (Campbell) - Director: Wolfgang Langhoff / Lothar Bellag (Deutsches Theater Berlin - Kammerspiele)
- 1962: Peter Hacks : The Worries and the Power (Nerd) - Director: Wolfgang Langhoff (Deutsches Theater Berlin)
- 1963: Carl Sternheim: The Snob (Father Mask) - Director: Fritz Bornemann (Deutsches Theater Berlin - Kammerspiele)
- 1966: William Shakespeare: Measure for Measure (Escalus) - Director: Adolf Dresen (Deutsches Theater Berlin)
- 1967: Horst Salomon : Ein Lorbaß - Director: Benno Besson (Deutsches Theater Berlin)
- 1968: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: Faust. The first part of the tragedy (student) - Director: Wolfgang Heinz / Adolf Dresen (Deutsches Theater Berlin)
- 1968: Hermann Kant : The Aula - Director: Uta Birnbaum (Deutsches Theater Berlin)
- 1970: Hans Magnus Enzensberger : The interrogation of Habana (Raúl Valdés Vivó) - Director: Manfred Wekwerth (Deutsches Theater Berlin)
- 1971: Arnold Wesker : Golden Cities (Director) - Director: Hans-Georg Simmgen (Deutsches Theater Berlin)
- 1971: Friedrich Schiller: Der Parasit (Firmin) - Director: Herwart Grosse (Deutsches Theater Berlin - Small Comedy)
- 1974: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: The Story of Gottfried von Berlichingen with the Iron Hand (Abbot of Fulda) - Director: Horst Schönemann (Deutsches Theater Berlin)
- 1977: Heinrich von Kleist: Michael Kohlhaas (skinner) - Director: Adolf Dresen (Deutsches Theater Berlin)
Radio plays
- 1947: Friedrich Karl Kaul : One of many - Director: Alfred Braun ( Berliner Rundfunk )
- 1948: Berta Waterstradt : During the power cut - Director: Hanns Farenburg (radio play - Berliner Rundfunk)
- 1948: Friedrich Karl Kaul: On the Barricades - Director: Alfred Braun (Berliner Rundfunk)
- 1957: Bernhard Seeger : Where the Fog Gets (Ballinger) - Director: Lothar Dutombé ( Broadcasting of the GDR )
- 1958: Günther Rücker : The Report No. 1 - Director: Günther Rücker (Broadcasting of the GDR)
- 1961: Alfred Matusche : Unrast (Franz) - Director: Wolfgang Schonendorf (Broadcasting of the GDR)
- 1961: Bernhard Seeger: Under the Wind of the Years (Puhlmann) - Director: Theodor Popp (Broadcasting of the GDR)
- 1961: Alfred Matusche : Unrast (Franz) - Director: Wolfgang Schonendorf (radio play - Broadcasting of the GDR)
- 1982: Adolf Glaßbrenner : Mr Buffey goes on a trip (Mr Buffey) - Director: Werner Grunow (radio play - Broadcasting of the GDR)
Awards
- 1960: Art Prize of the GDR
- 1965: National Prize of the GDR
- 1977: National Prize of the GDR, 2nd class for art and literature
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
- Gerhard Bienert in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Literature by and about Gerhard Bienert in the catalog of the German National Library
- Gerhard Bienert biography at the DEFA Foundation
- Gerhard Bienert Archive in the Archive of the Academy of Arts, Berlin
Individual evidence
- ↑ 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.
- ↑ Gerhard Bienert Archive Inventory overview on the website of the Academy of the Arts in Berlin.
personal data | |
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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 |