Gerhard Friedrich (actor)

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Gerhard Friedrich (born August 19, 1929 in Freiburg im Breisgau ) is a German actor .

Life

Friedrich completed an acting training at the Otto Falckenberg School in Munich , after which he got an engagement at the Deutsches Theater Berlin , which ended with the building of the Wall in 1961. Between 1965 and 1968 he played at the Deutsches Schauspielhaus Hamburg in Danton's Death , The Taming of the Shrew and A Midsummer Night's Dream . From 1965 to 1980 he played in Hamlet , Kiss me Kate , Maria Stuart and Der Hauptmann von Köpenick at the Thalia Theater (Hamburg) . In 1972 he went on a world tour with a Woyzeck production by the Goethe Institute . With his artistic director Boy Gobert , he moved from the Thalia Theater to the Staatliche Schauspielbühnen Berlin in 1980 .

Friedrich also had engagements at the Münchner Kammerspiele , the Theater am Kurfürstendamm , the Renaissance Theater and the Salzburg Festival . At the Berlin Philharmonic he performed under the musical direction of Herbert von Karajan in Tosca . In 2009 he appeared with Edith Hancke in the comedy Herbstzeitlose . As a theater director, Friedrich staged at the Hamburger Kammerspiele and at the Thalia Theater.

In addition to working at the theater, he also played various television roles, often guest roles in television series . One of his best-known roles was that of Bernhard Tenstaag, head of Möbel Union , in the series Die Wicherts von next door .

In 2008 Friedrich married his longtime partner. Gerhard Friedrich lives in Berlin.

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personal data
SURNAME Friedrich, Gerhard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German actor
DATE OF BIRTH August 19, 1929
PLACE OF BIRTH Freiburg in Breisgau