Gerhard Hartig

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Gerhard Hartig (born March 11, 1922 in Berlin , † December 25, 2007 in Hamburg ) was a German actor .

Life

Gerhard Hartig was the son of the furniture and cabinet maker Willy Hartig and his wife Gertrud, a hat maker, and grew up in his native town. As early as 1926 he played a small role in the film Faust - a German folk tale by Friedrich Wilhelm Murnau in front of the camera, and as a child, other small roles followed on the stage, as his father's carpentry also worked for the theater. Hartig also learned the carpentry trade, during the Second World War he served in the Navy on various warships.

After the end of the war, the family moved from Berlin to Hamburg, where Hartig initially worked in various professions, for example as a caretaker, waiter or in the port. In later years he also worked as an innkeeper and ran a pub in Berlin and then in Hamburg.

Hartig, who had never received an acting training, was finally able to make contact with theaters again and from the 1950s made guest appearances in both Hamburg and Berlin at tabloid theaters. In Hamburg, Hartig had engagements at the Deutsches Schauspielhaus and the Operettenhaus , where he played in Ralph Benatzky's operetta Im Weißen Rößl under the direction of Gustaf Gründgens . Another stop in the Hanseatic city was the Klecks Theater.

From the end of the 1950s, Hartig also worked extensively for film and television. He has appeared in front of the camera in countless productions, but mostly only in supporting roles. He worked particularly closely with Jürgen Roland , who repeatedly used Hartig in his series Stahlnetz , Dem Täter auf der Spur and Großstadtrevier , as well as in the 1966 thriller 4 Keys and the crime scene episode Death of a Girl . In the 1960s Hartig also appeared in several Edgar Wallace film adaptations.

In 1973 Hartig was responsible as a screenwriter and producer for the film Who once sticks into the post horn . He himself took on the leading role, and Helga Feddersen , Balduin Baas , Kurt A. Jung and Hansi Waldherr continued to play . Hartig produced a few more films, the titles of which are unknown.

In addition, Hartig's voice has been preserved through his participation in some commercial radio play productions, for example as Rex in the series Burg Schreckenstein in 1978 or as grandfather in the Heidi series on the Europa label in 1986 .

In addition to acting, Hartig was also interested in sports such as football and motor sports. He had a special affinity for boxing, which he had practiced himself at a young age, and later he occasionally got into the ring as a sparring partner, with Bubi Scholz among others . For a long time he promoted the former Hamburg professional boxer Lukas Schulz , who says von Hartig that he was " like a grandfather " to him.

Through the acquaintance of his father with the esotericist and writer Georges I. Gurdjieff Hartig became a follower of his teachings. He was also interested in politics and was a founding member of the Greens in the 1970s , but later left the party. He was also involved in youth and social work.

Gerhard Hartig was married twice. The sons Joachim and Ingolf emerged from his first marriage, the latter died of leukemia at the age of 39. Hartig himself suffered from diabetes, in 1986 one of his big toes had to be amputated, and more followed over the years until both feet had to be removed. Nevertheless, he continued to work as an actor. Hartig was most recently in a relationship with the assistant director Sigrid Baltrusch and lived in the Hamburg district of Fuhlsbüttel . He died on Christmas Day 2007 in Heidberg Hospital in Hamburg. After a funeral service on January 4, 2008, Hartig was buried anonymously in the Ohlsdorf cemetery.

Trivia

During the Second World War, Gerhard Hartig was among other things on a civilian ship. There were several pregnant Japanese women on board who gave birth to their children there. Since Hartig helped with the deliveries, all children were given the middle name Gerhard out of gratitude, regardless of whether they were boys or girls.

Filmography (selection)

Radio plays

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e f g h website of the playwright Wolfgang Binder , accessed on November 25, 2017
  2. ^ Report on Lukas Schulz at box-news.de , accessed on November 25, 2017
personal data
SURNAME Hartig, Gerhard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German actor
DATE OF BIRTH March 11, 1922
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH December 25, 2007
Place of death Hamburg