Gerhard Hartig
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)
- 1926: Faust - a German folk tale
- 1959: Steel Network - The Alibi
- 1960: steel net - E 605
- 1960: I count my worries every day
- 1960: We never want to part
- 1960: Sabine and the 100 men
- 1960: steel net - burned traces
- 1961: Always trouble with the bed
- 1961: Adieu, farewell, goodbye
- 1962: The secret of the black suitcase
- 1962: The will of Dr. Mabuse
- 1963: The Strangler of Blackmoor Castle
- 1963: A gust of wind
- 1964: Love deal in Chioggia
- 1964: men's game
- 1964: The Dartmoor public house
- 1964: The crypt with the riddle lock
- 1964: The coffee house
- 1964: Jenny and the gentleman in tails
- 1965: Unfortunately, all lies
- 1965: Der Tag - Report from a German concentration camp in 1939
- 1965: The pig in a poke
- 1965: Stahlnetz - Easter Sunday night
- 1965: John Klings Adventure - Blossoms
- 1965: Our Pauker - The excursion
- 1966: 4 keys
- 1966: Intercontinental Express - Two on the wrong train
- 1966: Ulrich and Ulrike - The cold buffet
- 1966: The Ottawa betrayal
- 1966: The hunchback from Soho
- 1966: The lucky pot
- 1966: Cliff Dexter - low blow
- 1966–1968: Gertrud Stranitzki (4 episodes)
- 1966: The million dollar thing
- 1967: The separation
- 1967: A case for Titus Bunge - Bobby is on the loose
- 1967: On the trail of the perpetrator - 10 cases of whiskey
- 1968: Cliff Dexter - The Last Heir
- 1968: Hauptstraße Glück - red numbers
- 1968: The incorrigible - ... and their worries
- 1968: anchor up and cast off! - Drunk at the helm
- 1968: The Berlin Room
- 1969: Police radio calls - The missing lady
- 1969: I am an elephant, Madame
- 1969: Percy Stuart - Gazpacho Don Antonio
- 1969: Grace to Timothy Evans
- 1969: Pull out the plug, the water boils
- 1969: Hans Brinker
- 1970: the hand in the mouth
- 1970: Tatort - taxi to Leipzig
- 1972: Football coach Wulff - Das Kuckucksei
- 1972: Once in a lifetime - story of a home
- 1972: The stuff dreams are made of
- 1972: Special Department K1 - Caution - Guardian Angel
- 1972: decision of conscience
- 1972: On behalf of Madame - Blossoms from back then
- 1973: Tatort - hunting ground
- 1973: Local appointment - the unlucky one
- 1973: Whoever hits the post horn once (also as a director and producer)
- 1974: Tatort - acquaintance in a bar
- 1976: Lost Eggs
- 1976: Departure from Bermuda
- 1976: Leo's suffering
- 1978: The beautiful Marianne - The people from the forest
- 1978: Happy Holidays
- 1979: The Hamburg disease
- 1980: Air Force helper
- 1982: St. Pauli-Landungsbrücken (2 episodes)
- 1982: District fire chief Felix Martin - Black Monday
- 1982: Eerie Stories - The Silent Call
- 1982: Black Red Gold - Cold Meat
- 1983: Kiez
- 1983: The Oppermann siblings
- 1984: Helga and the Northern Lights - fed up with snow waltz
- 1984: The French breakfast
- 1984: Tatort - opportunity makes love
- 1985: Tegtmeier - Poison and Galle
- 1986: Detective Office Roth - X-ray test
- 1986: Trust versus Trust
- 1988: Burning beds
- 1989: The men from K3 - Deadly Export
- 1989: Two people from Munich in Hamburg - farewell to the Isar
- 1989–2001: Großstadtrevier (5 episodes)
- 1991: Leonie Löwenherz - What is friendship?
- 1991: crime scene - death of a girl
- 1991: Farewell, strangers
- 1991: Sisi and the Emperor's Kiss
- 1992: The men from K3 - built on sand
- 1995: Rudi Rüssel racing pig
- 1995: an almost perfect love
- 1996: Asphalt flicker
- 1997: Tatort - Undercover Camping
- 1998: The King of St. Pauli
- 1999: Three with a Heart - Wedding with Obstacles
- 2001: In the crosshairs - the chameleon
- 2001: Now or never - time is money
Radio plays
- 1975: Der Bonze - author: Lars Björkman - director: Gerlach Fiedler
- 1976: The Flight of Icarus - Author: Raymond Queneau - Director: Otto Kurth
- 1995: The camera, the dream, then the voices - Author: Gert Loschütz - Director: Norbert Schaeffer
Web links
- Gerhard Hartig in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Gerhard Hartig in the Internet Movie Database (English)(as Gerd Hartwig)
- Gerhard Hartig in the Internet Movie Database (English)(as Gert Hartig)
- Gerhard Hartig Directory of radio plays at hoerspielland.de
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c d e f g h website of the playwright Wolfgang Binder , accessed on November 25, 2017
- ^ Report on Lukas Schulz at box-news.de , accessed on November 25, 2017
personal data | |
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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 |