Gerhard Jentsch

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Gerhard Jentsch (born September 15, 1924 in Breslau ; † February 6, 1998 ) was a German actor , radio play and voice actor who became known to a wide audience primarily through numerous speaking roles in productions by the Augsburger Puppenkiste .

Life

Jentsch grew up as the only child of a housewife and a sailor and bar owner in his native city of Breslau . Until his entry into the German armed forces at 18, Jentsch was a trained banker .

Conscription

Jentsch was drafted at the age of 18 during World War II, where he fought at the front. At the end of 1944, Jentsch was captured by the Americans in Normandy . During this time he was mainly used as a cook in the prison camp and as a translator between the Americans and the French.

Career

Jentsch received his acting training in his hometown and first engagements in Halle / Saale, Münster, Mannheim and Saarbrücken. In 1960 he made his debut at the Städtische Bühnen Augsburg in the role of "James Tyrone Jr." in Eugene O'Neill's A Moon for the Loaded .

During his stage work in Augsburg, Jentsch also worked as an interpreter for the Augsburger Puppenkiste . Here he lent the "King Alfonso the quarter to twelfth" and the captain of the "Wild 13" in the HR productions of Michael Ende's Jim Knopf and Lukas the engine driver and Jim Knopf and the Wilde 13 his voice. His other uses for the doll box included the title character in Max Kruse's Lord Butterflies Shirt and the “King Pumponell” in Kurses Urmel plays in the castle .

In addition, Jentsch also appeared as an actor in numerous television productions. He played several times in television plays directed by Eberhard Itzenplitz ( Hanna Lessing , Die Beichte ) and Franz Peter Wirth ( The story of Joel Brand with Herwig Walter , The mass of wishes fulfilled ), in multi-part series such as Flucht ohne Weg (with Hansjörg Felmy ) and The silk shoe (with Maximilian Schell ), as "astrogator of the spaceship Hydra" in the science fiction series Raumpatrouille , a film in the Tatort series and in two episodes in the Fernfahrer series . In Franz Peter Wirth's semi-documentary television film Operation Walküre , he played Rittmeister Heinz Ludwig Bartram , adjutant to Colonel General Friedrich Fromm and Eberhard Itzenplitz's television film Der Pedell, defender Jakob Schmid .

In addition to speaking for the Augsburger Puppenkiste, Jentsch also worked as a voice actor, including for Fernando S. Pollack in Die Jagd (1965). As a radio play speaker he was mainly active for the Saarländischer Rundfunk or its predecessor Radio Saarbrücken . In this profession he mostly spoke leading or major supporting roles.

Private life

Jentsch was married to the actress Gunda-Maria Weber . Together they have three sons and four grandchildren.

Filmography (selection)

Speaking roles at the Augsburger Puppenkiste (selection)

Radio plays

  • 1949: Poor Mr. Griffith - Director: Wilhelm Semmelroth
  • 1952: The locked door (by Fred von Hoerschelmann ) - Director: Walter Knaus
  • 1952: The devil bring philosophy - Director: Walter Knaus
  • 1952: Shakespeare's Death - Director: Walter Knaus
  • 1952: Schütze Jasrich - Director: Ulrich Lauterbach
  • 1952: Kazan is on the route to Siberia - Director: Armas Sten Fühler
  • 1954: Shepherd legend - Director: Walter Knaus
  • 1955: The Song of the Lute - Director: Hans Goguel
  • 1956: The Living Stone - Director: Peter Arthur Stiller
  • 1957: Escape in the Mask - Director: Peter Arthur Stiller
  • 1957: The Game from the Cross - Director: Jörg Franz
  • 1957: Between the Borders - Director: Peter Arthur Stiller
  • 1957: A House near San Vicente - Director: Peter Arthur Stiller
  • 1957: The Red Signals - Director: Peter Arthur Stiller
  • 1957: The Traitor - Director: Peter Arthur Stiller
  • 1957: The Lady is Blond - Director: Albert Carl Weiland
  • 1958: Marble - Director: Jörg Franz
  • 1958: Professor Forster - Director: Walter Grüters
  • 1958: Mene-tekel-Upharsin - Director: Peter Arthur Stiller
  • 1958: Not easy to have a head - Director: Peter Arthur Stiller
  • 1958: Lonely Path - Director: Jörg Franz
  • 1958: Leuchtkugeln - Director: Jörg Franz
  • 1959: Worker Priest - Director: Ulrich Lauterbach
  • 1959: Twelve Thousand - Director: Peter Arthur Stiller
  • 1959: Kleinpaul discovers a Titian - Director: Peter Arthur Stiller
  • 1959: A story that life wrote - Director: Peter Arthur Stiller
  • 1963: The Just (based on Albert Camus ) - Director: Horst Loebe
  • 1963: Lester Powell : The Lady in the Snow - Director: Albert C. Weiland (crime radio play - SR)
  • 1963: The advertisement distributor - Director: Heinz Hostnig
  • 1964: The Book of Job - Director: Heinz Schimmelpfennig
  • 1964: The conceited sick man dies - Director: Heinrich Kalbfuß
  • 1965: The Sixth Woman - Director: Peter Arthur Stiller
  • 1965: Moby Dick - Director: Raoul Wolfgang Schnell
  • 1965: Dogs - Director: Holger Sandig
  • 1967: Zizibä - Director: Jörg Franz
  • 1967: The Mountain of Temptation - Director: Peter Arthur Stiller
  • 1968: Saara - Director: Günter Bommert
  • 1969: In the house - Director: Heinz Hostnig

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Deutsches Bühnen-Jahrbuch, Volume 107, ed. from GDBA, Druck- und Kommissionsverlag FA Günther & Sohn, 1999, p. 836.

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personal data
SURNAME Jentsch, Gerhard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German actor, radio play and voice actor
DATE OF BIRTH September 15, 1924
PLACE OF BIRTH Wroclaw
DATE OF DEATH February 6, 1998