Gerlach Fiedler

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Gerlach Fiedler (born June 27, 1925 in Mannheim ; † September 15, 2010 in Hamburg ) was a German actor , director , writer and voice actor .

Life

Gerlach Fiedler was born in Mannheim as the son of a ministerial conductor and grandson of the Prussian Field Marshal Karl Friedrich von dem Knesebeck and grew up in Berlin. As early as his youth he worked for extras in movies. The entry into the acting profession was made possible for him by his classmate Klaus Detlef Sierck - a child star and son of the director Douglas Sirk .

Towards the end of the Second World War, Fiedler was a soldier on the Eastern Front, was taken prisoner by the Soviets and returned in 1946 to take part in plays under Heinz Hilpert as an outdoorsman and youthful hero. At the same time he began studying literature and musicology in Berlin and Hamburg after graduating from high school in 1942; He was also one of the first German psychology students at CG Jung in Zurich. A planned doctoral thesis on jazz elements in Stravinsky's works remained unfinished in the late 1940s due to the death of his doctoral supervisor.

From 1947 to 1992 Gerlach Fiedler was a permanent employee of the NWDR or the later NDR , where he became a fixture in radio and television programs. His specialty has always been live work. He was the initiator and presenter of long-lasting programs such as the evening for young listeners and grandpa - The Oldie Parade .

In 1949 he made his post-war debut in the movie Around a Nose Length with Theo Lingen and Hans Moser . As an actor, however, he was seen comparatively rarely and mostly in small roles on the screen and on television. He played under the direction of Erik Ode in Heldentum after shop closing , in Egon Monk's drama Schlachtvieh , alongside Götz George in Wolfgang Staudte's war drama Herrenpartie , in Franz Marischka's St. Pauli Nachrichten: Topic No. 1 , alongside Inge Meysel in her family series Gertrud Stranitzki , in Kara Ben Nemsi Effendi based on Karl May , in the multi-part series Hooper's Last Hunt for the British Mail Robbery and, most recently, in 1990 in an episode of the series The Country Doctor .

Fiedler devoted himself primarily to theater work. He directed several hundred productions, for example in Hamburg at the Thalia Theater , at the Ohnsorg Theater , in Theater 53 , at the Ernst Deutsch Theater and at the Kammerspiele with Ida Ehre . He worked as a game director, senior game director and deputy director in Berlin, Zurich, Bremen, Bochum, Düsseldorf, Neuss, Frankfurt, Hanover, Bremerhaven, Bamberg, Heidelberg and Lüneburg. Until almost the end of his life he went on reading trips (e.g. with The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry ) and gave prominent lectures, for example, in the Schleswig Cathedral , in the Hamburg Michel and in the Ruhr area. He also appeared as a cabaret artist with Dieter Hildebrandt and Wolfgang Neuss .

Gerlach Fiedler was particularly well-known for his extremely deep and grumpy, somewhat mumbled voice, which he lent characters in numerous radio plays. He was in four episodes of the series The Three ??? and also took part in the new edition of the Super Parrot for the 25th anniversary of the 2004 series. He also spoke to Uncle Paul in the series Bille and Zottel , a felon in a TKKG episode and in the 1970s alongside Joachim Wolff as Asterix, the voice of Obelix on the Decca Records label . Children know Fiedler as the first voice of the Cookie Monster from Sesame Street .

Gerlach Fiedler was awarded the Adolf Grimme Prize - according to his own statements for the series How do I have a child? , in which a birth was shown for the first time on German television.

Fiedler was also able to record numerous successes as an athlete, for example he became German youth champion in tennis, later was a boxer and athlete and finally looked after the volleyball team of Hamburger SV in the First Bundesliga, with which he won the championship title in 1976/77. He was also used as a player on the last day of the match, when the championship was already established.

In 2009 Fiedler published his autobiography Alles Theater .

He died on September 15, 2010 at the age of 85 after a short illness in Hamburg.

Filmography (selection)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b NDR mourns Gerlach Fiedler
  2. ↑ Gerlach Fiedler. Accessed March 31, 2019 .
  3. ↑ a b c d laszlovector: Gerlach Fiedler • Interview. September 8, 2017, accessed March 31, 2019 .
  4. ↑ NDR: The "Evening for Young Listeners" - From Experiment to Institution. Accessed March 31, 2019 .
  5. ↑ Cookie Monster's voice: Voice actor Gerlach Fiedler is dead . In: Spiegel Online . September 16, 2010 ( spiegel.de [accessed March 31, 2019]).
personal data
SURNAME Fiedler, Gerlach
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German actor, director, writer, voice actor
DATE OF BIRTH June 27, 1925
PLACE OF BIRTH Mannheim
DATE OF DEATH September 15, 2010
Place of death Hamburg