Gert Frobe
Karl Gerhart "Gert" Fröbe (born February 25, 1913 in Oberplanitz near Zwickau , † September 5, 1988 in Munich ) was a German actor . Fröbe is considered one of the most important German character actors of the 20th century. He was also involved in many international productions. The actor gained fame in the role of the child killer in the crime classic It Happened in Broad Daylight of 1958 and as the villain Auric Goldfinger in the film James Bond 007 - Goldfinger from 1964.
Life
Fröbe was the son of the alcoholic master rope master, leather merchant and shoemaker Otto Johannes Fröbe (1886–1947) and his wife Helene Alma (1884–1972), née. Sagewitz, who was a seamstress. Following his artistic urge, he began as a set shifter and handyman in the Zwickau City Theater . He also earned money as a standing violinist in Zwickau and the surrounding area and was known here as Dor rode Geicher von Zwigge (The Red Violinist of Zwickau) because of his reddish hair shimmer . In doing so, he discovered his acting talent. From 1933 to 1935 he trained as a theater painter at the Saxon State Opera in Dresden . He then took acting lessons and soon got extra and supporting roles. It was his teacher Erich Ponto who recognized his comedic talent. Fröbe had gathered up all the courage to speak to Erich Ponto. He initially waved him off because of Frobe's unmistakable Saxon dialect , but later accepted him as a student. Ponto commented on Gert Fröbe's audition with the words: "Mephisto was not a Saxon."
When all German theaters and stages had to close in the fall of 1944 as part of the " total war ", Fröbe was assigned to the Wehrmacht, where he served as a medical soldier in the army until the end of the war.
After an engagement at the Deutsches Volkstheater in Vienna under Walter Bruno Iltz , he became known in 1948 in the role of " Otto normal consumer " in the film Berliner Ballade . With increasing body he often used the cliché of the typical German in the course of his film career and later also in international productions. B. the uniform wearer vacillating between joviality and brutality .
Fröbe mastered a wide range of roles, from heavyweight comedians to sophisticated character actors. Despite his corpulent physique, he was able to create differentiated character studies through posture, movement and facial expressions. He was also an outstanding reciter and on his recitation tours staged the works of Christian Morgenstern , Joachim Ringelnatz and Erich Kästner not only verbally, but also mimed and gestural.
After almost 40 German-language films, Gert Fröbe played - alongside Heinz Rühmann - in 1958, It happened in broad daylight based on a script by Friedrich Dürrenmatt, a child murderer. This film became a classic, and Fröbe achieved lasting fame in the role of the mentally disturbed murderer Schrott. His performance also impressed the English producers of the James Bond films, who signed the actor in 1964 for the third Bond film James Bond 007 - Goldfinger . Here Fröbe played the eponymous villain Auric Goldfinger, a sadistic megalomaniac. The success of the film made Fröbe known worldwide and earned him numerous roles in international cinema productions. As early as 1962 he appeared in a smaller role as "Sergeant Coffee Pot" in the epic war film The Longest Day , in which the later Bond actor Sean Connery was seen (the two actors, however, did not have a common scene).
During the Bond production, Fröbe had to accept that it was dubbed by the English actor Michael Collins in the original version due to its strong German accent . But already in his next film, The daredevil men in their flying boxes from 1965, Fröbe's original voice could also be heard in the original English. In this comedy, however, he played a German officer of the Wilhelmine era. An important film of this time was Via Mala, produced in 1961 based on the novel of the same name by John Knittel , where Fröbe played the brutal landowner "Jonas Lauretz" at Edith Schultze-Westrum's side . In addition, Fröbe was regularly seen in French films, for example in The Night of the Lovers (1960), $ 100,000 in the Sun (1964), The Man Without a Face (1974) or The Thing with the Umbrella (1980).
After Fröbe admitted in an interview with the Daily Mail in 1965 that he had become a member of the NSDAP in 1929 (from which he had resigned in 1937), his films were put on the index in Israel . However, the ban was lifted eight weeks later when it became known that Fröbe had housed a Jewish family and supported them with food during the Nazi era.
Gert Fröbe was married a total of five times. His biological son Utz (1940-2014) came from his first marriage to Clara Peter. From 1953 to 1959 Fröbe was married to the film critic Hannelore Görtz. His third wife, the actress and singer Tatjana Iwanow , brought her son Andreas Seyferth into the marriage, whom Fröbe adopted. He was married to the RIAS journalist Beate Bach from 1962 until her death in 1968. In 1970 Fröbe married Karin Pistorius, whose daughter Beate was also adopted by him. In the early 1970s, Gert Fröbe paid Utz Fröbe and Andreas Seyferth with 25,000 marks each. After that he only saw both sons sporadically.
Fröbe's last television role was in the ZDF television series Die Schwarzwaldklinik . The episode "Wedding with Obstacles", in which he participated, was not broadcast until after his death on March 25, 1989.
After years of illness from carcinoma of the oral cavity , from which he appeared to have recovered, Gert Frobe died unexpectedly in 1988 after an evening of recitation as a result of a heart attack that he suffered on the morning of his last performance. He was buried in the forest cemetery in Icking .
Filmography
movie theater
- 1948: Berlin ballad
- 1949: Sun shines after rain
- 1950: The Kreuzlschreiber
- 1951: Decision Before Dawn (Decision Before Dawn)
- 1952: The day before the wedding
- 1953: A man on a Wire (Man on a Tightrope)
- 1953: Salto Mortale
- 1953: The adjourned wedding night
- 1953: A heart plays wrong
- 1953: Arlette conquers Paris
- 1953: Wedding while traveling
- 1953: The small town wants to go to sleep
- 1954: Dawn
- 1954: The cross on the Jägerstein
- 1954: Mannequins for Rio
- 1954: The second life
- 1954: Eternal Waltz
- 1955: Mr. Satan personally (Mr. Arkadin)
- 1955: Fallen From Heaven ( Special Delivery )
- 1955: The dark star
- 1955: I know what I live for
- 1955: The heroes are tired
- 1955: The forester's house in Tyrol
- 1956: A girl from Flanders
- 1956: A heart beats for Erika
- 1956: forest winter
- 1956: Robinson is not supposed to die
- 1957: The man who has to die (Celui qui doit mourir)
- 1957: Typhon over Nagasaki (Typhon sur Nagasaki)
- 1957: The great Bomberg
- 1957: The heart of St. Pauli
- 1957: Police Action Dynamite (Échec au porteur)
- 1957: Cavaliers (comedy, as Edmond)
- 1958: Grabenplatz 17
- 1958: The girl Rosemarie
- 1958: Volga boatman (I battelieri del Volga)
- 1958: Wet asphalt
- 1958: The timpanist
- 1958: It happened in broad daylight
- 1958: The girl with the cat eyes
- 1958: Cavaliers (Charmants garçons)
- 1958: Nick Knatterton's adventures
- 1959: Jons and Erdme
- 1959: people in the hotel
- 1959: The day the rain came
- 1959: And the forests sing forever
- 1959: The Toplitzsee treasure
- 1959: Old Heidelberg
- 1959: Their crime was love
- 1960: Björndal's legacy
- 1960: The artificial silk girl
- 1960: Calais military transmitter
- 1960: The 1000 eyes of Dr. Mabuse
- 1960: Until the money part you ...
- 1960: The night of lovers (Le bois des amants)
- 1960: The crook and the good Lord
- 1961: The green archer
- 1961: In the steel network of Dr. Mabuse
- 1961: Via Mala
- 1961: Goodbye
- 1962: The Longest Day (The Longest Day)
- 1962: The red one
- 1962: The will of Dr. Mabuse
- 1963: The Murderer (Le meurtrier)
- 1963: Today my husband quits me
- 1963: The Threepenny Opera
- 1963: Hot plaster (Peau de banane)
- 1964: $ 100,000 in the sun (Centomila dollari al sole)
- 1964: Tonio Kröger
- 1964: The boss has come up with something (Echappement libre)
- 1964: James Bond 007 - Goldfinger
- 1965: Storm over Jamaica (A High Wind in Jamaica)
- 1965: The daring men in their flying chests (Those Magnificent Men in Their Flying Machines ...)
- 1965: The love carousel
- 1966: Rififi in Paris (Du rififi à Paname)
- 1966: crooks honor
- 1966: is Paris on fire? (Paris brûle-t-il?)
- 1967: Spy between two fronts (La fantastique histoire vraie d'Eddie Chapman) , (Triple Cross)
- 1967: Crazy Guys in Rattling Rockets (Jules Verne's Rocket to the Moon)
- 1967: I killed Rasputin (J'ai tué Raspoutine)
- 1968: Caroline Chérie (Beautiful as Sin) (Caroline chérie)
- 1968: Chitty Chitty Bang Bang (Chitty Chitty Bang Bang)
- 1969: Monte Carlo Rally (Monte Carlo or Bust!)
- 1971: The Million Heist ($)
- 1972: Ludwig II.
- 1974: The robber Hotzenplotz
- 1974: An unknown settles (And Then There Were None)
- 1974: The Man Without a Face (Nuits rouges)
- 1975: The Oil Pirates (Docteur Justice)
- 1975: My Uncle Theodor or How to make a lot of money in your sleep
- 1977: The Law of the Clan
- 1977: The snake egg
- 1977: death or freedom
- 1978: The Schimmelreiter
- 1978: The low loader
- 1979: blood trail (Bloodline)
- 1980: The Umbrella Killer (Le coup du parapluie)
- 1981: The falcon
watch TV
- 1973: Morgenstern in the evening
- 1974: Histoires insolites (TV series, episode Parcelle brillante )
- 1976: Sunday Stories
- 1976: The guilty with the clean hands
- 1981: A stubborn goat
- 1982: the garden
- 1982: The robbery of the Sabine women
- 1984: August the Strong
- 1984: Old sins don't rust
- 1986: The Little Vampire (TV series)
- 1988: The Black Forest Clinic (TV series)
Documentaries
- 1978: Gert Fröbe - As if it had been today, NDR
- 2015: Gert Fröbe - the Hollywood star from Zwickau. Documentary with game scenes, Germany, 42:27 min., Script and director: Christian Schulz, director of the game scenes: Rene Pippig, production: MDR , series: Geschichte Mitteldeutschlands , first broadcast: August 9, 2015 on MDR, synopsis by MDR.
- 2010: Gert Fröbe. The man with a thousand faces. Documentation, Germany, 43:34 min., Script and director: Michael Strauven , production: CineCentrum , SWR , series: Legenden , first broadcast: August 16, 2010 on ARD , summary of ARD, review:.
Synchronous roles
Fröbe also worked as a voice actor and dubbed himself in the films:
- 1960: The 1000 eyes of Dr. Mabuse
- 1961: In the steel network of Dr. Mabuse
- 1962: the longest day
- 1963: The murderer
- 1964: James Bond 007 - Goldfinger
- 1964: $ 100,000 in the sun
- 1964: The boss has come up with something
- 1965: The daring men in their flying boxes
- 1966: is Paris on fire?
- 1967: Spy between two fronts
- 1967: Crazy guys in rattling rockets
- 1968: Tschitti Tschitti Bang Bang
- 1972: Ludwig II.
- 1974: The man without a face
- 1974: A stranger accounts
- 1979: blood trail
And in the TV series:
- 1986: The little vampire
Fröbe was also the German voice actor for Mickey Shaughnessy in the military drama Damned in All Eternity .
Radio plays
- 1982: Erwin Neuner : David and I ( Karl May ) - Director: Ferdinand Ludwig ( original radio play - NDR )
Tours
- 1981: Beginning of the Morgenstern tour in the evening at the Grenzlandtheater Aachen
Awards
- 1959: German Film Critics' Prize
- 1961: Ernst Lubitsch Prize
- 1961: Prize at the Festival Internacional de Cine de San Sebastián (Best Actor) for The Crook and the Dear God
- 1966: Bambi
- 1967: Bambi
- 1973: Great Cross of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany
- 1976: German Cabaret Prize of the City of Mainz
- 1976: Karl Valentin Order
- 1978: Filmband in gold for many years of outstanding work in German film
- 1982: Bavarian Order of Merit
- 1983: Golden Camera
- 1985: Silver Leaf of the Union of Dramatists
The American Film Institute drew up a list of the 100 best villains in film history and selected the character of "Auric Goldfinger" at number 49.
Publications
- Gert Fröbe: Morgenstern in the evening , after Christian Morgenstern, with drawings by Hans Pfannmüller , Verlag RS Schulz, Percha am Starnberger See 1981.
- Gert Fröbe: Again, he said ... and the old one came to mind: Stories from my life. Ullstein, Frankfurt / M. / Berlin 1988, ISBN 3-548-20995-5 .
literature
- Literature by and about Gert Fröbe in the catalog of the German National Library
- Michael Strauven : Everyone's favorite villain. Gert Frobe. A biography. Rotbuch, Berlin 2012, ISBN 978-3-86789-165-3 .
- Beate Strobel: Gert Fröbe. From the violinist to the gold finger. Braumüller, Vienna 2012, ISBN 978-3-99100-078-5 .
Web links
- Gert Fröbe in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Gert Fröbe at filmportal.de
- Gert Fröbe at Who's Who
- Gert Fröbe in the German dubbing file
- Beloved monster . 100th birthday of Gert Fröbe. by Michael Wenk, Neue Zürcher Zeitung from February 25, 2013.
- The nephews Wieland and Eckehart Baumann remember. Gert Fröbe in Zwickau. In: MDR Zeitreise , September 15, 2015.
- Radio broadcast from day to day with Gert Fröbe in the online archive of the Austrian Media Library
Individual evidence
- ↑ Gert Fröbe - The Hollywood star from Zwickau. In: MDR Zeitreise , January 4, 2016.
- ↑ http://articles.latimes.com/1988-09-07/news/mn-1578_1_gert-frobe
- ↑ FRÖBE-BOYCOTT: wickedly pointed . In: Der Spiegel . No. 9 , 1966 ( online ).
- ↑ Frobe boycott. Badly pointed . In: Der Spiegel . No. 9 , 1966 ( online ).
- ↑ King County Deaths, July 2, 2014. In: Seattlepi.com , July 3, 2014, accessed August 21, 2017.
- ↑ Gert Fröbe biography at steffi-line.de
- ↑ I am the secret adoptive son of Gert Fröbe BZ ; May 18, 2007
- ↑ "Yes, you are a world star" in: focus.de No. 9 from February 25, 2013
- ↑ Die Schwarzwaldklinik (73) Season 3, Episode 24 "Wedding with Obstacles" on Fernsehserien.de , accessed on December 31, 2018
- ↑ Photo: The grave of Gert Fröbe. In: knerger.de .
- ↑ Der Grüne Archer D, 1960 from Wishlist.de , accessed on December 31, 2018
- ↑ The Longest Day USA, 1961 from Wishlist.de , accessed December 31, 2018
- ↑ Spy Between Two Fronts (Triple Cross) GB / F, 1966 on Wishlist.de , accessed on December 31, 2018
- ↑ The Black Forest Clinic (73) Season 3, Episode 24 Wedding with Obstacles. In: Fernsehserien.de . Accessed December 31, 2018.
- ↑ Obese and popular. ( Memento from April 14, 2015 in the Internet Archive ). In: Berliner Morgenpost . 17th August 2010.
- ↑ Mickey Shaughnessy filmography. In: OFDb.de . OFDb.de e. K. Retrieved August 17, 2020.
- ↑ Announcement of awards of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany. In: Federal Gazette . Vol. 25, No. 111, June 16, 1973.
personal data | |
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SURNAME | Frobe, Gert |
ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Fröbe, Karl Gerhart (real name) |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German actor |
DATE OF BIRTH | February 25, 1913 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Oberplanitz |
DATE OF DEATH | 5th September 1988 |
Place of death | Munich |