Gert Gütschow

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Gert Gütschow (born March 2, 1928 in Rostock ) is a German actor .

Life

The character actor Gert Gütschow made his debut in 1945 at the age of 17 at the Rostock theater. He actually wanted to be a musician, but the way to the conservatory was blocked by the turmoil of World War II .

After engagements in Stralsund ( Stralsund Theater ), where he married, Halberstadt , Altenburg , Görlitz and Erfurt , he played in Leipzig from 1959 under the director Karl Kayser .

Major theater roles in his early days included Shaw 's pupil of the devil , Moliere's George Dandin , Angelo in Shakespeare's Measure for Measure , Biff in Miller's Death of a Salesman and Daddy in Gripsholm Castle . Later, Brecht roles, outstanding of Arturo Ui , Horatio in Hamlet , Rolf Hochhuth's deputy, later he played among other Eichmann Antonio Salieri in Amadeus , Fiesco of Schiller , again in Goethe's Faust to Mephisto and in a number of ideas of Suskind's The Double bass , and finally the great age role in Nathan the Wise . With his 50th anniversary on the stage, he left the ensemble of the Schauspiel Leipzig in 1995.

He played leading and haunting supporting roles in numerous films, such as the mass murderer Retzmann in Zernik's corpse affair , grateful character roles in Dr. med. Summer II. , It is an old story , career , under the pear tree , also leading roles in classmates , and Comrade Brüggemann . He could also be seen in several productions of the Moritzburg television theater , for example in Paul Berndt's Business for a Dead (1968), Hans-Albert Pederzani's Unter der Asche (1969), Friedrich von Gentz 's Liebe ist nicht immer blind (1975) and Gotthold Ephraim Lessing's The Treasure . Most recently he appeared in the series In All Friendship as Professor Günter Keller .

In addition, Gert Gütschow works in numerous radio, synchronous and blind library readings and has appeared as a speaker in concerts in the Leipzig Gewandhaus under conductors such as Václav Neumann and Kurt Masur . In the 2010/11 season Gert Gütschow performed as Gluck in persona at the Leipzig Opera in Peter Konwitschny's production of Ch. W. Gluck's Iphigenie in Aulis .

Filmography (selection)

Radio plays

literature

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Rolf Richter: "I played everything". Gert Gütschow, precise character actor and excellent speaker, turns 90. In: Leipziger Volkszeitung , March 2, 2018.
personal data
SURNAME Gütschow, Gert
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German actor
DATE OF BIRTH March 2, 1928
PLACE OF BIRTH Rostock