Gert Kollat
Gerhard "Gert" Kollat , more rarely Gerd Kollat and Gert Kollat-Romanoff (born June 9, 1906 in Lissa , Province of Posen , German Empire , † August 28, 1982 in Berlin ) was a German actor in the stage and film industry as well as a theater director and set designer .
Life
The son of a construction business owner attended high school and then received acting lessons. Gert Kollat joined the theater in 1925 and received his first permanent engagement the following year in Glogau, Lower Silesia . As Gert Kollat-Romanoff, he initially appeared both as an actor and director and as a set designer (first in this role in 1928) at the West Saxon State Theater (later renamed the Saxon Culture Stage) before moving to Chemnitz in 1929 . As a result of the National Socialists' seizure of power (1933), Gert Kollat was exposed to all kinds of occupational restrictions, whereupon he changed his profession and in 1936 bought a cinema in Berlin.
Gert Kollat was only able to return to acting after the end of World War II in 1945. He went to Hamburg and took over the management of the New Theater. From 1949 to 1961, the native East German worked mostly in East Berlin and the GDR , where he mainly appeared in the theater, but occasionally also in film. In those years, however, Kollat worked mainly in West German productions, where he played a number of quite insignificant supporting roles. After the Wall was built (August 1961), Kollat , who lived in Berlin-Dahlem , was cut off from his job in the east of the city and from then on only worked in the west. Gerhard “Gert” Kollat made his last appearances in front of the camera exclusively for television. Kollat also worked for the radio and wrote an operetta with Karussell der Liebe . He wrote the template for the 1964 television play Charming People
Filmography
- 1949: Derby
- 1949: Second hand fate
- 1950: The Shadow of Mr. Monitor
- 1950: The Council of Gods
- 1950: piquancy
- 1952: The uncle from America
- 1953: Holland girl
- 1954: The Gypsy Baron
- 1955: my children and me
- 1955: love without illusion
- 1956: Spy for Germany
- 1956: The model husband
- 1957: happiness is on the road
- 1957: It works
- 1957: The heart of St. Pauli
- 1957: The simple girl
- 1959: Freddy under strange stars
- 1960: TV episode: The case of Hugo Stinnes jr. (TV series)
- 1960: Naked among wolves
- 1960: the last rehearsal
- 1960: Johnny Belinda
- 1961: ... because women are weak
- 1961: Weekend in paradise
- 1962: Willi Winzig
- 1964: Daring game : Teddy and Freddy
- 1969: All dogs love Theobald (TV series, one episode)
- 1971: Doppelganger (TV series, episode)
- 1972: Job according to grades (TV series, an episode)
Web links
- Gert Kollat in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Gert Kollat on filmportal.de
literature
- Johann Caspar Glenzdorf: Glenzdorf's international film lexicon. Biographical manual for the entire film industry. Volume 2: Hed – Peis. Prominent-Filmverlag, Bad Münder 1961, DNB 451560744 , p. 875.
- Kay Less : Between the stage and the barracks. Lexicon of persecuted theater, film and music artists from 1933 to 1945 . With a foreword by Paul Spiegel . Metropol, Berlin 2008, ISBN 978-3-938690-10-9 , p. 397.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Kollat, Gert |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Kollat, Gerhard; Kollat, Gerd; Kollat-Romanoff, Gert (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German actor in stage and film as well as a theater director and set designer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | June 9, 1906 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Lissa , Posen Province, German Empire |
| DATE OF DEATH | August 28, 1982 |
| Place of death | Berlin |