Hanswerner von Gehr

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Han (n) swerner or Hans-Werner Freiherr von Gehr (born March 1, 1912 in Tilsit , East Prussia ; † December 8, 2005 in Berlin ) was a German actor and director .

Life

Von Gehr was born the son of a large landowner. After graduating from high school, he studied theater studies and graduated from drama school . He then worked as an actor and theater director.

In 1936/37 he was trained as a pilot in Kampfgeschwader 51 . During a reconnaissance flight over Moscow Oblast in 1941 he landed in his Ju 86 against the will of the crew at the Dubrowitsij airfield ( Russian Дубровицы ) near Podolsk , whereupon he was imprisoned and sentenced by the NKVD to a ten-month prison term in the Bodelka (?) State Prison. In 1942/43 he was imprisoned in Krasnogorsk prisoner of war camp , where he took part in the founding assembly of the National Committee Free Germany in 1943 , for whose magazine Free Germany he worked and also acted as a radio agitation spokesman . In 1944 he founded a theater group and played in prison camps. In 1948 he returned to Germany.

In the GDR he was deputy director of Hanns Anselm Perten at the Rostock Volkstheater . He was also head of the Berliner Festtage and cultural attaché of the GDR. He was involved in the preparation and participation of GDR films at foreign festivals and in the organization of the Leipzig Documentary and Short Film Weeks. Materials from his time as deputy director of the Rostock Volkstheater and as cultural attaché of the GDR can be found in the Performing Arts archive of the Academy of Arts in Berlin. In the 1970s and 1980s he played in several DEFA productions.

From 1985 he was cultural geriatric supervisor for Kursana Residenzen GmbH .

Filmography

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Gehr, Freiherr Hans-Werner von, March 1, 1912 (Tilsit). In: Gottfried Hamacher with the assistance of André Lohmar, Herbert Mayer, Günter Wehner and Harald Wittstock: Against Hitler. Germans in the Resistance, in the armed forces of the anti-Hitler coalition and the "Free Germany" movement, short biographies. Karl Dietz Verlag Berlin 2005, ISBN 3-320-02941-X . Online ( Memento from October 5, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) (PDF; 894 kB, Rosa Luxemburg Foundation ).
  2. ↑ In: Renate Meyer-Braun : Holes in the Iron Curtain: Theater Exchange between Bremen and Rostock during the Cold War (1956–1961). A piece of German-German post-war history. Trafo , Berlin 2007, p. 15.
  3. ^ Archives performing arts: Hanswerner-von-Gehr-Archiv , Akademie der Künste, Berlin.
  4. ↑ Hans-Werner von Gehr †. In: Kursana Magazin - senior magazine of the Dussmann Group , summer / autumn 2006, p. 21.
personal data
SURNAME Gehr, Hanswerner von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Gehr, Hans-Werner von; Gehr, Hannswerner from
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German actor and director
DATE OF BIRTH March 1, 1912
PLACE OF BIRTH Tilsit
DATE OF DEATH December 8, 2005
Place of death Berlin