Harry Merkel (actor)

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Harry Merkel (born December 27, 1929 in Radebeul ) is a German theater , film and television actor .

Life

Merkel learned his trade as a theater actor from 1949 to 1952 at the German Theater Institute in Weimar . He made his debut at the theater of friendship in Berlin-Lichtenberg , where he stayed until 1957. Further stations of his stage work were Nordhausen , the state theaters of Saxony in his Saxon hometown Radebeul and the Hans-Otto-Theater in Potsdam .

In 1967 Merkel returned to Berlin, where she stood on the boards at the Volksbühne Berlin until 2000.

The character actor has also been in front of the camera since the early 1950s. It started with a few quill short films, then the first recordings for the beginning television were added quite quickly. In the following years Merkel played in various television films and games, in fairy tales and plays for young people, and he also made entertainment programs and cabaret.

Merkel played among others in such diverse roles as the miller in the television novel ways across the country , he gave the mayor Barthel in the DEFA -Filmkomödie ignition on, it is the fire department and performed as a handwriting expert Aust in Police-110 episode The crossword case on . The opportunity to embody Dr. In a GDR Sherlock Holmes series, however, Watson fell victim to the “clear-cut discussions” on youth and cultural policy at the 11th plenum of the SED Central Committee in 1965.

Merkel also succeeded in appearing in several foreign productions, for example in the Polish-Norwegian co-production Dagny in 1978 , a film adaptation of the life of the Norwegian writer Dagny Juel by the director Haakon Sandøy , and in the Japanese film The Dancer .

After around 45 years, Merkel said goodbye to camera work in 1998 with a guest role in the hospital series For all cases Stefanie .

Filmography (selection)

theatre

Radio plays

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personal data
SURNAME Merkel, Harry
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German theater, film and television actor
DATE OF BIRTH December 27, 1929
PLACE OF BIRTH Radebeul