Heinz Liefers

Heinz Liefers (born February 3, 1909 , † 1985 in Erfurt ) was a German actor and director .

Life

Heinz Liefers received an acting training in Berlin . After engagements at several theaters, he was engaged as a theater actor at the Stadttheater Döbeln from 1937 to 1941 . There he joined primarily in comedies , musical comedies and burlesque on u. a. In the season 1938/1939 in the comedy Honeymoon without a man of Leo Lenz . From the 1941/42 season until 1944, until all theaters were closed due to the war, he was an actor in the role of “1. Hero and Lover ”and committed as a director at the Komotau Municipal Theater .

After the Second World War , engagements at the Stadttheater Wittenberg, the Theater Eisleben (including the title role in the play Thomas Müntzer by Horst Ulrich Wendler) and the Theater Stralsund followed . For over 10 years he was a permanent member of the ensemble at the Erfurt Theater . There he played u. a. in the 1963/1964 season the Banquo in Macbeth , alongside Dieter Wien in the title role.

According to his own account, Liefers worked in film before 1945 ; However, there is no evidence of film rolls. Later he took on a few small film roles at DEFA . a. in Ernst Thälmann - son of his class (1954), Ernst Thälmann - leader of his class (1955), in the crime film Escape into Silence (1966) and in the film drama The Valley of the Seven Moons . In 1959/1960, television plays and theater recordings with the Erfurt theater ensemble were made for GDR television . Heinz Liefers u. a. in the television play Auf der Durchreise (1960) the role of the local farmer leader Kracklow.

He is the father of Karlheinz Liefers and grandfather of Jan Josef Liefers .

Stage roles (selection)

Municipal theaters of Erfurt

• April 1st, 1959: Definitely suspicious (world premiere), by Hedda Zinner
• June 12, 1959: An evening with Curt Götz ( DEFA recording)
  • The flying privy councilor , as Herr Mors
  • The dog in the brain, as Johann
• 1960: Antigone , by Sophocles , as Creon King of Thebes (on the Erfurt cathedral steps )
• January 28, 1961: Richard III. , by William Shakespeare , as King Edward IV.
• May 27, 1961: Life of Galileo , by Bertolt Brecht , as Cardinal Barberini
• 11/11/1961: Optimistic tragedy, by Vsevolod Wischnewski , as hoarse
• February 10, 1962: Before sunset , by Gerhart Hauptmann , as Counselor Hanefeldt
• 2.6.1963: Egmont , by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe , as Silva (on the Erfurt cathedral steps)
• December 25, 1963: Macbeth , by William Shakespeare, as Banquo
• June 13, 1964: Romeo and Juliet , by William Shakespeare, as Montague (on the Erfurt cathedral steps)
• 8/22/1964: Pygmalion , by George Bernard Shaw , as Colonel Pickering
• December 25, 1965: Nathan the Wise , by Gotthold Ephraim Lessing , as Sultan Saladin
• March 5, 1966: The visit of the old lady , by Friedrich Dürrenmatt , as the third citizen

Filmography (selection)

• 1954: Ernst Thälmann - son of his class
• 1955: Ernst Thälmann - leader in his class
• 1960: In transit (TV play, director: Eugen Schaub )
• 1966: Escape into silence
• 1967: The Valley of the Seven Moons

Web links

• Heinz Liefers in theInternet Movie Database(English)
• Heinz Liefers . Biography on Döbeöm om olden times, January 30, 2016.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Komotau City Theater 1941 - 1944. Sudetendeutscher Heimatkreis Komotau / Förderverein Mittleres Erzgebirge Komotauer Land eV, archived from the original on January 1, 2014 ; accessed on October 3, 2016 . 
2. ↑ ^{a b c} Volker Wachter : DEFA star hours . ( Memento of the original from December 31, 2013 in the web archive archive.today ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. DEFA-Sternstunden Forum, February 26, 2009, accessed on October 3, 2016. 
3. ↑ ^{a b} In transit (1960) . Cast, plot and production notes on the TV portal of the GDR , accessed on October 3, 2016.