Heinz Schröder (puppeteer)
Heinz Schröder (born April 24, 1928 in Berlin ; † April 22, 2009 in Rüdersdorf near Berlin ) was a German puppeteer whose figures became very popular, especially with children.
Schröder was a trained technical draftsman. After 1945 he worked for the Berlin magistrate and later in the district leadership of the FDJ . From 1953 he played in the then newly founded puppet theater of the Berlin pioneering republic "Ernst Thälmann" on the Wuhlheide . From 1957 he worked as a puppeteer in the children's program on television in the GDR .
The characters played and spoken by Schröder in the Märchenwald and Märchenland series of GDR children's television included:
- Mr. Fuchs, together with Heinz Fülfe as Mrs. Elster (see Mr. Fuchs and Mrs. Elster )
- Mrs. Igel, together with Friedgard kurz as Borstel
- the bear Brummel (who appeared in a duo with the presenter Annemarie Brodhagen )
- the Bummi Bear (replaced in 1975 by the Mischka Bear, spoken by Harald Preuss )
- the wise uncle eagle owl
- Pittiplatsch, together with Friedgard kurz as Schnatterinchen (see Pittiplatsch and Schnatterinchen )
- the mole Buddelflink, together with Renate Mladenov as the mouse Gertrud
He also appeared as a forester Grünrock himself in early episodes . He also took over the puppet leadership of the cat Casimir in the puppet series Das Spielhaus , but did not lend him the voice. On October 3, 1969, Heinz Schröder received the National Prize of the GDR III as a member of the collective "Abendgruß des Kinderfernsehens" (with Gerhard Behrendt , Wolfgang Richter , Friedgard kurz , Harald Serowski and Heinz Fülfe) . Art and literature class.
The Märchenwald figures appeared since the late 1950s in the Sunday afternoon program Meister Nadelöhr tells Märchen (with Eckart Friedrichson as Meister Nadelöhr ), which has been broadcast since 1955 , and which was later renamed A Visit in Märchenland . The figures have also been seen regularly in the evening greeting from Our Sandman since the 1970s. The authors of the stories were usually Ingeborg and Günther Feustel . Schröder also recorded some stories on sound carriers with other speakers. No further episodes have been produced since GDR television was closed down in 1991. Schröder toured with the Pittiplatsch Ensemble through eastern Germany since 1993 .
Heinz Schröder was married and last lived in Schöneiche near Berlin . He died on April 22, 2009, two days before his 81st birthday. The day before, on April 21, he was diagnosed with a tumor in his spine. The painter Joachim Tilsch designed the three most prominent Schöneich entertainment artists in a picture with the title “Schöneicher Breakfast” for the central local shopping center, along with Helga Hahnemann and Otto Häuser, as well as Heinz Schröder.
Web links
- “Oh you my nose!” , Portrait on the occasion of Wolfgang Schönwald's 80th birthday in Tagesspiegel , April 21, 2008
Footnotes
- ↑ Torsten Wahl: Schnippel-Di-Schnappel . In: Berliner Zeitung . May 5, 2003
- ↑ Heinz Schröder's Pittiplatsch voice falls silent forever Obituary on ARD.de (accessed on May 3, 2009) ( Memento from May 6, 2009 in the Internet Archive )
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Schröder, Heinz |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German puppeteer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | April 24, 1928 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Berlin |
| DATE OF DEATH | April 22, 2009 |
| Place of death | Rüdersdorf near Berlin |