Herbert Grieser

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Herbert Grieser (born October 10, 1919 in Witten , German Reich ; † April 7, 2000 in Hamburg ) was a German make- up artist for film and television.

Live and act

Grieser applied at a young age as a set designer at the city theater of Hagen / Westphalia. Instead of training as a set designer, he was given the opportunity to work as a hairdresser and make-up artist at this venue. In the middle of the Second World War , Grieser read in an advertisement for the production company Berlin-Film that they were looking for make-up artists for the feature film. Grieser traveled to the capital and was immediately accepted. For health reasons he was spared military service until 1945 and until then was involved in productions such as Die Zaubergeige (1943) and That was my life (1944). In 1947 Grieser began his post-war film career, initially with the "Junge Film-Union" in Bendestorf . With his wife, married in 1949, Herbert Grieser moved to Hamburg, where he was the head make-up artist of Real-Film Walter Koppels and Gyula Trebitsch for almost a decade and a half .

In 1962 his film activity largely ended, and Herbert Grieser began to work as a freelancer for television, especially for ZDF . There he was particularly successful with the creation of historical masks that he made for Studio Hamburg productions with a real plot background such as the docu-dramas Maestro der Revolution, Jacques Offenbach - Ein Lebensbild, Dreyfus Affair and the multi-part civil war in Russia . Here he transformed actors like Karl-Michael Vogler , Pinkas Braun , Jörg Pleva and Hubert Suschka into historically documented personalities like Giuseppe Verdi , Jacques Offenbach , Alfred Dreyfus , François Villon and Josef Stalin . In the first half of the 1970s, Grieser returned to the cinema three times. Shortly before he turned 70, he ended his active career. In the documentation Schlußklappe '45. In 1995, Herbert Grieser gave scenes from German films about German filmmaking shortly before the end of the war in 1945.

Filmography

Until 1962 movies, then TV productions, unless otherwise stated:

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personal data
SURNAME Grieser, Herbert
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German makeup artist
DATE OF BIRTH October 10, 1919
PLACE OF BIRTH Witten , German Empire
DATE OF DEATH April 7, 2000
Place of death Hamburg