Horst Drinda

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(from left) Inge Keller , Irma Münch , Horst Drinda and Alexander Abusch in 1962
Grave of Horst Drinda, Pankow IV cemetery, Berlin

Horst Eckart Drinda (born May 1, 1927 in Berlin ; † February 21, 2005 there ) was a German actor and director .

Life

The son of an employee attended school in Berlin and the pilot school in Koethen. Drinda completed an apprenticeship as an aircraft engine fitter at the Junkers factories and began studying at the Gotenhafen War School in the fall of 1944 in order to prepare for a career as a technical officer in the Wehrmacht . In January 1945 he was used in the infantry, wounded in the fighting around Berlin and finally captured. He escaped and helped with the cleanup.

In the late summer of 1945 he auditioned for Gustav von Wangenheim and through his mediation was accepted as a scholarship holder at the drama school of the Deutsches Theater in Berlin, where he was engaged from 1946 to 1947 and on April 3, 1946 in the play We call you hope by Fred Denger debuted . He played Orestes in the world premiere of Gerhart Hauptmann's dramas Agamemnons Tod und Elektra . From 1948 to 1950 he worked at the Landestheater Halle and then again until 1971 at the Deutsches Theater, later as a guest. Drinda became one of the busiest actors in the theater in the 1950s.

Drinda made his film debut in 1948 in And Again 48 , but cinema remained a sideline for him for a long time. He played his most important film role in 1964/1965 in The best years as a worker and communist Ernst Machner, who returns from the war and becomes a teacher, which shows 15 years of educational development in the GDR in his ascent.

After that he was part of the DFF actor ensemble , where he also worked as a director. He received an important assignment from 1967 to 1970 as the title character of the propaganda series Ich - Axel Caesar Springer . Drinda achieved high popularity especially as "Captain Hans Karsten" in the television series Zur See . He had his last role in 2003 in the episode At the end love triumphs of the MDR series In aller Freundschaft .

In 2003 Horst Drinda suffered two strokes and has been paralyzed since then. He died in 2005 at the age of 77 and was buried in the Pankow IV cemetery in Berlin-Niederschönhausen .

Filmography

theatre

Radio plays

Awards

literature

Web links

Commons : Horst Drinda  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. The grave of Horst Drinda. In: knerger.de. Klaus Nerger, accessed on March 10, 2019 .