Jochen Schmidt (actor)

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Jochen Schmidt (born April 2, 1928 in Leipzig , † 2002 ) was a German actor , director and radio play speaker .

Life

After graduating from high school, Jochen Schmidt studied acting and directing at the Drama School Smolny-Heerdt in his hometown, and he also had private lessons with Peter Lühr . In 1946 Schmidt made his debut at the Volksbühne Leipzig before moving to the Städtische Bühnen in Erfurt in 1950 . In the 1950s Schmidt moved to the Federal Republic and from 1956 to 1959 made guest appearances at the Nordmark-Landestheater Schleswig. He had other permanent engagements from 1959 to 1961 at the Staatstheater Braunschweig , the Hamburg audience saw him from 1961 to 1969 at the Thalia Theater . Before Schmidt started working as a freelancer in 1970, he had guest appearances at the municipal theaters in Münster and Freiburg . In Bad Hersfeld he worked from 1984 to 1986 as senior director and vice-director at the festival there, and after Karl Vibach's death in the summer of 1987, he also took over the post of director for a short time. In 1986, Schmidt founded the Eichhof Castle open-air theater , which has been used as a second festival stage since then.

Jochen Schmidt played a number of different roles in his stage career. So he was in the Shakespeare plays Othello as Iago and in Heinrich VI. To be seen as the title character, in Bertolt Brecht's mother Courage and her children he was the field preacher. In Franz and Paul von Schön Thane classic The Rape of the Sabines , he embodied the Striese theater director , in transit from Curth Flatow he was the Jewish merchant Salomon . In 1986 Schmidt staged the comedy Die deutscher Kleinstädter by August von Kotzebue at the Bad Hersfeld Festival and in the following year Schiller's Der Parasit . Furthermore, he was often responsible as a director for plays by the British author Alan Ayckbourn , but also staged operas and fairy tale performances.

After his comrade debut in the film Soldier of Fortune in 1957, Jochen Schmidt was often present on television until the mid-1990s. In addition to roles in television games, he has appeared in well-known series such as Hafenpolizei , Polizeifunk ruft , PS - stories about the car or St. Pauli Landungsbrücken . He also achieved great popularity as Inge Meysel's film son in the series Ida Rogalski .

Jochen Schmidt was also active as a speaker for the radio.

Filmography (selection)

Radio plays

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b biography at steffi-line.de , accessed on January 9, 2015
personal data
SURNAME Schmidt, Jochen
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German actor, director and radio play speaker
DATE OF BIRTH April 2, 1928
PLACE OF BIRTH Leipzig
DATE OF DEATH 2002