Karl-Heinz Pelser

Karl-Heinz Pelser (born October 21, 1926 in Bochum ) is a German actor.

Life

Pelser took acting lessons from Saladin Schmitt and worked from 1947 to 1949 as an apprentice at the Schauspielhaus Bochum . His stage career began in 1949 at the Aachen City Theaters . In 1950 he moved to the Stadttheater Ingolstadt , 1951 to the Landestheater Coburg , 1952 to the Städtische Bühnen Freiburg im Breisgau, 1954 to the Staatstheater Hannover , 1957 to the Hessische Staatstheater Wiesbaden , 1959 to the Nationaltheater Mannheim , 1961 to the Schauspielhaus Bochum, 1968 to the stages of the city of Cologne , 1973 to the Württemberg State Theater Stuttgart and 1977 to the Bavarian State Theater in Munich . In 1983 Pelser became a freelance actor. He had guest appearances at the Paris Théâtre des Nations 1964, Piccolo Teatro di Milano 1972, Belgrade World Theater 1986, Ruhr Festival 1963 and 1987, Festival van Vlaanderen Gent 1972, Berlin Theatertreffen 1961, 1965.

In his long stage career Pelser took on numerous important roles, including Ferdinand in Kabale und Liebe , Templar in Nathan the Wise , the title character in Schiller's Don Karlos , Romeo in Romeo and Juliet , the title character in Prince Friedrich von Homburg or the Battle of Fehrbellin , Troilus in Troilus and Cressida , Wetter von Strahl in Das Käthchen von Heilbronn , the title roles in The Conspiracy of Fiesco in Genoa , Schiller's Wallenstein , Goethe's Faust , Peer Gynt , Professor Higgins in My Fair Lady , King Oedipus , Oedipus on Colonus , Creon in Antigone , Michael Kramer and others.

The high-profile theater actor was only relatively seldom in front of the television camera and especially in adaptations of plays. He played his only significant film role in 1980 under Ingmar Bergman in his film drama From the life of the puppets as an examining magistrate. The directors of the productions included Saladin Schmitt , Hans Schalla , Herbert Maisch , Leopold Lindtberg , Hans Bauer , Kurt Ehrhardt , Kurt Hübner , Peter Palitzsch , Hansgünther Heyme , Kurt Meisel , Karl-Heinz Stroux , Hanskarl Zeiser and Ingmar Bergman.

source

• Hermann J. Huber : Langen Müller's Actors Lexicon of the Present - Germany Austria Switzerland , Langen Müller Verlag, Munich