Manfred Borges

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Manfred Borges (born October 1, 1928 in Blankenburg (Harz) ) is a German theater actor who also appeared in over 100 DEFA and DFF film and television productions .

life and work

After the Second World War, Borges worked as a performer at the Mitteldeutsche Volksbühne, before he decided to take acting lessons with state actor Gustl Weigert in Munich. Afterwards, at least that was his plan, he should begin studying at the Otto Falckenberg School , but his choice fell on the previously newly founded German Theater Institute in Weimar, where he received his doctorate from 1947 to 1951 under Professor Maxim Vallentin . After a brief membership in the “Junge Ensemble”, Borges became one of the founding members of the Maxim Gorki Theater in 1952 under the direction of Maxim Valentins, to which he was an ensemble member for 45 years. Since then he has worked there as a permanent guest actor.

Since 1953 he also played in numerous DEFA and DFF film and television productions , such as Slatan Dudow's The Captain of Cologne or The Ship on the Danube . In 1960 he received the GDR Art Prize . Even after the fall of the Wall, he managed to continue to stand in front of the camera, for example in the television film The Price of Beauty .

At the Berlin Criminal Theater he plays the judge in the Agatha Christie classic Witness for the Prosecution , directed by Wolfgang Rumpf .

Filmography (selection)

theatre

Radio plays

literature

Web links

personal data
SURNAME Borges, Manfred
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German actor
DATE OF BIRTH October 1, 1928
PLACE OF BIRTH Blankenburg (Harz)