Oswald Foerderer

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Oswald Foerderer (born June 3, 1911 in Hamburg , † February 1, 1985 in East Berlin ) was a German actor and radio play speaker .

Life

Oswald Foerderer received private acting lessons from Hans Langmaack in his hometown . After engagements in Frankfurt / Main, Gießen, Kiel and Wuppertal, Foerderer later appeared on East German theaters, for example in Gera, at the Meininger Theater and at the Volksbühne Leipzig. At the beginning of the 1950s he went to Berlin and played at the Maxim-Gorki-Theater and the Neue Bühne, from the mid-1960s on in Dessau, Rostock and Wittenberg. In later years Foerderer worked as a freelance and made a name for himself as a reciter.

In the early 1950s, Foerderer began working in front of the camera, often in supporting roles, such as in the DEFA productions Ernst Thälmann - Son of His Class or The Trial Is Postponed . In 1965 he took on a small part in As long as life is in me , a film about the life of Karl Liebknecht , and he also had episode roles in the crime series Polizeiruf 110 .

After continuing his stage career in East Berlin, Foerderer began to work extensively for radio until his death, for example in Günter Eich's radio play Dreams in a version of the GDR radio from 1981. He had his only assignment as a voice actor 1979 in the film The Man in the Loden Coat .

Filmography (selection)

Radio plays (selection)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Biography at DEFA-Sternstunden , accessed on November 5, 2016
personal data
SURNAME Foerderer, Oswald
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German actor and radio play speaker
DATE OF BIRTH June 3, 1911
PLACE OF BIRTH Hamburg
DATE OF DEATH February 1, 1985
Place of death East Berlin