Peter Gerhard

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Peter Gerhard (born August 20, 1907 in Vienna ; † June 29, 1994 ibid.) Was an Austrian actor on the stage, film and television.

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The son of a police superintendent attended the humanistic grammar school in his hometown of Vienna and studied German at the university of the Austrian capital. Subsequently, Gerhard was trained as an actor by Jacob Feldhammer . Gerhard gained early professional experience as an assistant to Feldhammer's boss, theater manager and director Max Reinhardt during the Salzburg Festival . Peter Gerhard then took on obligations in the former kuk province, which from 1932 onwards, beginning with Troppau, took him to small theaters in Brno and Mährisch-Ostrau, before he returned to Vienna, where he briefly joined the Austrian State Theater. As a result of the annexation of Austria in March 1938, Peter Gerhard was temporarily held in Gestapo detention and was drafted after his release. Although in uniform, Gerhard belonged to the ensemble of the Karlovy Vary City Theater in the two seasons 1942/43 and 1943/44.

Immediately after the Second World War, Gerhard returned to his hometown and performed there first at the Renaissance Theater and then at the Kammerspiele and the Theater in der Josefstadt. He was also involved in the radio station RAVAG and the American-controlled competitor Rot-Weiß-Rot . Gerhard also worked as a voice actor and from 1946, immediately after the liberation, took on a number of small film roles. He covered the whole range of high-class roles in cinema as well as (from 1957) in television films: sometimes he was a porter, a master of ceremonies, a teacher, a servant or a dance master, but then again a minister, a chancellery Director and every now and then a professor. Gerhard was finally appointed to the latter by the Austrian state at an advanced age. At the same time, the artist remained loyal to the theater and occasionally appeared as a guest at the Vienna Volksoper. Gerhard was also a regular guest at the seasonal festivals in Melk, Perchtoldsdorf and Stockerau.

Filmography

literature

  • Johann Caspar Glenzdorf: Glenzdorf's international film lexicon. Biographical manual for the entire film industry. Volume 1: A-Heck. Prominent-Filmverlag, Bad Münder 1960, DNB 451560736 , p. 491.

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personal data
SURNAME Gerhard, Peter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian actor on stage, film and television
DATE OF BIRTH August 20, 1907
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna
DATE OF DEATH June 29, 1994
Place of death Vienna