Peter Schuch

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Peter Schuch (born July 9, 1925 in Sânnicolau Mare ( German  Großsanktnikolaus ), Kingdom of Romania , † October 17, 2002 in Mönchengladbach ) was a German theater actor at the German State Theater Timişoara (DSTT).

Live and act

The Banat Swabian Peter Schuch was born in 1925 in Groß Sankt Nikolaus, the son of a craftsman. 1943, at the age of 18, he was sent to the Eastern Front of World War II convened. After the end of the war, Schuch worked in a textile company in Timișoara (German Timişoara ), where he played in a lay group. 1953, the year of the German Theater, he was there as an apprentice trained as an actor. He made his debut on June 27, 1953 in the ensemble's first German performance as Anton Koch in Laube's play “Die Karlsschüler”.

By 1981 Peter Schuch played over 100 roles, including around 75 leading roles, for example in Goethe's Egmont , Götz von Berlichingen and Faust , in Schiller's Räuber and Wilhelm Tell . Then there are Lessing's Nathan the Wise and Shakespeare's Othello . From the local literature he gave the master Jakob in Adam Müller-Guttenbrunn's "Meister Jakob und seine Kinder" and the "Mathias Till" in the peasant drama of the same name by Ludwig Schwarz . As a convincing comedian, he played in plays by Johann Nestroy , Ludwig Thoma , George Bernard Shaw , Shakespeare and Molière . Schuch also played in Romanian films, for example in a film about the Romanian aviation pioneer Aurel Vlaicu , in which he played his German teacher Professor Ebert from Dresden. Schuch played another film role in “Schach dem König”.

At the end of the 1980s, Peter Schuch fell ill with cancer. Shortly after the Romanian Revolution in 1989 , he was flown out of Romania and operated on in Freiburg im Breisgau . He then settled with his family in Mönchengladbach, where he lived until his death in 2002.

Awards

  • Award for cultural merits of the People's Republic of Romania
  • The readers of the Neue Banater Zeitung voted Peter Schuch their favorite in 1972 and 1980.

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b nauy.de , Hans Kehrer : Farewell to Peter Schuch
  2. ↑ a b c d Horst Fassel: The German State Theater Timisoara (1953-2003). From national identity bearer to experimental theater. Berlin 2011, ISBN 978-3-643-11413-6
personal data
SURNAME Schuch, Peter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German theater actor at the German State Theater Timisoara (DSTT)
DATE OF BIRTH July 9, 1925
PLACE OF BIRTH Sânnicolau Mare , Kingdom of Romania
DATE OF DEATH October 17, 2002
Place of death Mönchengladbach