Gerd Preusche

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Gerd Preusche (born June 4, 1940 in Werl ; † April 26, 2001 in Berlin ) was a German actor .

Life

Gerd Preusche grew up in Dresden and studied acting at the Leipzig Theater School . In 1974 he began his theater career in what was then Karl-Marx-Stadt , where he worked with directors such as Hartwig Albiro , Siegfried Höchst and Irmgard Lange . Also in Karl-Marx-Stadt, Preusche began a long-term collaboration with Frank Castorf , whom he initially followed at the Deutsche Theater Berlin and later at the Volksbühne . In addition to Castorf's productions, he played in Berlin under Leander Haußmann , Johann Kresnik and Andreas Kriegenburg .

Well-known roles by Prussia were Karl Moor in Friedrich Schiller's Robbers , Schmied Wittig in Die Weber by Gerhart Hauptmann or Gunter in Die Nibelungen - Born Bad , and he also played in Woyzeck by Georg Büchner , Hauptmanns Einsame Menschen and Karl Grünberg's Golden Flows of Steel . A few weeks before his death he was last in the play Paul + Paula. The legend of happiness without end in a production by Leander Haussmann on stage.

Since 1967 Preusche also worked for television, initially only sporadically, after 1990 he was regularly present on the screen. In addition to guest appearances in series such as Polizeiruf 110 or Tatort , in 1997 he embodied the SPD politician Hans-Jürgen Wischnewski in Heinrich Breloer's multi-award-winning docu-drama Death Play . Occasionally Preusche also took on roles in radio play productions.

Gerd Preusche died of cancer at the age of 60. He was the father of the current acting director of the Chemnitz theater, Carsten Knödler.

Filmography (selection)

Radio plays

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. mh: Schwerkraft des Kindskopfs , N24 from April 27, 2001 , accessed on December 16, 2016
  2. ^ A b Matthias Pees: Räuber von Deutschland , Berliner Zeitung of April 27, 2001 , accessed on December 16, 2016
  3. a b Gerd Preusche died , Berliner Kurier of April 27, 2001 , accessed on December 16, 2016
  4. 27 years later: New "enemy of the people". Another enemy? Other people? (Premiere review) , accessed December 16, 2016