Rüdiger Renn

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Rüdiger Renn (born March 3, 1927 as Hans-Rüdiger Erich Helmut Renn in Barzwitz , Pomerania , today Barzowice, Poland; † June 25, 1993 in Banner Elk , North Carolina , USA) was a German actor and director .

Life

Renn played in the early 1950s at the German National Theater in Weimar , at the Theater am Schiffbauerdamm and at the Volksbühne on Rosa-Luxemburg-Platz in Berlin.

He embodied Fiesco in The Fiesco Conspiracy in Genoa , Melchtal in Wilhelm Tell , the captain in The Judge of Zalamea and Tranio in The Taming of the Shrew . As a film and television actor, he appeared in a dozen productions from the 1950s to 1972. In 1971 he directed a film for the first time and once with The Departure .

Renn was married to Catja Görna .

Awards

  • Schiller plaque (1955)

Filmography

literature

  • Kürschner's biographical theater manual , edited by Herbert A. Frenzel and Hans Joachim Moser, Walter de Gruyter & Co., Berlin 1956, DNB 010075518

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