Robert Trosch

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Robert Trösch (1947)

Robert Troesch ; Born as Robert Kohli (born November 25, 1911 in Zurich ; † January 14, 1986 in East Berlin ) was a communist actor and director from Switzerland . Trösch lived in East Berlin from 1946, where he directed the Volksbühne and the Deutsches Theater , appeared in DEFA films and worked as a reciter .

Life

Robert Trösch was the son of Luise Hedwig Kohli and was adopted the family name Trösch in 1919. He learned the art of acting autodidactically and first appeared in the Zurich Marionette Theater. Trösch was a communist and left early 1930s to Berlin , where he met the troupe in 1931 by Gustav von Wangenheim occurred. After the " seizure of power ", Trösch returned to Switzerland in 1933. For a while he worked as a farm worker until Erika Mann hired him for the cabaret Pfeffermühle , of which he was a member until 1934. From 1936 he was part of the ensemble of the Schauspielhaus Zürich . There he made further contacts with German emigrants in the 1930s. In 1936 he took on the role of Otto in the anti-fascist film Fighters , directed by Gustav von Wangenheim. The film was shot and produced in the Soviet Union .

Between 1933 and 1943 Trösch appeared in several films produced in Switzerland a. a. by the director Leopold Lindtberg . A group of the National Committee Free Germany (NKFD) founded in 1942 was formed at the Schauspielhaus Zürich . The cooperation with this NKFD group enabled Trösch to work in theaters in East Berlin from 1946, where he relocated in 1946. From 1950 to 1952 he headed the New Stage in the House of Culture of the Soviet Union . In the GDR he played in a number of DEFA films, directed television films and productions himself, for example at the Moritzburg television theater in Halle , where he also worked as an actor, and appeared as a reciter and singer. His longtime partner was the actress Georgia Kullmann .

In 1959 he was awarded the GDR Art Prize.

Theater productions directed by Trösch (selection)

Filmography (selection)

actor

Director

  • 1963: Irrungen, Wirrungen (TV play), staging: Robert Trösch
  • 1976: The lampshade (TV film), directed by Robert Trösch
  • 1984: Playmates: Karl and Kasimir (TV theater Moritzburg), staged by Robert Trösch

Radio plays

literature

Web links

Commons : Robert Trösch  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Werner Mittenzwei: Das Zürcher Schauspielhaus 1933–1945 . Henschelverlag, Berlin 1979, p. 39.
  2. ^ Philipp Mäder: Swiss Communists in the GDR (1946–1966) . In: Antoine Fleury, Horst Möller, and Hans-Peter Schwarz (eds.): Switzerland and Germany 1945–1961. Oldenbourg Wissenschaftsverlag, Munich 2004, ISBN 3486645080 , pp. 251-253.
  3. ↑ Neues Deutschland , October 4, 1959, p. 4
  4. ↑ Season 1954–1955 ( Memento of the original dated November 9, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. on the website of the Berliner Volksbühne. (Retrieved July 3, 2009.) @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.volksbuehne-berlin.de
  5. ↑ Season 1965–1966 ( Memento of the original from January 5, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. on the website of the Berliner Volksbühne. (Retrieved July 3, 2009.) @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.volksbuehne-berlin.de
personal data
SURNAME Trösch, Robert
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Kohli, Robert (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss actor and director in the GDR
DATE OF BIRTH November 25, 1911
PLACE OF BIRTH Zurich , Switzerland
DATE OF DEATH January 14, 1986
Place of death East Berlin , German Democratic Republic