Ulrich Mende

from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Ulrich Mende (born 1953 or 1954 in Berlin ) was a German child actor who as a leading actor in a DEFA - children's film has been known.

Life

Mende attended the Coppi School in Berlin-Karlshorst. He was nine years old when director Rolf Losansky cast him in 1963 as the main actor in his children's film The Search for the Miraculous Bird . In the film adaptation of the children's book of the same name by Franz Fühmann, Mende played the home child Lutz, who initially wanted to find the stolen "wonderfully colorful bird" with his friends, but ended up looking for it on his own and putting himself in danger. The film had its world premiere on March 8, 1964 in the Berlin cosmos and was awarded the Golden Box in Erfurt in 1964 .

As usual at DEFA, Mende was not cast in a second film as a child actor. In 1972 he passed his Abitur with a specialization in mathematics and studied information technology in Dresden until 1978 after serving in the army . This was followed by a doctorate at Leningrad University in 1981 . He became an employee of the Academy of Sciences. Shortly after the fall of the Wall , he founded his own company and ten years later went into business for himself. Mende works as an IT consultant and is a freelance author.

Filmography

literature

  • The search for the wonderfully colored bird - Ulrich Mende . In: Knut Elstermann : I used to be a film child. DEFA and its youngest actors . Das neue Berlin, Berlin 2011, ISBN 978-3-360-02114-4 , pp. 50-61.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ The search for the wonderfully colored bird . In: F.-B. Habel: The great lexicon of DEFA feature films . Schwarzkopf & Schwarzkopf, Berlin 2000, ISBN 3-89602-349-7 , p. 591.
  2. ↑ Mendes website with photo
personal data
SURNAME Mende, Ulrich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German child actor
DATE OF BIRTH 1953 or 1954
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin