Ulrich Thein

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Ulrich Thein (born April 7, 1930 in Braunschweig ; †  June 21, 1995 in Berlin ) was a German actor , director , screenwriter , dubbing and radio play speaker .

biography

The son of a theater bandmaster grew up under difficult conditions. His father died when Ulrich was four years old, and his mother Else Thein had to support the family alone (Thein had two older brothers). After graduating from high school, Thein studied music (harp, piano), on the side he took acting lessons and got an engagement at the Staatstheater Braunschweig . In 1951 he moved to the GDR and got his first roles as the youngest member of the Deutsches Theater in Berlin, where he stayed until 1963. In addition, he played at the Berlin Theater of Friendship (today Theater an der Parkaue ) and then was an actor and director at the theater of the miners Senftenberg .

Since 1952, he played numerous leading roles in films by Martin Hellberg , Gerhard Klein , Günter Reisch , Frank Beyer and Konrad Wolf . In 1957 he was involved in the film music in “ Spur in die Nacht ” (he composed the “Fuchsbau Boogie”). In 1963 he wrote the first book for a television film, which he also successfully directed (“The other next to you”).

Thein remained one of the most successful television directors in the GDR for a decade and a half, who repeatedly took on important contemporary issues, which he brought to the screen with care and a keen sense for the dramatic detail. Since the late seventies, Thein has also appeared again as a television actor, for example in the series “ Polizeiruf 110 ” and in the convincingly played leading roles in biographical films about Martin Luther ( Martin Luther ) and Johann Sebastian Bach ( Johann Sebastian Bach ).

In 1986 Thein became a member of the GDR Academy of Arts, from which he resigned in 1991 in protest against the modalities of the unification of the East and West Academy. After the liquidation of the German TV broadcaster (DFF), Thein turned down many trivial offers ("... I don't want to do the shit that some producers offer me"). From 1992 he worked as a lecturer at the "Ernst Busch" drama school in Berlin, where he worked on numerous scene studies (majoring in acting). Ulrich Thein's partners in films and in life included the actresses Jana Brejchova (briefly married), Christel Thein-Sörgel, Franziska Troegner , Annekathrin Bürger and Renate Geißler .

In addition to his work as an actor and director, Thein was also a pianist and composed songs for his films, such as the “rose song” in “Mensch, mein Papa” (which says, among other things: “... and the little birds that pull and fly here again , / only man, soon he leaves, afterwards he does not come any more ”).

His written estate is in the archive of the Academy of Arts in Berlin.

Plays

  • 1948: As You Like It [by William Shakespeare] - (2. Page)
  • 1950: Der Strom [by Max Halbe] - (as Jakob)
  • 1950: The Servant of Two Masters [by Carlo Goldoni] - (as Truffaldino)
  • 1950: Robinson Shouldn't Die [by Friedrich Forster] - (as Jim Drinkwater)
  • 1950: Das Käthchen von Heilbronn [by Heinrich von Kleist] - (as a charcoal burner boy)
  • 1950: The Auditor [by Nikolai Gogol] - (as Mischka)
  • 1951: Baller versus Baller [by Karl Veken] - (as Heinz)
  • 1951: What You Want [by William Shakespeare] - (as servant)
  • 1951: Timur and his troop [after Arkadi Gaidar] - (as Timur)
  • 1951: Egmont [by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe] - (as Ferdinand)
  • 1952: Decisions [by Heinar Kipphardt] - (as Alexander)
  • 1952: Don Carlos [by Friedrich Schiller] - (as the Queen's page)
  • 1952: A hen party [by Werner Bernhardy] - (as a shoemaker's boy)
  • 1953: Fernamt ... please report! [by Konstantin Issajew] - (as a companion)
  • 1953: Trial Wedding [by Harald Hauser] - (as Runert)
  • 1953: Shakespeare urgently wanted [by Heinar Kipphardt] - (as Fridolin)
  • 1953: The Moorbande [by Horst Beseler] - (as Zadde)
  • 1954: Hotelboy Ed Martin [by Albert Maltz] - (as Ed Martin)
  • 1954: Much Ado About Nothing [by William Shakespeare] - (as Claudio)
  • 1954: Faust. The first part of tragedy [by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe] - (as a student)
  • 1955: Die Dorfstraße [by Alfred Matusche] - (as a harmonica player)
  • 1955: Lützower [by Hedda Zinner] - (as Jörg)
  • 1956: The rise of Alois Piontek [by Heinar Kipphardt] - (as moon shine)
  • 1956: Columbus or: Opening of the Indian Age [by Peter Hacks ] - (as a barbecue)
  • 1956: To the golden anchor [by Marcel Pagnol] - (as Marius)
  • 1956: The Battle of Lobositz [by Peter Hacks] - (as Ulrich Braeker)
  • 1958: The Miller of Sanssouci [by Peter Hacks] - (as Nickel)
  • 1958: Woe to him who dreams [by Eduardo de Filippo] - (as Luigi)
  • 1959: New territory under the plow [by Michail Scholochow] - (as Timofej Damaskow)
  • 1959: Professor Mamlock [by Friedrich Wolf ] - (as a communist Ernst)
  • 1960: How He Lied to Her Husband (A Warning to Theatergoers) [by George Bernard Shaw] - (as He)
  • 1961: A Story from Irkutsk [by Alexej Arbusow] - (as Viktor Boizow)
  • 1961: Midnight Mass [by Peter Karvas] - (director)
  • 1962: The Worries and the Power [by Peter Hacks] - (director)
  • 1962: Wilhelm Tell [by Friedrich Schiller] - (as Melchthal)
  • 1965: terra incognita [from Kuba, di Kurt Barthel] - (as drill master Juri Ustinow)
  • 1971: Skin or Shirt [by Erik Neutsch] - (Director)
  • 1993: Fight of the Negro and the Dogs [by Bernard-Marie Koltès] - (as horn)
  • 1994: Moony's Child Doesn't Cry [by Tennessee Williams] - (Director)

Filmography (selection)

Synchronizations (selection)

  • 1953: (Hungary) - Probation (as Imre)
  • 1953: (ČSR) - Tomorrow the whole world will dance (as Lojza)
  • 1954: (SU) - In the distant harbor (as Lieutenant Plerkuscha)
  • 1955: (SU) - The tiger tamer (as Pyotr Mokin)
  • 1955: (BG) - Song of the People [The Life of the Bulgarian Poet Nikola Wapzarow] - (as Pawel)
  • 1955: (SU) - The World Champion (as Serjosha Odintsow)
  • 1956: (SU) - The Fate of the Drummer (as Jurka)
  • 1956: (SU) - The son (as Andrej Gorjajew)
  • 1956: (Hungary) - Julika with the snub nose (as worker Marci Kincse)
  • 1956: (JUG) - Ivo, the monk (as Bakonja [Ivo Jerkovic])
  • 1956: (ČSR / BG) - The False Prince (as Labakan)
  • 1956: (PL) - 3 starts (as Lesniak)
  • 1956: (PL) - The Faceless Man (as Mikula)
  • 1956: (SU) - Vanya, that goes too far! (as Wanja [Ivan Browkin])
  • 1956: (JUG) - Melody in Spring (as high school graduate Sandi)
  • 1956: (ČSR) - Crimes on the Windberg (as geologist Vojta)
  • 1957: (SU) - Much Ado about Maxim (as Maxim Perepeliza)
  • 1957: (ČSR) - The Shot at Dawn (as Tomáš Benda)
  • 1957: (SU) - How steel was hardened (as Franz Klawitschek)
  • 1958: (SU) - Wanja conquers new territory (as Wanja [Iwan Browkin])
  • 1958: (SU) - The street is full of surprises (as Wassja Schaneschkin)
  • 1958: (SU) - Whenever day comes (as Washa)
  • 1959: (SU) - At night on the country road (as Kyrill Voronow)
  • 1959: (F / I) - Wiesenstraße 10 (as Loulou [Louis Neveux])
  • 1960: (I / F) - Rocco and his brothers (as Simone)
  • 1960: (ČSSR) - The white clasp (as Pavel)
  • 1964: (SU) - The living and the dead [novel by Konstantin Simonow] - (as Iwan Sinzow)
  • 1965: (SU) - The Law of the Fathers (as Torgwai)
  • 1966: (H) - Light behind the curtain (as Geza Tordai)
  • 1972: (DK) - The Olsen Gang and their big coup (as dishwasher)
  • 1976: (SU) - I ask for the floor (as Fedja)

Radio plays

Prizes and awards

  • 1961 - Voted the most popular actor of the year by the readers of “Filmspiegel” alongside Günther Simon and Stefan Lisewski
  • 1962 - Voted as the most popular actor of the year for the second time by the readers of “Filmspiegel”, alongside Christel Bodenstein, Angelica Domröse, Annekathrin Bürger, Manfred Krug and Jürgen Frohriep
  • 1963 - Art Prize of the FDGB for "The other next to you"
  • 1969 - GDR Art Prize for "Unknown Citizens"
  • 1973 - National Prize III. class
  • 1978 - Actor Award at the Moscow International Film Festival for the leading role in "Anton the Magician"
  • 1979 - Heinrich Greif Prize 1st class in the collective for "Anton the Magician"
  • 1979 - Acting Award of the International Film Festival in Moscow for "Anton the Magician"
  • 1980 - Acting Award of the National Feature Film Festival of the GDR in Karl-Marx-Stadt for "Anton the Magician"
  • 1980 - Goethe Prize of the City of Berlin in the collective for "Roof over your head"
  • 1984 - Art Prize of the GDR for representation in "Martin Luther"
  • 1984 - Critics' Award '84 "The big flap" in the collective for "Martin Luther" (best TV film in the GDR 1983)
  • 1985 - Golden Laurel for representation in "Johann Sebastian Bach" from the State Committee for Television at the GDR Council of Ministers
  • 1986 - Acting Award of the Magyar Televizio Elnöksége, Budapest, for "Johann Sebastian Bach"
  • 1987 - Golden Laurel for outstanding acting performance in "The Christmas Plumbers"
  • 1989 - National Prize, 1st class

literature

  • Ulrich Thein . In: DEFA-Revue: a yearbook on filmmaking in the German Democratic Republic 4/1960, ed. from DEFA-Studio for Feature Films, Babelsberg 1960, pp. 52–53
  • Helmuth Pelzer: Ulrich Thein . Series Artists of Our Time , Henschel-Verlag, Berlin 1962, 32 pp.
  • Ulrich Thein . In: Filmspiegel , 5/1962, p. 16
  • Hans Georg: The other next to you. A two-part film by German TV broadcaster , in: Filmspiegel , 19/1963
  • Helmuth Pelzer: Ulrich Thein , in: Actors from theater, film and television , ed. v. Renate Seydel , Henschel-Verlag, Berlin 1966, pp. 177-180
  • Joachim Reichow: Film artists A – Z , Bibliographisches Institut, Leipzig 1967, 336 p. [Ulrich Thein, p. 288]
  • Hugo Fetting: Ulrich Thein - the return of the actor , in: Filmspiegel , 5/1978
  • Hans-Jörg Höber: Roof over your head. Observations during the shooting and a conversation with Ulrich Thein about his film , in: Filmspiegel , 7/1980
  • Hans-Dieter Tok: Simple stories, ordinary heroes. Views of the director, author and actor Ulrich Thein , in: Film und Fernsehen , 4/1981
  • Hans-Dieter Tok: Dach überm Kopf [or Ulrich Thein's artistic principle] , in: Podium und Werkstatt , H. 12, ( DEFA feature films at the beginning of the 1980s ), Berlin 1982, pp. 154–163
  • Horst Knietzsch: Finding poetic forms that reach today's viewers , in: Neues Deutschland , October 1, 1983
  • Erika Richter : Ulrich Thein. On the way to a popular film , in: Rolf Richter (Ed.): DEFA feature film directors and their critics . Volume 2, Henschel-Verlag, Berlin 1983, pp. 193-212
  • Ralf Schenk: Obituary for Ulrich Thein , in: Film und Fernsehen 4/1995.
  • Frank-Burkhard Habel : Lexicon. Actor in the GDR. Verlag Neues Leben, Berlin 2009, ISBN 978-3-355-01760-2 , pp. 424-425.
  • Monika Kaiser:  Thein, Ulrich . In: Who was who in the GDR? 5th edition. Volume 2. Ch. Links, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-86153-561-4 .
  • Andy Wheels: Poetry of the Everyday. Ulrich Theins directorial work for GDR television (1963-1976) . Springer VS, Wiesbaden 2019, ISBN 978-3-658-25239-7 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Ulrich-Thein-Archiv Inventory overview on the website of the Academy of Arts in Berlin.
personal data
SURNAME Thein, Ulrich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German actor, director, screenwriter, dubbing and radio play speaker
DATE OF BIRTH April 7, 1930
PLACE OF BIRTH Braunschweig
DATE OF DEATH June 21, 1995
Place of death Berlin