Uwe-Detlev Jessen

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Uwe-Detlev Jessen , also Uwe Detlef Jessen (born October 2, 1931 in Wismar ; † January 19, 2019 in Berlin ), was a German actor , director and acting teacher.

Life

Uwe-Detlev Jessen, son of actress Elli Jessen-Somann , appeared on the theater stage for the first time as a child at the age of six in a dialect play in Güstrow . After graduating from high school, from 1951 to 1954 he trained as an actor at the State Drama School in Berlin-Schöneweide .

From 1954 to 1959 he was an actor at the Senftenberg Theater , and from 1959 at the Maxim Gorki Theater in Berlin . From 1963 to 1965, he returned to the Senftenberg Theater, which has now been renamed the Miners' Theater, as senior director. In the 1965/66 season he worked as an actor and director at the Volksbühne Berlin ; From 1966 to 1980 he was an actor and director in the ensemble of the Deutsches Theater Berlin . From 1980 to 1989 he was acting director, director and actor at the Rostock Volkstheater .

After the reunification he had guest engagements at the Schlosstheater Celle and since 1993 regularly at the Ohnsorg Theater in Hamburg . In the 1990s he appeared there in comedic roles, including comedies and comedies The Local Railway , The Mayor's Chair , The Oleander Parrot and The Golden Anchor . Some of these productions, in which he often played alongside Heidi Kabel , were also on television, including on Norddeutscher Rundfunk .

From the 1960s onwards, Jessen worked in numerous film and television productions for DEFA and German television broadcasting . In 1960 he had an early television role in the television play The illustrious guest alongside his mother. He was often used as a character comedian. Jessen, who spoke several dialects, played a broad spectrum of roles, ranging "from the sober functionary to bizarre, subtle figures".

In the fairy tale film Die goldene Gans (1964) he played the comical, opinionated brother Kunz . In 1961 he played the role of Franz in the Stacheltier film The Big and Small ABC ; Another Stingeltier film followed in 1962. In the literary film adaptation of The Divided Sky (1964), he embodied the dogmatic and stubborn student Mangold , who attended a class with the female title character Rita Seidel .

From 1972 Jessen also worked as a director for television in the GDR ; there he staged around twenty television films and television games, often also productions, especially fairy tale films, for GDR children's television. He also played in several episodes of the crime series Polizeiruf 110 .

Jessen also worked extensively as an acting teacher and theater pedagogue. Between 1962 and 1991 he had several teaching assignments at the State Drama School Berlin-Schöneweide ; he also worked as a lecturer at the Rostock Theater Academy . Uwe-Detlev Jessen died in January 2019 at the age of 87 after a long illness in Berlin. He left three children.

Filmography (selection)

Filmography as an actor

Filmography as a director

  • 1972: Bach in Arnstadt
  • 1977: The wolf and the seven little goats
  • 1979: The Bremen Town Musicians
  • 1981: The brave little tailor
  • 1985: The son of the shooter

Theater (selection)

Director

actor

Radio plays

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Uwe-Detlev Jessen. In: filmportal.de . Deutsches Filminstitut , accessed on August 11, 2018 .
personal data
SURNAME Jessen, Uwe-Detlev
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Jessen, Uwe Detlef
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German actor, director and acting teacher
DATE OF BIRTH October 2, 1931
PLACE OF BIRTH Wismar
DATE OF DEATH 19th January 2019
Place of death Berlin