Ernst Schröder (actor)
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| Ernst Schröder | |
|---|---|
| Born | 27 January 1915 Herne, Germany |
| Died | 26 July 1994 (aged 79) Berlin, Germany |
| Years active | 1934–1992 |
Ernst Schröder (27 January 1915–26 July 1994) was a popular German theatre, film and TV actor.
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[edit] Life
Born in Herne, Schroeder began his acting career at the nearby Bochum Theatre in 1934, under the legendary director Saladin Schmitt. He worked there until 1936, also working as Assistant Director and Stage Designer. After working at Bielefeld and Wuppertal, he moved to the Schiller Theatre in Berlin in 1938, which became his artistic home and the location of his greatest triumphs, particularly after World War II.
During the war he served briefly in the army, was wounded, and returned to the Schiller Theatre in 1942. When in 1944 the theatre was closed, he returned to serve in the army, and ended the war in Italy as a prisoner. He returned to the theatre in 1946 and rapidly re-established his reputation.
He was considered one of the greatest character actors of the German theatre, enjoying larger than life roles. He was frequently compared with the pre-war star Heinrich George. In addition, he frequently acted in Zurich and Munich. Although he concentrated on stage work, both as actor and director, he occasionally appeared in film roles, most notably as German General Hans von Salmuth in the 1962 film The Longest Day.
He achieved broader popularity in the 1970s, appearing more frequently on television, particularly in crime shows like Derrick and Der Alte.
In 1980, his daughter, the actress Christiane Schroeder (18 January 1942–17 September 1980), committed suicide by jumping off the Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco.
In 1981 he staged a production of Shakespeare's King Lear at the Bad Hersfeld Festival. At the end of the 1980s he returned to television in the role of 'Lauritz Lorentz' in the series of Lorentz und Söhne (Lorentz and Sons).
In 1991-92 he appeared as the narrator in a dramatised radio version of The Lord of the Rings.
Throughout his career Schroeder also dubbed the voices of popular English-speaking actors into German. Amongst others, he provided the voices for Charles Boyer, James Cagney, William Conrad, Rex Harrison, Herbert Lom, Spencer Tracy, and Peter Ustinov.
At the age of 79 Schroeder was diagnosed with cancer at a Berlin hospital. He committed suicide on 26 July 1994 by jumping out of a window.
[edit] Theater
| Year | Role | Title | Author | Director | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1937/38 | Clavigo | Clavigo | Johann Wolfgang von Goethe | ||
| 1938/39 | Prinz Heinrich | Konig Heinrich IV | William Shakespeare | Ernst Legal | |
| 1946 | Karl Moor | Die Räuber | Friedrich Schiller | Walter Felsenstein | |
| 1946 | - | Fraulein Julie | August Strindberg | Ernst Schröder | |
| 1946 | - | Boubouroche | Georges Courteline | Ernst Schröder | |
| 1948 | Title role | Caligula | Albert Camus | ||
| 1950 | Domingo | Don Carlos | Friedrich Schiller | Fritz Kortner | |
| 1952 | Mephisto | Urfaust | Goethe | Willi Schmidt | |
| 1953 | Karl Moor | Die Räuber | Friedrich Schiller | Hans Lietzau | |
| 1953 | Title role | Tartuffe | Molière | O.F. Schuh | |
| 1954 | Dorfrichter Adam | Der zerbrochene Krug | Heinrich von Kleist | O.F. Schuh | |
| 1954 | Wladimir | Warten auf Godot | Samuel Beckett. | Fritz Kortner | with Heinz Rühmann |
| 1958 | Title role | Richard III | Shakespeare | Leopold Lindtberg | |
| 1958 | Schmitzi | Biedermann und die Brandstifter | Max Frisch | Oskar Wälterlin | |
| 1961 | Der alte Sedemund | Die Echten Sedemunds | Ernst Barlach | Hans Lietzau | |
| 1961 | Lehrer | Andorra | Max Frisch | Kurt Hirschfeld | World premiere |
| 1962 | Staatsanwalt | Graf Öderland | Max Frisch | Hans Lietzau | |
| 1963 | Herkules und der Stall des Augias | Friedrich Dürrenmatt | World premiere | ||
| 1964 | Christian Maske, 1913 | Carl Sternheim | |||
| 1964 | Marquis de Sade | Marat/Sade | Peter Weiss | Konrad Swinarski | World premiere |
| 1965 | Prisipkin | Die Wanze | Wladimir Majakowski | Konrad Swinarski | |
| 1966 | Mephisto | Faust II | Goethe | Ernst Schröder | |
| 1967 | Hamm | Endspiel | Samuel Beckett | Samuel Beckett | |
| 1967 | Bockelson | Die Wiedertaufer | Friedrich Dürrenmatt | Werner Düggelin | World premiere |
| 1968 | Vater | Die Trauung | Witold Gombrowicz | Ernst Schröder | |
| 1973 | Title role | Lear | Edward Bond | Hans Lietzau | |
| 1983 | Moritz Meister | Über Allen Gipfeln Ist Ruh | Thomas Bernhard | Kurt Hübner | Volksbühne production |
[edit] Filmography
| Year | Role | Title | Director | Also Starring |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1941 | Adrian Krüger | Ohm Krüger | Hans Steinhoff | Emil Jannings |
| 1953 | Olaf Kastner | The Man Between | Carol Reed | James Mason and Hildegard Knef |
| 1955 | Jellinek | Liebe Ohne Illusion | Erich Engel | Sonja Ziemann and Curd Jürgens |
| 1956 | - | Anastasia : Die letzte Zarentochter | Falk Harnack | Lilli Palmer and Ivan Desny |
| 1957 | Dr. Gustav Stresemann | Stresemann | Alfred Braun | Anouk Aimée and Wolfgang Preiss |
| 1958 | Friedrich Karl Möbius | Der Eiserne Gustav | George Hurdalek | Heinz Rühmann and Lucie Mannheim |
| 1960 | Hauptmann Kühn | Mein Schulfreund | Robert Siodmak | Heinz Rühmann and Loni von Friedl |
| 1964 | Gen. Hans von Salmuth | The Longest Day | Ken Annakin, Andrew Martin, Bernhard Wicki and Darryl F. Zanuck | John Wayne and Robert Mitchum |
| 1964 | Chefarzt | Die Todesstrahlen des Dr. Mabuse | Hugo Fregonese | |
| 1965 | Herr Sesemann | Heidi | Werner Jacobs | Gustav Knuth as Großvater |
| 1974 | Werner Deilman | The Odessa File | Ronald Neame | Jon Voight, Maximilian Schell and Maria Schell |
[edit] Television
| Year | Role | Title | Author | Director | Also Starring |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1960 | Maximilian Friedrich Korbes | Abendstunde im Spatherbst | Rudolf Noelte | ||
| 1962 | Galileo Galilei | Leben Des Galilei | Bertolt Brecht | Egon Monk | |
| 1962 | Von Wehrhahn | Der Biberpelz | Gerhart Hauptmann | John Olden | Inge Meysel |
| 1978 | - | Die Eingesschlossenen | Jean-Paul Sartre | Pinkas Braun | Judy Winter and Uwe Friedrichsen |
| 1984 | Sir Wilmot | Mrs. Harris - Freund mit Rolls Royce | Georg Tressler | Inge Meysel, Edith Volkmann and Eberhard Feik | |
| 1988 | Lauritz Lorentz | Lorentz & Söhne | Claus Peter Witt | Heli Finkenzeller, Hans Korte and Gerd Baltus | |
| 1991 | Melkovic | Rochade | Peter Patzak | Michael York and Iris Berben |
