Gisela Uhlen

Gisela Uhlen (right), with Robert Ley (left) and Heinrich George, 1941: during a guest appearance of the Berliner Schiller-Theater in occupied France

Gisela Uhlen (16 May 1919 – 16 January 2007) was a German film actress and occasional screen writer.

Biography

Uhlen was born Gisela Friedlinde Schreck[1] in Leipzig, Germany as fourth child of Luise Frieda and distillery owner and former opera singer Augustin Schreck.[2]

At the Leipziger Konservatorium she enrolled in a modern dance class, and learnt classical ballet and acrobatics at the opera school. At 15 she decided to become a theatre actress and chose the stage-name Gisela Uhlen. After her final examination as a dancer and during her training period she married ballet teacher Herbert Freund.[2]

At 17 she appeared for the first time at the Schauspielhaus Bochum. In 1938 Heinrich George brought her to the Berliner Schiller-Theater, where she was active until the end of the war. But even before her first stage appearance she had made film tests with Universum Film AG (Ufa), and thereby obtained the leading actress role in the 1936 film Annemarie. Die Geschichte einer Jungen Liebe. After the war performance of this film was prohibited. Uhlen played a young organist whose lover volunteered to go to the front and there died.[2]

From 1936 through 1960, Uhlen appeared in 23 films, and in 1960 she steered her career into television. Her career was active throughout her lifetime, with her having more than 56 television appearances into 2006, entirely in the German and European realm.

She married six times, most notably to German writer, director and producer Hans Bertram, with whom she had daughter Barbara Bertram, who also became an actress, but with little success. With Wolfgang Kieling she had a daughter Susanne Uhlen,[1] who is now a successful German actress. During the Cold War, and following her divorce from Hans Bertram, Uhlen fled into East Germany to avoid a custody battle over their daughter, an unusual move in a time when most people were attempting to escape from East Germany, but moved to West Berlin in 1960.

Filmography

  • 1963: Aufstand der Gehorsamen
  • 1965: Hotel der toten Gäste
  • 1965 A Holiday with Piroschka
  • 1965: Die eigenen vier Wände
  • 1966: Geschlossene Gesellschaft
  • 1966: The Hunchback of Soho
  • 1967: Der Panamaskandal
  • 1967: Der Tod läuft hinterher
  • 1968: Emma Hamilton
  • 1969: Die Zimmerschlacht
  • 1969: Dr. med. Fabian – Lachen ist die beste Medizin
  • 1971: Leiche gesucht
  • 1974: Three Men in the Snow
  • 1975: Tatort: „Als gestohlen gemeldet“ (as Frau Stumm)
  • 1975: Bis zur bitteren Neige
  • 1976: Die Hellseherin
  • 1977: Frauen in New York
  • 1978: Derrick - Season 5, Episode 12: "Ute und Manuela"
  • 1979: Die Ehe der Maria Braun
  • 1980: Derrick - Season 7, Episode 6: "Die Entscheidung"
  • 1982: Wir haben uns doch mal geliebt
  • 1982: Meister Eder und sein Pumuckl
  • 1983: Die zweite Frau
  • 1991: Toto the Hero
  • 1992: Zürich – Transit
  • 1996: Die Katze von Kensington
  • 1997: Der Coup
  • 1998: Edgar Wallace: Das Haus der toten Augen
  • 1989–2006: Forsthaus Falkenau

Stage appearances

Books

Notes

  1. 1 2 "DNB, Katalog" (in German). Deutschen Nationalbibliothek. Retrieved 2009-03-09. (German national library entry)
  2. 1 2 3 "filmportal.de / Gisela Uhlen / ( Gisela Friedlinde Schreck )" (in German). Deutsches Filminstitut. Retrieved 2009-03-09.
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