Gerhard Behrendt

Gerhard Behrendt ( born April 3, 1929 in Caputh near Potsdam, † September 26, 2006 in Berlin) was a German film director, puppet designer and creator of the Sandman of the German Television in Berlin.

Life

In 1943 he began an apprenticeship as a scene painter at the Prussian State Theater in Berlin, which he continued in Malersaal the Deutsche Staatsoper Berlin after the war. It was at this time but also worked as an actor and comedian. In 1946, he worked in the studio of the film architect Walter Roehrig and as a cartoonist. In 1948, he was a scene painter at the Hans Otto Theater in Potsdam. After a year later, the test was and was admitted as a stage of the Brandenburg state government, he paid at this theater among others The Servant of Two Masters and Don Carlos from.

About the stations as a puppet designer and animator at the DEFA Studio Babelsberg (1953 ) and at the DEFA Studio for Animated Films in Dresden ( 1955), he came in 1956 with the German television broadcasting, where he was director and puppet designer for satirical characters and puppet animation films. In 1958 he was entrusted with the establishment of the puppet studios.

In 1959, he created within 14 days of the man, which makes him famous to this day - the sandman. He was also a writer, director, production designer and animator for shipments Sandman. Over the years he created more figures: Professor head, and Paul Stine ( Berlin Brats ), the Urvieh, title character of the series Abendgruß thud and the exhibition males of the Leipzig Trade Fair. 1977 awarded him the courier Polski proposal Polish children with the Order of the Smile of the original ceremony for him. Gerhard Behrendt worked until completion of the television of the GDR or the DFF in his animation studio and then retired as a freelance director and puppet designer.

On April 4, 2005, he presented the Governing Mayor of Berlin, Klaus Wowereit, the Federal Cross of Merit. Thus it is one of the few people who have been awarded both the Order of Merit and the National Prize of the GDR.

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