Robert Trösch

Robert Trösch; actually Robert Kohli ( born November 25, 1911 in Zurich, † January 14, 1986 in East Berlin) was a native of Switzerland, communist actor and director. Trösch lived from 1946 in East Berlin, where for, among other things directed at the adult stage and at the Deutsches Theater, appeared in DEFA films and worked as a reciter.

Life

Robert Trösch ( until 1919 Robert Kohli ) learned the art of acting self-taught and first appeared in Zurich's puppet theater. Trösch was a communist and went in the early 1930s to Berlin, where he performed with the troupe in 1931 by Gustav von Wangenheim. After the " seizure of power" went Trösch in 1933 in Switzerland. For a time he worked as a farm laborer until Erika Mann hired him for the cabaret pepper mill, where he remained until 1934. From 1936 he was part of the ensemble of the Zurich Schauspielhaus. There, he established in the 1930s further contacts with German émigrés. In 1936, he participated in his first film role, playing the anti-fascist fighter movie directed by Gustav von Wangenheim, the role of Otto. The movie was filmed in the Soviet Union and produced.

Between 1939 and 1943 Trösch occurred in several feature films produced in Switzerland, among others the director Leopold Lindtberg on. At the Schauspielhaus Zurich, a group founded in 1942 National Committee for a Free Germany was formed ( NKFD ). The collaboration with this group NKFD enabled Trösch from 1946, the work at theaters in East Berlin, where he relocated in 1946. From 1950 to 1952 he headed the New Stage in the House of Culture of the Soviet Union. In the GDR, he played in a number of DEFA films, also led self directed television films and performed as a reciter and as a singer. His longtime companion was the actress Georgia Kullmann.

Theater productions directed by Trösch (selection)

Filmography (selection)

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