Rudolf Ulrich
Rudolf Ulrich ( born January 3, 1922 in Halle ( Saale), † April 4, 1997 in Berlin) was a German actor and voice actor, who was in the late 1950s and 1960s, one of the busiest actors in the GDR. He starred in about 180 films and television DEFA films and television of the GDR.
Life and work
After he previously took acting lessons at Müller - Rochel, debuted in 1947, Ulrich at a theater in his home town hall. This was followed by the National Theatre Altenburg and in 1950 the Berlin theater of friendship, (now the Theater an der Parkaue ). In 1950, he moved along with his wife Hanna to Berlin. There came in 1953 his daughter Bettina Rosié (born Ulrich) to the world. Since this year, the actor also belonged to the ensemble cast of the DEFA, where it was used in countless movies and film productions.
His breakthrough as an actor celebrated Ulrich 1957 in Jung- Alsens Franz Fühmann literature adaptation Cheated Maguires, where he, international notoriety gained in the film role of the Wehrmacht corporal Wagner, who evolves from a fellow traveler to an accomplice. The film, which was established in 1957 nominated for the Palme d'Or at the International Film Festival in Cannes, earned him lucrative film offers from abroad, and let him be one of the busiest actors of the DDR in the subsequent period. He became a very versatile actor who could be employed in all film genres.
His star began in the mid -1970s to sink, when he was cast in several Yugoslav films that were originally not approved by the Ministry of Culture. As repression him only minor film roles were offered in national productions of the DEFA and the DFF, such as in the television series At the lake or the TV series Police 110
The final resting he found on a Pankow Cemetery.