Ulrich Thein
Ulrich Thein ( born April 7, 1930 in Braunschweig, † 21 June 1995 in Berlin) was a German actor, director, screenwriter, synchronous and radio speaker.
Biography
The son of a theater Kapellmeister grew up under severe conditions. His father died when Ulrich was four years old, and his mother Else Thein had the family ( Thein had two older brothers ) diet alone. After high school studied Thein music (harp, piano), by the way he took acting lessons and got an engagement at the Staatstheater Braunschweig. In 1951 he moved to the GDR and got his first roles as the youngest member of the Deutsches Theater in Berlin, where he remained until 1963. He also played at the Berlin theater of friendship (now the Theater an der Parkaue ) and then was actor and director in the theater of the miners in Senftenberg.
Since 1952, he has played numerous leading roles in films by Martin Hellberg, Gerhard Klein, Günter Reisch, Frank Beyer and Konrad Wolf. In " track in the night," he is involved in the 1957 film music ( he composed the " Burrow Boogie "). In 1963 he wrote the book for the first time to a television film he also staged successful ( " The other next to you ").
Thein remains for fifteen years one of the most successful television directors of the GDR, who repeatedly takes to the presence of important themes that he brings with care and with respect for the representational detail on the screen. Since the late seventies Thein occurs again as TV actor out, so in the series " Police 110 " and the convincing played leading roles biographical films about Martin Luther ( Martin Luther ) and Johann Sebastian Bach (Johann Sebastian Bach).
In 1986, Thein member of the Academy of Arts of the GDR, from which it emerges as a protest against the modalities of unification of East and West Academy in 1991. After the liquidation of German Television (DFF ) Thein refused many offers from trivial ("... I will not make that shit that is offered to me by some producers" ). From 1992 he was a lecturer at the Drama School " Ernst Busch" in Berlin, where he has worked among others numerous scene Studies ( majoring in drama ). Partners Ulrich Thein in movies and in life included the actresses Christel Thein Sörgel, Franziska Troegner, Anne Kathrin citizens and Renate Geissler.
In addition to his work as an actor and director Thein was also a pianist and has composed songs for his films, the moving "Rose Song " in "Man, my daddy " (in which it states: "... and the birds that attract and fly restore / only man, soon he walks away after he is no longer ").