Raimund Schelcher
Raimund Schelcher (right) in 1960
Born27 March 1910
Dar es Salaam, German East Africa
Died27 March 1972 (age 62)
East Berlin, East Germany
Occupationactor
Years active1937-1971
Spouse(s)Lore Hansen
Annalise Wanckel

Raimund Schelcher (27 March 1910 – 27 March 1972) was a Tanzanian actor who appeared in over 43 films and television programs between 1939 and 1971.

Personal life

He was born in Dar es Salaam, German East Africa (now Tanzania) to a railway engineer and a violinist. When Schelcher was fourteen, his family were evacuated to Germany after World War I. Between 1924 and 1928 he visited the Oberrealschule Kalk in Cologne. After earning a Mittlere Reife and after leaving school he entered the theatre. From 1928 to 1938[1] he took acting lessons at the Municipal drama school in Cologne.

He died on his 62nd birthday in Berlin on 27 March 1972.

Career

In 1930 he debuted his role as Ferdinand in Intrigue and Love at the Theater Gießen. In 1933 Schelcher joined the New Theatre in Frankfurt am Main and in 1934-1935 he played at the Deutsches Schauspielhaus in Hamburg, from 1935 to 1938 in Leipzig and finally at the Schiller Theater in Berlin. In 1939 he received his first film roles.

World War II

He was drafted shortly before World War II on 28 August 1939 by the Gestapo. He was drafted as a soldier and was "probation battalion assigned". In battle, he was wounded four times and he fell into Soviet captivity. After his release he resumed his career at the Stadttheater in Bremen.

Return to Acting

Schelcher in 1951

In 1950 he went to the eastern part of Berlin's Deutsches Theater and performed at the Volksbühne. From 1953 he worked at the Berliner Ensemble. Schlecher played, among others,[2] the fool in the Twelfth Night, Jakob in Gorkis and Simon Chachava in The Caucasian Chalk Circle.[3] Schelcher worked in the 1950s as a DEFA actor. He was helped by his clear-cut features. He appeared in films featuring ideal class-conscious proletarians as in two of Thalmann's movies or as the understanding people's commissar in Berlin, Schoenhauser Corner.

Filmography

Year Title Role Notes
1939The Immortal HeartKonrad Windhalm
1939Robert KochKochs Assistent Dr. Fritz von Hartwig
1939Der letzte AppellWalter Brodersen
19500 Uhr 15, Zimmer 9Martin Leutner
1950The Axe of WandsbekKarl Prestow
1951Die SonnenbrucksDozent Joachim Peters
1951Der UntertanDr. Wolfgang Buck
1953Geheimakten SolvayMertens
1954Ernst ThälmannKrischan Daik
1954Der Fall Dr. WagnerErich Rückert
1954LeuchtfeuerBetrunkener Matrose
1955Der Ochse von KulmHeckenberger
1955Wer seine Frau lieb hatJochen Schall
1955Ernst ThälmannKrischan Daik
1956The Mayor of ZalameaSergeant
1957Castles and CottagesKrummer Anton
1957LissyMax Franke
1957Wo Du hin gehstAlbert
1957Berlin, Schoenhauser CornerVP-Kommissar
1957Spur in die NachtMann mit Lederjacke
1957Gejagt bis zum MorgenKarl Baumann
1958Rocník 21Weiß
1958Der Prozeß wird vertagtMichael Vierkant
1958The Sailor's SongAugust Lenz
1959Erich KubakErich Kubak
1960Das Leben beginntDirektor Gruber
1960Schritt für SchrittDreher Rochlitz
1961Pyat dney - pyat nochey
1961Der Arzt von BothenowParteisekretär Karl Lange
1962Die schwarze GaleereKönig Philipp II von Spanien
1962Entdeckung des Julian Böll
1962Die Jagd nach dem StiefelJulius Gemse
1963At A French FiresideLudovic
1967Geschichten jener NachtPainter(segment "Phönix")
1972Trotz alledem!(final film role)

Recognition

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References

  1. ↑ "Biography: Raimund Schelcher". filmzeit.de. Retrieved 18 July 2014.
  2. ↑ "Raimund Schlecher at Film Portal". Filmportal.de. Retrieved 18 July 2014.
  3. ↑ "Raimund Schelcher". defasternstunden.de. Retrieved 18 July 2014.
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