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Gisela Uhlen (16 May 1919 – 16 January 2007) was a
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{{DEFAULTSORT:Uhlen, Gisela 1919 births 2007 deaths German film actresses Best Actress German Film Award winners Actors from Leipzig University of Music and Theatre Leipzig alumni German stage actresses German television actresses 20th-century German actresses 21st-century German actresses
Gisela Uhlen (16 May 1919 – 16 January 2007) was a German
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film actress
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and occasional screen writer
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Biography
Uhlen was born Gisela Friedlinde Schreck (German national library entry) inLeipzig
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, Germany as fourth child of Luise Frieda and distillery owner and former opera singer Augustin Schreck.
At the Leipziger Konservatorium she enrolled in a modern dance class, and learnt classical ballet and acrobatics at the opera school. At 15 she decided to become a theatre actress and chose the stage-name Gisela Uhlen. After her final examination as a dancer and during her training period she married ballet teacher Herbert Freund.
At 17 she appeared for the first time at the ''Schauspielhaus Bochum
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''. In 1938 Heinrich George
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Career Weimar Republic
George is noted for having spooked the young Bertolt Brecht in his first ...
brought her to the Berliner Schiller-Theater, where she was active until the end of the war. But even before her first stage appearance she had made film tests with Universum Film AG
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(Ufa), and thereby obtained the leading actress role in the 1936
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film '. After the war performance of this film was prohibited. Uhlen played a young organist whose lover volunteered to go to the front
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and there died.
From 1936 through 1960
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, Uhlen appeared in 23 films, and in 1960 she steered her career into television
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. Her career was active throughout her lifetime, with her having more than 56 television appearances into 2006, entirely in the German and Europe
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an realm.
She married six times, most notably to German writer, director
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and producer Hans Bertram
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Early life
Hans Bertram was born on 26 February 1906 in Remscheid, Germany.
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During 1920, Bertram trained under fly ...
, with whom she had daughter Barbara Bertram
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, who also became an actress, but with little success. With Wolfgang Kieling
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In films since childhood in his native Germany, Kieling appeared in a few American films, notably in Alfred Hitchcock's ''Torn Curtain'' (1966), where he played ...
she had a daughter Susanne Uhlen, who is now a successful German actress. During the Cold War
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, and following her divorce
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from Hans Bertram, Uhlen fled into East Germany
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to avoid a custody battle over their daughter, an unusual move in a time when most people were attempting to escape from East Germany, but moved to West Berlin
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in 1960.
Filmography
Stage appearances
Books
* ''Umarmungen und Enthüllungen''. Berlin : Parthas-Verl., 2002. * ''Meine Droge ist das Leben''. Weinheim : Beltz, Quadriga, 1993. * ''Mein Glashaus''. Frankfurt/M : Ullstein, 1991.References
External links
* *Gisela Uhlen Partial Filmography with Plot Synopsis
{{DEFAULTSORT:Uhlen, Gisela 1919 births 2007 deaths German film actresses Best Actress German Film Award winners Actors from Leipzig University of Music and Theatre Leipzig alumni German stage actresses German television actresses 20th-century German actresses 21st-century German actresses