Raimund Schelcher

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 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

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, the fool in the Twelfth Night, Jakob in Gorkis and Simon Chachava in The Caucasian Chalk Circle. 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 Notes1939 The Immortal Heart Konrad Windhalm 1939 Robert Koch Kochs Assistent Dr. Fritz von Hartwig 1939 Der letzte Appell Walter Brodersen 1950 0 Uhr 15, Zimmer 9 Martin Leutner 1950 The Axe of Wandsbek Karl Prestow 1951 The Sonnenbrucks Dozent Joachim Peters 1951 Der Untertan Dr. Wolfgang Buck 1953 Geheimakten Solvay Mertens 1954 Ernst Thälmann Krischan Daik 1954 Der Fall Dr. Wagner Erich Rückert 1954 Leuchtfeuer Betrunkener Matrose 1955 Der Ochse von Kulm Heckenberger 1955 Wer seine Frau lieb hat Jochen Schall 1955 Ernst Thälmann Krischan Daik 1956 The Mayor of Zalamea Sergeant 1957 Castles and Cottages Krummer Anton 1957 Lissy Max Franke 1957 Wo Du hin gehst Albert 1957 Berlin, Schoenhauser Corner VP-Kommissar 1957 Spur in die Nacht Mann mit Lederjacke 1957 Gejagt bis zum Morgen Karl Baumann 1958 Rocník 21 Weiß 1958 Der Prozeß wird vertagt Michael Vierkant 1958 The Sailor's Song August Lenz 1959 Erich Kubak Erich Kubak 1960 Das Leben beginnt Direktor Gruber 1960 Schritt für Schritt Dreher Rochlitz 1961 Pyat dney - pyat nochey 1961 Der Arzt von Bothenow Parteisekretär Karl Lange 1962 Die schwarze Galeere König Philipp II von Spanien 1962 Entdeckung des Julian Böll 1962 Die Jagd nach dem Stiefel Julius Gemse 1963 At A French Fireside Ludovic 1967 Geschichten jener Nacht Painter (segment "Phönix")1972 Trotz alledem! (final film role)

Recognition Medal of Merit of the National People's Army in silver step by step National Prize of East Germany for his role as Fritzweiler in piece woman Flinz