You are bidding on one handwritten, signed letter the actor and voice actor Erich Schellow (1915-1995).

From the estate of a Berlin autograph collector who personally received autographs from singers and actors from the 1930s to the 1970s or had them mailed to him by the artists (some of the envelopes are still there).

Dated Berlin, i.e. 23 I.63.

Erich Schellow quotes a passage from Hugo von Hofmannsthal's diaries, "concerning the theater and the actors."

Signed"Best Regards! Erich Shellow."

Scope: written on half of two A4 pages.

On beautiful laid paper (Römerturm Bütten).

Without envelope.

Enclosed in protective sheet, with handwritten attribution "Erich Schellow Actor."

Condition: Very good condition. The letter folded lengthwise and crosswise. BPlease note also the pictures!

Internal note: Opera 21-04

About Erich Schellow (source: wikipedia & NDB):

Eric Schellow (* 27. February 1915 in Berlin; † 25 November 1995 ibid) was a German actor. Occasionally he was also active as a voice actor.

Life: The merchant's son Schellow played extensively in theater while still at school and graduated from the acting school of the Prussian State Theater between 1935 and 1937 under Walter Franck, Lothar Muthel, Hermine Körner and Maria Koppenhöfer. In 1937 he made his stage debut as Mortimer in Friedrich Schiller's Maria Stuart at the Deutsches Volkstheater in Hamburg-Altona, where he was engaged until 1940. In 1941 he moved to the Prussian State Theater in Berlin, where he remained under contract until 1945. Apart from another brief engagement in Hamburg and guest performances in Zurich and Vienna (Burgtheater), Berlin was to remain the center of his artistic work. From 1948 Schellow belonged to the ensemble of the Berlin State Theater and remained a constant in Berlin's cultural scene until it closed in 1993. Schellow complained about the closure of the theaters, which he saw as his “second home”, and the dismissal he received, and took to the streets with his colleagues to protest.

For his services to the theater, Schellow has received the Berlin Art Prize, the German Critics' Prize and the Federal Cross of Merit several times. In 1966 he was appointed Berlin State Actor. From 1965 he was also a full member of the Berlin Academy of Arts, from which he resigned in 1992 in protest against the entire takeover of the Academy members from the former GDR.

Renowned theater actor Schellow rarely took on roles in film and television. He acted under directors such as Helmut Käutner (In those days, Portrait of an Unknown Woman), Fritz Kortner (The City is Full of Secrets) and Josef von Báky (in his family saga Hotel Adlon) and alongside colleagues such as Hans Albers (Before Sunset). In Falk Harnack's Der 20. In July he was seen as a Protestant pastor and in Käutner's Der Hauptmann von Köpenick he embodied the very same captain who, after resigning from military service, moves his uniform, which means that it comes into the possession of the title hero, played by Heinz Rühmann. In 1967, Schellow also slipped into the role of Sherlock Holmes for six episodes of a television series opposite Paul Edwin Roth's Dr. Watson – a performance for which the German Sherlock Holmes Society Von Herder Airguns Ltd made him their first honorary member in 1991.

In addition, Schellow, who never saw himself as a voice actor, lent his voice to prominent fellow actors such as Rex Harrison (Midnight Spires), Peter Cushing (including Dracula and Revenge of the Pharaohs), Vittorio Gassman (Storm in the East), Charlton Heston in the miniseries (Die Delano Police Chiefs) and Mel Ferrer (War and Peace).

Erich Schellow suffered a severe stroke in 1993, as a result of which he suffered from severe signs of paralysis and died in his hometown of Berlin in 1995. He was buried in the Wilmersdorf cemetery.

Filmography (selection)

1947: In those days

1954: The city is full of mysteries

1954: Portrait of an unknown woman

1954: A girl from Paris

1954: Three from Vaudeville (Reference title: Playing With Life)

1955: The 20th July

1955: Hotel Adlon

1956: Before Sunset

1956: The Captain of Köpenick

1964: Clavigo

1964: The Apollo of Bellac

1967: Sherlock Holmes

1968: Tragedy in the Hunt

1969: The Tragedy of Julius Caesar

1974: The Commissioner - Domann's killer

1979: A murder everyone commits

1986: Hiking through the Mark Brandenburg

awards

1960: Berlin Art Prize

1963: Appointed Berlin State Actor

1965: Federal Cross of Merit, First Class

1965: Member of the Academy of Arts (Berlin)

1966: German Critics' Prize

1971: Berlin Art Prize

1985: Honorary member of the Berlin State Theater

1990: Silver Leaf of the Dramatists Union

Shellow, Eric, actor, * February 27, 1915 Berlin, † November 25, 1995 Berlin.

genealogy

V NN, commercial;

M Maria Janke. acting;

⚭ Berlin 1983 →Elke (* 1941), from Königsberg (Pr.), Schausp., T d. →Bernhard Frhr. v. Klopmann (1907–44 ⚔), farmer, and Ursula Fieberg (* 1913), from Königsberg (Pr.); Gvm d. wife Carl Fieberg, Dr. iur., JR; S Alexander.

Life: After graduating from the Luisenstädter Oberrealschule, S. trained as an actor at the state acting school in his hometown from 1935-37. In 1937 he began his career as Mortimer in Schiller's "Maria Stuart" at the Dt. Volkstheater in Hamburg (ensemble members. until 1940). He then played until 1945 under →Gustaf Gründgens (1899–1963) at the Berlin State Theater and stood on the stage of the German Theater until 1947. Theater in Hamburg. After an engagement at the Schloßparktheater in Berlin in 1947, the director →Boleslaw Barlog (* 1906) also brought him to the Schillertheater in 1948; S. was a member of this ensemble from 1951 for almost 45 years until the house was closed.

He appeared as a guest at the Schauspielhaus in Zurich, at the Burgtheater in Vienna and at the Salzburg Festival. From time to time he switched to operettas and acted in a few movies, for example in 1954 in "Portrait of an Unknown Woman", in 1956 in "The Captain of Köpenick" and "Before Sunset". As a voice actor, he lent his voice to Mel Ferrer in War and Peace (1956), Rex Harrison in Midnight Spires (1960) and Peter Cushing in Dracula (1958). In 1967 he took on the title role in the television series "Sherlock Holmes".

With his noble appearance and aristocratic features, S. was made for the portrayal of young classical heroes and soon became a popular interpreter of the leading roles in the dramas of Sophocles, Shakespeare, Schiller, Goethe and Kleist. S. "captivated with its elegance, which was always mixed with a dash of Prussian severity - and a slight irony." (Schaper). In the second part of his career, he increasingly developed into a character player and also impressed in the eccentric and ambiguous roles of the classic avant-garde from Dürrenmatt to Anouilh. His embodiment of George in the German The premiere of Edward Albee's "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?" in 1963 in Barlog's production at the Berlin Schloßparktheater was praised by critics as an exceptional achievement. In 1990 S. was seen as Death in the Salzburg Jedermann directed by Gernot Friedel and was convincing "with his clever restraint" (Sucher).

S. has been honored with numerous prizes for his work since the mid-1950s. A member of the Berlin Academy of Arts since 1965, he resigned in 1992 to protest against the admission of East Berlin academy members.|

awards

BVK 1st class (1956); Berlin Art Prize (1960 and 1971); German Critics' Award (1966); Title "Berlin State Actor" (1963); honorary i.e. state Theaters, Berlin (1982).

factories

Other theater roles: Hektor in: The trojan. war, v. J. Giraudoux, Schlossparktheater, Berlin, 1947;

Don Rodrigo in: The Silken Shoe, v. P.Claudel, 1952;

Orestes in: Elektra, v. J Giraudoux, 1954;

Posa in: Don Carlos, v. F Schiller, 1955;

Hamlet in: Hamlet, v. W Shakespeare. Directed by F. Kortner, 1957;

Weather from the beam in: Käthchen v. Heilbronn, v. H. Kleist, 1957, directed by GR Sellner;

Karl in: The robbers, v. F. Schiller, directed by F. Kortner, 1959;

Jupiter in: Amphitryon, v. hv Kleist, 1961;

Möbius in: The physicists, v. F. Dürrenmatt, 1962, all Schillertheater, Berlin;

Oedipus in: Oedipus at Colonus, v. Sophocles, directed by GR Sellner, Salzburg Festival, 1965;

Mephisto in: Faust II, v. JW v. Goethe, 1966;

Alceste in: The misanthrope, v. Molière, 1966, both Schillertheater, Berlin;

Chief in: The plebeians rehearse the uprising, v. J. Giraudoux, Residenztheater, Munich, 1967;

Coriolan in: Coriolan, v. W. Shakespeare, Schauspielhaus, Düsseldorf, 1970;

Richard in: Exiles, v. J. Joyce, Schlossparktheater, Berlin, 1973;

Borkhausen in: Everyone dies for himself, v. H. Fallada, directed by P. Zadek, Schillertheater, Berlin, 1981;

– Movie:

In those days, 1947;

Portrait of an unknown woman, 1954;

The City is Full of Mysteries, 1954;

Hotel Adlon, 1955;

the chief v. Koepenick, 1956;

Before Sunset, 1956;

– TV Roles:

tragedy on d. Hunt, 1968;

A Murder Everyone Commits, 1979;

Sparkle in the Eye, 1984.