Gisela Uhlen (16 May 1919 16 January 2007) was a German film actress
and occasional screen writer.Uhlen was born Gisela Friedlinde Schreck
in Leipzig, 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. In 1938 Heinrich George
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 (Ufa), and thereby
obtained the leading actress role in the 1936 film Annemarie. Die
Geschichte einer Jungen Liebe. After the war performance of this film
was prohibited. Uhlen played a young organist whose lover volunteered
to go to the front and there died.
and occasional screen writer.Uhlen was born Gisela Friedlinde Schreck
in Leipzig, 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. In 1938 Heinrich George
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 (Ufa), and thereby
obtained the leading actress role in the 1936 film Annemarie. Die
Geschichte einer Jungen Liebe. After the war performance of this film
was prohibited. Uhlen played a young organist whose lover volunteered
to go to the front and there died.
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