Name Gert Voss Role Actor | Spouse Ursula Voss (m. ?–2014) Children Grischka Voss | |
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Died July 13, 2014, Vienna, Austria Movies Labyrinth of Lies, Balzac: A Life of Passion Nominations German Film Award for Best Supporting Actor Similar People Ursula Voss, Giulio Ricciarelli, Luc Bondy, Jakob Claussen, Sunnyi Melles | ||
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Gert Voss (10 October 1941 – 13 July 2014) was a German actor. He was known for his roles in Der Kopf des Mohren (1995), Doktor Knock (1996) and Ritter, Dene, Voss (1987). He was born in Shanghai, China.
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Voss died in Vienna, Austria on July 13, 2014 from leukemia, aged 72.
Voss was Bruno Ganz’s original choice to succeed him as holder of the Iffland-Ring, which by tradition distinguishes “the most significant and most worthy actor of the German-speaking theatre”.
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Life
Gert Voss was born in Shanghai to Wilhelm Voss, an import/export merchant, and his wife Marion (née Steinhütte). He lived in China until 1948 after which the family moved to a residence near Lake Constance. He studied German and English at the University of Tübingen for several semesters, but he broke off his studies when he succeeded in an acting proficiency test. Voss took private drama lessons from 1964 to 1966 with Ellen Mahlke, followed by his first theater engagements.
After his first engagements at the Stadththeater Konstanz, Staatstheater Braunschweig and at the Residenztheater in Munich, he was discovered by Hans Peter Doll, the director of the Heidelberg Theater. Under Doll, he next appeared at the State Theater in Stuttgart, where there was great discussion about the possible sympathies of director Claus Peymann for members of the Red Army Faction. He then moved to the Schauspielhaus Bochum with Peymann and in 1983 with the role of Hermann in Die Hermannsschlacht by Heinrich von Kleist was engaged at the 20th Berlin Theatertreffen.