Erwin Geschonneck

Erwin Geschonneck was born on Dec 27, 1906 in Poland]. Erwin Geschonneck's big-screen debut came with Kuhle Wampe or Who Owns the World? directed by Slatan Dudow in 1932, strarring Arbeitersportler (uncredited). Erwin Geschonneck is known for Levins Mühle directed by Horst Seemann, Erwin Geschonneck stars as Johann and Katja Paryla as Christiana. Erwin Geschonneck has got 3 awards and 1 nominations so far. The most recent award Erwin Geschonneck achieved is Golden Hen Awards, Germany. The upcoming new movie Erwin Geschonneck plays is Levins Mühle which will be released on Nov 13, 1980.

Erwin Geschonneck was born on 27 December 1906 in Bartenstein/East Prussia (now Poland). In the Twenties, he became a member of the Communistic Party of Germany. After rise of Nazism, he emigrated to Poland, later to Latvia and Czechoslovakia. In the Soviet Union he became a member of a German theatre company. In 1938 he was arrested in Prague and was deported to different concentration camps. Finally he was evacuated from the concentration camp of Neuengamme near Hamburg to Denmark. But the boat, the Cap Arcona, was accidentally bombed by the RAF. The ship sank in the bay of Lübeck, and Geschonneck was one of only a few survivors. In 1945 he played theatre in Hamburg and had his film debut in Helmut Käutner's post-war drama 'In Jenen Tagen'. It was the famous 'Bertholt Brecht' who offered him a contract for his Berlin Ensemble. Geschonneck moved to East Berlin and became a star of the newly founded DEFA, the only production company of the German Democratic Republic.