Gisela Uhlen (16 May 1919 â€" 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.
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.
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