Gisela Schlüter

Gisela Schlüter was born in Berlin and grew up in Dresden. Her father was an army officer and mother came from Czechoslovakia. She felt drawn to the stage at an early age. At first, she wanted to become a dancer and completed a corresponding training. At 1.76 m, however, she was too tall for such a stage career. Therefore, she took lessons from the Dresden actor Erich Ponto.{{Cite web|title=Gisela Schlüter|url=https://www.steffi-line.de/archiv_text/nost_buehne2/02kab_schlueter.htm|access-date=2021-06-29|website=www.steffi-line.de}}

She began her acting career at the age of 19. In her first year of work, she was already involved in four film productions. After further films, she found her field of activity mainly in cabaret, so that she only had a few film appearances in the years that followed. After training and the first professional steps, she had her first stage appearance in Berlin with Günther Lüders as a partner in the tabloid play Caution Brigitte, in which she showed her talent as a quick speaker.{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=VqkcAQAAIAAJ|title=Fischer Film Almanach|date=1996|publisher=Fischer Taschenbuch Verlag|isbn=978-3-596-13195-2|pages=496|language=de}} A year later, she played alongside Liesl Karlstadt and Karl Valentin in the well-known Berlin cabaret of comedians. As a stage actress, Gisela Schlüter impressed with her versatility by dancing, singing, parodying and acting.

Together with Brigitte Mira, she played in a Nazi propaganda series entitled Liese and Miese.{{Cite web|last=Millies|first=Nicola|date=17 April 2020|title=Brigitte Mira - "Ich hatte andere Qualitäten"|url=https://www.ndr.de/ndrplus/Brigitte-Mira-Ich-hatte-andere-Qualitaeten,mira146.html|access-date=2021-06-29|website=www.ndr.de|language=de}} “Liese” did everything right in the sense of Nazi propaganda in contrast to "Miese".{{Cite web|title=1943/1944 – Die Liese und die Miese – Worte im Dunkel|url=https://www.worteimdunkel.at/?p=3679|access-date=2021-06-29|language=de-DE}} Brigitte Mira as "Miese", however, had more sympathy with the audience than the "Liese" played by Gisela Schlüter, so that the Propaganda Ministry soon canceled the series as counterproductive.

She also worked as a film actress, among others in We Dance Around the World (1939), The Tiger of Eschnapur (1937/38), A Night in May (1938), The Indian Tomb (1937/38), Six Days Home Leave (1941) and Our Auntie Is The Last (1973). In the post-war period, along with many theater tours, she was the star of the Hamburg cabaret revue Faust, part three.

Gisela Schlüter had her first small television appearance in Vico Torriani's show Grüezi Vico. After numerous guest appearances in well-known television shows, she received her own television show on 25 January 1963 at the NDR in Hamburg, entitled Zwischenmahlzeit, in which she appeared as a comedian and entertainer.{{Cite web|title=Chronik der ARD {{!}} »Zwischenmahlzeit« im Deutschen Fernsehen|url=http://web.ard.de/ard-chronik/index/6520?year=1963&month=11&lra%5B%5D=27|access-date=2021-06-29|website=web.ard.de}} During this time, she became a show master who, through her dominant verbal rhetoric, barely let her stage partners have their say. Her speaking speed (up to 482 syllables per minute) and her seemingly never-ending torrent of speech became her trademarks. This resulted in her nicknames "Lady Schnatterly" and "Chatterbox of the Nation".{{Cite book|last=Müller|first=Rudolf|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=w33QDwAAQBAJ&pg=PA66|title=Chronik eines bürgerlichen Lebens in Nürnberg: 1939 (Kriegsanfang) bis 1945|date=2020-02-13|publisher=BoD – Books on Demand|isbn=978-3-7504-3092-1|pages=66|language=de}}

By the year 1982, Zwischenmahlzeit was broadcast four times a year, reaching ratings of up to 44%. In 1976, Gisela Schlüter received the Golden Camera from the television magazine HÖRZU for her show.{{Cite web|last=|first=|title=GOLDENE KAMERA 1977 - 12. Verleihung|url=https://www.goldenekamera.de/preisverleihung/chronik-fakten/article207111867/GOLDENE-KAMERA-1977-12-Verleihung.html|access-date=2021-06-29|website=www.goldenekamera.de|language=de}}

Gisela Schlüter's hobby was astrology. She created horoscopes and dealt extensively with the constellations.{{Cite book|last=Heino|url=http://archive.org/details/heinoundsieliebe0000hein|title=Heino : und sie lieben mich doch : die Autobiografie|date=1995|publisher=Muenchen : Ed. Ferenczy bei Bruckmann|others=Internet Archive|isbn=978-3-7654-2728-2|pages=144}}

Her long-term partner, the television writer Hans Hubberten, was closely connected to Schlüter's professional career. He wrote all 35 episodes of Zwischenmahlzeit for her. Their professional proximity brought them together, and they spent 28 years together until Hubberten's death in 1988. Both lived in a house in Bad Kohlgrub, Bavaria, for many years. After Hubberten's death, Schlüter largely withdrew from the public eye.

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In 1993, Gisela Schlüter broke her spine, later several ribs and a thigh. She never fully recovered from her injuries. On 28 October 1995 she died of a stroke at the age of 81 and was buried in Bad Kohlgrub.

• 1937/38: Der Tiger von Eschnapur
• 1937/38: Das indische Grabmal
• 1937: Das Ehesanatorium
• 1938: Fools in the Snow
• 1938: Eine Nacht im Mai
• 1941: Der Gasmann
• 1950: Dreizehn unter einem Hut
• 1957: Mikosch, der Stolz der Kompanie
• 1957: Die große Chance
• 1959: Peter schiesst den Vogel ab
• 1972: Die lustigen Vier von der Tankstelle
• 1973: Unsere Tante ist das Letzte
• 1973: Das Wandern ist Herrn Müllers Lust

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Category:1914 births

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Category:German stage actresses

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