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- Birth nameGert Curt Gerhard Westphal
- Gert Westphal was born on October 5, 1920 in Dresden, Germany. He was an actor and director, known for Der Kinderdieb (1966), Turandot (1963) and Götz von Berlichingen (1967). He was married to Gisela Zoch. He died on November 10, 2002 in Zürich, Switzerland.
- SpouseGisela Zoch(December 1957 - November 10, 2002) (his death, 2 children)
- In 1994, he performed along with Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau in a series of readings of correspondence, such as between Hofmannsthal and Strauss, and between Zelter and Goethe.
- Gert Westphal was a German actor and one of the best-known audiobook narrators and speakers in German, described as "König der Vorleser" (king of reciters) and "der Caruso der Vorleser" (the Caruso of reciters).
- Together with Käthe Gold and Walter Richter, he performed in Israel in early 1965, where August Strindberg's Totentanz (Dance of Death) was the first play ever performed in German.
- Westphal appeared at the Theater des Nations in Paris in May 1963 with the Theater Ensemble Oskar Werner in a performance of Torquato Tasso.
- As a reciter and audiobook narrator, Westphal recorded major works by German authors, and also translations of writers such as Gustave Flaubert, Victor Hugo, Henry James and Thornton Wilder, with a focus on Russian literature by Chinghiz Aitmatov, Fjodor Dostojewski, Nikolai Gogol, Ivan Goncharov, Maxim Gorki, Nikolai Leskov, Vladimir Nabokov, Leo Tolstoi and Anton Checkov, among others.
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