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German film actor, often in comic roles. Began on the classical stage (including performing in Shakespearean roles). He was the son of a writer/politician and a Hungarian countess. From 1969 to 1980, he was director/manager of the Thalia-Theater in Hamburg; from 1980 to 1985, he was general director of the Staatliche Schauspielbuehnen in Berlin.

In 1980, he moved to the Berlin State Theater as General Director. Despite occasional artistic successes such as the Hans Fallada revue Jeder stirbt für sich allein (directed by Peter Zadek) and Hans Neuenfels' ambitious productions of Goethe's Iphigenie auf Tauris, Heinrich von Kleist's Penthesilea, Robert Musil's Die Schwärmer, and Jean Genet's Der Balkon (The Balcony), Gobert generally failed to fulfill the high expectations placed on him as Hans Lietzau's successor. His contract was not renewed beyond the 1984/85 season. The final production of Schiller's Wallenstein, with Gobert in the title role (directed by Klaus Emmerich, with dramaturgical collaboration by Heiner Müller), was also panned. Hellmuth Karasek wrote: "A complete failure, a third-class funeral. A farewell wasted, squandered, messed up. If anything on these evenings could have had tragic grandeur, it was Gobert's rude awakening from the Gründgens dream.".

In 1961, Gobert was awarded the German Critics' Prize.

The Hamburg Senate awarded him the Medal for Art and Science in 1980.

In 1977 he received the Silver Leaf of the Dramatists' Union for his services and in 1980 he was the winner of the Golden Camera as narrator and actor in The Good Doctor.

In the French-language productions Wer sind Sie, Dr. Sorge? (1961) and Le repas des fauves (1964), Gobert received somewhat more demanding tasks in supporting roles than in the German films of the 1950s.

In 1954, he also entered the film industry, where he primarily played dandies, snobs, and bon vivants. "In over 50 films of the kidney-table era, Gobert then joked his way through the Land of Smiles with a nasal, blasé tone," wrote Der Spiegel in Gobert's obituary in 1986.

Gobert is also being honored posthumously with the Boy Gobert Prize for young actors on Hamburg stages, which has been awarded since 1981 and is endowed with 10,000 euros by the Körber Foundation.

In 1973, the members of the Hamburger Volksbühne awarded him the honorary prize Silver Mask.

After graduating from high school, he took acting lessons from Helmuth Gmelin from 1946 to 1947. At his Theater im Zimmer, he made his debut in 1947 as Oswald in "Gespenster".

As an artistic director and director, he also developed a particular interest in the "upscale boulevard" under the motto "An optimum of art and box office".

Boy Gobert was a German-Austrian theater director, theater director, theater actor and film actor.

In 1969, he succeeded Kurt Raeck as artistic director of the Thalia Theater in Hamburg, which he led until 1980. There, he succeeded in expanding and further developing his own range of roles. Under renowned directors, he played roles from world literature, including Shakespeare's Richard III, Coriolanus, and Goethe's Faust, as well as modern classics such as Arthur Schnitzler's Anatol and Carl Sternheim's Snob. He also devoted himself as a director and performer to contemporary Anglo-Saxon theater with authors such as Harold Pinter and Trevor Griffiths.

Gobert was scheduled to take over the direction of the Vienna Theater in der Josefstadt for the 1986/87 season on September 1, 1986. There, he was already in rehearsals for Edward Albee's *Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?* with Ingrid Andree, but died unexpectedly of heart failure in his home in Vienna's Neustift am Walde district before the season opened on May 30, 1986 - just a few weeks before Ernst Wendt, who had also been newly appointed as chief dramaturge and in-house director.

He played as a beginner in 1946/47 at the Deutsches Schauspielhaus in Hamburg, then as a youthful bon vivant and lover at the Badisches Staatstheater Karlsruhe (1947 to 1950), at the Fritz Rémond Theater in Frankfurt am Main (1950 to 1952), at the Städtische Bühnen Frankfurt (1953/54), at the Komödie im Marquardt in Stuttgart (1954), at the Renaissance-Theater in Berlin (1954), at the Münchner Kammerspiele (1954), again at the Deutsches Schauspielhaus in Hamburg (1954/55) and from 1956 to 1959 at the Schauspielhaus Zürich, at the Bayerisches Staatsschauspiel and again at the Berlin Renaissance-Theater.