 Actors were required to apply for membership in the "Theaterkammer" on presentation of an "Aryan certificate" which meant a prohibition ("Berufsverbot") to Gottschalk's wife.The couple managed to avoid the anti-Semitic Nuremberg Laws and rising tide of anti-semitic violence in Nazi Germany.From 1934 Gottschalk performed at the Schauspielhaus Frankfurt and in 1938 joined the Volksbühne ensemble in Berlin.