At the spectacle Leipzig was Suhr 1959-1962 and until 1969 at the Deutsches Theater Berlin committed. Later he worked as a freelancer.
In 1946 he founded the Kammerspiele Bremen in Böttcherstraße with Walter Koch. However, he only managed the theater for a short time and then worked in Landshut and Freiburg im Breisgau , among others .
He worked on various German theaters, including in Gera, Bonn, Greifswald and Aachen.
He has taken on roles in DEFA television and feature films, including in the film adaptation of the Fallada novel Little Man - What Now? of GDR television from 1967 directed by Hans-Joachim Kasprzik .
Suhr received his acting training in the early 1920s with Theodor Gerlach in Kiel.