Adolf Dell
| Portrait of Adolf Dell |
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| Gert Heinrich Wollheim , 1924 |
| Oil on canvas |
| Galerie Remmert and Barth, Düsseldorf
Link to the picture |
Adolf Dell (born June 30, 1890 in Karlsruhe , † September 9, 1977 in Düsseldorf ) was a German football player, painter , theater and film actor , theater director , set designer and radio play speaker .
Life
Soccer player
Dell belonged to the Karlsruher FV from 1906 to 1910 , for which he played as a goalkeeper from the 1908 season - moving up from the second team, replacing long-time goalkeeper Fritz Langer - in the championships organized by the Association of South German Football Associations in the southern district point games. After the two regional successes in 1910 ( Südkreismeister and South German Champion ), he was with the club under coach William Townley on May 15 in Cologne , with the 1: 0 victory . Aet over Holstein Kiel , also German champion , after he had previously played the quarter and semi-finals against Duisburg SpV and defending champion Karlsruher FC Phönix . Due to the final success, he was appointed honorary captain with a few comrades-in-arms in 1921.
Art student
This was followed by studies with Wilhelm Trübner at the Karlsruhe Art Academy . In 1917 Dell went to Düsseldorf and joined the artists' association “Young Rhineland” . Later he went on extensive study trips with Werner Gilles and Otto Pankok and became a member of a group of artists around the gallery owner Johanna Ey . Gert Wollheim , who also belonged to the “Young Rhineland” association, portrayed him in 1924.
Artist and actor
In addition to painting, Adolf Dell also turned to acting and came into contact with Gustaf Gründgens at an early age . In the era of the artistic directors Gustaf Gründgens and Karl Heinz Stroux , he was one of the regular ensembles of the Schauspielhaus Düsseldorf and in later years was considered the doyen of this stage. He appeared there in 1950 in the dramas The Family Day and Cocktail Party by T. S. Eliot in the productions of Gustaf Gründgens and in 1962 in Max Frisch's Andorra . He also worked as an acting teacher and taught the actor Paul Esser , the directors Michael Koch and Hanno Lunin and the writer Günter Lanser .
He also worked in film and television productions . These included the feature films New Year's Eve at Alexanderplatz from 1939 by Richard Schneider-Edenkoben with Hannes Stelzer , Carl Raddatz and Jutta Freybe , 1951 Sinful Border directed by Robert A. Stemmle with Dieter Borsche , Inge Egger and Peter Mosbacher and 1956 Wenn we would all be angels by Günther Lüders with Marianne Koch , Dieter Borsche and Hans Söhnker . He achieved great popularity with the role of Franz Buchner in the eight-part television series of the Südwestfunk Der Forellenhof . Hans Söhnker, Jane Tilden , Tilly Lauenstein and Gerhart Lippert played alongside him . He played his last role in an episode of the series Die Kramer with Barbara Rütting , Franz-Otto Krüger and Ursula Ludwig .
Radio play speaker
Adolf Dell also worked as a radio play speaker and was mainly heard in productions of the Northwest German Radio (NWDR) and later of the West German Radio (WDR).
Filmography (selection)
- 1939: New Year's Eve at Alexanderplatz
- 1951: Sinful Frontier
- 1955: You must not be silent any longer
- 1956: If we were all angels
- 1962: Before sunset (theater recording for television)
- 1963: The Sacco and Vanzetti Case (TV movie)
- 1965–1966: Der Forellenhof (TV series, 8 episodes)
- 1967: Die Mohrin (TV movie)
- 1967: Trees Die Upright (TV movie)
- 1967: In Lemgo 89
- 1969: Die Kramer (TV series, episode A Hopeless Case )
Radio plays (selection)
- 1950: The Family Day (two parts) - Director: Wilhelm Semmelroth
- 1950: The Cremerius siblings - Director: Wilhelm Semmelroth
- 1950: The Bridge of Justice - Director: Ludwig Cremer
- 1950: The Citizens of Bethlehem - Director: Ludwig Cremer
- 1950: Kleinpaul discovers a Titian - Director: Ludwig Cremer
- 1951: The Unknown Order - Director: Wilhelm Semmelroth
- 1951: The Cocktail Party (two parts) - Director: Wilhelm Semmelroth
- 1951: Mr. Peters Is Obsessed - Director: Edward Rothe
- 1951: God's Utopia - Director: Wilhelm Semmelroth
- 1951: The Dance of Death - Director: Ludwig Cremer
- 1951: The Tulip Comedy - Director: Raoul Wolfgang Schnell
- 1952: The Glass Mountain - Director: Kurt Meister
- 1952: The poor man - a way out of missteps and inevitability - Director: Raoul Wolfgang Schnell
- 1952: The divine inheritance (episode from the series “Fight against Death”) - Director: Ludwig Cremer
- 1952: The Baby Jesus in Flanders - Director: Ludwig Cremer
- 1953: Sender Bessie Wall - Director: Raoul Wolfgang Schnell
- 1953: Goethe writes a radio play - Director: Wilhelm Semmelroth
- 1953: The Lonely House - Director: Franz Zimmermann
- 1953: I knew the voice - Director: Franz Zimmermann
- 1953: Die magische Kugel (episode from the series “Fight against Death”) - Director: Ludwig Cremer
- 1953: Pilatus - Director: Ludwig Cremer
- 1954: A cow and six instances (episode from the series “Neues aus Schilda”) - Director: Raoul Wolfgang Schnell
- 1954: Venus makes long fingers (episode from the series “Neues aus Schilda”) - Director: Raoul Wolfgang Schnell
- 1955: Maigret and the nice old lady - Director: Raoul Wolfgang Schnell
- 1955: Das Haus am Hafen - Director: Ludwig Cremer
- 1955: You are beautiful, my girlfriend (two parts) - Director: Ludwig Cremer
- 1955: The coup d'état - directed by Raoul Wolfgang Schnell
- 1957: King David - Director: Gerhard F. Hering
- 1957: Christ's Birth - Director: Eduard Hermann
- 1959: Gordon Grantley (eight parts) - Director: Raoul Wolfgang Schnell
- 1960: General Quixotte (theater recording) - director: Rudolf Steinboeck , Wilhelm Semmelroth (radio director)
- 1972: Protect Us From Murderers - Director: Edward Rothe
literature
- Herbert A. Frenzel , Hans Joachim Moser (ed.): Kürschner's biographical theater manual. Drama, opera, film, radio. Germany, Austria, Switzerland. De Gruyter, Berlin 1956, DNB 010075518 , p. 115.
Web links
- Adolf Dell in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Adolf Dell at filmportal.de
- Literature by and about Adolf Dell in the catalog of the German National Library
- Works by and about Adolf Dell in the German Digital Library
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Biographical data on zeller.de; accessed on July 21, 2015.
- ↑ Biographical data on duesseldorf.emuseum.net; accessed on July 21, 2015.
- ^ Adolf Dell in the database of weltfussball.de
- ^ Adolf Dell on karlsruher-fv1891.de
- ↑ Short biography of Gert Wollheim on remmertundbarth.de; accessed on December 31, 2011.
- ↑ a b Winrich Meiszies: Gustaf Gründgens 1899–1963 (PDF; 102 kB) on duesseldorf.de/theatermuseum; accessed on December 31, 2011.
- ^ By profession: Actor exhibition on Gründgens years in Düsseldorf on rp-online.de; accessed on December 31, 2011.
- ↑ a b Biography of Hanno Lunin on hannolunin.de; accessed on December 31, 2011.
- ↑ Unbelievable in this world . In: Der Spiegel . No. 7 , 1950 ( online ).
- ↑ Five German stages under the sign of Max Frisch's “Andorra” In: Die Zeit , No. 13/1962.
- ↑ CV Michael Koch on contra-kreis-theater.de; accessed on July 31, 2016.
- ↑ Short biography Günter Lanser on rimbaud.de; accessed on December 31, 2011.
- ↑ New Year's Eve at Alexanderplatz at Murnau Foundation online; accessed on May 1, 2016.
- ^ Marianne at the border . In: Der Spiegel . No. 38 , 1951 ( online ).
- ↑ The Kramer . In: Michael Reufsteck , Stefan Niggemeier Das Fernsehlexikon . All over 7000 programs from Ally McBeal to the ZDF hit parade . Goldmann, Munich 2005, ISBN 978-3-442-30124-9 , p. 680.
| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Dell, Adolf |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German actor, radio play speaker, painter and soccer player |
| DATE OF BIRTH | June 30, 1890 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Karlsruhe |
| DATE OF DEATH | September 9, 1977 |
| Place of death | Düsseldorf , |