Adalbert Kriwat

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Adalbert Kriwat (born February 26, 1882 in Berlin , † February 20, 1961 in Hamburg ) was a German actor and theater director .

Live and act

Kriwat began his stage activity in 1900 and started his career at the Rose Theater and the Ostend Theater (both in his hometown Berlin). This was followed by engagements at the Berlin Residenz Theater as well as to Bautzen, Danzig (where he also worked as a director before the end of the first decade of the 20th century) and finally to Halle, where Kriwat was also used as a game director until 1921. From there, Adalbert Kriwat came directly to Altona near Hamburg, where he took the bon vivant and was also allowed to stage plays as senior director. In 1924 he went on tour throughout Germany with his own ensemble and staged several plays.

In 1933 Adalbert Kriwat went to Hamburg and joined the Thalia Theater there for the rest of his life . Kriwat celebrated particular success at this venue with his Kaiser Wilhelm II, whom he performed over 1200 times in the play Bismarck's Dismissal . Other important roles were Bancroft in an adaptation of Karl May's Winnetou (1940), Thompson in Somerset Maugham's comedy Lady Frederick (1954) and William in another comedy, Art is Art (1955), by Harry Kurnitz . In addition, Kriwat worked in the late 1940s and early 1950s with small roles in productions of the Hamburg Real-Film and was also engaged for radio broadcasts of the NWDR Hamburg and for smaller dubbing jobs.

Filmography

Radio plays (small selection)

literature

  • Kürschner's Biographical Theater Handbook, Walter de Gruyter Co., Berlin 1956, p. 396
  • Wilhelm Kosch : Deutsches Theater-Lexikon, Biographisches und Bibliographisches Handbuch, second volume, Klagenfurt a. Vienna 1960, p. 1107
  • Glenzdorfs Internationales Film-Lexikon, second volume, Bad Münder 1961, p. 910

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personal data
SURNAME Kriwat, Adalbert
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German stage and film actor and stage director
DATE OF BIRTH February 26, 1882
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH February 20, 1961
Place of death Hamburg