Adolf Ziegler (actor)

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Adolf Ziegler (born January 3, 1899 in Munich ; † July 25, 1985 there ) was a German actor , drama teacher, radio play and voice actor .

biography

Soon after his school education, Ziegler took acting lessons from the court actor Richard Stury , who presided over the Munich experimental stage. In 1917/18 he did military service in the Bavarian field artillery; At the end of May 1918 he was wounded on the Western Front . In 1919 Ziegler began his career as a youthful hero on smaller and larger provincial theaters. In 1925 he made a considerable leap in his young career when he joined Louise Dumont and Gustav Lindemann at the Düsseldorfer Schauspielhaus , where he celebrated his first major successes. It was here that his change from youthful hero to youthful bon vivant took place . He got his next engagement at the Staatstheater Dresden . He came to Eugen Klöpfer at the Volksbühne Berlin via the Schauspielhaus in Frankfurt am Main .

After the end of the war he returned to his hometown. There he got an engagement at the Bavarian State Theater , where he quickly became one of the most important actors, which soon resulted in his appointment as a state actor . It was here that his transition to Père noble took place . In the 50 years of his stage activity he appeared in various roles in plays by Gotthold Ephraim Lessing , Curt Goetz , Eugène Scribe , Oscar Wilde , George Bernard Shaw , but also in the easy conversation pieces by English and French authors. He worked with many well-known directors of the time such as Max Ophüls , Leo Mittler , Karlheinz Martin , Richard Weichert , Josef Gielen , Fritz Kortner , Heinz Dietrich Kenter and Robert George .

After reaching the age limit, Ziegler withdrew from the theater to the regret of his audience and colleagues in order to intensify his activities as an acting teacher. In addition, he was now more often in front of the camera and the microphones of the radio play studios.

Since the beginning of the 1940s he has appeared in several films such as A happy man , Akrobat schö-ö-ö-n (both 1943) and Beloved Feindin (1955). Since the mid-1950s, he has almost only appeared in television productions. Here he worked a lot with the director Fritz Umgelter , for the first time in 1960 in the second part of the street sweeper Am Green Beach on the Spree , in which he played one of the main characters alongside Wolfgang Büttner , Hans Pössenbacher and Utz Richter . Also under Umgelter's direction, he played in The Good Man of Sezuan based on Bertolt Brecht at the side of Nicole Heesters and Joachim Teege . He was the main actor in 1969 in the film An exciting little woman by director Dieter Munck . His partners here were Klaus Schwarzkopf , Robert Meyn and Ursula Dirichs . He also had guest appearances in some television series such as Commissioner Freytag or the Royal Bavarian District Court .

As a voice actor , for example, he lent Andre Luguet his voice in the French feature film Little Happiness from 1949.

One of his main fields of activity was his extensive work in the production of radio plays. Here he was heard as a speaker in many roles, large and small. These include, for example, the multi-part Paul Temple and the Conrad case ( the BR's only Paul Temple radio play ) from 1959/60 in the version with Karl John and Rosemarie Fendel , Moby Dick (1953) with Walter Richter and Hans Cossy , Inspector Hornleigh with Karl Schönböck in the title role (1962) or in two radio plays in the series Gestatten, my name is Cox with Carl-Heinz Schroth or Arno Assmann as the title hero.

The roles he set for the Munich marionette theater in the 1960s are also unforgettable . His "moon man" from the sounding Christmas ball and his grand vizier in Kalif Storch can still be heard in the Tölzer Marionette Theater today.

Adolf Ziegler died at the age of 86 in Munich, the city of his birth. His grave is in the Perlacher Forst cemetery , grave field 122, row A, grave no.6.

Filmography

Radio plays (selection)

  • 1948: Undine (Hofmarschall) - Director: Helmut Brennicke
  • 1949: The Liar (Ottavio) - Director: Helmut Brennicke
  • 1949: Leonce and Lena (President) - Director: Helmut Brennicke
  • 1950: The silk shoe or The worst doesn't always apply (Kämmerer) - Director: Otto Kurth
  • 1950: The robber barons in front of Munich (uncle) - Director: Walter Ohm
  • 1950: The Intruder (Uncle) - Director: Helmut Brennicke
  • 1950: Das Streichquartett (Kreittmayer) - Director: Theo Fischer
  • 1950: Lanzelot and Sanderein (Reinhold) - Director: Helmut Brennicke
  • 1951: Romeo and Juliet in Crete - Director: Otto Kurth
  • 1951: Hamlet, Prince of Denmark - Director: Hannes Küpper
  • 1951: The story of Tsar Joann and the beautiful Axinja (Sir Bowes) - Director: Helmut Brennicke
  • 1951: Breath of Doom (Tormasov) - Director: Helmut Brennicke
  • 1951: The Acharn director: Trude Kolman
  • 1951: Prince Friedrich von Homburg - Director: Otto Kurth
  • 1952: On the way to paradise (captain) - Director: Helmut Brennicke
  • 1952: Tomek Baran (route manager) - Director: Helmut Brennicke
  • 1952: The tragic story of the life and death of Doctor Johannes Faustus - Director: Fritz Wendhausen
  • 1952: The day of rest (The Chancellor) Director: Friedrich-Carl Kobbe
  • 1953: The Banquet of Petronius (Lykonidas) - Director: Otto Kurth
  • 1953: The sensational news - author and director: Gustav Machatý
  • 1953: Sir Michael's Adventure - Director: Willy Purucker
  • 1953: Moby Dick (Captain Peleg, co-owner of the 'Pequod') - Director: Helmut Brennicke
  • 1953: The Three Little Kings (Mr. Clapham, film agent) - Director: Willy Purucker
  • 1953: Find Livingstone - Director: Karl Peter Biltz
  • 1953: The Problem of the Object (boss) - Director: Willy Purucker
  • 1954: The Double Concerto (Critic) - Directed by Willy Purucker
  • 1955: The Dalk or The Triumph of Simplicity - Author and Director: Alois Johannes Lippl
  • 1955: Dr. Dr. Hippolyt Leibetseder (Leonid Graf Karasch) - Director: Helmut Brennicke
  • 1956: Julius Caesar (Decius) - Director: Helmut Brennicke
  • 1956: The last day of Lisbon (by Günter Eich ) (Martis, guest in the pub) - Director: Friedrich-Carl Kobbe
  • 1956: You're not traveling, Miss von Montijo - Director: Helmut Brennicke
  • 1956: Der Verschwender (Klugheim) - Director: Karl Bogner
  • 1956: The Immortal Hanswurst - Director: Joseph Strobel
  • 1956: Die Insel aus Stein (The Bank Cashier) - Author and director: Heinz von Cramer
  • 1957: The uncanny steps (Mr. Sanders) - Director: Walter Netzsch
  • 1957: Macbeth (Lenox, Scottish nobleman) - Director: Heinz-Günter Stamm
  • 1957: The Divine Comedy of Dante Alighieri - Hell - Director: Otto Kurth
  • 1958: Chamber music every evening (editor-in-chief) - director: Oswald Döpke
  • 1959: Tannhäuser (Richard Wagner) - Director: Joseph Strobel
  • 1959: Catullus and Clodia - Director: Helmut Brennicke
  • 1959: The Fall de la Roncière (Baron Morell, General) - Director: Helmut Brennicke
  • 1959: Paul Temple and the Conrad Case (Sir Graham Forbes) - Director: Willy Purucker
  • 1960: The Quitzows, the Wiskottens and Other Families - Director: Willy Purucker
  • 1960: Whoever is a servant should remain a servant (judge) - Director: Edmund Steinberger
  • 1960: The Family Outing - Author and Director: Heinz von Cramer
  • 1960: Der Transport - Director: Gerlach Fiedler
  • 1961: The hour zero was three fifteen (Mr. Riping) - Director: Walter Netzsch
  • 1962: An Elephant from Cartagena (voice on the phone) - Director: Otto Kurth
  • 1962: Sherlock Holmes stretches out (Mister Acton) - Director: Heinz-Günter Stamm
  • 1963: The Little Witch (from the series Permit, my name is Cox ) (Mr. Home) - Director: Walter Netzsch
  • 1963: Call (superior) - Director: Paul Pörtner
  • 1963: This side of the great river (Kaufmann) - Director: Helmut Brennicke
  • 1964: Order for Quentin Barnaby. From the diaries of a fire detective (Lorrimer); - Director: Walter Netzsch
  • 1964: The man who was Sherlock Holmes (Mr. / 1st judge) - Director: Otto Kurth
  • 1964: Shiny number (Ranmore) - Director: Walter Netzsch
  • 1964: The Trial of the Donkey's Shadow - Director: Otto Kurth
  • 1964: Half-half or the little green circles (tax officer) - Director: Walter Netzsch
  • 1965: Oba Koso or The King did not hang himself (Citizen of Ede) - Director: Heinz von Cramer
  • 1965: Allow me, my name is Cox; 1. Drumming is part of the craft (Gerald Stone, Manager) - Director: Walter Netzsch
  • 1970: Defeat of a disobedient or the case of Wolfgang M. - Director: Diethard Klante
  • 1977: Bavarian scene: Altaich (Schützinger chancellery) - author and director: Edmund Steinberger

literature

  • Glenzdorf's international film lexicon, Bad Münder 1961, p. 1939 f.
  • Deutsches Bühnen-Jahrbuch, Hamburg 1970, p. 64

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Munich City Archives (dates of birth, according to birth certificate) and local cemetery administration (date of death and burial site)
  2. ^ Bavarian Main State Archives IV ; digitized copy (war log roll 13142, image 47) at ancestry.com, accessed on August 12, 2018
personal data
SURNAME Ziegler, Adolf
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German actor and radio play speaker
DATE OF BIRTH January 3, 1899
PLACE OF BIRTH Munich
DATE OF DEATH July 25, 1985
Place of death Munich