Albert Bessler

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Albert Bessler (born February 15, 1905 in Hamburg , † December 3, 1975 in Berlin ) was a German actor , theater director , author and dramaturge .

Life

The trained banker took acting lessons before he made his acting debut in Hamburg in 1927. This was followed by positions at stages in Beuthen, Wuppertal and as an actor in the troop support in the Russian campaign. He gained his first film experience in 1942 in the propaganda film Fronttheater for Terra Film .

After the Second World War , Bessler first worked as a performer at the Schlosspark Theater in Berlin-Steglitz , when the Schlossparktheater became part of the Schiller Theater and became a State Theater. He later became director and chief dramaturge as well as deputy director of the Staatliche Schauspielbühnen Berlin . In 1972 Bessler was made an honorary member when he withdrew from theater work due to a serious illness.

In addition to his theater work, Bessler also worked in post-war films. In addition to the DEFA film The Blue Swords from 1949, he mainly played in productions of West German film companies. Among his best-known film roles are certainly some Edgar Wallace films , such as Der Zinker and the Doktor Mabuse film series. His best-known TV role is certainly that of the seedy doctor Dr. Norman Swanson in the Francis Durbridge crime novel Melissa .

On his death, he was married to the actress Else Reuss for the second time .

Albert Bessler died in Berlin in 1975 at the age of 70. His grave is in the Wannsee II cemetery in Berlin-Wannsee . A pedestal made of gray granite serves as a grave marker.

Filmography

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  • 1964: The house of the snakes
  • 1965: Crime Quiz - Amateurs as Criminologists
  • 1965: Romulus the Great
  • 1966: Melissa
  • 1968: Mexican Revolution
  • 1968: The voice in the glass
  • 1968: Madame Bovary
  • 1969: Spy under the hood
  • 1969: Waterloo
  • 1970: The bastard sign
  • 1970: Headlines about a murder
  • 1970: Miss Molly Mill : Mumienschanz
  • 1970: Miss Molly Mill : It was the gardener
  • 1970: Gneisenau - The political rebellion of a soldier
  • 1970: General Oster - traitor or patriot?
  • 1971: Fool's Mirror
  • 1972: Retirement home
  • 1973: The crime story: man missing
  • 1975: Derrick : Kamilla's young friend

literature

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ Frank-Burkhard Habel , Volker Wachter : The great lexicon of the GDR stars. The actors from film and television. Extended new edition. Schwarzkopf & Schwarzkopf, Berlin 2002, ISBN 3-89602-391-8 .
  2. ^ Hans-Jürgen Mende : Lexicon of Berlin burial places . Pharus-Plan, Berlin 2018, ISBN 978-3-86514-206-1 . P. 659.
personal data
SURNAME Bessler, Albert
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German actor, theater director, author and dramaturge
DATE OF BIRTH February 15, 1905
PLACE OF BIRTH Hamburg
DATE OF DEATH 3rd December 1975
Place of death Berlin