Albert Florath

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Albert Peter Adam Florath (born December 7, 1888 in Bielefeld , † March 11, 1957 in Gaildorf , Baden-Württemberg ) was a German actor .

Life

The son of the factory manager Joseph Florath and his wife Mathilde geb. Burkart attended school in Brakel and the secondary school in Paderborn . He became a candidate for a magistrate in Delbrück , where he worked in the poor, church and school departments as well as in the police administration. In Delbrück he also gained his first stage experience in amateur theater groups of local clubs.

In 1908 he gave up his official career and went to Munich-Schwabing to devote himself entirely to acting. Albert Florath made his debut in 1908 as a stage actor at the Hof Theater in Munich. He took acting lessons from Alois Wohlmut and wrote articles on the feature pages at the same time.

After the beginning of the First World War , Florath voluntarily joined the Bavarian infantry body regiment , was among other things a recruit trainer and was wounded as a deputy officer in Romania in December 1916 with a shot in the head. At the end of the war he was a lieutenant in the reserve . His war experiences caused a political rethink in Florath, so that in 1919 he initially took part in the Bavarian National Assembly as a socialist member of parliament. After the failure of the Bavarian Soviet Republic and the murder of Kurt Eisner , Florath went to Berlin, where he belonged to the ensemble of the State Theater between 1920 and 1944 and also directed it. In 1938 Albert Florath was appointed state actor .

He made his film debut in 1918. With the advent of the talkie, the character actor Florath established himself in the film with mostly weird and sometimes quirky, but cordial types. He played in literary adaptations such as Döblin's Berlin Alexanderplatz , Hauptmanns Biberpelz and Ibsen’s Nora , in dramas such as Friedrich Schiller - Triumph of a Genius (next to Horst Caspar ), in comedies such as Die Feuerzangenbowle , but also in propaganda films such as Ich klage , Junge Adler and in Jud Suss .

After the war he returned to demanding roles, including in Liebe 47 (based on Wolfgang Borchert's drama Outside Front Door ) and alongside Curt Goetz in his gynecologist Dr. Praetorius and The House in Montevideo . In addition, he took on roles in homeland films such as Moselfahrt aus Liebeskummer and When the white lilac is blooming again ( Romy Schneider 's first film).

His last stage position finally took him to Stuttgart. In 1957 he, who had played many years old men, died at the age of 68 in the Stuttgart administrative district. In the community of Gschwend , a street in the district of Schlechtbach was named after Albert Florath, where he is also buried. Florath lived in Schlechtbach from 1938 until his death. Since 2011, a street in Florath's hometown Bielefeld has also been named after him.

Filmography (selection)

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. 177.
  • Emil Kühle: Film actor Albert Florath. Almost a Gmünder. In: unicorn. Illustrated magazine for cultivating the idea of ​​home in the city and district of Schwäbisch Gmünd. No. 9, February 1955, ISSN  0170-6764 , p. 19 ff.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Life data quoted from Piet Hein Honig, Hanns-Georg Rodek: 100001. The show business encyclopedia of the 20th century. Showbiz-Data-Verlag, Villingen-Schwenningen 1992, ISBN 3-929009-01-5 , p. 326.
  2. ^ Bavarian Main State Archives IV , z. B. 2146. and 4287. War trunk roll.
  3. ↑ Albert-Florath-Straße ( Memento from January 16, 2014 in the Internet Archive )
personal data
SURNAME Florath, Albert
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Florath, Albert Peter Adam
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German actor
DATE OF BIRTH December 7, 1888
PLACE OF BIRTH Bielefeld , German Empire
DATE OF DEATH March 11, 1957
Place of death Gaildorf , Baden-Württemberg, Federal Republic of Germany