Alexander Golling

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Alexander Golling (born August 2, 1905 in Munich , † February 28, 1989 in Rottach-Egern / Upper Bavaria ) was a German actor .

life and career

Alexander Golling attended Max Bayrhammer's drama school in his hometown of Munich . After a debut in Rudolstadt (1924) and engagements in Erfurt , Heidelberg and Leipzig (Intendant Douglas Sirk ), where he already played Mephisto, he joined the Volksbühne in Berlin in 1934 . Alternating with Heinrich George , he played Franz Moor in Friedrich Schiller's drama Die Räuber . Since 1934 he was seen as a character actor in films such as The Czar's Courier , The Tiger of Esnapur and The Indian Tomb . In addition to a leading role in Herbert Selpin 's submarine drama Secret Files WB 1 (1941/42), he had major appearances in the films 90 Minutes Stay (1936), Thirteen Men and a Cannon (1938) and Gold in New Frisco (1939).

After his success as Richard III. at the Bavarian State Theater in Munich in 1937 and the subsequent appointment as a state actor, the 32-year-old was given the vacant management of this theater in 1938 , a position he held until the end of the war. Shortly before the bombs destroyed the building, Golling had the interior from the Rococo period removed and brought to a safe place. Thanks to this initiative, the Cuvilliés Theater was reopened in its old glory after the war . On the Munich stage, Golling played Peer Gynt, Macbeth and Pope Gregory VII. The latter role earned him the nickname “the theater pope”. After the war, because of its proximity to National Socialism , it became “the brown theater pope”. This proximity prevented a seamless continuation of his film career after the end of the Second World War . The process of his denazification in front of a Munich tribunal went through three instances. In the first, he was acquitted, in the second, he was classified as an “offender”. The final judgment in the third instance classified him as a follower in 1948 and sentenced him to a payment of 500 marks.

From 1948 he played again with Saladin Schmitt in Bochum. In 1950 he was back in front of the camera and initially relied on engagements with directors such as Veit Harlan , Wolfgang Liebeneiner and Karl Ritter , who had also been on the side of the regime during the National Socialist era. By the late 1970s, he appeared in supporting roles in 21 other films. Since the mid-1960s, he was also often seen in television productions.

In 1969, Golling cast the role of the sullen university professor Blaumeier in the film Die Lümmel von der Erste Bank - Hurray, Schule burns .

Alexander Golling was married to actress Annie Markart from 1937 to 1941 . The actress Claudia Golling (* 1950) comes from a later marriage .

His grave is in the cemetery in Rottach-Egern.

Filmography

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Biographical data of Alexander Golling in: Marbacher magazin , issues 109-112, Deutsche Schillergesellschaft, 2005
  2. ↑ State Archives Munich, SpKa files. 534 Golling


personal data
SURNAME Golling, Alexander
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German actor
DATE OF BIRTH 2nd August 1905
PLACE OF BIRTH Munich
DATE OF DEATH February 28, 1989
Place of death Rottach-Egern , Upper Bavaria