Alfred Durra

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Alfred Durra (born December 28, 1884 in Breslau , † 1951 in Halle an der Saale ) was a German actor and theater director .

Live and act

Durra had already performed on stage before World War I. From 1915 to 1918 he was engaged at the Schauspielhaus Düsseldorf . In Berlin he played a. a. at the Prater Theater and the Volksbühne . At the latter venue, for example, he was seen in a production by Heinz Hilpert of Gerhart Hauptmann's Die Ratten in 1932 alongside famous colleagues such as Eugen Klöpfer , Käthe Dorsch , Otto Wernicke , Paul Verhoeven and the young Brigitte Horney . For a time, for example during the war in Düsseldorf , Durra was also allowed to direct. Later he also worked as a senior director at the Saarbrücken theater .

It was not until the end of the Weimar Republic that Alfred Durra was offered a few small film roles. In April 1933, the Jewish artist fled Nazi Germany with his wife Helene, also an actress. After a stay in France , he emigrated to the USA in early 1938 . Arrived in New York City , Durra got involved in the context of emigrant performances and also appeared in an exile film.

After the war, the couple returned to Germany. In 1949 he took over a professorship at the State University for Theater and Music in Halle .

Filmography

literature

  • Kay Less : "In life, more is taken from you than given ...". Lexicon of filmmakers who emigrated from Germany and Austria between 1933 and 1945. A general overview. ACABUS Verlag, Hamburg 2011, ISBN 978-3-86282-049-8 , p. 569.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Durra in Mannheim City Archive - Legacies ( Memento from July 17, 2012 in the Internet Archive )
personal data
SURNAME Durra, Alfred
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German actor and theater director
DATE OF BIRTH December 28, 1884
PLACE OF BIRTH Wroclaw
DATE OF DEATH 1951
Place of death Halle on the Saale