Alfred Menhardt

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Alfred Menhardt , also Alfred Menhart , actually Mehlhart (born February 4, 1899 in Munich ; † October 19, 1955 ibid) was a German actor .

Life

Menhardt, whose birth name was Mehlhart , was born as the son of the postal secretary Alfred Mehlfahrt and his wife Maria Bräu. He attended high school and received acting lessons from Carl Graumann . He had many years of theater engagements at Munich theaters (Landesbühne Munich, Kammerspiele , Volkstheater Munich ). Menhardt had been working as a theater actor in Munich since the 1930s at the latest .

After the Second World War he performed at the Munich Residenztheater and the Bavarian State Theater , where he often appeared in the roles of servants (clerk, coachman). In the 1950/51 season he played the butcher in the folk piece Die Pfingstorgel (premiere: August 1951) by Alois Johannes Lippl . In the 1951/52 season he appeared at the Bayerisches Staatsschauspiel in October 1951 as a writer in the first performance of Max Frisch's play Santa Cruz . He had other roles at the Bavarian State Theater as a coachman in The Gifted Fear by Georges Bernanos (premiere: November 1951), as Battista servant in Emilia Galotti (premiere: December 1951) and as a citizen in Julius Caesar (premiere: March 1955). He could also be seen there in humorous roles, including plays by Johann Nestroy , such as “The Suspicion” in his magic play The Confused Magician (premiere: April 1954).

In December 1953 he worked at the theater Die Kleine Freiheit in Munich in the role of Süpplein in the world premiere of the play Squirrel or The Seriousness of Life by Ernst Penzoldt ; his partners included Melanie Horeschovsky (Fräulein Süpplein) and Helen Vita in the title role.

Menhart played a few supporting roles in German cinema films in the 1950s , where he was active in various film genres, including homeland films , crime films and comedies .

As its first film appearance, the film database IMDb lists the crime drama The Last Recipe from 1952, where it was seen under the direction of Rolf Hansen . In the film comedy The Merry Vineyard (1952), a film adaptation of the stage play of the same name The Merry Vineyard of Carl Zuckmayer , he took over the role of the registrar Kurrle. In the homeland film Die Große Schuld (1953) he embodied the role of the Stangl farmer at Paula Braend's side. In the fairy tale film The Golden Goose , directed by Walter Oehmichen , he played the small role of the doctor. The director Harald Braun cast Menhardt in his film drama The Last Summer, premiered in 1954, in the small role of warehouse manager.

Menhardt also worked as a radio play speaker . In 1949 he worked for Bayerischer Rundfunk in a radio play version of Bertolt Brecht's play Das Verhör des Lukullus . In 1952 he was part of the cast of the radio play version of the novel Die Rumplhanni at Bayerischer Rundfunk, alongside Elise Aulinger . In 1954 he spoke, again for Bayerischer Rundfunk, the police inspector in a radio play version of the novella Pole Poppenspäler .

Filmography

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ German Stage Yearbook . Edition 1938
  2. ↑ ... then they played again. The Bavarian State Theater 1946–1986 . Page 188/189; 195. Munich 1986. ISBN 3-7654-2059-X
  3. ^ Ernst Penzoldt: Dramas . (Excerpts from Google Books)
  4. ↑ Last Summer ( Memento from July 23, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Cast list at www.fuenfzigerjahresänger.de
  5. ↑ The interrogation of Lucullus . HÖRDAT, the audio game database (No. 2)
  6. ↑ The Rumplhanni . In: Radio play 1952–1953: a documentation (excerpts from Google Books)
  7. ↑ Pole Poppenspäler . BR cast list, 1954.
personal data
SURNAME Menhardt, Alfred
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Menhart, Alfred
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German actor
DATE OF BIRTH February 4, 1899
PLACE OF BIRTH Munich
DATE OF DEATH October 19, 1955
Place of death Munich