Aribert Grimmer

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Aribert Alwin Franz Hermann Grimmer (born September 24, 1900 in Gröbzig , Köthen district , † February 11, 1963 in Berlin ) was a German actor , a busy character batch in the film of the Third Reich and the early DEFA era.

Life

After the First World War, Aribert Grimmer worked in a wide variety of professions, including locksmith and seaman, before he stepped onto the stage after training to be an actor in Leipzig . His first permanent engagement led him to the State Theater in Kaiserslautern in 1928 . The following year he went to Koblenz . In 1932 Grimmer moved to the “ Wallner Theater ” in Berlin, and two years later he made his film debut.

Until 1941, Grimmer was a busy film batch. He played small to small roles in entertainment films of various stripes, including several tendencies such as Friesennot (1935), Menschen ohne Vaterland (1937) and Ohm Krüger (1941). He was seen, among other things, as a gendarme in Robert and Bertram , as a mover in Bachelors ' Paradise , as a blacksmith in Der Kleinstadtpoet , as a foreman suspected of Ursula and as a driver in What Happened That Night? .

At the same time he remained loyal to the Berlin theaters “Comedy”, “ Theater am Kurfürstendamm ” and “Theater der Jugend”. His career, which had been rather lackluster until then, was given a boost when he was offered the management of the municipal theater in the German-occupied Polish city of Lublin in 1940 . Until the liberation by the Red Army in 1944, Grimmer stayed in the eastern Polish city, then he left for the Reich.

At the end of the war in Berlin , Grimmer quickly caught up with the film scene with the role of the old farmer Melzig in the land reform propaganda Free Land . In 1946 he was appointed director of the "Kurtheater" in Bad Freienwalde (Oder) . Further engagements took him as an actor to Berlin's “ Volksbühne ” and the “ Deutsche Theater ”. Just as Grimmer once worked in politically colored roles in Nazi films, DEFA saw him now as a small actor in, in some cases, massively tendentious productions. Most recently, Grimmer, who lives in the Wilmersdorf district of western Berlin , was unemployed.

Filmography

theatre

Radio plays

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. 226.
  • Johann Caspar Glenzdorf: Glenzdorf's international film lexicon. Biographical manual for the entire film industry. Volume 1: A-Heck. Prominent-Filmverlag, Bad Münder 1960, DNB 451560736 , p. 542.
  • F.-B. Habel , Volker Wachter : Lexicon of the GDR stars. Actors from film and television. Schwarzkopf & Schwarzkopf, Berlin 1999, ISBN 3-89602-304-7 , p. 211.

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personal data
SURNAME Grimmer, Aribert
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Grimmer, Aribert Alwin Franz Hermann (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German film actor
DATE OF BIRTH September 24, 1900
PLACE OF BIRTH Groebzig , Koethen district , German Empire
DATE OF DEATH February 11, 1963
Place of death Berlin , Federal Republic of Germany