Arthur Kraussneck

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Arthur Kraussneck

Arthur Kraußneck (born April 9, 1856 in Ballethen / East Prussia ; † April 21, 1941 in Berlin ; born Arthur Carl Gustav Müller ) was a German actor .

career

He began his stage career in Mecklenburg in 1874 and then played in the theaters of Oldenburg, Stettin, Königsberg, Meiningen and Karlsruhe. In 1884 he came to the German Theater in Berlin. Here he became known in the title role of Wilhelm Tell and as Franz Moor in The Robbers . In 1889 he moved to the Berlin Theater , from 1894 he returned to the Deutsches Theater. From 1897 until the end of his career in 1932 he was part of the ensemble of the Royal Theater , which in 1919 was renamed "State Theater".

Kraussneck played many important roles here, including the title characters in Wallenstein , Julius Caesar and Nathan the Wise . In later years he often stood at the side of Fritz Kortner on stage, he embodied Attinghausen in Wilhelm Tell (1919), Lodovico in Othello (1921), Andrea Doria in The Conspiracy of Fiesco in Genoa (1921), Duncan in Macbeth ( 1922), Blücher in Napoleon or Die Hundred Days (1922), Gottschalk in Das Käthchen von Heilbronn (1923), Rüdiger in Hebbels Die Nibelungen , Gordon in Wallenstein (1924 and 1931), Kottwitz in Prinz Friedrich von Homburg (1925), Teiresias in King Oedipus (1929), Emperor in Götz von Berlichingen (1930) and God the Father in Faust I (1932).

Several times he appeared in films in the 1920s. In the folk play adaptation Mein Leopold in 1924 he played a leading role as the old shoemaker Weigelt. In Arthur von Gerlach's Ufa large-scale production Zur Chronik von Grieshuus (1923-25) based on Theodor Storm , he played the patriarch, and in Friedrich Zelnik's film adaptation of Gerhart Hauptmann's play Die Weber (1927) he played the pacifist old man Hilse. In the second part of Friedrich Feher's and Leopold Jessner's Maria Stuart film (1927) he appears as lord of the Norfolk castle.

In April 1930 he stepped down from the stage and retired into private life. His last role was the Great Elector in the Prince of Homburg .

Arthur Kraussneck died twelve days after his 85th birthday on April 21, 1941 in Berlin. He was buried in the Zehlendorf cemetery . The grave has not been preserved.

Filmography

Sound recordings

  • Arthur Kraußneck speaks about 12 poems by W. Hey (1789–1854) on the shellac record brand GNOM between order numbers 87 and 97, such as B. "Bird at the window", "Child", "Swan and child". Some of them are in the DMA Berlin.

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Who is it. IX. Edition 1928, Verlag Hermann Degener, Berlin 1928, p. 863.
  2. ^ Hans-Jürgen Mende : Lexicon of Berlin burial places . Pharus-Plan, Berlin 2018, ISBN 978-3-86514-206-1 , p. 677.
  3. ↑ cf. Rainer E. Lotz, Gnom (Polyphon) 15cm, at lotz-verlag.de
personal data
SURNAME Kraussneck, Arthur
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Kraussneck, Arthur Carl Gustav (full name); Müller, Arthur Carl Gustav (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German actor
DATE OF BIRTH April 9, 1856
PLACE OF BIRTH Ballethen , East Prussia
DATE OF DEATH April 21, 1941
Place of death Berlin