Arthur Mainzer
Arthur Mainzer , also Arthur Mainzer-Reynolds and Arthur Reynolds (born November 25, 1895 in Frankfurt am Main , German Empire ; † March 21, 1954 in Berlin-Wilmersdorf ), was a German actor and radio play speaker .
Live and act
Arthur Mainzer began his artistic career in 1920 at the Schwäbische Volksbühne in Stuttgart. The following year he went to Stuttgart's Neues Theater. Mainzer stayed there for four years. In 1925 he went to Berlin and took part in radio play recordings there that same year; a performance of Nikolai Gogol's Der Auditor is guaranteed . Mainzer fulfilled obligations at the capital's venues Lessingtheater , Volksbühne , Berliner Theater , Theater am Schiffbauerdamm , Deutsches Theater and Komödienhaus . At the same time, at the beginning of the sound film era, he often stood in front of the film camera in small roles. Sometimes Mainzer played a film director (like in the satire Die Koffer des Herr OF ), sometimes an authorized signatory (like the Knell in Richard Oswald's classic Der Hauptmann von Köpenick ), sometimes a hotelier (like in the military posse Der Stolz der 3rd Company ), sometimes a medical council (in the Gründgens satire A City Upside Down , also based on Gogol Der Auditor ) or even a Prime Minister (as in the comedy Love at First Tone ).
Because of his Jewish origins, Mainzer was excluded from further employment on German theaters such as in German film in 1933. He first emigrated via Czechoslovakia to Austria and Hungary, where in 1936 he played a taxi passenger in the lovely children's story Bubi (also called Mircha ), a typical emigrant production. When Austria was annexed in 1938, Arthur Mainzer fled to Great Britain, where he played the father of a family in a television film broadcast in January 1939 about the Swiss Robinson family , a classic family material. Mainzer later dropped his German-sounding surname and chose the English pseudonym Reynolds. Under this name he appeared again in front of cameras around 1949/50, this time for British cinema productions. In 1951 Arthur Mainzer returned to Berlin, appeared in a German film (as a detective inspector in the smuggler and border drama Sündige Grenz ) and again on the radio ( Günter Eich's radio editing of Unterm Birnbaum ) and was a member of the ensemble of the Schiller Theater , directed by Boleslaw Barlog , to the end . There he also repeated the two parts that he had played with great success a quarter of a century earlier in the premiere of Zuckmayer's Der Hauptmann von Köpenick on the stage and also in the film adaptation in 1931: the authorized signatory Knell and the first railway official.
Filmography
- 1927: Thunderstorm over Gottland (short film)
- 1931: Who takes love seriously?
- 1931: The suitcase of Mr. OF
- 1931: Berlin - Alexanderplatz
- 1931: The captain of Köpenick
- 1931: The pride of the 3rd company
- 1931: The Spanish fly
- 1932: Three from the stamp office
- 1932: the winner
- 1932: Five from the jazz band
- 1932: love at first note
- 1932: A city is upside down
- 1933: I want to teach you love
- 1936: Bubi / Mircha
- 1939: The Swiss Family Robinson (TV movie)
- 1949: The Rival ( Madness of the Heart )
- 1950: state secret ( State Secret )
- 1950: The Black Vixen ( Gone to Earth )
- 1951: Sinful Frontier
Radio plays
- 1925: Nikolai Gogol : The Auditor . Comedy in 5 acts (Peter Iwanowitsch Dobtschinski) - Director: Gerd Fricke
- 1925: Max Bernstein : Blue. Comedy in one act (Dressel) - Director: NN
- 1926: NN: Rhine trip. A happy audio image - Director: Not specified
- 1951: Günther Weisenborn : Spanish Wedding (Gisevius, Court Marshal in Madrid) - Director: Fränze Roloff
- 1951: Theodor Fontane : Unterm Birnbaum (Justizrat) - Director: Fränze Roloff
- 1952: Hans Hömberg : The Man with the Hammer (Dr. Nimpei) - Director: Peter Thomas
- 1952: Gerd Nickstadt , Hans-Dieter Bove : Let's be honest. Dedicated to the 'progressive' dramaturge (fourth buddy) - Director: Rolf von Sydow
- 1952: Gerhart Hauptmann : Die Weber (Hornig, rag dealer) - Director: Ulrich Lauterbach
- 1953: Kurt Heynicke : The Little Sins (The First Owner) - Director: Hanns Korngiebel
- 1953: Hans Hömberg: The horse of the happy lark (Prof. Stirling) - Director: Peter Thomas
literature
- German Stage Yearbook, 1955, p. 85 (obituary)
- Glenzdorfs Internationales Film-Lexikon, second volume, Bad Münder 1961, p. 1054 f
- Wilhelm Kosch : Deutsches Theater-Lexikon, Biographisches und Bibliographisches Handbuch, second volume, Klagenfurt a. Vienna 1960, p. 1332
- Trapp, Frithjof; Mittenzwei, Werner; Rischbieter, Henning; Schneider, Hansjörg: Handbook of the German-speaking Exile Theater 1933–1945 / Biographical Lexicon of Theater Artists. Volume 2, p. 626 f. Munich 1999
Web links
- Arthur Mainzer in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Arthur Mainzer at filmportal.de
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SURNAME | Mainzer, Arthur |
ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Mainzer-Reynolds, Arthur; Reynolds, Arthur |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German actor on stage and film |
DATE OF BIRTH | November 25, 1895 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Frankfurt am Main , German Empire |
DATE OF DEATH | March 21, 1954 |
Place of death | Berlin |