Arthur Mainzer

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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

Radio plays

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

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personal data
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