Arthur Wiesner

Life

From 1922 to 1924 he played his first roles as a beginner at the United Theaters in Breslau . He made his debut at the Stadttheater in Konstanz in 1924 as Hagen in Hebbel's Die Nibelungen . Further engagements took him to Beuthen , Gleiwitz , Erfurt , Magdeburg , Altona and Prague, among others, until the end of the Second World War . At the Stadttheater in Erfurt he played Shylock in Shakespeare's comedy The Merchant of Venice , the Fuhrmann Henschel in the drama of the same name by Gerhart Hauptmann and the Mephisto in Johann Wolfgang Goethe's Faust . From 1946 onwards there were numerous appearances in Berlin at the Schlossparktheater , the Theater am Schiffbauerdamm , the Volksbühne and from 1952 at the Schillertheater . There he played in 1955 in the Hauptmann drama Die Weber den Ansorge and in Rose Bernd the father Bernd and in Schiller's Kabale und Liebe den Miller .

From 1937 he also worked in various film productions . Among them were Paracelsus by GW Pabst in 1943 with Werner Krauss , Mathias Wieman and Harald Kreutzberg , in 1954 Canaris directed by Alfred Weidenmann with OE Hasse , Barbara Rütting and Martin Held , in 1957 in the film adaptation of Rose Bernd by Wolfgang Staudte with Maria Schell , Käthe Gold and Leopold Biberti and in 1958 the iron Gustav by George Hurdalek with Heinz Rühmann , Lucie Mannheim and Ernst Schröder . He was from 1948 also in some films of the DEFA as street acquaintance , Mayor Anna and council of the gods to see.

Arthur Wiesner also worked as a speaker in radio play productions . In an adaptation of the play Die Wupper by Else Lasker-Schüler , he was heard in 1963 as Wallbrecker's grandfather . Else Ehser , Lothar Blumhagen and Joachim Ansorge spoke next to him .

↑ As the birthplace is in IMDb and filmportal.de welding d Nitz specify. Glenzdorf's international film lexicon , Kürschner's biographical theater manual , defa-stern hours.de and Arthur-Wiesner.de indicate “Polish Schweinitz” and “Schweinitz (Schlesien)” . The last-mentioned sources are to be given preference.

Johann Caspar Glenzdorf: Glenzdorf's international film lexicon. Biographical manual for the entire film industry. Volume 3: Peit – Zz. Prominent-Filmverlag, Bad Münder 1961, DNB 451560752 , p. 1884.
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 , pp. 811-812.

personal data
SURNAME	Wiesner, Arthur
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Wiesner, Arthur Felix Anton (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German actor and radio play speaker
DATE OF BIRTH	January 17, 1895
PLACE OF BIRTH	Schweinitz
DATE OF DEATH	March 7, 1980
Place of death	Berlin