Aruth Wartan

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Wartan, around 1920.

Aruth Wartan ( Armenian Հարութ Վարդան , also Arutjun Wartanian (birth name) and Aruth Wartian , born June 26, 1880 in Nakhichevan , Russian Empire , today Azerbaijan ; † April 14, 1945 in Berlin ) was a mining engineer from Armenia who worked in Germany, Actor and film producer .

biography

Originally from what is now Nakhchivan , Wartan had led an adventurous life before he got into acting. He graduated from high school in Tbilisi in 1898 and then briefly studied medicine in Kharkov (now Ukraine ). At the turn of the century, Wartan was in Japan , but a little later he went to Saint Petersburg to study shipbuilding at the university there.

During the failed revolution of 1905 he left the Russian capital again and moved to the Freiberg Bergakademie in Saxony . In 1906 Aruth Wartan went on a study trip to South America , visited Chile and Bolivia . He soon returned to Freiberg to finish his mining studies in 1909 as a graduate engineer . He gained early professional experience as a mining engineer for the Krupp company . Besides that, Wartan worked intensively as an athlete in a wide variety of disciplines. According to his own statement, he claims to have taken part in several Olympics and won medals.

At the beginning of the First World War , Aruth Wartan switched to acting and, at the beginning of 1915, concentrated almost exclusively on film work, to which director Einar Zangenberg had brought him. Initially, Wartan was given several big roles, often alongside stars like Pola Negri and Asta Nielsen . Shortly after the end of the war, he was also involved in the production of his own films as a co-producer, in which he appeared together with his wife at the time, the actress Lu Synd , and received his own film series (the series about the adventurer Jimmy Potts made in Munich ). During the early 1920s, its reels became smaller and shrunk to batch format over the next two decades. Most recently, Aruth Wartan found employment almost exclusively in films by Harry Piel and at the side of Hans Albers, as well as in productions by Herbert Selpin .

Wartan died of a stroke a few weeks before the end of the Second World War , as his widow announced in a letter to the Reichsfilmkammer .

Movies

literature

  • Kay Less : The film's great personal dictionary . The actors, directors, cameramen, producers, composers, screenwriters, film architects, outfitters, costume designers, editors, sound engineers, make-up artists and special effects designers of the 20th century. Volume 8: T - Z. David Tomlinson - Theo Zwierski. Schwarzkopf and Schwarzkopf, Berlin 2001, ISBN 3-89602-340-3 , p. 270 f.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Arzwi Bakhchinian: НЕМЕЦКИЙ КИНОАКТЕР АРУТ ВАРТАН (The German actor Aruth Wartan), Голос Армении (voice of Armenia), accessed on May 4, 2019 (Russian).
personal data
SURNAME Wartan, Aruth
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Wartanian, Arutjun (maiden name); Wartian, Aruth
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Russian actor
DATE OF BIRTH June 26, 1880
PLACE OF BIRTH Nakhchivan
DATE OF DEATH April 14, 1945
Place of death Berlin