Axel Monjé

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Axel Monjé (born June 6, 1910 in Geestemünde , today a district of Bremerhaven , † August 18, 1962 in Berlin ) was a German actor and voice actor .

biography

Axel Monjé was born on June 6, 1910 in Bremerhaven-Geestemünde. His father, a lawyer , came from the Rhineland , his mother from Hanover . After graduating from secondary school , he was supposed to be an export merchant, but decided to train as an actor. He took acting lessons from Kurt Meister and studied singing. He made his stage debut in Bremerhaven, where he first played extras at the city ​​theater . He then went to Frankfurt (Oder) , Elbing and finally in 1939 to Berlin.

It was there in 1939 that he received his first film roles in the crime film Das Stilett and Parkstrasse 13 directed by Jürgen von Alten . This was followed by larger roles in cornflower blue (1939), for the Katz and counterfeiters (both 1940), but also in Philipp Lothar Mayrings NS - propaganda film blood brothers (1941). After that, the military service in the Second World War interrupted his further career until 1945. After the end of the war, Artistic Director Boleslaw Barlog brought him to the Berlin Schlossparktheater , where he celebrated his greatest success as a partner of Hildegard Knef and Walter Bluhm in the Schwank Three Men on a Horse , which saw 291 performances. Monjé also appeared on stage in 1949 as "Conti" in Gotthold Ephraim Lessing's Emilia Galotti at the Deutsches Theater and in 1951 played the title role in Norbert Schultze's Captain Bay Bay at the Theater am Nollendorfplatz . The latter role also gave the trained baritone the opportunity to develop his singing talent. Since then he has also worked as a radio and voice actor.

And he was back in front of the film cameras, initially at DEFA , which offered him three leading roles. In Wolfgang Schleif's youth film ... and if it were only one ... (1949) he portrayed the fanatical director of an education camp, in Gustav von Wangenheim's contemporary film Der Höglers (1950) the scheming engineer “Dr. Kayser ”, and in Rivals at the Wheel (1957) he played the racing driver“ Manfred Falk ”. On behalf of Högler , his wife Anneliese Morell also played. In West German films, however, Monjé only got small roles, for example in Rittmeister Wronski , The Seven Dresses of Katrin , Canaris (all 1954) or A Man Forgets Love and July 20 (both 1955). In 1959 he was seen on the screen next to the siblings Willy and Lucy Millowitsch in the Schwank Der Keusche Lebemann by Arnold and Bach in a recording from the Millowitsch Theater .

But Axel Monjé was already extensively involved in film dubbing shortly after the Second World War. He is the German voice of Errol Flynn in Gentleman Jim, the cheeky cavalier , lord of the rough mountains , against all flags and the first dubbing of a queen's favorite and gold smuggling to Virginia . He also lent his calm, unobtrusive voice to Stewart Granger (among others in Scaramouche, the gallant Marquis and The Heir to the Throne ), Rock Hudson (among others in The Wonderful Power ) and Gregory Peck in His Biggest Bluff . His most famous dubbing role, however, was Leslie Howard as "Ashley" in Gone With the Wind .

He also spoke Howard Keel (for example in Show Boat , A Bride for Seven Brothers , Carnival in Texas or Jupiter's Favorite ), Mario Lanza (standard voice , among others in Serenade and Arrividerci Roma ) and was the standard voice of Donald Sinden (for example in But, Doctor ... ). Other dub roles include Franchot Tone as "Roger Byam" in Mutiny on the Bounty , Bing Crosby in The Road to Utopia , Cary Grant in the first dubbing of Suspicion , Sterling Hayden in Asphalt Jungle and even John Wayne in The House of Seven Sins . He often lent his voice to supporting actors such as Jock Mahoney or William Elliott . He also lent his voice to the two supporting actors William Warfield and Chick Chandler in the 1951 film adaptation of the musical Show Boat from Mississippi Melody .

In the early 1960s -years at the Theater of the West in West Berlin committed, was Axel Monjé there in the musical -Hit My Fair Lady , the understudy for both Paul Hubschmid (Professor Higgins), as well as Friedrich Schoenfelder (Colonel Pickering). When Schoenfelder canceled on August 18, 1962 because of hoarseness, Monjé had to step in for him. But shortly after the performance began, he suddenly collapsed in the open and died of a heart attack on the way to the hospital .

Filmography (selection)

As an actor

As a voice actor

Radio plays (selection)

literature

  • Thomas Bräutigam : Axel Monjé (1910–1962) . In: ders .: Lexicon of film and television synchronization. More than 2,000 films and series with their German voice actors etc. . Schwarzkopf & Schwarzkopf, Berlin 2001, ISBN 3-89602-289-X , p. 460

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Thomas Bräutigam: Lexicon of film and television synchronization . Schwarzkopf & Schwarzkopf, Berlin 2001, ISBN 3-89602-289-X , p. 460
  2. ↑ Volker Wachter: Axel Monjé at www.defa-sternstunden.de ( Memento from July 30, 2012 in the web archive archive.today )
  3. ↑ cf. Entries on Axel Monjé in Arne Kaul's synchronous database ( Memento from December 14, 2015 in the Internet Archive ).
  4. ↑ Friedrich Schoenfelder : I was always me. Life memories. Das Neue Berlin, Berlin 1996, ISBN 3-359-00841-3 , pp. 164–165 / Thomas Bräutigam: Lexicon of film and television synchronization . Schwarzkopf & Schwarzkopf, Berlin 2001, ISBN 3-89602-289-X , p. 460
personal data
SURNAME Monjé, Axel
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German actor and voice actor
DATE OF BIRTH June 6, 1910
PLACE OF BIRTH Geestemünde , now part of Bremerhaven
DATE OF DEATH August 18, 1962
Place of death Berlin