Bernd Aldor

Bernd Aldor around 1925 on a photograph by Alexander Binder

Bernd Aldor (born March 23, 1881 in Constantinople , Ottoman Empire , † October 20, 1950 in Vienna , Austria ) was a German actor .

Life

Shortly before the turn of the century he took acting lessons in Karl Arnau's master class in Vienna ; Konrad Loewe was one of his other teachers . He began his theater career as an extra at the Hofburgtheater, which later became the Burgtheater .

In 1900 he got his first permanent engagement in Znojmo . Other theater stations from 1903 were Chernivtsi , Trier , Bremen , Königsberg , Leipzig , Dresden and Hamburg . In 1906 he came to the Schillertheater in Berlin .

In 1913 he was discovered by Charles Decroix at the Schauspielhaus Leipzig during a performance of Tolstoy's The Living Corpse for the film. Aldor became known in 1917/18 in the first two parts of the three-part educational film Let there be light! as Dr. Mauthner, director of an institution for children with syphilis.

From 1917 to 1919 he was the main actor in several film series under the directors Richard Oswald and Lupu Pick and also in Oswald's literary productions The Portrait of Dorian Gray and The Living Body . Aldor starred in leading roles until the mid-1920s, including as Talma in Madame Récamier 1920.

In 1932 the Romanian actor Constantin Tanase Aldor engaged for a film director in Berlin. After that he was forgotten, when Hitler came to power in 1933 Aldor was no longer employed. No longer active in film, he was expelled from the Reich Film Chamber in July 1938 because of his "presumably non-Aryan" origins .

The Jewish refugee Aldor and his wife Hilde had been in Vienna since the beginning of March 1950. A little later, the former actor died.

Filmography

1913: The stain 1913: The Czernowska 1913: Ave Maria 1914: The great sinner 1915: Cinderella 1916: chains of faith 1916: his last mask 1916: circus blood 1917: Let there be light! 1 and 2 part 1917: The curse of gold 1917: The Portrait of Dorian Gray 1917: The Lord of Hohenstein Castle 1917: racing fever 1918: Van Royk's love 1918: The way out into the open 1918: The world mirror 1918: Laló's great marriage 1918: The living corpse 1919: marionettes of passion

1919: My will is law 1919: The Lord of Life and Death 1920: Madame Récamier 1921: The fear of women 1923: Weltspiegel 1923: Count Cohn 1924: The Doomed 1925: Count Greif 1925: Ash Wednesday 1925: half silk 1927: The glowing alley 1927: Heavy boys - easy girls 1928: The old Fritz (2 parts) 1929: Circumstantial evidence 1930: Dreyfus 1930: You were once a lieutenant with your hussars 1930: two people 1931: Elisabeth of Austria 1932: Visul lui Tanase (also director)

literature

• Aldor, Bernd . In: Kurt Mühsam, Egon Jacobsohn: Lexikon des Films . Lichtbildbühne publishing house, Berlin 1926, pp. 6-7.
• Kay Less : "In life, more is taken from you than given ...". Lexicon of filmmakers who emigrated from Germany and Austria between 1933 and 1945. A general overview. Acabus-Verlag, Hamburg 2011, ISBN 978-3-86282-049-8 , p. 68 f.

Web links

• Bernd Aldor in the Internet Movie Database (English)
• Bernd Aldor at filmportal.de
• Biography with photo
• Pictures by Bernd Aldor In: Virtual History