Kurt Bobeth Bolander
Kurt Bobeth Bolander , actually Kurt Egon Bolander , also Bob Bolander , (born January 27, 1896 in Königsberg , Prussia , † October 4, 1961 in Berlin ) was a German actor .
Life
The hotelier's son Kurt Egon Bolander - because of the maiden name of his mother, Emma Bobeth, he called himself Kurt Bobeth Bolander, later mostly Bob Bolander - already made his first appearances in the extras at the municipal theater in his hometown Königsberg, to which he was faithful for a total of three years should stay. After graduating from high school, he took regular acting classes. When a colleague dropped out of a performance of Schiller's Die Räuber , Bolander was able to get his first speaking role (the Kosinsky). He then went to Berlin in the middle of the First World War, where he immediately made contact with the film business.
Bolander received his first leading role in 1917 with the leading role in the Kurt'l film series. Also active as a boxer, the slender East Prussian won the German championship (according to his own statement) in bantam weight in 1919 and from then on boasted that he was the only acting professional boxer in Germany. A little later, Bobeth Bolander lost his title again in the fight against Willy Menke in the Berlin Admiralspalast . In the first few years after the end of the First World War, his popularity ebbed rather quickly, and Bolander, who was repeatedly unemployed for a long time, had great difficulty finding work. In the end he only got batch roles, in talkies little more than extended extras, appeared as an entertainer ( conférencier ) on variety stages and in cabarets and occasionally worked as a voice actor.
Bolander also worked as a manager. In 1927 he discovered a young Berlin strength athlete named Alex Topka in the “ Cafe Fürstenhof ”. Manager Bolander went on tour with Topka - alias “ Audax Alexius ” and Miss Marthe Chevalier, the “ memory phenomenon ”. They appeared in the " Berliner Varietétheater Wintergarten ", the " Scala Varieté Theather " and in the " Passage Panoptikum ".
During the Second World War he was mostly used as an entertainer in the context of troop support programs in the German-occupied territories. Even after the war, Bolander did more than well as a noble batch, the actor, who lives in West Berlin ( Kurfürstendamm ), received one or the other mini offer mainly from DEFA . There he embodied all kinds of characters - servants and lay judges, civil servants and secretaries, waiters and other ordinary citizens. With the Barberina Artists' Games, he had his own entertainment ensemble for a time (between 1945 and 1950).
Filmography
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literature
- Hans Richter (ed.): Filmstern 1922 . Hans Hermann Richter Verlag, Berlin-Wilmersdorf 1921/22.
- Kurt Mühsam / Egon Jacobsohn: Lexicon of the film . Lichtbildbühne publishing house, Berlin 1926.
- Johann Caspar Glenzdorf: Glenzdorf's international film lexicon. Biographical manual for the entire film industry. Volume 1: A-Heck. Prominent-Filmverlag, Bad Münder 1960, DNB 451560736 .
- Thorsten Moser: Alex Topka: Europe's iron king. Books on Demand, Norderstedt 2012, ISBN-13: 978-3848205646.
Web links
- Bob Bolander in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Kurt Bobeth Bolander in the Internet Movie Database (English)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Bobeth Bolander, Kurt |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Bolander, Kurt Egon (real name); Bolander, Bob |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German actor |
| DATE OF BIRTH | January 27, 1896 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Koenigsberg , Prussia |
| DATE OF DEATH | 4th October 1961 |
| Place of death | Berlin |