Boris Alekin

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Boris Alekin ( Russian Борис Алекин ; born March 1904 in the Russian Empire , † March 17, 1942 in Mogiljow ) was a Russian actor in Germany and the United States .

Life

Alekin came to Berlin as a result of the October Revolution in 1921 , where he initially played theater. There is evidence of several appearances in 1929 (in the plays Die Juden, Josef and Trojaner ) at the Volksbühne Berlin . A little later he also made his debut in front of the camera.

In the early 1930s Alekin went on tour to France with the ensemble of the Moscow Art Theater , the so-called Prague Group . In 1931 they performed in Paris , the following year in the south of the country (including in Nice and Cannes ). At the given pieces counted The Government Inspector by Nikolai Gogol . In 1932/33 he went on another tour to Riga .

Later guest appearances with the Prague group of the art theater took the slender, slender Russian with the gentle face, light blue eyes and wavy, blond hair to the USA in the first months of 1935. One saw him there, u. a. also on Broadway in New York in February / March in the plays Der Revisor, Strange Child, The White Guard, Enemies and The Deluge .

Back in Germany, Alekin found engagements at the Berlin Rose Theater and the Lustspielhaus in the second half of the 1930s under the direction of Ludwig Manfred Lommel . At the same time he began to work regularly in films. Alekin covered the batch compartment there, playing mostly subordinate characters such as waiters, hotel stewards, petty crooks such as police officers and lower-ranking officers. When he attacked his old home in June 1941, Alekin was drafted immediately and used as a translator on the Eastern Front.

The quadrilingual Alekin (Russian, German, English, French) died as a result of the war "in a military hospital in Mohilew (Eastern Front) shortly after he was 38 years old." He never saw the premiere of his last film, the anti-Soviet and anti-British propaganda attack on Baku (August 25, 1942).

Filmography (complete)

Memorial stone for Alekin next to the Puhl family grave, Parkfriedhof Lichterfelde

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Game time chronicle 1920 to 1930  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. of the Volksbühne Berlin@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.volksbuehne-berlin.de  
  2. ^ The New York Times Directory of the Theater , Introduction by Clive Barnes. P. 12. New York 1973.
  3. ^ Artists' Almanac for Stage and Film 1938 . Ninth edition, Berlin-Dahlem 1938, p. A 82
  4. ↑ Deutsches Bühnen-Jahrbuch , Volume 54, 1943, p. 73
personal data
SURNAME Alekin, Boris
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Алекин, Борис (Russian)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Russian actor
DATE OF BIRTH March 1904
PLACE OF BIRTH Russian Empire
DATE OF DEATH March 17, 1942
Place of death Mogilev