Bruno Harprecht

Bruno Harprecht (born February 22, 1875 in Königsberg , † July 11, 1948 in Berlin-Halensee ) was a German actor , theater director and operetta singer (tenor).

Live and act

theatre

Harprecht came from an old German theater family: his great-grandmother was the singer Klara Vespermann , his grandfather Eduard Harprecht was chief director at the Meininger Hoftheater, and his maternal grandfather was theater director Wilhelm Wagner (1819–1907). Harprecht's younger brother chose a pseudonym and called himself Kurt Vespermann . This means that Gerd Vespermann is Bruno Harprecht's nephew.

Under these family circumstances it was easy for Harprecht to find his way onto the theater boards early on, especially since Bruno's father Robert Harprecht was in charge of a touring stage. In 1892 his son made his debut with the secretary in Goethe's Egmont at the court theater in Neustrelitz ; Bruno stayed there until 1896 as a member of the ensemble. His subject at a young age became that of bon vivant and adolescent lover. Before he moved to the Carl-Schultze-Theater in Hamburg in October 1899 , Bruno Harprecht played on stages in Görlitz and Nuremberg . In Hamburg he made a celebrated debut as Paul Aubier in Der Opernball , whereupon Harprecht decided to try it as an operetta singer from now on.

Harpecht's next stage position took him to tsarist Riga in 1902, and in 1906 he moved to Nuremberg, where he was now able to work as a director. In 1911 he came to Vienna , a year later Harprecht reached Berlin for the first time . In the following years (1913 to 1921) he worked for a long time at the court theater in Darmstadt . Subsequently, Bruno Harprecht went to the Deutsches Schauspielhaus in Hamburg for ten years (1921 to 1931). Other theater stations were the German State Theater in Prague (1931-34), the Lobe Theater in Breslau (1934/35), the Breslauer Schauspielhaus (1935 to 1941), the city theater of German-occupied Strasbourg (1941-43) and, up to from Joseph Goebbels ordered the closure of all German venues (1944), most recently also Berlin venues. Shortly after the end of the war, the aged Harprecht could be seen for the last time (1946) at Berlin's theater on Kurfürstendamm .

Movie

Bruno Harprecht also used his sporadic visits to the imperial capital for occasional appearances in front of the film camera. In 1919/20 he appeared in a few insignificant silent films, and in 1937 he could be seen in two sound films. In the late phase of the Second World War, Bruno Harprecht appeared more regularly in movies and mostly embodied solemn characters, from director to king.

Private

Harprecht was married to the actress Elisabeth Horn.

Filmography

• 1919: love
• 1919: The seventeen year olds
• 1920: The medium
• 1934: A seventeen year old
• 1937: An enemy of the people
• 1937: Dispute over the boy Jo
• 1942: Rembrandt
• 1943: reverie
• 1944: The small court concert
• 1945: The girl Juanita
• 1945: Shiva and the gallows flower

literature

• Ludwig Eisenberg : Large biographical lexicon of the German stage in the XIX. Century . Verlag von Paul List , Leipzig 1903, p. 393 ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).
• Wilhelm Kosch : Deutsches Theater-Lexikon, Biographisches und Bibliographisches Handbuch, first volume, Klagenfurt and Vienna 1953, p. 698

Web links

• Bruno Harprecht in the Internet Movie Database (English)
• Bruno Harprecht at filmportal.de
• Bruno Harprecht at Operissimo  on the basis of the Great Singer Lexicon