Carl Walther Meyer

Carl Walther Meyer (born February 1, 1898 in Dresden , † after 1949) was a German actor.

Life

Meyer broke off his medical studies at the University of Göttingen after only one year and instead took acting lessons from Erich Ponto . In 1922 he made his debut at the Gotha City Theater . Then he went to Munich to the State Theater. His leading roles included August Keil in Rose Bernd and Titus in Everything about Money by Herbert Eulenberg .

Later Meyer worked mainly as an actor in silent films. He got his first role in the Danish silent film President (The President), which Carl Theodor Dreyer directed in 1919. He often played military roles . In 1927 he took on the leading role of the aviator hero of the First World War, Baron von Richthofen . At the beginning of the sound film era he appeared in an early Edgar Wallace film adaptation, Karel Lamač's Witcher from 1932, at the side of Maria Matray and Fritz Rasp ; After that he only played in supporting roles.

After 1936 no films have been made with him. In 1949 he was engaged at the Kleist Theater in Frankfurt (Oder) .

He was the great-uncle of producer Rik Walters .

Filmography

Silent films

1919: The President
1925: The Royal Grenadiers
1925: women who stray from the path
1925: The adventurous wedding
1926: the seventh boy
1926: The Song of Songs of German Mother Love
1926: Little Inge and her three fathers
1927: German women - German loyalty
1927: Climbing maxi
1927: The Cavalier from Wedding
1927: Valencia
1927: Fem
1927: A beautiful woman's toy
1927: What children keep from their parents
1927: The king of the center forwards
1927: Richthofen, the red knight of the air
1928: Eva in silk
1928: There is a linden tree at the Ruedesheimer Schloss
1928: Old Fritz - Part 2: The end
1928: Leontine's husbands
1928: Saxophone Susi
1928: We stick together firmly and faithfully
1929: Three days of life and death
1929: Escape to the Foreign Legion
1929: Once upon a time there was a loyal hussar
1929: The call of the north
1930: The caviar princess
1930: Pancérové auto

Sound films

1930: visit at midnight. The night ghost of Berlin (short film, 29 min.)
1930: Make the world a paradise for me
1931: Cadets
1931: The maneuver time is nice
1931: The mother of the company
1931: Stormy night
1931: The dancing hussar
1931: love song
1932: string quartet (short film)
1932: paprika
1932: The Bang Effect (short film)
1932: One of us
1932: The Witcher
1933: The hotel in love
1933: Fräulein Hoffmann's stories
1934: polar storms
1934: The Czardas Princess
1934: Two Geniuses (short film)
1934: Vacation from me
1934: Black hunter Johanna
1934: Heinz in the moon
1934: Music in the blood
1935: Regine
1935: A winter night's dream
1935: Petersburg nights. Waltz on the Neva
1936: The Empress' favorite
1936: The shy Casanova
1936: Paul and Pauline

Web links

literature

Julia Bernhard, Sylvia Rebbelmund, Akademie der Künste (Berlin, Germany). Foundation Archive (Ed.): OE Hasse. Archive sheets, Foundation Archive of the Academy of the Arts [= Volume 3 of Film and Media Art] Publisher: Foundation Archive of the Academy of the Arts, 2003.
Ralf Bülow: Aviator films - dramas in a double-decker . one day , April 6, 2008
Gero Gandert: 1929 - The film of the Weimar Republic. Illustrated edition, Walter de Gruyter, Berlin 1993, ISBN 978-3-11-085261-5 .
Carola Höhn: Never start to stop ...: memories. Kettermann + Schmidt, Koblenz 2003, ISBN 978-3-934639-01-0 , here p. 152.
Ulrich J. Klaus (Ed.): Volume 2 of Deutsche Tonfilme: Film lexicon of the full-length German and German-language sound films after their German premieres. Publisher: Klaus-Archiv, Berlin / Berchtesgaden 2006, here pp. 139, 270, 274.
Ulrich J. Klaus (Ed.): Supplements 1929 / 30–1945. Volume 14 of Deutsche Tonfilme: Film lexicon of the full-length German and German-language sound films after their German premieres. Klaus Archive, Berlin / Berchtesgaden 2006, ISBN 978-3-927352-13-1 .
Günter Krenn (Ed.): Walter Reisch: Write a film. Verlag Filmarchiv Austria, Vienna 2004, ISBN 978-3-901932-28-1 , here p. 351.
Jan Tilman Schwab: Football in Film: Lexicon of Football Films. Volume 2. Belleville, Munich 2006, ISBN 978-3-936298-06-2 .
Erika Wottrich (Ed.): M for Nebenzummer: Nero film production between Europe and Hollywood. Edition Text + Critique, Munich 2002, ISBN 978-3-88377-710-8 , here p. 126.

Individual evidence

^ Carl Walther Meyer in the Internet Movie Database (English), Carl Walther Meyer at filmportal.de
^ Wilhelm Kosch : Meyer, Carl Walter In: Deutsches Theaterlexikon. Volume 2, Klagenfurt 1960.
^ Critique in Film-Kurier , No. 172, July 23, 1932; where he is mentioned by name: "This interplay between the joints and hinges of a conscience equally driven by good and evil succeeds the far too little occupied Karl Walter Meyer convincingly."
↑ Deutsches Bühnen-Jahrbuch , Volume 58, 1950, p. 144
↑ cinemahistory.com acinemahistory.com (English)
↑ Jll. Film Courier No. 591 fig. at franklava.de franklava.de
↑ cf. Schwab p. 581
↑ cf. Bülow 2008: “Richthofen was not ten years dead when the Dresden actor Carl Walther Meyer took off in November 1927 in" Richthofen, the red knight of the air ". The film was an intricate love and espionage story in which the title character only played a supporting role. [...] "Richthofen" ran in the Berlin suburbs and in the provinces. Today he is missing; some excerpts are kept in the library of the University of Texas at Dallas. ”; Fig. Of Jll. Film Courier No. 747 at movie-poster-galaxy.net
↑ with Siegfried Arno and Kurt Gerron as a comedian duo Beef & Steak , premiere May 1929, cf. Gandert 1929, pp. 721-723
↑ A "propaganda film for warrior clubs" called the strip by critic eb [d. i. Erna Büsing] in The Evening No. 2 of January 2, 1930; Georg Herzberg mentions Meyer by name in Film-Kurier No. 3 of the same day: “Safe, objective players like […] the grumpy Kampers like Angelo Ferrari, CW Meyer and Arthur Duarte and others. a. form a good ensemble. ”, cf. Gandert 1929, pp. 126-127
↑ Gandert 1929, p. 174, Wottrich p. 126
↑ "A soldier film, powdered by a broad carnival insert, arose from the need to film another hit", judged the Deutsche Film Zeitung No. 11 of March 14, 1930, and Georg Herzberg in Film-Kurier No. 42 of February 16, 1930 said indulgently "... the rest of the ensemble, consisting of Ressel Orla , Ernst Rückert , Olga Limburg and Carl Walther Meyer, [...] is certainly doing an injustice with overly harsh criticism." - see. Gandert 1929, pp. 165-166
↑ The template was the much-played stage sketch by Szöke Szakall based on an idea by Karl Farkas
↑ cf. Gandert 1929, p. 553; “Since 1931 the first three German film adaptations with sound were made, in 1931 initially“ Der Zinker ”under the dual direction of Carl Lamač and Martin“ Mac ”Frič, then in 1932 the adaptation“ Der Hexer ”, also by Lamač and Frič, and in 1934“ Der Doppelganger "Directed by EW Emo, born Emerich Josef Wojtek.", cf. Simon Ofenloch at arte.tv arte.tv ( Memento of the original from September 23, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2
↑ cf. Bernhard-Rebbelmund, p. 80
↑ Meyer's participation is only possible at IMDb and in Jll. Film-Kurier No. 2463 confirmed, cf. Ludwig Manfred Lommel -Filmseite lmlommel.de , and is not mentioned on filmportal.de filmportal.de ; Fig. Jll. Film-Kurier No. 2463 at lmlommel.de lmlommel.de

personal data
SURNAME	Meyer, Carl Walther
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Meyer; Carl-Walter; Meyer, Carl; Meyer, CW; Meyer, Karl Walter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German actor
DATE OF BIRTH	February 1, 1898
PLACE OF BIRTH	Dresden
DATE OF DEATH	20th century

[1] Carl Walther Meyer in the Internet Movie Database (English), Carl Walther Meyer at filmportal.de

[2] Wilhelm Kosch : Meyer, Carl Walter In: Deutsches Theaterlexikon. Volume 2, Klagenfurt 1960.

[3] Critique in Film-Kurier , No. 172, July 23, 1932; where he is mentioned by name: "This interplay between the joints and hinges of a conscience equally driven by good and evil succeeds the far too little occupied Karl Walter Meyer convincingly."

[4] Deutsches Bühnen-Jahrbuch , Volume 58, 1950, p. 144

[5] story.com acinemahistory.com (English)

[6] Jll. Film Courier No. 591 fig. at franklava.de franklava.de

[7] . Schwab p. 581

[8] . Bülow 2008: “Richthofen was not ten years dead when the Dresden actor Carl Walther Meyer took off in November 1927 in" Richthofen, the red knight of the air ". The film was an intricate love and espionage story in which the title character only played a supporting role. [...] "Richthofen" ran in the Berlin suburbs and in the provinces. Today he is missing; some excerpts are kept in the library of the University of Texas at Dallas. ”; Fig. Of Jll. Film Courier No. 747 at movie-poster-galaxy.net

[9] with Siegfried Arno and Kurt Gerron as a comedian duo Beef & Steak , premiere May 1929, cf. Gandert 1929, pp. 721-723

[10] A "propaganda film for warrior clubs" called the strip by critic eb [d. i. Erna Büsing] in The Evening No. 2 of January 2, 1930; Georg Herzberg mentions Meyer by name in Film-Kurier No. 3 of the same day: “Safe, objective players like […] the grumpy Kampers like Angelo Ferrari, CW Meyer and Arthur Duarte and others. a. form a good ensemble. ”, cf. Gandert 1929, pp. 126-127

[11] Gandert 1929, p. 174, Wottrich p. 126

[12] "A soldier film, powdered by a broad carnival insert, arose from the need to film another hit", judged the Deutsche Film Zeitung No. 11 of March 14, 1930, and Georg Herzberg in Film-Kurier No. 42 of February 16, 1930 said indulgently "... the rest of the ensemble, consisting of Ressel Orla , Ernst Rückert , Olga Limburg and Carl Walther Meyer, [...] is certainly doing an injustice with overly harsh criticism." - see. Gandert 1929, pp. 165-166

[13] The template was the much-played stage sketch by Szöke Szakall based on an idea by Karl Farkas

[14] . Gandert 1929, p. 553; “Since 1931 the first three German film adaptations with sound were made, in 1931 initially“ Der Zinker ”under the dual direction of Carl Lamač and Martin“ Mac ”Frič, then in 1932 the adaptation“ Der Hexer ”, also by Lamač and Frič, and in 1934“ Der Doppelganger "Directed by EW Emo, born Emerich Josef Wojtek.", cf. Simon Ofenloch at arte.tv arte.tv ( Memento of the original from September 23, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2

[15] . Bernhard-Rebbelmund, p. 80

[16] Meyer's participation is only possible at IMDb and in Jll. Film-Kurier No. 2463 confirmed, cf. Ludwig Manfred Lommel -Filmseite lmlommel.de , and is not mentioned on filmportal.de filmportal.de ; Fig. Jll. Film-Kurier No. 2463 at lmlommel.de lmlommel.de