Christian Kayßler
Christian Friedrich Kayßler , also Kayssler (born June 14, 1898 in Breslau , † March 10, 1944 in Berlin-Blankenfelde ) was a German actor .
Live and act
He was the son of the actor Friedrich Kayßler and the stepson of his wife (since 1905), the actress Helene Fehdmer . Kayßler received acting lessons from his father and began his theater career shortly after the end of the First World War at the Münchner Kammerspiele , directed by Otto Falckenberg .
He then went to Vienna and came to the Deutsches Theater Berlin via Stuttgart . At the Volksbühne Berlin he played in Gerhart Hauptmann's Rose Bernd in 1937 and in Friedrich Schiller's Wilhelm Tell and Friedrich Hebbel's Agnes Bernauer in 1938 .
During the Second World War, Kayßler was repeatedly used in National Socialist propaganda films . He mostly embodied soldiers or officers.
Kayßler was married to the children's book author Anne Beblo. The daughter Christine (1923-2010) also became an actress. He was married to the actress Mila Kopp since the 1920s and was often on stage with her. Her children were Maria (* 1934) and Martin Kayßler (* 1939), who also became actors.
Christian Kayßler died in March 1944 in an Allied bomb attack.
Filmography
- 1934: The old and the young king
- 1937: Pan
- 1937: Michael company
- 1939: goal in the clouds
- 1939: Three NCOs
- 1939: D III 88
- 1939: Your life is mine
- 1940: Warning! Enemy hears with!
- 1941: Lützow Combat Squadron
- 1941: I indict
- 1942: fate
- 1942: Andreas Schlueter
- 1942: The discharge
literature
- Johann Caspar Glenzdorf: Glenzdorf's international film lexicon. Biographical manual for the entire film industry. Volume 2: Hed – Peis. Prominent-Filmverlag, Bad Münder 1961, DNB 451560744 .
Individual evidence
- ↑ IMDb, filmportal.de, Glenzdorfs internationales Film-Lexikon , Wilhelm Koschs Deutsches Theaterlexikon and others name June 14th as their date of birth, but Helga and Karlheinz Wendtland in their beloved Kintopp show July 14th.
- ↑ Portrait of the actor Christian Kayssler on cyranos.ch (accessed on July 23, 2012).
Web links
- Christian Kayßler in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Portrait photos of Christian Kayßler on virtual-history.com
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Kayßler, Christian |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Kayssler, Christian; Kayßler, Christian Friedrich (maiden name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German actor |
| DATE OF BIRTH | June 14, 1898 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Wroclaw |
| DATE OF DEATH | March 10, 1944 |
| Place of death | Berlin-Blankenfelde |