Curt Lucas

Curt Lucas around 1920

Curt Lucas (born January 20, 1888 in Golzow , † September 12, 1960 in Berlin-Wilmersdorf , occasionally also known as Kurt Lucas ) was a German actor .

Life

Curt Lucas attended the cathedral high school in Naumburg . In 1906 he began his theater career with his first roles. Engagements initially took him to the State Theater in Oldenburg and the State Theater in Braunschweig . The Reinhardt Theaters and the Prussian State Theater followed from 1926 in Berlin . From 1933 he played many character roles at the State Theater . These included, under the management of Gustaf Gründgens, Lord Caversham in Oscar Wilde's comedy An Ideal Gatte (1936) and the theater director in Six People Looking for an Author by Luigi Pirandello (1937). Further stations in Berlin were the Hebbel Theater from 1945 to 1951 and, from 1955, the Theater am Kurfürstendamm . There he celebrated his 50th stage anniversary in 1956.

Curt Lucas began his film career in 1920 as an actor in the silent film How Fate Played by Paul von Woringen . From 1932 he worked in numerous film productions, mostly in supporting roles. Among them were the 1934 science fiction film Gold by Karl Hartl with Hans Albers and Brigitte Helm and in 1942 the crime film The Thing with Styx by Karl Anton with Laura Solari , Viktor de Kowa and Will Dohm .

In 1941, in the Nazi propaganda film Ich klage , which can now only be shown as a conditional film under strict conditions, he represented a medical adviser. Curt Lucas was also an important artist of the Nazi regime on the God-favored list of Reich Propaganda Minister Goebbels .

In the 1950s Curt Lucas could be seen again in a few entertainment films and television productions .

As early as 1925 he began working for the radio and was involved in an adaptation of Heinrich von Kleist's Der zerbrochne Krug of the Funk-Hour Berlin directed by Alfred Braun . Lucas was also occasionally active as a voice actor.

Curt Lucas died in 1960 after a long illness in Berlin-Wilmersdorf.

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 , p. 1031
Herbert A. Frenzel , Hans Joachim Moser (ed.): Kürschner's biographical theater manual. Drama, opera, film, radio. Germany, Austria, Switzerland. De Gruyter, Berlin 1956, DNB 010075518 , p. 446
Ernst Klee : The cultural lexicon for the Third Reich. Who was what before and after 1945. S. Fischer, Frankfurt am Main 2007, ISBN 978-3-10-039326-5 , pp. 343, 344

Commons : Curt Lucas - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

↑ Reichsfilmkammerakte on the German Digital Library ; accessed on June 21, 2020
^ German stage yearbook. Vol. 25, 1914, p. 582
↑ Kürschner's biographical theater manual. P. 446
^ German stage yearbook. Vol. 66, 1958, p. 48.
↑ ^a ^b German Stage Yearbook. Vol. 69, 1961, p. 107.
↑ Ernst Klee: Cultural Lexicon for the Third Reich . ISBN 978-3-10-039326-5 , pp. 343 .
↑ The Broken Jug on ARD audio play database online; accessed on June 23, 2020
^ ^A ^b Johann Caspar Glenzdorf: Glenzdorf's international film lexicon. Biographical manual for the entire film industry. Volume 3: Peit – Zz. P. 1031.