Curt Westermann

Curt Westermann , born in Paul Scholz (born February 12, 1878 in Leipzig , German Empire , † November 18, 1961 in Darmstadt ), was a German theater actor who had worked in Darmstadt for many years.

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Westermann received his artistic training from Oskar Borcherdt in his hometown of Leipzig at the turn of the century . Then he went to Liegnitz in Lower Silesia, where he made his stage debut. Further early engagements led Westermann to Regensburg, Königsberg, Danzig, the court theater in Oldenburg and finally to Freiburg. In those early years he was seen, initially in the roles of “youthful lover” and “youthful hero”, including as Ferdinand in Cabal and Love , as Don Karlos , as Romeo in Romeo and Juliet , as Mark Anton (Shakespeare), as Count of Charolais in the eponymous tragedy by Beer-Hofmann, as Georg in Sudermann's Johannisfeuer and as Hereditary Prince Karl-Heinz in Meyer-Förster's student romance Alt-Heidelberg .

In 1909 Curt Westermann came to the court theater in Darmstadt, to which he was to remain loyal for the next 50 years. Initially still cast as a “youthful hero”, the artist switched to character subjects in 1912. Here, until his retirement in 1959, he practically covered the entire range of roles and played under a total of 17 directors, including Gustav Hartung , Ernst Legal and Gustav Rudolf Sellner . Westermann was awarded the bronze merit plaque of the city of Darmstadt, the Goethe plaque of the state of Hesse and the Federal Cross of Merit for his many years of work on site . Even after he left acting at the age of 81, the artist remained connected to Darmstadt until his death in 1961.

literature

• Heinrich Hagemann (Ed.): Specialized lexicon of the German stage members . Pallas and Hagemanns Bühnen-Verlag, Berlin 1906, p. 47.

Web link

• Short biography