Eberhard Krumschmidt

Eberhard August Moritz Krumschmidt (born August 3, 1902 in Berlin , German Empire , † June 3, 1956 in New York City , United States ) was a German-American stage, television and film actor and a theater director .

Live and act

Krumschmidt began his stage career in 1919 at the theater in Flensburg. From 1920 obligations followed to Minden, Heidelberg, where he founded the Schlossfestspiele and was the first to have Schiller's Die Räuber performed, Berlin (guest performances), Baden-Baden, Vienna (guest performances), Frankfurt am Main, Duisburg (United City Theaters Duisburg-Bochum) and Rostock. In 1927/28 he also worked briefly as a theater director. In 1928 Krumschmidt was brought to Graz (Austria), worked from 1929 to 1931 as a director and actor in Augsburg and finally until 1933 in the same positions in Bern (Switzerland). After the National Socialists came to power, he performed at the Münchner Kammerspiele and staged several plays there in 1933/34. In 1935 he accepted the post of senior theater director at the Landestheater von Neustrelitz. Eberhard Krumschmidt stayed here for the next two years and also appeared as a guest at Munich's Kammerspiele.

When it became known that Krumschmidt might be “not Aryan”, the compact artist decided to flee and first emigrated to the United States via Rotterdam on October 16, 1937 (first arrival in New York). He was naturalized on February 15, 1944. Since the end of 1942, Krumschmidt received one or the other role offer from Broadway; The artist was seen in the propaganda piece The Russian People (1942/43), The Big Two (1947), Miracle in the Mountains (1947), I Gotta Get out (1947), Schuld und Sühne (Crime and Punishment, 1947/48) and from 1950 to 1952 Call Me Madam , his greatest stage success in the USA. Since 1945, he added minor tasks to US television. In the autumn of the same year, Alfred Hitchcock gave the native German Krumschmidt the small but distinctive role of the Nazi supporter Emil Hupka in the thriller Notorious , who had been eliminated by his own comrades-in- arms ; it was to be Krumschmidt's only trip to the cinema.

Filmography

TV films, unless otherwise stated:

• 1945: Victory
• 1946: Notorious ( Notorious , Movie)
• 1949: Of Human Bondage
• 1950: A Passenger to Bali
• 1950: Semmelweis
• 1952: Something to Celebrate
• 1952: Billy Adams, American
• 1953: Cagliostro and the Chess Player
• 1954: The Hand of the Hunter
• 1954: The Man Who Made the Kaiser Laugh
• 1955: The Critic
• 1955: Mission Rhino

literature

• Trapp, Frithjof; Mittenzwei, Werner; Rischbieter, Henning; Schneider, Hansjörg: Handbook of the German-speaking Exile Theater 1933–1945 / Biographical Lexicon of Theater Artists. Volume 2, part 1, p. 540. Munich 1999

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Arrival in the US according to ancestry.com
2. ↑ ibid.

Web links

• Eberhard Krumschmidt in the Internet Movie Database (English)
• Eberhard Krumschmidt in the Internet Broadway Database