Emil Rameau

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Emil Rameau (born August 13, 1878 as Emil Pulvermacher in Berlin ; † September 9, 1957 there ) was a German actor and theater director .

Life

Emil Rameau was born in Berlin in 1878 or - according to other sources - as early as 1873. He attended secondary school in Berlin and then decided to become an actor. He made his stage debut in 1898 as Marcellus in Julius Caesar at the Stadttheater von Bromberg , where he played until 1901. He then received an engagement in Zurich until 1906 . In 1906 he came to the Schillertheater in Berlin, where Max Reinhardt became aware of him. From 1909 he staged plays at the Freie Volksbühne . From 1914 to 1922 he played under Reinhardt's direction at the Deutsches Theater . In 1916 he began his film career with a supporting role as a doctor for the poor in the silent film Artur Imhoff . By 1933 he should have worked on over 50 films. From 1923 to 1931 he was deputy director of the Schiller Theater alongside the famous theater director Leopold Jessner . In 1932 he also directed at the Komische Oper .

After the takeover of the Nazis , he left Germany in 1933 and came via Switzerland, the Netherlands, Italy and the UK to the United States. In Hollywood, Rameau played in over 20 films during the Second World War and the post-war years, although his roles were mostly very small. He was mainly used as a friendly older man, for example as Ingrid Bergman's Italian singing teacher Maestro Guardi in The House of Lady Alquist (1944). He shot his last films in Hollywood at the end of the 1940s and returned to Germany, where he again took over as assistant director of the Schiller Theater in 1951. He died in 1957 in his native Berlin.

Filmography (selection)

literature

  • Kay Less : "In life, more is taken from you than given ...". Lexicon of filmmakers who emigrated from Germany and Austria between 1933 and 1945. A general overview. ACABUS Verlag, Hamburg 2011, ISBN 978-3-86282-049-8 , p. 406.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Emil Rameau , Internationales Biographisches Archiv 09/1958 of February 17, 1958, in the Munzinger Archive , accessed on January 29, 2017 ( beginning of the article freely accessible)
personal data
SURNAME Rameau, Emil
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Pulvermacher, Emil (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German actor and theater director
DATE OF BIRTH August 13, 1878
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH September 9, 1957
Place of death Berlin