Erich Walter (actor)
Erich von Walter (born December 26, 1877 in Dorpat , Russian Empire , today Estonia , † June 22, 1957 in Aachen ) was a German stage and film actor .
Live and act
Erich von Walter, who came from the old German-Baltic nobility, had served as a reserve officer in his tsarist homeland before he went to Germany. In Berlin he received his acting training at the turn of the century and made his debut at the Nuremberg theater on March 13, 1901. A little later he returned to Berlin and, interrupted only by a four-year interlude at the Burgtheater in Vienna , performed for almost three and a half decades at venues in the capital, including the Small Theater, the Lessing Theater, the German Art Theater, the Theater in Stresemannstrasse and the renaissance theater. Guest tours have taken Walter to both North and South America.
In 1941 the Baltic German made an obligation to the German-speaking city theater in Strasbourg in Alsace. After all German theaters were closed in 1944, Erich Walter went to Bad Godesberg and waited there for the war to end. In autumn 1945 he took up his first post-war engagement, which was also to be his last stage position: the Aachen City Theater. Here Walter had a particularly great success with the old knee in Carl Zuckmayer's “ Katharina Knie ”. On the occasion of his 50th stage anniversary, Erich Walter was appointed 1st honorary member of the Aachen City Theater.
During his time in Berlin between 1919 and 1941, Walter also took part in a number of feature film productions. There he was seen in a wide variety of roles, for example as editor-in-chief in Der Kampf um die Ehe , as count in Der Mann im Background , as Friedrich Schiller's friend Schaffenstein in the poet portrait Friedrich Schiller , as a monk in the portrait of Jesus Christ INRI , as Servant in the Harry Piel circus film Artists , as the Tsarist General in the anti-Soviet film White Slaves and as the Prefect of Police in The Governor . Erich Walter ended his film activities at the beginning of 1941 with another servant role in the anti-British propaganda film Attack on Baku .
Filmography
- 1919: The struggle for marriage, 1st part
- 1919: death sentence
- 1921: The vow
- 1922: guilt and atonement
- 1922: Dr. Mabuse, the player
- 1922: The man in the background
- 1922: Marie Antoinette
- 1923: Friedrich Schiller
- 1923: INRI
- 1924: Colibri
- 1934: The island
- 1934: Petersburg nights
- 1935: Artists
- 1935: an ideal husband
- 1936: White slaves
- 1937: The key witness
- 1937: land of love
- 1937: Thunderstorm flight to Claudia
- 1937: The man who was Sherlock Holmes
- 1938: Women for Golden Hill
- 1938: flirtation and love
- 1939: The governor
- 1941: Cadets
- 1941: Attack on Baku
literature
- German Stage Yearbook, 1958, p. 92 (obituary)
Web links
- Erich Walter in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Erich Walter at filmportal.de - there completely wrong data (that of a ballet master and choreographer of the same name)
Individual evidence
- ↑ German Stage Yearbook, 1952, p. 58
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Walter, Erich |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Walter, Erich von (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German actor on stage and film |
| DATE OF BIRTH | December 26, 1877 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Dorpat , Russian Empire , today Estonia |
| DATE OF DEATH | June 22, 1957 |
| Place of death | Aachen |