Erwin Knausmüller

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Erwin Knausmüller ( Russian Эрвин Эрвинович Кнаусмюллер ; born January 31, 1912 in Linz , † January 4, 2000 in Moscow ) was a Soviet actor .

Life

Knausmüller was trained at the Graz Commercial Academy, after which he worked in foreign trade. In 1934 he took part in the uprising of the Republican Schutzbund . He was subjected to reprisals for communist activities. From 1936 he was with the RGI in the Soviet Union. He worked as a technician in the Moscow department store ZUM. During the German-Soviet war he belonged to the motorized rifle brigade for the special use of the NKVD , later he was employed as a political instructor in the Antifa school in Krasnogorsk . For his services he was awarded the Order of the Patriotic War of the II class and theMedal “For the Defense of Moscow” honored.

From 1947 he edited the newspaper “Mitteilungen” for Austrian prisoners of war. In 1951 he was hired as a German speaker on the Soviet Radio Committee. Between 1970 and 1982 he worked in the administration for the diplomatic corps in Moscow.

In 1959, Knausmüller was first seen on the big screen in The First Day of Peace by Jakow Segel . As an actor, he usually played German officers or foreign diplomats. They were mostly episode roles in more than 50 TV and cinema films. From the end of the 1980s he played in only a few films, including a leading role in Alexei Sernow's short film Walter i Amalia in 1993 , which was awarded as Best Student Film at the Potsdam Film Festival .

Knausmüller died in January 2000 and was buried in the Vvedenskoye Cemetery in Moscow.

Filmography (selection)

  • 1959: The first day of peace (Perwy den mira)
  • 1959: The golden train (Solotoi eschelon)
  • 1966–1967: War and Peace (Woina i mir)
  • 1967: The way to Saturn (Put w "Saturn")
  • 1968: The ambassador's mistake
  • 1969: Tchaikovsky
  • 1973: There is no turning back (Woswrata net)
  • 1977: Front behind the front line (Front sa linijei fronta)
  • 1984: Seven Elementary Forces (Sem stichi)
  • 1985: Battle of Moscow (Bitwa sa Moskwu)

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SURNAME Knausmüller, Erwin
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Кнаусмюллер, Эрвин Эрвинович (Russian)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION soviet actor
DATE OF BIRTH January 31, 1912
PLACE OF BIRTH Linz
DATE OF DEATH January 4, 2000
Place of death Moscow