Eugene Dumont

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Eugen Dumont (* the 30th July 1877 in Küstrin , Empire , † 21st December 1957 in Goettingen , Federal Republic of Germany ) was a German actor of stage and film and theater director , with more than six decades stage presence one of the doyen of German-Austrian theater scene of the 20th century.

Live and act

Training and stage work until 1945

Dumont completed his artistic training in 1894/95 at the Freiherr von Bodenhausen Theater Academy in Breslau and received his first engagement in 1895 from the Thalia Theater in the Silesian capital. Until his death in 1957, Eugen Dumont passed only a few theater stations and often remained loyal to one and the same venue for many years. These were the most important German-speaking theaters of the time: Beginning with a commitment to the Theater in der Josefstadt in Vienna run by Josef Jarno , Dumont's following stations were the German Theater in Berlin (before the First World War) with the associated Kammerspiele, both under the direction of Max Reinhardt , and for many years the Düsseldorfer Schauspielhaus (where he was initially allowed to direct) under the direction of Louise Dumont , who was not related to him , only interrupted by a four-year interlude at the Vienna German Volkstheater (1922 to 1926). During his time in Vienna, Dumont was married to his professional colleague Ria Thiele , who was almost 27 years his junior and whom he knew from the Düsseldorfer Schauspielhaus.

The last stage years and film engagements

At the end of the war in 1945, Eugen Dumont's decades of membership in the Düsseldorfer Schauspielhaus ended. The last phase of his life followed at the Deutsches Theater in Göttingen under the direction of Heinz Hilpert . Here Dumont was seen in various age roles such as Lukas in Hugo von Hofmannsthal's Der Schwierige (1954) as well as Martin in Federico García Lorcas Doña Rosita , as Müller in Gustav Freytag's Die Journalisten and as a doctor in William Shakespeare's King Lear (all 1955) . Guest tours have taken the artist to Antwerp , Budapest , Bucharest , Amsterdam and Brussels, among others .

Eugen Dumont first appeared in front of the camera at the time when he was engaged at the Deutsches Volkstheater in Vienna. In 1924 he played the Russian war minister in the espionage drama Colonel Redl and, two years later, played the first Soviet dictator Lenin in The Arsonists of Europe , the thematic development of his debut film. Dumont became regularly active in film, beginning in 1949 with Curt Goetzens gynecologist Dr. Praetorius , only in his Göttingen years. Here he played gnarled, down-to-earth old men as well as grand seigneurs and formidable officials of all kinds: a peasant in Veit Harlan's Immortal Beloved , a counselor in Karl Hartl's war of love according to notes and a doorman in the artist film by Hollywood returnees Kurt Neumann , Drei vom Varieté , Dumonts last movie.

Filmography

literature

  • Kürschner's Biographical Theater Handbook, Walter de Gruyter Co., Berlin 1956, p. 135
  • Glenzdorfs Internationales Film-Lexikon, first volume, Bad Münder 1960, p. 321

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personal data
SURNAME Dumont, Eugene
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German actor
DATE OF BIRTH July 30, 1877
PLACE OF BIRTH Küstrin , German Empire
DATE OF DEATH December 21, 1957
Place of death Göttingen , Federal Republic of Germany