Eugen Klöpfer

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Eugen Klöpfer 1927 on a photograph by Alexander Binder

Eugen Gottlob Klöpfer (born March 10, 1886 in Rauhen Stich near Talheim , † March 3, 1950 in Wiesbaden ) was a German actor .

Life

Eugen Klöpfer was born as the youngest of eleven children of the farmer and innkeeper Karl Klöpfer and his wife Karoline, née Hörsch, in the Rauher Stich residential area in Talheim . He attended secondary school in Heilbronn , then from 1898 the Latin school in Lauffen am Neckar and from 1900 the Karlsgymnasium in Heilbronn.

Klöpfer began an apprenticeship as a timber merchant in Munich, but his whole passion was acting. He became a member of the Munich Stage Association and appeared on various provincial theaters. In 1905 he got his first engagement in Landshut . Then he played in Ingolstadt and Biel . In 1909 he came to the Volkstheater in Munich, later on stages in Colmar , Erfurt , Bonn and Frankfurt am Main (1914 to 1918).

After the First World War , Klöpfer went to Berlin. There he played at the Deutsches Theater from 1920 to 1923 , then on various stages, and from 1925 also in Vienna and Salzburg. Eventually he toured Europe and South America.

Veit Harlan (left) and Eugen Klöpfer (right), shortly before Klöpfer's interrogation, as exonerating witnesses at the Harlan trial in Hamburg (March 1949)

In the twenties he appeared in numerous silent films. After the National Socialist " seizure of power " in 1933, the sympathizer rose to the presidency of the Reichsfilmkammer , which was subordinate to Joseph Goebbels , and also became chairman of the Dr. Goebbels donation thanks to artists . In 1934 he was appointed state actor and artistic director of the Berlin Volksbühne . From 1935 he was Vice President of the Reich Theater Chamber and a member of the UFA Board of Directors. In 1936 he was appointed general manager of the Berlin theater on Nollendorfplatz . In 1937 Klöpfer became a member of the NSDAP . In 1940 he played the role of landscape consultant Sturm in the anti-Semitic inflammatory film Jud Suss directed by Veit Harlan . In the final phase of the Second World War , in August 1944, Adolf Hitler added him to the God-gifted list of the most important artists, which freed him from military service, including on the “ home front ”.

After 1945, Klöpfer was banned from performing and was imprisoned for two months. In 1948 he was in a denazification process relieved of the accusation, for the death of the actor Joachim Gottschalk to have been partly responsible. In 1949 he appeared again with his own ensemble in Cologne and Neustadt in the Palatinate, but died in 1950 of pneumonia. His grave is in the Südfriedhof in Wiesbaden.

Klöpfer was in a relationship with the actress Flockina von Platen .

Filmography

literature

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ On the way in a forgotten corner . Heilbronner Voice, 11 August 2018. Can be viewed online for a fee.
  2. ^ A b Ernst Klee : The cultural lexicon for the Third Reich. Who was what before and after 1945. S. Fischer, Frankfurt am Main 2007, ISBN 978-3-10-039326-5 , pp. 313-314.
personal data
SURNAME Klöpfer, Eugene
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Klöpfer, Eugen Gottlob (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German actor
DATE OF BIRTH March 10, 1886
PLACE OF BIRTH Talheim (district of Heilbronn)
DATE OF DEATH March 3, 1950
Place of death Wiesbaden