Franz Scharwenka

Franz Scharwenka (born June 2, 1882 in Berlin , † October 3, 1960 in Stuttgart ) was a German stage, film and television actor who briefly worked as a theater director shortly after the Second World War .

Live and act

At the theater

Scharwenka began his artistic career shortly after the turn of the century in his native Berlin and played the next quarter of a century on stages in Berlin (Schiller Theater), Düsseldorf (Stadttheater), Munich (Schauspielhaus) and most recently again in Berlin (German Art Theater). Further stage engagements then took him to Augsburg, to the Kammerspiele in Munich and to Berlin's theater in the Admiralspalast. From 1932 to 1934 Franz Scharwenka appeared as an ensemble member of the theaters in Mährisch-Ostrau and Brünn (both Czechoslovakia), from 1935 to 1939 the Berliner worked in Graz, Austria. During the war years 1939–1944, Scharwenka performed at venues in Wiesbaden, (in German-occupied) Metz (Lorraine), Würzburg (summer stage) and again in Mährisch-Ostrau.

Franz Scharwenka started his post-war career in Stuttgart, where he also settled. Here he worked as an actor and director at the Staatstheater until 1948, then went to the Intimate Theater for one season (1948/49) and worked for around ten years at the Junge Theater and in the comedy at Marquardt. In 1959 a short-term engagement led him to the Theater am Roßmarkt in Frankfurt am Main.

With film and television

Scharwenka appeared in front of the camera for the first time before the First World War and since then has appeared at irregular intervals in small roles in both silent and sound films. Several times he was cast as a nobleman, but also played simpler characters. As early as the early 1930s, his film activity came to a largely standstill; his last two appearances in front of the camera took place in 1957 in two television films on the Süddeutscher Rundfunk.

Significant relatives

Scharwenka came from a family of artists, including various musicians. His father was the composer and music teacher Philipp Scharwenka , his uncle Xaver Scharwenka worked in the same field of activity. Franz's brother Walter Scharwenka, who was one year older, was a well-known composer and organist.

Filmography

• 1913: The People's Tyrant
• 1917: The gentleman with the mastiff
• 1919: The Miss von Scuderi
• 1920: orchids
• 1920: The black amulet
• 1921: The woman of tomorrow
• 1921: Empress Elisabeth of Austria
• 1928: Waterloo
• 1929: In a small pastry shop
• 1930: the old song
• 1934: A woman who knows what she wants
• 1957: The Force and the Glory (TV movie)
• 1957: The Big ABC (TV movie)

literature

• Herbert A. Frenzel , Hans Joachim Moser (ed.): Kürschner's biographical theater manual. Drama, opera, film, radio. Germany, Austria, Switzerland. De Gruyter, Berlin 1956, DNB 010075518 , p. 637.
• Johann Caspar Glenzdorf: Glenzdorf's international film lexicon. Biographical manual for the entire film industry. Volume 3: Peit – Zz. Prominent-Filmverlag, Bad Münder 1961, DNB 451560752 , p. 1481 f.

Web links

• Franz Scharwenka in the Internet Movie Database (English)
• Franz Scharwenka at filmportal.de