Fritz Achterberg

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Fritz Achterberg on a photograph by Alexander Binder

Fritz Karl Walther Achterberg (born November 2, 1880 in Berlin , † October 12, 1971 in Weimar ) was a German theater and silent film actor .

Life

Fritz Achterberg was discovered for the stage by Paul Pauli and made his debut in 1898 at the Belle Alliance Theater in Berlin in the role of adjutant in Christian Dietrich Grabbe's Napoleon or The Hundred Days . In addition to Pauli, Conrad L'Allemand was also one of Achterberg's teachers. After further stages he returned to Berlin via Hamburg in 1910 and played at the Schiller Theater, Small Theater and Lessing Theater , among others .

In 1912 he began a career as a silent film actor. Achterberg initially embodied youthful heroes, but mostly noble, gallant men in the 1920s. In 1923 he retired from film and then worked for four years at the Braunschweig Theater. From 1932 to 1944 he was part of the character hero subject at the Weimar Theater . In the post-war period he spent his old age in Weimar.

Filmography

literature

  • Achterberg, Fritz Karl Walter . In: Kurt Mühsam, Egon Jacobsohn: Lexikon des Films . Lichtbildbühne publishing house, Berlin 1926, p. 5.
  • Kay Less : The film's great personal dictionary . The actors, directors, cameramen, producers, composers, screenwriters, film architects, outfitters, costume designers, editors, sound engineers, make-up artists and special effects designers of the 20th century. Volume 1: A - C. Erik Aaes - Jack Carson. Schwarzkopf & Schwarzkopf, Berlin 2001, ISBN 3-89602-340-3 , p. 24.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ According to Less. Other sources give 1888 as the year of birth. Cf. Kurt Mühsam, Egon Jacobsohn: Lexikon des Films . Lichtbildbühne publishing house, Berlin 1926, p. 5.
personal data
SURNAME Achterberg, Fritz
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Achterberg, Fritz Karl Walther (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German theater and silent film actor
DATE OF BIRTH November 2, 1880
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH October 12, 1971
Place of death Weimar