Fritz Kampers

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Fritz Kampers, 1947

Fritz Kampers (born July 14, 1891 in Munich as Friedrich Kampers ; † September 1, 1950 in Garmisch-Partenkirchen ) was a German actor .

Life and work

Fritz Kampers was the son of a Munich hotel owner, spent his early childhood in Garmisch-Partenkirchen and attended boarding school in Weilheim in Upper Bavaria . After completing secondary school, he completed a commercial apprenticeship in a Munich textile shop and at the same time took acting lessons from Richard Stury , who presided over the Munich experimental stage. After appearing on small Munich suburban stages like the Alhambratheater, he trundled through the provinces and finally found engagements in Alzey , Karlsruhe , Lucerne , Sondershausen , Helmstedt and Aachen . During the First World War he served as a cavalryman on the Eastern Front, was wounded, released and joined the front theaters in Warsaw and Łódź .

During an engagement at the Munich Volkstheater that began in 1917 , Fritz Kampers met the director Franz Seitz , who gave him several film engagements. He also appeared as a film director between 1917 and 1920. In Der Volkstyrann the famous colleague Albert Steinrück played the main role under his direction . In 1920 he went to Berlin, where he worked as a villain actor for Gustav Althoff's film company for a year and at the same time appeared on stages such as the Kleiner Schauspielhaus, the Lessingtheater , the Deutsches Theater and the “Admiralspalast” revue theater. Kampers also became popular as a cabaret artist; At times he was part of the ensemble of Trude Hesterberg's political-literary cabaret “Die Wilde Bühne”.

In the mid-1920s , Fritz Kampers changed roles and, as a comic character actor, played robust originals and dashing soldiers and officers, often with a Bavarian touch. The liking of these guys, whom he successfully embodied until the end of his film career, consisted in the apparent contrast between unspoilt robustness and unpolishedness on the one hand - Kampers' gestures were sparse, his short sentences he threw dryly and almost unintentionally - and wit, wit and unexpected depth on the other hand.

Fritz Kampers at a cooking competition for actors in Berlin, 1932

The switch to sound film was easy for Fritz Kampers. He had big roles in Max Obal's comedy “Die Lustigen Musikanten” (1930), in GW Pabst's films “Westfront 1918” (1930) and “ Kameradschaft ” (1931), in “ Drei von der Stempelstelle ” (1932) and “Zwei gute Comrades ”(1933). When in 1933 many film artists went abroad because of the National Socialist accession to government and the film industry was desperately looking for suitable replacements, Kampers, who had occasionally directed in the period after the First World War, was given the opportunity to direct two of his own films: the Schwank "Konjunkturritter" (1933/34; with Weiß Ferdl and Sabine Peters ) and the confusion game “I sing myself into your heart” (1934; with Lien Deyers and Hans Söhnker ). He continued his acting career under the National Socialist regime . From 1934 he belonged to the ensemble of the Berliner Volksbühne and he continued to appear in films - also in National Socialist propaganda films such as "Drei Kaiserjäger" (1933), "The Four Musketeers" (1934), "Urlaub auf Ehrenwort" (1937), “ In the Name of the People ” (1939), “ Robert and Bertram ” (1939), “The Fire Devil” (1940), “Above Everything in the World” and “Attack on Baku” (1941). Although Kampers was appointed state actor by Joseph Goebbels in 1939 , he seems to have turned down offers in propaganda films from 1942 onwards.

In post-war films, too, Fritz Kampers soon found work with supporting roles in films such as “Sensation in the Savoy” and “ Schwarzwaldmädel ” (1950).

Fritz Kampers was one of the most active actors in German film. Between 1918 and 1950 he acted in more than 260 films, that is every 17th film that was produced during this period.

His resting place is in the Evangelical Cemetery in Neubeckum .

Filmography (selection)

as a performer, unless otherwise stated:

Silent films

  • 1913: The pink slipper
  • 1917: The Maharaja's ruby
  • 1917: The captain's deputy
  • 1918: Lussandra, the royal slave
  • 1918: Almenrausch and Edelweiss; Director and actor
  • 1918: The Black Jack
  • 1919: Lost game
  • 1919: Lya's flirtation with the saint
  • 1919: Foxtrot dad
  • 1919: A wedding morning
  • 1919: The dying Salome
  • 1919: The Black Jack
  • 1920: Human Debris; Director, actor
  • 1920: rampant blood. 1. Luxury fever
  • 1920: rampant blood. 2. The diamond trap
  • 1920: Tom Black, the criminal lord. 1st part: The devil's clock
  • 1920: Tom Black. Part 2: The dead passenger
  • 1920: Teufel and Circe
  • 1920: The death shaft
  • 1920: The end of the Paolo de Gaspardo adventure
  • 1920: Tortured hearts: Part 1: Without a home
  • 1920: Tortured Hearts: Part 2: Happiness and Glass
  • 1920: Flametti. 1. The innocent
  • 1920: Flametti. 2. The Ghost Festival
  • 1920: The ox war
  • 1920: the last shot
  • 1920: The People's Tyrant; Director
  • 1921: Lodge No. 11
  • 1921: The diamonds competition
  • 1921: The Devil's Pharmacy
  • 1921: The red witch
  • 1921: Poor little Eva: Part 2
  • 1921: From the black book of a police commissioner, Part 1: Lodge No. 11
  • 1921: What the skull tells
  • 1921: arch crook
  • 1921: The Minors: Too Young for Life
  • 1922: lowlands
  • 1922: The old Gospodar
  • 1922: Yellow Star
  • 1922: The dance of death
  • 1922: Monna Vanna
  • 1922: Lola Montez, the king's dancer
  • 1923: Night storms
  • 1923: The stone rider
  • 1923: Man on the way
  • 1923: Wilhelm Tell
  • 1924: In the claws of guilt
  • 1924: Lord Reginald's derby ride
  • 1924: Nanon
  • 1924: A dream of happiness
  • 1924: The way to God
  • 1924: Arabella, the novel of a horse
  • 1924: The voice of the heart
  • 1924: The love letters of an abandoned woman
  • 1924: comedians
  • 1925: People by the sea
  • 1925: The one from the Lower Rhine
  • 1925: The one from the Lower Rhine, part 2
  • 1925: ascent of little Lilian
  • 1925: Zapfenstreich
  • 1925: Reveille, the great awakening
  • 1925: Wallenstein
  • 1925: Götz von Berlichingen named with the iron hand
  • 1925: half silk
  • 1926: Say hello to the blond child on the Rhine
  • 1926: The Sanssouci mill
  • 1926: The man without sleep
  • 1926: The pride of the company / The pearl of the regiment
  • 1926: marriage advertisements
  • 1926: Five o'clock tea on Ackerstrasse
  • 1926: Our daily bread
  • 1926: Nanette does everything
  • 1926: The Prince and the Dancer
  • 1926: The provincial uncle
  • 1926: We are from K. u. K. Infantry Regiment
  • 1926: The captain of Köpenick
  • 1926: I had a comrade
  • 1926: Kubinke, the barber, and the three maids
  • 1926: The little girl and her gentleman
  • 1926: Superfluous people
  • 1926: The pastor of Kirchfeld
  • 1926: The Hunter of Fall
  • 1926: Escape to the circus
  • 1926: At home, there’s a reunion!
  • 1927: The Juxbaron
  • 1927: The rider's daughter
  • 1927: The world holds its breath
  • 1927: The pirates of the Baltic seaside resorts
  • 1927: German women: German loyalty
  • 1927: Forbidden love
  • 1927: The pink slipper
  • 1927: The master of the world
  • 1927: Previous conditions
  • 1927: The Blessed Excellency
  • 1927: a serious case
  • 1927: I dreamed of love in May
  • 1927: The Curse of Inheritance
  • 1927: The beggar from Cologne Cathedral
  • 1927: Killed by life
  • 1927: radio magic
  • 1927: A girl from the people
  • 1927: Light cavalry
  • 1927: weekend magic
  • 1927: When people are ripe for love
  • 1927: Petronella
  • 1927: Heavy boys: easy girls
  • 1928: Gustav Mond, you walk so quietly
  • 1928: Dragoon love
  • 1928: The Piccolo of the Golden Lion
  • 1928: Three boys moved
  • 1928: Almenrausch and Edelweiss
  • 1928: Autumn on the Rhine
  • 1928: Miss Chauffeur
  • 1928: The lady and her chauffeur
  • 1928: There is no trace of the perpetrator
  • 1928: The executioner / the public prosecutor accuses
  • 1928: Robert and Bertram
  • 1928: a better gentleman
  • 1928: The women’s war
  • 1928: Mary Lou
  • 1928: The lady in the mask
  • 1928: marriage fever
  • 1928: Ossi is wearing his pants
  • 1928: The house without men
  • 1928: Lemke's blessed widow
  • 1929: Somnambul
  • 1929: speed! Tempo!
  • 1929: The circus princess
  • 1929: Three days of life and death
  • 1929: Miss Ensign
  • 1929: Foolish luck
  • 1929: Through the Brandenburg Gate
  • 1929: The right of the unborn
  • 1929: Bus No. 2
  • 1929: The jolly men's game
  • 1929: Marriage in need
  • 1929: Katharina Knie
  • 1929: youth tragedy
  • 1929: The mistress and her servant

Sound films up to 1945

Post war films

Radio plays

literature

  • Aros (that is: Alfred Rosenthal ): Fritz Kampers. An actor's life (= illustrated film books. Vol. 12). Scherl, Berlin 1932.
  • Hans-Michael Bock (Ed.): CineGraph. Lexicon for German-language films. Edition Text + Criticism, München 1984 ff. (Loseblattausgabe).

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personal data
SURNAME Kampers, Fritz
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Kampers, Friedrich (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German actor
DATE OF BIRTH July 14, 1891
PLACE OF BIRTH Munich
DATE OF DEATH September 1, 1950
Place of death Garmisch-Partenkirchen