Fritz Rémond junior

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Fritz Rémond junior (born October 9, 1902 in Karlsruhe , † March 31, 1976 in Bad Nauheim ) was a German actor , director and impresario .

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Fritz Rémond came from a traditional family of artists: his paternal grandmother was the singer Maria Rémond-Heinemann (1831–1902). Her son, Fritz Rémond senior (1864–1936), an important hero tenor, later became director of the Cologne Opera (until 1928) with Otto Klemperer as general music director. Fritz Rémond seniors nephew was the actor and comedy poet Curt Goetz .

Fritz Rémond junior was engaged as an actor in Düsseldorf, in Berlin under Max Reinhardt and at the National Theater in Osnabrück before he went to Stettin and Krakow as chief director and finally to the German Theater in Prague in 1941. At the end of the war he came to Bad Tölz as director of a traveling theater , then moved to Frankfurt am Main, where he played and staged freely at the municipal theaters . In 1947, at the suggestion of Bernhard Grzimek , Rémond founded the “Small Theater in the Zoo” (today “ Fritz-Rémond-Theater ”) in the Frankfurt Zoo Society House , whose impresario he remained until his death.

Burial place of the Dumont family

Fritz Rémonds Kleines Theater initially sought to meet the pent-up demand for international contemporary drama, only to turn more and more to the boulevard in later years. Rémond, whose stage featured numerous prominent actors from the 1950s and 1960s, discovered and promoted Boy Gobert , Louise Martini and Hans-Joachim Kulenkampff , among others .

Rémond was a virtuoso comedian whose haunting depictions of amiable and bizarre owls, drunk melancholics, etc., could not be damaged even in the often second-rate films in which his art is passed down.

Rémond died in 1976 at the age of 73. He was buried in the family grave of his wife Carola born Dumont (1896–1980) in the Melaten cemetery in Cologne (lit. J).

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SURNAME Rémond, Fritz junior
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German actor, director and impresario
DATE OF BIRTH October 9, 1902
PLACE OF BIRTH Karlsruhe
DATE OF DEATH March 31, 1976
Place of death Bad Nauheim