Fritz Staudte

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Fritz Staudte (* 19th April 1883 in Sipirok , Sumatra , Dutch East Indies , now Indonesia , † 1958 ) was a German actor of stage and film, theater director and screenwriter .

Life

The father of the famous film director Wolfgang Staudte attended high school and then completed an apprenticeship as a bookseller at the beginning of the 20th century. In 1903 Fritz Staudte changed his profession and appeared on stages in the German provinces such as Gera and Eutin for the next five years . At the time of Wolfgang's birth, Fritz Staudte was engaged at the Saarbrücken City Theater. In 1908 the family moved to Berlin, where Fritz Staudte continued his stage activities (e.g. at the Rose Theater , where he was also allowed to direct stage, and from 1921 to 1932 at the Volksbühne Berlin , where he also housed son Wolfgang). In 1932 Fritz Staudte moved briefly to the Deutsches Theater and again took Wolfgang with him. In his later years, especially during the Second World War , Fritz Staudte only got employment on tiny touring stages. In 1938 he worked on a Reichsautobahn stage, at the same time he was also cast in the promotional film for the German Reichsautobahn construction man for man .

Staudte received the first offer from the film towards the end of the silent film era. He made his debut as statesman Talleyrand at the side of Werner Kraussen's Napoleon Bonaparte in Lupu Pick's monumental painting Napoleon on St. Helena . Krauss made it possible for Staudte at his side in 1931 to make his debut in sound film in another anti-Napoleonic historical picture ( Yorck ). Staudte's work in front of the camera was consistently limited to sometimes tiny supporting roles. He covered the entire spectrum of a small actor: he played a porter as well as a judge, a professor as well as a servant, a bank director as well as the head of a football club. After his son Wolfgang was able to work regularly as a film director from 1942, he also gave his elderly father several roles. Most recently, in the early post-war years, Staudte's father and son even worked together on the creation of the scripts for some of the early DEFA productions by Wolfgang Staudte.

Fritz Staudte, who lived in Dahlewitz in the Zossen district before 1945 and after the war and thus, unlike his son Wolfgang, stayed in the GDR, allegedly died in 1958. Exactly where and when is currently unknown.

Filmography

as an actor, unless otherwise stated

literature

  • 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. 1653a.

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personal data
SURNAME Staudte, Fritz
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German actor, theater director and screenwriter
DATE OF BIRTH April 19, 1883
PLACE OF BIRTH Sipirok , Sumatra , Dutch East Indies
DATE OF DEATH 1958