Gustav Waldau
Gustav Waldau , also Gustl Waldau , actually Gustav Theodor Clemens Robert Freiherr von Rummel (born February 27, 1871 at Piflas Castle , Ergolding , † May 25, 1958 in Munich ) was a German theater and film actor.
Live and act
Born Gustav Freiherr von Rummel, he quit his officer service in a Munich guard regiment, first became a journalist and then trained as an actor. He made his debut in 1897 at the Cologne City Theater.
Waldau performed on various stages for almost 50 years, mainly in Munich, but also in Berlin and Vienna. Together with his wife Hertha von Hagen , he belonged to the ensemble of the Bavarian State Theater for several decades .
Waldau was used in film especially in the 1930s and 1940s. He embodied genteel and reserved older men in supporting roles. During the time of National Socialism he was given the title of state actor and in 1941 he was awarded the Goethe Medal for Art and Science . In the final phase of the Second World War , Adolf Hitler included him in the God-gifted list of the most important artists in August 1944 , which saved him from being used on the home front . Waldau was later awarded the Max Reinhardt Ring .
Gustav Waldau was buried in the Bogenhausen cemetery in Munich (wall grave No. 11 on the right).
Honors
- 1956: Cross of Merit 1st Class of the Federal Republic of Germany
- In the year he died, Munich named a Gustav-Waldau-Steig in Herzogpark. In 1960 Vienna- Döbling (19th district) followed with a Waldaugasse . Ergolding, where he was born, also honored him by naming the street that leads past the house where he was born.
Filmography (selection)
- 1915: The gentleman without an apartment
- 1915: Gustl's affair
- 1919: artist's expenses
- 1919: Foxtrot dad
- 1931: The wrong husband
- 1932: A great idea
- 1933: Season in Cairo
- 1934: You and the three
- 1934: Farewell waltz
- 1934: To be a great lady for once
- 1934: Her Excellency's daughters
- 1934: This is how a love ended
- 1934: Dear stupid mom
- 1934: Little Dorrit
- 1934: your greatest success
- 1935: The outsider
- 1935: A winter night's dream
- 1935: You and the three
- 1935: The sleeping car controller
- 1935: One night on the Danube
- 1936: The three around Christine
- 1936: Queen's girlhood
- 1936: Three girls around Schubert
- 1936: You are my luck
- 1937: The great adventure
- 1937: The voice of the heart
- 1937: The really great follies
- 1937: The key witness
- 1938: The small and the big love
- 1938: Guest performance in paradise
- 1938: Life can be so beautiful
- 1938: Mrs. Sixta
- 1938: Yvette
- 1939: Carnival
- 1939: A little night music
- 1939: Three wonderful days
- 1939: The Whitsun Organ
- 1939: Gold in New Frisco
- 1939: a hopeless case
- 1940: a man on the wrong track
- 1940: Falstaff in Vienna
- 1940: The Geierwally
- 1940: Herz drops anchor
- 1940: for a lifetime
- 1940: operetta
- 1940: Our Miss Doctor
- 1940: The Fraulein von Barnhelm
- 1940: The saving angel
- 1941: Hallgarten scout troop
- 1941: The waitress Anna
- 1941: Jenny and the gentleman in tails
- 1941: the seventh boy
- 1942: Between heaven and earth
- 1942: secret files WB 1
- 1942: Beloved World
- 1942: Small residence
- 1943: Symphony of a Life
- 1943: La Bajazzo
- 1943: Münchhausen
- 1943: The second shot
- 1943: Late love
- 1943: I pagliacci
- 1943: Carnival of Love
- 1943: The neverending way
- 1944: Little Muck
- 1944: luck on the road
- 1944: come back to me
- 1945: regimental music
- 1947: Singing Angels
- 1948: The angel with the trumpet
- 1948: The other life
- 1948: Fregola
- 1949: a bewitching impostor
- 1949: The strange story of Kaspar from Brandner
- 1949: Who are you that I love?
- 1949: The cuckoo's egg
- 1949: Don't dream, Annette
- 1949: The gateway to paradise
- 1949: a great love
- 1949: Eroica
- 1949: Dear friend
- 1950: The double lottery
- 1950: Chaste Adam
- 1950: King for one night
- 1950: Four flights of stairs to the right
- 1951: Five Girls and One Man (A Tale of Five Cities)
- 1951: Dr. Holl
- 1951: Immortal light
- 1952: The beautiful Tölzerin
- 1952: two people
- 1952: monks, girls and pandours
- 1953: The night without morals
- 1953: Aunt Jutta from Calcutta
- 1953: marriage strike
- 1954: Hubertus Castle
- 1954: The silent angel
- 1955: 08/15 at home
- 1955: Lola Montez
Web links
- Gustav Waldau in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Pictures by Gustav Waldau In: Virtual History
- Literature by and about Gustav Waldau in the catalog of the German National Library
Individual evidence
- ^ A b Ernst Klee : The cultural lexicon for the Third Reich. Who was what before and after 1945 . S. Fischer, Frankfurt / M. 2007, ISBN 978-3-10-039326-5 , p. 640.
- ↑ billiongraves.de: Gustl-Waldau
- ^ Gustl-Waldau-Strasse in Ergolding
personal data | |
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SURNAME | Waldau, Gustav |
ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Waldau, Gustl; Rummel, Gustav Theodor Clemens Robert Freiherr von (real name) |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German theater and film actor |
DATE OF BIRTH | February 27, 1871 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Ergolding |
DATE OF DEATH | May 25, 1958 |
Place of death | Munich |