Gustl Gstettenbaur

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Gustl Gstettenbaur (also Gustl Stark-Gestettenbaur , Gustl Stark-Gstettenbauer , Gustl Stark-Gstettenbaur ) (born March 1, 1914 as August Ludwig Gstettenbaur in Straubing ; † November 20, 1996 in Hindelang ) was a German stage and film actor.

Life

He had his first stage role at the age of 13 as Falstaff's page in Heinrich IV in the Lessing Theater in Berlin . He was best known for his portrayal of Piccolo Gustel in the operetta Im Weißen Rössl by Ralph Benatzky , filmed in 1927 by Carl Boese as The Piccolo of the Golden Lion .

Fritz Lang brought him in 1928 in Spione for a small supporting role at the side of Willi Fritsch in the silent film . Through his role as a childish runaway in Lang's next film Woman in the Moon , a larger audience and film critics first noticed him in 1929. In 1930 the children's play Kakadu-Kakada by Carl Zuckmayer was premiered in Berlin .

With the advent of the talkie , his engagements at the theater decreased and the film came to the fore. Among other things, he took on roles in delicacies , Vienna, you city of songs , girls to marry and soldier comrades . Gstettenbaur continued his career after the Second World War , mainly in music and homeland films . Here he worked a. a. with the directors Peter Ostermayr and Anton Kutter . In 1954 he played his one hundredth film role in If I were once God . In the years from 1969 to 1971 he played in 5 episodes of the Royal Bavarian District Court series .

For several years Gustl Gstettenbaur ran a guest house with a café in Hindelang / Allgäu under the name Filmstüberl "Bei Gustl" . In 1985 he received the gold film tape for many years of outstanding work in German film .

He rests in the cemetery in Bad Hindelang .

Filmography (selection)

literature

  • 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 3: F - H. Barry Fitzgerald - Ernst Hofbauer. Schwarzkopf & Schwarzkopf, Berlin 2001, ISBN 3-89602-340-3 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ A fourteen year old movie star. In:  My film. Illustrierte Film- und Kinorundschau , year 1927, No. 103/1927, p. 3, column 3. (Online at ANNO ). Template: ANNO / Maintenance / mfi.
  2. ↑ René Kraus:  The German Jackie Coogan. The discovery of Gustl Gstettenbauer. In:  Neues Wiener Journal , No. 13.059 / 1930, March 30, 1930, p. 18, column 2 f. (Online at ANNO ). Template: ANNO / Maintenance / nwj.
personal data
SURNAME Gstettenbaur, Gustl
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Stark-Gestettenbaur, Gustl; Stark-Gstettenbauer, Gustl; Stark-Gstettenbaur, Gustl (full name); Gstettenbaur, August Ludwig (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German stage and film actor
DATE OF BIRTH March 1, 1914
PLACE OF BIRTH Straubing
DATE OF DEATH November 20, 1996
Place of death Hindelang