Hans Lanser-Ludolff
Hans Lanser-Ludolff or just Hans Ludolff (* around 1860 , † after 1923 ), sometimes also written Lanser-Ludolf or Ludolf , often also called Hans Lanser-Rudolff , also called Lanser-Rudolf , was a theater and film actor as well as theater director who participated in a number of important German productions of the silent film era .
Act
His best-known role was the "old man" in the framework of Robert Wiene's expressionist silent film Das Cabinet des Dr. Caligari from 1920, to whom Friedrich Fehér in the role of Franzis, sitting on a garden bench, tells the actual story of the film, whereby it should be noted that the name of the actor who played the old man was unknown for decades. In the same year Lanser-Ludolff also had an appearance in the FW Murnau film The Janus Head , which, however, is considered lost. In Fritz Lang's early work Die Spinnen (1919), he had also worked as a performer a year earlier, albeit without naming him as in the Caligari case.
As early as 1913/1914, the actor appeared in two of Urban Gads ' silent films , in which Asta Nielsen played the lead role, for the first time in the film. He also worked several times with the directors Erik Eriksen and Emil Justitz , a. a. for the early Hans Albers film Cardsharps (1920). Lanser-Ludolff was also seen in films by Georg Alexander , Fern Andra , Carl Boese , Joseph Delmont , Franz Hofer , Ottmar Ostermayr , Jaap Speyer and Franz Seitz senior . With The Great Secret (1920) he also played in a melodrama by Herbert Gerdes , who may be the later Nazi propaganda filmmaker. His last known recorded role in the film was in 1923 in Dr. Sacrobosco, the great uncanny based on a screenplay by Gustav Meyrink and directed by Josef Firmans .
Beyond his film appearances, which in principle showed him in old age roles - his third well-known film role was already "the blind father" in When People Ripe for Love (1916) - little is known about his life or artistic career.
What is certain is that Lanser-Ludolff was previously active in the theater sector as an actor and also as a director. He belonged to the Lotti Sarrow ensemble that towards the end of the first decade of the 20th century until the outbreak of World War I with Mimodramen Stefan Vacanos guest appearances in the big cities of Europe. In this context, Lanser-Ludolff acted both as the deputy director of the traveling stage with its own decoration and equipment, as well as the director and actor of the four-person play The Adulteress , in which the author Vacano, Kurt Wolfgang and the namesake of the Ensembles Lotti Sarrow played. The last time he was recorded by the German Stage Members' Cooperative in 1914 as an actor and director in the area of "guest artists", now within a theater production entitled St. Columbanika 1412 .
Lanser-Ludolff previously had an understandable permanent theater engagement in Germany at the Cologne Residenztheater, where he played under Ernst Wehlau in the summer season of 1908 . In the winter season, however, he was seen this year in productions of the New German Theater in New York , for example in the role of Jean in Pierre Wolff's comedy The Great Secret (it is noticeable that the name is identical to the Gerdes melodrama) and in the tragedy The Wedding of Valeni by Ludwig Ganghofer and Marco Brociner . The German Stage Yearbook still mentions New York as his main residence in 1909. Long before that, Lanser-Ludolff may have been a member of the permanent cast of the German-American theater in the metropolis, but in connection with the German émigré theater there, his name appears earlier in relevant directories at 134 East 58th Street. The artist's last known address in Berlin was SW 11, Schöneberger Straße 12.
Lanser-Ludolff's date of birth and death are, however, completely unknown. The entry of the actor Hans Ludolff from Berlin on the passenger list of a ship in 1908 at the age of 48 suggests a birth around 1860.
Filmography
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Web links
- Hans Lanser-Ludolff in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Hans Lanser-Ludolff at filmportal.de
- Hans Lanser-Ludolff at The German Early Cinema Database
Individual evidence
- ↑ see New Theater Almanac. Volume 21, FA Günther, 1910, p. 515 and P. 803
- ↑ cf. also Hans Lanser-Ludolff at The German Early Cinema Database and Hans Ludolff at filmportal.de ( Memento of the original from March 23, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ http://www.filmhistoriker.de/magazine/filmo_caligari_04.htm
- ↑ http://users.skynet.be/bs136227/src2/CahierInterantional/ci_13_c.pdf
- ↑ http://www.filmportal.de/film/wenn-menschen-reif-zur-liebe-haben_79606cb6277e40439fa5ffade03cdb39
- ↑ Filmdienst 6/2014, p. 30
- ^ New theater almanac. Volume 21, FA Günther, 1910, p. 515
- ↑ Deutsches Bühnen-Jahrbuch Volume 25, 1914, p. 823
- ↑ Deutsches Bühnen-Jahrbuch Volume 25, 1914, p. 107
- ^ New York NY Dramatic Mirror / New York NY Dramatic Mirror 1908 Jun-May 1909
- ^ New York Times , Nov. 21, 1908, p. 5
- ^ Reports, Free German Hochstift
- ↑ Deutsches Bühnen-Jahrbuch Volume 25, 1914, p. 226
- ↑ https://search.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/sse.dll?indiv=1&dbid=1068&h=1848393&tid=&pid=&usePUB=true&_phsrc=ynv661&_phstart=successSource
| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Lanser-Ludolff, Hans |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Ludolff, Hans; Lanser-Ludolf; Ludolf; Lanser-Rudolff, Hans; Lanser-Rudolf |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Theater and film actor and theater director |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 19th century |
| DATE OF DEATH | after 1923 |