Harry Liedtke

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Harry Liedtke, photograph (around 1922) by Alexander Binder
Harry Liedtke, photograph (around 1922) by Alexander Binder

Harry Liedtke (born October 12, 1882 in Königsberg , † April 28, 1945 in Bad Saarow-Pieskow ) was a German actor .

life and work

Liedtke was born the seventh of twelve children of a merchant. After the death of his father, he grew up in an orphanage from 1896 . After attending the old town high school and doing a commercial apprenticeship, he worked in a grocery store . Meeting Hans Oberländer , the royal theater manager in Berlin, prompted Liedtke to take acting classes. In the autumn of 1904 he had his first engagement in the Freiberg City Theater and various other theaters. In 1908 he worked at the New German Theater in New York and in 1909 at the Deutsches Theater Berlin . In 1913/14 he played in Mannheim at the court and national theater there , then at the Berlin Residenz Theater and, after a short military service, from 1916 back at the Deutsches Theater.

Harry Liedtke had his first role in the film Revenge is mine in 1912 . His roles were mostly youthful charmers, gentlemen and reckless nobles. At first he played in Messter productions and later with many greats in German film. From 1916 he appeared in the detective adventure series Stuart Webbs and Joe Deebs by Joe May . A frequent collaboration developed with Ernst Lubitsch : The happy prison (1917), The eyes of the mummy Ma (1918), Carmen (1918), The oyster princess (1919), Madame Dubarry (1919), Sumurun (1920) and Das Weib des Pharaoh (1921). He played the title role in Georg Jacoby's six-part silent film series The Man Without a Name , the first film adaptation of the bestseller Peter Voss, the millionaire by Ewald Gerhard Seeliger . Liedtke was a crowd favorite and was particularly successful in numerous silent film operettas in the second half of the 1920s, for example in 1928 together with Marlene Dietrich in I kiss your hand, Madame .

In 1930 Liedtke founded his own stage ensemble (including: Rudolf Klein-Rogge , Traute Carlsen , Carola Toelle , Max Landa and Elisabeth Markus ), with whom he made guest appearances in Austria ( Baden near Vienna ) in 1931 .

Liedtke found it difficult to gain a foothold in talkies. His age forced the change from lover to father roles. He only got a more demanding role in acting in 1942 in Heinz Rühmann's Sophienlund . His last role was the lead role of Professor Heink in The Concert (1944) by Paul Verhoeven .

From 1920 to 1928 Harry Liedtke was married to fellow actor Käthe Dorsch (1890–1957) and then was in a relationship with actress Maria Paudler (1903–1990).

After Bad Saarow was occupied by the Red Army , Liedtke stood in front of his second wife, the actress Christa Tordy (1904–1945), who wanted to rape the pillaging Soviet soldiers. He was then killed by them with a beer bottle.

Harry Liedtke is buried in the Bad Saarow-Pieskow forest cemetery.

Filmography

" Woman's Crusade "; Film poster 1926 by Lipót Sátori in Georg Pollak's studio

theatre

Honors

In Berlin-Neukölln the Harry-Liedtke-Path was named after him.

literature

Web links

Commons : Harry Liedtke  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ N. Calliano:  Theater. In:  Badener Zeitung , No. 78/1931 (Volume II), September 30, 1931, p. 4 center. (Online at ANNO ). Template: ANNO / Maintenance / bzt.
  2. ↑ It's nice when you can sprinkle - the meeting point for half portions . In: Der Spiegel . No. 52 , 1949, pp. 34 ( online ).
  3. ↑ knerger.de: Harry Liedtke's grave
  4. ↑ Harry Liedtke Path. In: Street name lexicon of the Luisenstädtischer Bildungsverein (near  Kaupert )
personal data
SURNAME Liedtke, Harry
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German actor
DATE OF BIRTH October 12, 1882
PLACE OF BIRTH Koenigsberg
DATE OF DEATH April 28, 1945
Place of death Bad Saarow-Pieskow