Harry Walden

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Harry Walden, 1902

Harry Walden (born October 22, 1875 in Berlin ; † June 4, 1921 there ) was a German theater actor with a short but intense film career in Vienna in the late 1910s.

Live and act

The son of a Berlin businessman initially practiced his father's profession in Germany, Switzerland and the United States (1893–1895). After returning to Germany in 1895, he began military service. This was followed by training as an actor a. a. by the court actor Richard Kahle . He made his first appearance in Karlsruhe in 1896 . In 1897 he appeared for the first time in Berlin, at the Residenztheater . He played the "Gerhart" in Josef Jarno's piece "Snapshots". In 1900 he received his first title role as "the Prince of Homburg" after Heinrich von Kleist . His early repertoire of roles included youthful heroes, bon vivants, and lovers. He later made the transition to character actor without any problems . At the Berlin theater he was the first actor of the Hereditary Prince Karl Heinrich in Wilhelm Meyer-Förster's play Alt-Heidelberg .

In the early 1900s Harry Walden played on various national and international stages from Reval (Tallinn) in Estonia to New York ( Irving Place Theater ). At the end of the 1900s he settled in Berlin, where he also appeared under Max Reinhardt's directorship between 1908 and 1910 . Under his direction, he played mainly in tragedies by Shakespeare , Goethe and Schiller : "Edgar" in "King Lear", the title hero in "Clavigo", "Ferdinand" in "Kabale und Liebe" and also "Don Carlos" ". Occasionally he also played in comedies, for example as "Dagobert" in "Der gute Dagobert".

In 1912 Walden founded his own film production company , Harry Walden-Films GmbH , and appeared for the first time as a film actor in his own production Alt-Heidelberg, du fein ... (1912). A year later he left his hometown again and went to the Vienna Burgtheater , for which he acted until 1919. During the First World War he received first engagements for films of the Sascha-Film . Mostly he depicted nobles, such as counts, barons or princely sons. He also worked in the pre-expressionist film Der Mandarin (1918) by Fritz Freisler . Most recently, Walden was director and senior director of the Vienna Renaissance stage . On June 4, 1921, the now severely addicted to morphine committed suicide in Berlin.

tomb

He was buried in the Luisenfriedhof II in Berlin. His grave was dedicated to the city of Berlin as an honorary grave .

Filmography

Harry Walden in Old Heidelberg

literature

  • Heinz Ullstein : The playground of my life. Memories , Kindler, Munich 1961, pp. 42–55.
  • 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 8: T - Z. David Tomlinson - Theo Zwierski. Schwarzkopf & Schwarzkopf, Berlin 2001, ISBN 3-89602-340-3 .

Sound documents in the Austrian media library

  • The father's reminder (text: Felix Josky) Harry Walden [lecture] Grammophon 10 751 / 941.095 (matrix number 15 724 1/2 br) (mx. 23 620) recorded on August 30, 1911
  • Dice game (text: Guilhermini Augusto) Harry Walden [lecture] Grammophon 10 751 / 941.096 (die number 15 725 b) (mx. 23 621) recorded on August 30, 1911

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personal data
SURNAME Walden, Harry
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German actor
DATE OF BIRTH October 22, 1875
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH June 4, 1921
Place of death Berlin