Harry Walther

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Harry Walther , even Harry Walter (* 1927 , † 22. April 1988 ) was a German actor , playwright , director and artistic director .

Live and act

actor

1961/62 and 1964-67 he played the Old Shatterhand at the Karl May Games in Bad Segeberg , mostly at the side of Winnetou Heinz Ingo Hilgers . 1963 and 1968 he worked here as Kara Ben Nemsi .

When Bad Segeberg's general manager Wulf Leisner left the Karl May Games after the 1970 season and wanted to bring the new Karl May Festival to life in Mülheim an der Ruhr (on the open-air stage at Dimbeck ), Heinz Ingo was next to "his" Winnetou Hilgers also includes Harry Walther again - this time in the role of Santer .

Walther acted as Kara Ben Nemsi in the ZDF series " With Karl May in the Orient ".

Walther can be heard as Old Shatterhand on the Karl May radio play "Old Surehand", a radio play version of the Segeberg piece from 1965 .

Director

In 1965 and 1966 Walther staged Wulf Leisner's “ Unter Vultures ” on the Dinslaken open-air stage , each time before the Bad Segeberg season.

On July 15, 2018, Hans-Werner Baurycza showed a treasure in the “Berghalle” in Bad Segeberg: the black and white film “Encounter with Winnetou”, made in 1962 by the then Old Shatterhand actor and later director Harry Walther. This film, produced with the then Winnetou actor Manfred Böhm and Karl May extras in 1962, was never completed. For decades it was considered lost and could only be acquired from Harry Walther's estate a few years ago. Carefully restored by Klaus Lienau, it gives an insight into the atmosphere of the Karl May Games 56 years ago.

Artistic director and playwright

1975–80 Walther returned to the Kalkberg as artistic director . He also took over the direction, brought back Wulf Leisner's “ Old Surehand ” in 1975 and then wrote his own textbooks:

  • 1976: Winnetou I and II
  • 1977: The black Mustang
  • 1978: Through wild Kurdistan
  • 1979: Old Firehand
  • 1980: In the valley of death

Towards the end of the 1980 season, the falling audience figures - despite the high level of commitment of the artistic director and all actors (including prominent ones such as Chris Howland and Claus Wilcke ) - led to a rift between him and the newly founded Kalkberg GmbH.

In 1981 Walther became the successful director of the ETA Hoffmann Theater in Bamberg .

Premature death

Harry Walther died in 1988 after a serious illness at the age of only 60.

Radio plays (selection)

literature

  • Johannes Conrad, Hans Neubauer: Theater in Bamberg. Report and documentation 1945–1985 , Bamberg: Fränkischer Tag 1985.
  • Renate Wiese (Ed.): Bavarian Bibliography: 1980–1981 , Munich: CH Beck 1989, p. 703.
  • Reinhard Marheinecke , Nicolas Finke, Torsten Greis, Regina Arentz: Karl May am Kalkberg. History and stories of the Karl-May-Spiele Bad Segeberg since 1952 , Bamberg / Radebeul: Karl-May-Verlag 1999.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Marheinecke et al .: Karl May am Kalkberg ... , 1999, p. 64; 68; 74; 78; 82; 86; 90; 94.
  2. ↑ http://www.karl-may-wiki.de/index.php/Das_Geheimnis_der_Bonanza_(Mülheim)
  3. ^ Marheinecke et al .: Karl May am Kalkberg ... , 1999, p. 77.
  4. ↑ http://www.karl-may-hoerspiele.info/vpersonzuord.php?_id=180
  5. ↑ http://www.karl-may-wiki.de/index.php/Unter_Gäter_(Dinslaken_1965/66)
  6. ↑ http://www.ln-online.de/Lokales/Segeberg/Ein-Abend-ueber-Winnetou
  7. ↑ http://www.karl-may-wiki.de/index.php/Winnetou_I_(Bad_Segeberg_1976)
  8. ↑ http://www.karl-may-wiki.de/index.php/Winnetou_II_(Bad_Segeberg_1976)
  9. ↑ http://www.karl-may-wiki.de/index.php/Der_schwarze_Mustang_(Bad_Segeberg_1977)
  10. ↑ http://www.karl-may-wiki.de/index.php/Durchs_wilde_Kurdistan_(Bad_Segeberg_1978)
  11. ↑ http://www.karl-may-wiki.de/index.php/Old_Firehand_(Bad_Segeberg_1979)
  12. ↑ http://www.karl-may-wiki.de/index.php/Im_Tal_des_Todes_(Bad_Segeberg_1980)
  13. ↑ https://www.online-handelsregister.de/handelsregisterauszug/sh/Kiel/K/Kalkberg+GmbH+Bad+Segeberg/2024297
  14. ↑ Marheinecke et al .: Karl May am Kalkberg ... , 1999, p. 162 ff; 194 f.
  15. ^ Johannes Conrad, Hans Neubauer: Theater in Bamberg. Report and documentation 1945–1985 , Bamberg: Fränkischer Tag 1985.
predecessor Office successor
Toni Graschberger Director of the Karl May Games in Bad Segeberg
1975 - 1980 		Klaus-Hagen Latwesen
personal data
SURNAME Walther, Harry
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Walter, Harry
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German actor, playwright, director and artistic director
DATE OF BIRTH 1927
DATE OF DEATH April 22, 1988