Heinrich Peer

Heinrich Peer on a photograph by Alexander Binder

Heinrich Friedrich Peer (born November 25, 1867 in Vienna ; † May 13, 1927 there ) was an Austrian actor .

Life

He began his career at the Raimund Theater and began an engagement in Esseg in 1892 . After a stopover in Innsbruck , he made his Berlin debut in 1902 at the Intimate Theater.

Peer was mainly an operetta actor, especially at the Theater des Westens . There he was the main actor in performances of, among others, Oscar Straus ' A Waltz Dream or Franz Lehár's The Merry Widow . Since 1911 he worked as a supporting actor often in films. Only in the years 1918/19 did he get a leading role with the character of the (Kriminal-) Rat Arnhem in a short-lived detective series of the William Kahn film ( The Green Vampire , The Wandering Eye , Just a Toothpick ).

Filmography (selection)

1911: Moths 1913: where is Coletti? 1913: The blue mouse 1915: The secret secretary 1915: Hampel's adventures 1915: The ermine coat 1915: Schlemihl 1915: How do I get rid of Amanda? 1916: The ghost clock 1916: The call of love 1917: The love of Hetty Raymond 1917: One night in the steel chamber 1917: In the calm ocean 1918: The beggar countess 1918: Carmen 1918: On life's rough tracks 1918: midnight 1918: The green vampire 1919: The wandering eye 1919: Just a toothpick 1919: his last trick 1920: Eternal current

1920: Anna Karenina 1921: Carnival 1921: Safe No. 13 1921: gossip 1921: From the depths of the big city 1921: Parisian women 1922: Flotsam of passion 1922: Tanja, the woman on the chain 1922: The one from the circus 1923: Miss Raffke 1924: Garragan 1925: Bismarck, 1st part 1925: people in need 1925: The man in the saddle 1926: The Sanssouci mill 1926: The Forester Christian 1926: tips 1926: Mermaid 1926: The black Pierrot 1926: The Lord of Death 1927: Bismarck 1862–1898 1927: Stolzenfels on the Rhine

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 6: N - R. Mary Nolan - Meg Ryan. Schwarzkopf and Schwarzkopf, Berlin 2001, ISBN 3-89602-340-3 , p. 175.
• W. Fritz:  Peer Heinrich. In: Austrian Biographical Lexicon 1815–1950 (ÖBL). Volume 7, Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Vienna 1978, ISBN 3-7001-0187-2 , p. 388.

Web links

• Heinrich Peer in the Internet Movie Database (English)
• Heinrich Peer at filmportal.de