Heinz Förster-Ludwig

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Heinz Förster-Ludwig (born February 27, 1900 in Elberfeld ; † November 3, 1953 in Berlin-Wilmersdorf ) was a German actor and singer (tenor buffo) on stage and in film.

Live and act

Förster-Ludwig received his artistic training at the beginning of the 1920s and came to Berlin in 1923, where he was mainly to work at several theaters for the next three decades until his untimely death. His early subject was that of bon vivant and young comedian, with whom he was particularly successful in operetta. Förster-Ludwig celebrated a particularly great success as Hereditary Prince Karl-Heinz in the romance Alt Heidelberg , but also wrote operetta hits, sporadically directed and even wrote plays (e.g. nobody believes us! ).

He also appeared in a number of films from 1931 until his death. Here he was mostly cast as a noble batch, for example as a servant (in An ideal husband ), as a castellan (in Two in Sunshine ), as a musketeer (in The Pride of the 3rd Company ), as a master baker (in The Wise Women ), as a chauffeur (in the largely unknown Hans Albers film A Man On Astray ) and as a boatswain (in Schicksal am Strom ). In the late phase of the Second World War, in 1943/44, immediately after Mussolini had been overthrown in Italy and the country joined the anti-Hitler coalition, Förster-Ludwig was also the broadcast manager of the military radio in Turin. After 1945, the man from Wuppertal mainly worked as the artistic director of the Rivoli operetta theater in Berlin and also worked for the radio broadcasters RIAS and NWDR .

Filmography

literature

  • German Stage Yearbook, 1955, p. 79 (short obituary)
  • Johann Caspar Glenzdorf: Glenzdorf's international film lexicon. Biographical manual for the entire film industry. Volume 1: A-Heck. Prominent-Filmverlag, Bad Münder 1960, DNB 451560736 , p. 425.

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personal data
SURNAME Forester-Ludwig, Heinz
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German actor and singer (tenorbuffo) on stage and film
DATE OF BIRTH February 27, 1900
PLACE OF BIRTH Elberfeld
DATE OF DEATH 3rd November 1953
Place of death Berlin-Wilmersdorf