Hellmuth Kruger
Hellmuth Krüger (born October 6, 1890 in Dorpat , † July 1, 1955 in Munich ) was a German author, actor and cabaret artist.
Life
Krüger received private tuition at the private high school in his place of birth. He attended drama school in Munich and Berlin. He then worked as an actor and later as a cabaret artist on stages in Cologne, Munich, Naumburg and Nuremberg from the early 1910s. He gained early experience as an author while working on the Lustige Blätter and the Berliner Zeitung . In the last year of the World War he went to Munich, where he began to work for various German radio stations, but also partly as a night watchman . After the end of the war, he went to the cabaret Die Schaubude as an actor, emcee and author. Krüger also wrote scripts and an operetta . He also worked as an operetta singer and film actor, most recently in 1948 at the side of Heinz Rühmann in Heinz Hilpert's contemporary satire The Lord from the Other Star . Erich Kästner once called Krüger a "brilliant cabaret artist".
Works
- Of the! The! The! . Cabaret revue. Music: Friedrich Hollaender . Premiere 1925 Munich
literature
- Glenzdorfs Internationales Film-Lexikon, second volume, Bad Münder 1961, p. 916 f.
- Gwendolyn von Ambesser : "Schaubudenzauber - history and stories of a legendary cabaret " Verlag Edition AV Lich / Hessen 2006, ISBN 3-936049-68-8
- Carola L. Gottzmann , Petra Hörner: Lexicon of the German-language literature of the Baltic States and St. Petersburg . De Gruyter, Berlin 2007, ISBN 978-3-11-019338-1 , p. 770 .
Web links
- Baltic Historical Commission (Ed.): Entry on Hellmuth Krüger. In: BBLD - Baltic Biographical Lexicon digital
- Hellmuth Kruger
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Kruger, Hellmuth |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German author, actor and cabaret artist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | October 6, 1890 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Dorpat |
| DATE OF DEATH | July 1, 1955 |
| Place of death | Munich |