Henri Peters-Arnolds

Henri Peters-Arnolds with the actresses Hertha Pauli and Poldi Müller at rehearsals at the Wiener Kammerspiele (1927)

Henri Peters-Arnolds , sometimes called Henry Peters-Arnolds or just Peters-Arnolds (born July 12, 1897 in Nijmegen , Netherlands , † July 27, 1988 in Berlin ) was a Dutch- German actor and theater director .

Live and act

theatre

Peters-Arnolds came to Germany at a young age, attended secondary school and in the early phase of the First World War , from 1914 to 1915, completed an apprenticeship at Dresdner Bank . In 1916 he switched to the stage and was employed at the Lessing Theater until 1918 . Further engagements followed at Berlin venues such as the Theater am Nollendorfplatz and the German Art Theater . In addition, Peters-Arnolds completed numerous appearances at capital city cabarets as a chansonnier.

After years of intensive film activity, he returned to the theater in the second half of the 1920s and subsequently played almost exclusively in the provinces, for example in Mährisch-Ostrau , Görlitz and in the early 1930s in Breslau . In the 1938/39 season, when Henri Peters-Arnolds was again in Berlin for a long time (residence Wilmersdorf ), he was offered a permanent engagement again after many years. At that time he was committed to both the Rose Theater and the Theater am Schiffbauerdamm and stood on the last-mentioned stage with greats such as Harry Liedtke , Hubert von Meyerinck , Grete Weiser , Maria Paudler , Rudolf Platte and Rudolf Carl on the boards.

Since the Second World War , Peters-Arnolds , who lives in Berlin-Halensee ( Kurfürstendamm ), has remained without a permanent commitment. In the end he only made guest appearances and tried his hand at being a playwright. Henri Peters-Arnolds has also occasionally directed the theater. His children Philine Peters-Arnolds (* 1954) and Pierre Peters-Arnolds have taken up their father's profession and work as actors and voice actors.

Movie

Grave of Henri Peters-Arnolds in the Heerstraße cemetery in Berlin-Westend

In the last year of the war, 1918, the director brought Iwa Raffay Peters-Arnolds to the film and gave him the male lead in " The Eyes of Jade " alongside the silent film star Hella Moja . Until the mid-1920s he played successively smaller roles in a plethora of films of minor importance. Only his appearances in productions from 1919/20, when he appeared under the direction of Robert Wiene ( Das Cabinet des Dr. Caligari ) and FW Murnau ( The Hunchback and the Dancer ) , were offered worthwhile film material. In less than a decade he had partners with stars like Asta Nielsen , Conrad Veidt , Lil Dagover , Ellen Richter , Fern Andra , Werner Krauss and Lilian Harvey . Peters-Arnolds described Jaroslaw in Karl Grune's " Der Mädchenhirt " based on a model by Egon Erwin Kisch as his favorite role .

With the dawn of the sound film age, Henri Peters-Arnolds withdrew completely from filmmaking and only reappeared in front of the camera in the second half of the 1930s. But now his film roles were only in miniature format and were reduced to just a few seconds of film length. Often his name was not even mentioned. In 1940 Peters-Arnolds finally finished his film work.

Death and grave

Henri Peters-Arnolds died in Berlin in 1988 at the age of 91. His grave is in the state-owned cemetery Heerstraße in Berlin-Westend (grave location: 18-L-185).

Filmography

1918: The eyes of Jade 1919: life and lies 1919: The wrong note 1919: Margot's suitor 1919: According to the law 1919: The girl shepherd 1919: The cabinet of Dr. Caligari 1920: The mysterious bed 1920: The hunchback and the dancer 1920: The dead man's revenge 1920: The night of the decision 1920: The dancer Marion 1920: The dancer from Tanagra 1920: hatred 1920: your right 1920: life and lies 1920: Napoleon and the little laundress 1920: victim 1920: Yoshiwara, the love city of the Japanese 1920: The man on the bottle 1920: A day on Mars 1920: decay 1921: The Bagno convict 1921: The fire in the Mascotte Varieté 1921: The Cursed One

1921: The Brillantenmieze, two parts 1921: The chain of guilt 1921: The little midinette 1921: who was it? 1922: Bummellotte 1922: The Princess of the Ocean Shipyard 1922: The sinful vestal virgin 1922: mud 1923: I had a comrade 1924: The heart of Lilian Thorland 1924: Cabal and love in the circus 1924: Girls You Don't Marry 1925: War in Peace 1925: passion 1926: The eleven Schill officers 1929: sins of youth 1935: I love all women 1936: Vogelöd Castle 1936: practical jokes 1938: Red orchids 1938: The night of the decision 1939: E 417 saloon car 1939: The police radio reports 1940: hen party

literature

• Movie star. Richter's Handbook of Actors, Directors and Writers of Film. Vol. 4, 1921/1922, ZDB -ID 1342234-0 , p. 77.
• Kurt Mühsam, Egon Jacobsohn: Lexicon of the film. Lichtbildbühne publishing house, Berlin 1926, p. 138 f.

Remarks

1. ^ According to Kurt Mühsam, Egon Jacobsohn: Lexikon des Films. Lichtbildbühne publishing house, Berlin 1926; Filmstern names the year 1896.
2. ^ Kurt Mühsam, Egon Jacobsohn: Lexikon des Films. Lichtbildbühne publishing house, Berlin 1926, p. 139.
3. ^ Hans-Jürgen Mende : Lexicon of Berlin burial places . Pharus-Plan, Berlin 2018, ISBN 978-3-86514-206-1 . P. 492.

Web links

• Henri Peters-Arnolds in the Internet Movie Database (English)
• Henri Peters-Arnolds at filmportal.de