Henry Bender

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Henry Bender (right) with Leopold von Ledebur , 1932

Henry Bender (born October 1, 1867 in Berlin ; † May 1935 there ) was a German actor .

Life

Bender was born as Harry Bandheimer on October 1, 1867 in Berlin ; his father ran an inn there. Bender began an apprenticeship in a nozzle and tip shop. But even as a young man he wrote couplets for local events and was also allowed to take on smaller roles on the garden stage of the Ostend Theater in Grosse Frankfurter Strasse. His father didn't like this. He sent him to a relative in America to continue his teaching there. But Bender withdrew and joined a traveling stage to take up the acting profession.

He began his stage career at the age of 19 in the USA and continued it in Paris at the Folies Bergère in 1891 . Then he went to London before returning to Berlin, where he took an engagement at the Metropol Theater . There he played alongside Guido Thielscher , Josef Josephi and Fritzi Massary in the big annual reviews of the house. As a "comedian at the Metropoltheater" he is registered as resident at 125 Wilhelmstrasse . Bender also performed in the Passage Theater and in the winter garden .

Since 1905 he has acted as a comedian in hundreds of silent films. In 1908 the Deutsche Mutoskop & Biograph GmbH held. Bender's policeman song from the revue Donnerwetter-Fadellos ! firmly in the sound image. In 1918/19 he also played in two Lichtspiel operettas by Jakob Beck-Film KG and Delog Deutsche Lichtspiel-Opern KG (both Berlin) alongside Molly Wessely and Paul Westermeier . After 1930 he could also be seen in several sound films, including as a pub host in Richard Oswald's first sounding film adaptation of Hanns Heinz Ewers ' Schauer-stuff “Alraune”.

Bender was very popular during the Weimar Republic . In 1929 he opened his restaurant Bei Henry Bender at Bleibtreustraße 33 , which after his death became a popular meeting place for artists in Berlin.

Grave of Henry Bender in the Heerstrasse cemetery in Berlin-Westend

Bender was a native of Berlin with a witty wit and versatile comedic talent. He had already reviewed several records in the 1910s, some of them together with his comedian colleagues Georg Barsch , Paul Bendix and Martin Kettner . In 1903 Bender was accepted into the Berlin Freemason Lodge Galilei for the eternal truth .

Henry Bender died in Berlin in May 1935 at the age of 67. He was buried in the Heerstraße cemetery in today's Berlin-Westend district (grave location: 16-F-43). Contrary to what some sources say, the grave has been preserved.

His name appeared in 1938 with the note “presumably non-Aryan” on a “Jewish list” of the Reichsfilmkammer that summarized the dismissals .

Sound documents (selection)

  • Only calm can do it, 1. u. Part 2: Zonophon 17 365 (mx. 12 659 u, 12 660 u), also Meteor No. 35 (mx. 1563, 1564) [with perch]
  • Reminiscences, 1. u. 2nd part: Zonophon x-24 395 (mx. 7337 L, 7338 L) [with Bendix]
  • The bailiff of the “Great Affair” 1. u. 2nd part (music: Paul Lincke): Zonophon x-21 179 (mx. 13 617 u) [with Kettner]
  • Stock exchange duet “Oh stock exchange, love stock exchange” (music: Paul Lincke): Grammophon 2-44 421 (mx. 13 591 u) [with Massary]
  • Schutzmannslied (music: Paul Lincke): Zonophon x-22 892 (mx. 13 613 u)
  • The eye of the law (music: Viktor Hollaender): Grammophon 2-42 615 (mx. 1699)
  • The American (Music: H.Bender): Grammophon 2-42 882 (mx. 1898 1/2 L)

Films (selection)

Illustrations

literature

  • Berlin and the Berliners. People, things, customs, hints. Bielefeld, Karlsruhe 1905 (reprint. Salzwasser-Verlag, Paderborn 2011, ISBN 978-3-8460-0119-6 ).
  • Edith Krull, Hans Rose: Memories of the Rose Theater. Henschelverlag, Berlin 1960.
  • Berthold Leimbach (Ed.): Sound documents of cabaret and their interpreters 1895-1945. Self-published, Göttingen 1991.
  • Otto Schneidereit: Berlin, how it cries and laughs. Walks through Berlin's operetta history. VEB Lied der Zeit Musikverlag, Berlin (East) 1968.
  • Michael Wedel: The German music film. Archeology of a Genre 1914–1945. edition text + kritik, Munich 2007, ISBN 978-3-88377-835-8 (At the same time: Amsterdam, University, dissertation, 2005: Der deutsche Musikfilm. ).

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Salzburger Volksblatt . Friday, May 31, 1935. p. 7. Retrieved December 4, 2019. Henry Bender died . In: My film . No. 494. May 1935. p. 14. Retrieved on December 4, 2019. See also the Berlin address book from 1935, p. 140, where Henry Bender is listed twice, once as an innkeeper with the address Bleibtreustraße 33, and then as Actors at the neighboring address Bleibtreustraße 34/35.
  2. ↑ Schutzmann-Lied, from: Metropol-Revue 1908, Donnerwetter! - Perfect! D 1909, Darst .: Henry Bender (digital audio reconstruction: Christian Zwarg), can be viewed here . Compare with Dirk Foerstner: The Berlin Po-Po police gracefully swing the same in the Metropol-Revue-Tonbild Schutzmann-Lied .
  3. ↑ 'Sound images' were an early form of pin-point film, in which a sound recording on a gramophone record ran synchronously with the image film. See [1] and Fig. [2]
  4. ↑ These were so-called sing-films, to which singers and musicians appeared live in the cinema , cf. Wedel, section “Film opera, film operetta, filmsingspiel” p. 69 ff.
  5. ↑ Who does not kiss in the youth D 1918, direction and music Karl Otto Krause , texts by Alfred Berg , and Hannemann, ach Hannemann D 1919, direction Edmund Edel , music Richard Jäger, with Eugen Rex and Maria Lux. Cf. Wedel S. 111 Note 195: Molly Wessely, the spirited classy soubrette of the Metropoltheater, dominates every scene with her mood. The funny Henry Bender - who doesn't know him in Berlin? - outdid himself (in: Der Film, 3rd vol. No. 32, August 10, 1918, p. 70) and note 198 ... the well-known Berlin artists Molly Wessely ... and Henry Bender ... Henry As a representative of sedate humor, Bender is too well known to have to sing praises of his art (cf. Art. 'The first light play operetta'. In: Der Kinematograph No. 605 of August 7, 1918) (Wedel p. 180)
  6. ↑ cf. Filmportal.de . An excerpt from the film in which Bender can be seen briefly as the host.
  7. ↑ See Hans-Jürgen Mende : Lexicon of Berlin burial sites . Pharus-Plan, Berlin 2018, ISBN 978-3-86514-206-1 . P. 483.
  8. ^ Bender, Henry , in: Frithjof Trapp, Bärbel Schrader, Dieter Wenk, Ingrid Maaß: Handbook of the German-speaking Exile Theater 1933 - 1945. Volume 2. Biographical Lexicon of Theater Artists . Munich: Saur, 1999, ISBN 3-598-11375-7 , p. 1063

Remarks

  1. ↑ according to Leimbach in Heiligegeiststrasse in the old town of Berlin
  2. ↑ today Karl-Marx-Allee, cf. luise-berlin.de
  3. ↑ so Leimbach
  4. ↑ in the Spandau district, cf. P. 140 in "Berlin and the Berliners"
personal data
SURNAME Bender, Henry
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German actor
DATE OF BIRTH October 1, 1867
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH May 1935
Place of death Berlin