Hermann Benke
from Sport & Salon , Vienna, April 3, 1903
Hermann Benke (born June 7, 1866 in Linz , † March 25, 1937 in Vienna ; born Siegmund Hermann Benke ) was an Austrian actor .
Life
He was discovered as an amateur actor by Archduke Johann Salvator of Austria-Tuscany and made his stage debut in Bad Ischl in 1889 after taking acting lessons . Further stages were Olmütz , Innsbruck , Regensburg , Reichenberg , Strasbourg , Dresden and Kiel .
In 1897 he came to Berlin and received an engagement at the Residenz Theater there. In 1899 he returned to Reichenberg, in 1900 he played in Würzburg and after a tour of Romania he settled in Vienna in 1901. Here he worked at the Kaiser Jubilee City Theater and other venues. He took on many important roles such as the title characters in Egmont and Goethe's Faust . When the First World War broke out , he was senior director at the Theater an der Wien .
As Gotthold Ephraim Lessing , Benke was the first film actor in Die Gouvernante . He took on other leading roles at Wiener Kunstfilm . As a rule, he embodied influential figures such as counts, manufacturers or high officers. In the 1920s it gradually faded into the background.
Filmography
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literature
- E. Offenthaler: Benke, Hermann . In: Austrian Biographical Lexicon 1815–1950 . 2nd revised edition (online only).
- Kay Less : The large personal dictionary of films , Volume 1, Berlin 2001
Web links
- Hermann Benke in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Biography with photo
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| SURNAME | Benke, Hermann |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Benke, Siegmund Hermann (maiden name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Austrian actor |
| DATE OF BIRTH | June 7, 1866 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Linz |
| DATE OF DEATH | March 25, 1937 |
| Place of death | Vienna |