Hermann Leffler
Hermann Leffler (born October 3, 1864 in Quedlinburg , † November 21, 1929 in Berlin ) was a German stage and film actor .
Life
The son of a theater director of the same name and older brother of the actor, singer and director Robert Leffler had his first stage experience at the Urania Theater in Berlin at the age of 20. Leffler began his professional career in 1885 with his first permanent engagement at the Meiningen court theater , where he also received his artistic training for the next three years. This was followed by the stage stations Eisenach , Gera , Göttingen , Lübeck , Posen and Bremen , where he was able to draw attention to himself for the first time during his four-year engagement at the local theater.
Finally, in 1897, Leffler accepted a call to the Deutsches Theater Berlin , but left the German capital two years later to take on the role of first hero at the Hoftheater Wiesbaden . It was there that Leffler made his final breakthrough. Thereupon he was brought back to Berlin and worked at the state theaters there until the end of his life .
The artist celebrated particular successes in the subjects of the first hero and lover. Leffler's greatest stage successes included Karl Moor , Hamlet , Marquis Posa , Wilhelm Tell , Egmont , Götz von Berlichingen and King Ottokar . In the last years of his life, which were mainly determined by illnesses, Leffler often had to be content with batches, role subject: hero fathers. During this time, he was brought to film for the first time by his brother Robert in 1919 as a screenwriter, and increasingly with supporting roles in front of the camera.
When Hermann Leffler died at the end of 1929, an obituary said: Leffler “remained the upright and conscientious artist who met the demands of the new era with refinement without giving up anything of his essence, which emerged from the best tradition.” And something further in the text states: "A man full of inner and outer dignity went out with him." .
Leffler's wife was the singer Martha Burckard (1865-1954).
Filmography
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literature
- Ludwig Eisenberg : Large biographical lexicon of the German stage in the XIX. Century . Verlag von Paul List , Leipzig 1903, p. 584, ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).
- German stage yearbook. Vol. 42, 1931, ISSN 0070-4431 , p. 93 f.
- Wilhelm Kosch: German Theater Lexicon. Biographical and bibliographical manual. Volume: Hurka - Pallenberg. Kleinmayr, Klagenfurt et al. 1960, p. 1192.
Web links
- Hermann Leffler in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Hermann Leffler at filmportal.de
annotation
- ^ German stage yearbook. Vol. 42, 1931, p. 94.
| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Leffler, Hermann |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German actor on stage and film |
| DATE OF BIRTH | October 3, 1864 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Quedlinburg |
| DATE OF DEATH | November 21, 1929 |
| Place of death | Berlin |