Johannes Arpe
Johannes Leopold Martin Arpe (born July 29, 1897 in Hamburg ; † October 3, 1962 in Kleinmachnow ) was a German actor, director and theater manager.
Life
After training with Leopold Jessner at the Hamburg drama school, he made his debut at the Thalia Theater in 1915 . He later worked as a theater actor and director in Flensburg, Bad Wildungen and Görlitz. Arpe was also politically active, in 1923 he founded a group of the communist protection association of German actors in Northern Germany.
After the Second World War, Arpe, who has always been culturally involved, first became a theater director in Chemnitz and in 1951 in Leipzig. From 1954 to 1958 he was general director of the Leipziger Bühnen, but at the same time he was still an actor on the stage. Parallel to his work at the theater, he has worked in several supporting roles in film and television productions for DEFA and DFF since 1953 . From 1958 he concentrated only on film work, mostly as an actor, rarely with directing duties. He often embodied character roles, impressed as a captain, operations manager or inspector. He played a leading role as Inspector Graumann in Talking Dead , a TV series that was first broadcast in January 1963.
Johannes Arpe is buried in the forest cemetery in Kleinmachnow .
Filmography (selection)
actor
- 1952: Solvay secret files
- 1954: Stronger than the night
- 1954: Ernst Thälmann - son of his class (also dialogue director)
- 1954: Carola Lamberti - One from the circus
- 1955: 52 weeks are a year
- 1955: Once is never
- 1955: The Miss von Scuderi
- 1955: The devil from Mühlenberg
- 1956: The captain of Cologne
- 1957: rivals at the wheel
- 1958: born 21
- 1958: The trial is adjourned
- 1959: Before lightning strikes
- 1960: The decision of Dr. Ahrendt
- 1960/2014: summer paths
- 1960: Seilergasse 8
- 1961: The Stranger
- 1962: Doctors
- 1962: Dance on Saturday - murder?
- 1962: Minna von Barnhelm or The Happy Soldiers
- 1962: Revue at midnight
- 1963: Secret archive on the Elbe
- 1963: fog
- 1963: The dead don't talk
Director
- 1959: Erich Kubak
- 1961: The Stranger
literature
- Frank-Burkhard Habel , Volker Wachter : The great lexicon of the GDR stars. The actors from film and television. Extended new edition. Schwarzkopf & Schwarzkopf, Berlin 2002, ISBN 3-89602-391-8 .
Web links
- Johannes Arpe in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Johannes Arpe biography at the DEFA Foundation
personal data | |
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SURNAME | Arpe, Johannes |
ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Arpe, Johannes Leopold Martin (full name) |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German actor, director and theater manager |
DATE OF BIRTH | July 29, 1897 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Hamburg |
DATE OF DEATH | 3rd October 1962 |
Place of death | Kleinmachnow |