Karl Klusner

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Karl Klüsner (born August 2, 1905 in Kiel , German Reich ; † July 25, 1960 in Berlin-Grunewald ) was a German actor in the stage and film industry.

Live and act

Klüsner received acting lessons from Erich Ziegel in Hamburg at the end of 1928 and made his debut with the Mercurio in Shakespeare's Was ihr wollt at the German theater there in the same year . From 1929 he appeared, initially in the field of the youthful first hero, on stages in Oldenburg (Landestheater), Lübeck (city theater), Bremerhaven (city theater) and Gera (Reussian theater). From 1934 to 1937 he was a member of the ensemble of the Städtische Bühnen Düsseldorf, since then Karl Klüsner has only performed in Berlin venues: In the German capital, the Kiel native worked at the Theater am Kurfürstendamm, the Renaissance Theater and the Schiller Theater. In 1943 he was drafted into the Wehrmacht. After returning from captivity, Klüsner resumed his stage work in 1949 and went to the Deutsches Theater for one season. From 1953 to 1955 he was a member of the Schiller Theater ensemble, after which he was seen at the Volksbühne Berlin.

Klüsner's repertoire of roles included numerous German and international classics: he played Faust , Ferdinand in Schiller's Cabal and Love , Karl Moor in The Robbers by the same author, Brutus in Shakespeare's Julius Caesar , Schiller's Wilhelm Tell , and the Grenzjäger in Schönherr's Der Weibsteufel , Lovborg in Ibsen's Hedda Gabler , the Marquis Posa in Schiller's Don Karlos and Jupiter in Kleist's Amphitryon .

Since his arrival in the capital (1937), Karl Klüsner has also appeared in front of the camera in supporting roles. He made his debut with the second male leading role of Antonio Vargas Heredia in a German co-production with the fascist Falange -Spain of the later dictator Franco, Andalusian Nights . From then on, Klüsner played the entire range of medium-sized supporting roles; from the servant to the doctor to the detective inspector. Several times he played the chairman of the court, in the film about the Stauffenberg assassination attempt in 1944, July 20, he played the anti-Hitler conspirator General Erich Fellgiebel . Klüsner has also worked for the radio and participated in broadcasts of the BR (1948), the NWDR (1952) and the SFB (1954). In 1952 he was also seen in a television production, an implementation of a literary model by Siegfried Lenz .

Filmography (complete)

literature

  • Herbert A. Frenzel , Hans Joachim Moser (ed.): Kürschner's biographical theater manual. Drama, opera, film, radio. Germany, Austria, Switzerland. De Gruyter, Berlin 1956, DNB 010075518 , p. 364.
  • Johann Caspar Glenzdorf: Glenzdorf's international film lexicon. Biographical manual for the entire film industry. Volume 2: Hed – Peis. Prominent-Filmverlag, Bad Münder 1961, DNB 451560744 , p. 849.

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personal data
SURNAME Klusner, Karl
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German actor on stage and film
DATE OF BIRTH 2nd August 1905
PLACE OF BIRTH Kiel , German Empire
DATE OF DEATH July 25, 1960
Place of death Berlin-Grunewald