Karl Ludwig Diehl

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Karl Ludwig Diehl, 1924.

Karl Ludwig Diehl (born August 14, 1896 in Halle / Saale ; † March 8, 1958 in Gut Berghof / Penzberg ) was a German actor .

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In the 1930s and 1940s Karl Ludwig Diehl, son of the economist Karl Diehl , as well as Hans Albers , Willy Birgel , Johannes Heesters , Carl Raddatz , Heinz Rühmann and Viktor Staal were among the most prominent German film actors, in contrast to these today's audience but hardly known anymore.

As the son of an economist, Karl Ludwig Diehl attended a humanistic grammar school in Königsberg and Freiburg im Breisgau . After graduating from high school, he took acting lessons, but was drafted as a soldier after the First World War . In 1919 he was able to continue his training at the drama school of the German Theater in Berlin and received his first engagements in Wiesbaden and at the Munich Kammerspiele . He made his film debut in 1924 with a supporting role in a production of the Münchner Union-Film Co. mbH., For which he stood in front of the camera a second time in the same year. Five years later he went to Berlin , where the first leading role followed: Diehl played the investigator Stuart Webbs in Rudolf Meinert's film Masken , the remake of a successful detective film from 1919 . In the same year he appeared next to Lilian Harvey and Willy Fritsch in two language versions of the Ufa film “Liebeswalzer”, his first sound film.

Karl Ludwig Diehl continued to work for Ufa and for other, smaller Berlin production companies, mostly as a diplomat, nobleman, officer, lawyer, banker, entrepreneur, engineer or doctor because of his distinguished appearance. In 1934 he embodied in Paul Wegener's Ufa film "A man wants to Germany" - one of the first films that was entirely carried by the spirit of National Socialism - a German engineer working in South America, who was overcome by numerous resistance and the attraction of a wealthy local ( portrayed by Brigitte Horney ) in order to return to his home country after the beginning of the First World War , because he wants to report there as a war volunteer.

Although he radiated seriousness and reliability rather than sensuality in his film roles, Karl Ludwig Diehl appeared again and again as a lover since 1931, for example in "Two in one car" (1931, with Magda Schneider ), "The girlfriend of a great man" (1934, with Käthe von Nagy ), "Liebe geht seltsame Wege" (1936/37, with Olga Chechowa ), "The Swedish Nightingale" (1940/41, with Ilse Werner ), "Night without Farewell" (1941–43, with Anna Dammann ) and "Die Hochstaplerin" (1943, with Sybille Schmitz ). Herbert Selpin's film “An ideal husband” (1935) also formed the prelude to a series of films in which Diehl portrayed husbands who make up for their lack of lover qualities through loyalty and reliability: for example in “It's about my life” (1936 , with Kitty Jantzen ), Gustaf Gründgens ' Effi Briest film adaptation of “The Step on the Path” and “Annelie” (1941, with Luise Ullrich ). Diehl also embodied exemplary fathers in the films "His daughter is Peter" (with child actress Traudl Stark ) and "The green domino" (with Brigitte Horney ).

In 1939, Karl Ludwig Diehl was appointed state actor by Joseph Goebbels and then appeared again in the role of an Irish baron in a propaganda film : the anti-British freedom fighter drama "The Fox of Glenarvon" (with Olga Chekhova and Ferdinand Marian ).

In the destroyed post-war Germany, Karl Ludwig Diehl found theater engagements in Konstanz , Göttingen and Munich . In the 1950s he returned to film and appeared in 17 other feature films, but could not build on his earlier success.

Since 1930 he was married to Mary von Ruffin (1909-2002), the sister of the actor Kurt von Ruffin . He is buried in the forest cemetery in Munich .

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