Klaus Glowalla

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Klaus Glowalla (born November 15, 1924 in Neidenburg ; † April 16, 1995 in Magdeburg ) was a German actor , theater director , radio play and voice actor .

Life

The son of a businessman, Klaus Glowalla grew up in Neidenburg, East Prussia, where he also went to school. His desire to become an actor was initially thwarted by his conscription for military service in 1944. After the end of the war, he attended the Studio for Drama in Berlin in 1945, and in 1946 he was committed to the Quedlinburg Theater , where Ulrich Velten, the director at the time, trained and supported him. In his eight-year tenure, Glowalla became the first character actor in Quedlinburg and also took on directing duties. Short guest appearances at the Landesbühnen Sachsen and the Stadttheater Hildesheim followed before Glowalla came to the Theater Magdeburg in the 1955/56 season , to which he belonged until the theater was destroyed by a fire in 1990.

Glowalla made his debut in Magdeburg in the role of Selicour in Friedrich Schiller's Der Parasit , which was to be followed by almost 150 other roles. He played the title role in William Shakespeare's Macbeth , was Professor Higgins in the musical My Fair Lady , Willi Clark in Neil Simon's Sonny Boys or the pay waiter Leopold in the Ralph Benatzky opera Im Weißen Rößl . Glowalla's portrayal of Old Fritz in the play The Great Frederick by Adolf Nowaczynski received great attention .

As a director, Klaus Glowalla brought almost 40 productions to the Magdeburg stage, often staging children's and youth plays, whereby the Sandman and Penguin, premiered in 1965, came from his own pen. With the Consolini murder trial , he wrote another piece that was also adapted for radio.

Occasionally Glowalla took on tasks in front of the camera, his work for radio and as a voice actor for DEFA was more extensive . As the latter, he often lent his voice to English colleagues in the film series about the fictional character Sherlock Holmes that began in 1939, with Dennis Hoey as Inspector Lastrade several times .

In addition, Klaus Glowalla played the physicist, inventor and temporary mayor Otto von Guericke, who was born there on various occasions at home and abroad, as the representative of the city of Magdeburg .

Filmography (selection)

Radio plays

As an author

As a speaker

Synchronous rollers (selection)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d biography on the website of the University of Magdeburg , accessed on August 22, 2016
personal data
SURNAME Glowalla, Klaus
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German actor, theater director, radio play and voice actor
DATE OF BIRTH November 15, 1924
PLACE OF BIRTH Neidenburg
DATE OF DEATH April 16, 1995
Place of death Magdeburg