Kraft-Alexander zu Hohenlohe-Oehringen

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Kraft-Alexander Waldemar August Christian Ernst Gottfried Prinz zu Hohenlohe-Oehringen (born November 2, 1925 in Munich , † March 10, 2006 in Fürth ) was an actor , director and theater manager.

family

He was the younger of two sons of Max Hugo Prince zu Hohenlohe-Oehringen (1893–1951) in Meffersdorf (Upper Lusatia) and his wife, Countess Marie-Gabriele von Faber-Castell (1900–1985).

Kraft-Alexander's first marriage was between 1949 and 1955 with Dagmar Engelbrecht (1926–1988). The two children Alexander (* 1951) and Feodora (* 1952) came from this marriage. In his second marriage in 1957 he married the actress Sibylle D Jungsmann (1932-2007), who after the divorce in 1970 married his brother Rupprecht (until 1973). His third marriage was in 1970 with Ursula Rieck (1938-2017) and should last until 1979. From 1978 he lived with Renate Elisabeth Angelika Müller (* 1943), whom he married in 1988.

Life

At the age of 10 he was in front of the camera in 1936 with Emil Jannings in the film Traumulus . In 1943 he joined the Wehrmacht and in September 1945 was seriously wounded as a prisoner of war. In October of the same year he became a novice actor and was an actor at the Städtische Bühnen Nürnberg- Fürth until 1948 and in Heidelberg until 1950 .

In 1951 he was a co-founder of the Jagsthausen Castle Festival . Until 1952 he worked at the Hessian State Theater Wiesbaden . There he played Mephisto in Faust I at the age of 25 . Between 1952 and 1956 he had a contract as an actor in Zurich, where he was also head of the university theater group. Until 1959 he worked in Hamburg as co-director and director of the avant-garde theater 53 and as a guest director at the Thalia Theater . At the same time he held the position of director of the radio play department of the NDR .

From 1959 he was senior director at the Stadttheater Münster (until 1961) and was director of several theaters ( Stadttheater Konstanz from 1963 to 1968, Lucerne from 1968 to 1972 and Fürth from 1972 to 1990). In the meantime (1973–1975) he committed himself as director of the Jagsthausen Castle Festival.

Kraft-Alexander was a founding member of the German-Polish Society in Franconia in 1977 and as such was observed for years by the Bavarian State Office for the Protection of the Constitution . In 1986 and 1991, in addition to his artistic work, he was also awarded the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany for his commitment to international understanding.

He died on March 10, 2006 at the age of 80 in Fürth. His youngest daughter Stephanie (* 1959) from his second marriage had died in 1989 at the age of only 30.

His daughter Feodora Hohenlohe (* 1952) is a painter and graphic artist; She lives and works in Berlin.

His son Alexander Hohenlohe (* 1951), a graduate in administrative science, was Head of the Labor Department at the Saxon State Ministry for Economic Affairs, Labor and Transport until 2016.

Kraft-Alexander was a long-time director of the Klosterhofspiele in Langenzenn .

Honors

  • 1986: Cross of Merit on the ribbon of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany
  • 1991: Cross of Merit 1st Class of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Kraft Alexander, Prince of Hohenlohe-Oehringen
  2. 30 years of the German-Polish Society in Franconia e. V.

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