Kurt A. Jung

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Kurt Arthur Hermann Jung (born June 13, 1923 in Gießen ; † October 22, 1990 in Agadir , Morocco ) was a German actor , radio play and voice actor .

Life

Jung completed his professional training in 1941/42 at the Hochschule für Theater in Frankfurt am Main, where he was on the stage of the theater until 1942 . After an interruption due to the war, he resumed acting at the Stadttheater Esslingen in 1945. Further stage stations were the Neue Theater Stuttgart until 1947, the Stadttheater Göttingen until 1948, the Bremen Art Theater until 1949, the Hamburger Kammerspiele until 1950, the Thalia Theater there until 1954 and the Düsseldorfer Schauspielhaus until 1955. He then returned to the ensemble of the Thalia Theater Hamburg back. He embodied numerous well-known stage roles such as Orestes in Goethe's Iphigenie auf Tauris and the Biff in Arthur Miller's Death of a Salesman . Was most recently seen Kurt A. Jung on the stage of the Hamburg Ernst-German theater , where he in the 1988/89 season alongside Friedrich Schütter in the title role of the servant in the Shunderson Curt Goetz comedy Dr. med. Job Praetorius played.

With the Thalia Theater, Jung was in the role of Count Bellievre in a production of Boy Gobert with the play Maria Stuart by Friedrich Schiller from May to June 1976 on a five-week tour of the former Soviet Union and Poland with appearances in Leningrad, Riga, Vilnius, Moscow and Warsaw.

In 1947 Jung in Liebe 47 , Wolfgang Liebeneiner's adaptation of Wolfgang Borchert's Outside Front Door , made his feature film debut. Numerous appearances in feature films and television productions followed. Jung played in the Edgar Wallace film adaptations The Dead Eyes of London and The Riddle of the Red Orchidee , in Friedrich Dürrenmatt 's Shakespeare adaptation King Johann with Hans Korte in the title role, alongside Hans Albers in The Heart of St. Pauli and alongside Peter Alexander in Géza from Cziffra's comedy film Salem Aleikum . He also took on guest roles in various television series such as Großstadtrevier (the two episodes were only broadcast after his death), Hamburg Transit and Police Radio calls . Jung had continuous roles in the five-part film adaptation of Hans Fallada's novel Farmers, Bonzen and Bombs as well as in the early evening series Hoftheater and Sommer in Lesmona . He also belonged to the ensemble of Peter Frankenfeld's radio show Peters Bastelstunde and also participated in the later broadcast of the craft lesson on television. In addition, he and Anaid Iplicjian hosted the German preliminary round of the Eurovision de la Chanson Grand Prix on January 20, 1958.

In addition, Jung worked extensively as a speaker for radio plays and dubbing. As a voice actor, he voiced Michael Gough in Crimes Without Guilt , Ferdy Mayne in Harem End Station , Gérard Oury in Gangsters' Talons and George Pastel in Tiger Bay .

Filmography (selection)

Radio plays (selection)

  • 1947: Carl Zuckmayer : Der Hauptmann von Köpenick (Schutzmann) - Director: Alfred Vohrer ( SDR )
  • 1947: Erich Kästner : The lifelong child (Baron Rähnitz) - Director: Alfred Vohrer (SDR)
  • 1947: Fred Wiesen : The Secret Guards - Director: Alfred Vohrer (SDR)
  • 1950: Gods, Graves and Scholars (Part 2: The Golden Wall)
  • 1950: one hundred crowns (illusion)
  • 1951: At the end of the street
  • 1953: The Esperanza ship
  • 1954: My wife lives next door
  • 1954: The Passenger from November 1st (Part 1: City in Fog)
  • 1954: No laurels for Augusto
  • 1954: Caro
  • 1955: The stolen muse
  • 1955: The court withdraws to deliberate (consequence: suspicion is enough)
  • 1955: Pipapo - The story of a script
  • 1956: The Flanders Christmas Game
  • 1957: The hunt for the perpetrator (episode: jungle murder)
  • 1957: The Man Who Couldn't Sleep (3 episodes)
  • 1958: The Soul Advisor
  • 1959: The Doctor and the Devil (Part 2)
  • 1959: Murder in the Fog
  • 1959: The robbers of Kardemomme
  • 1960: The hunt for the perpetrator (episode: the odds for the third race)
  • 1960: The mysterious saying
  • 1960: The book and the whistle
  • 1961: Prince Eisenfraß, the avenging knight
  • 1962: The blue milk canal
  • 1962: The happy ship from Dorkum
  • 1963: The sad story of Frederick the Great
  • 1963: Alchimon's apple
  • 1963: The Ordonier and the Arnitarier
  • 1963: The Degenerate
  • 1963: The wasp's nest
  • 1964: monologue
  • 1967: The groom
  • 1968: Vacation in Florida
  • 1969: "O"
  • 1971: Binding information
  • 1977: Arthur Arthur

literature

  • Who's Who in the Arts and Literature , Vol. 2: Applied Arts and Music , Karl Strute and Theodor Doelken (Eds.), 3rd edition, Zurich: red series 1983, p. 332.
  • 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 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Registration information of the Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg
  2. ↑ Guest performances in the USSR and Poland in 1976, published by the Hamburg Thalia Theater in 1978
personal data
SURNAME Jung, Kurt A.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Jung, Kurt Arthur Hermann (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German actor, radio play and voice actor
DATE OF BIRTH June 13, 1923
PLACE OF BIRTH to water
DATE OF DEATH October 22, 1990
Place of death Agadir , Morocco