Kurt Brenkendorf

Kurt Brenkendorf (born June 13, 1882 in Danzig as Kurt Bockenheuser ; † after 1941) was a German actor in silent films .

Life

Kurt Bockenheuser first completed a degree in civil engineering before he became interested in acting. At the Stadttheater Danzig as well as in Dresden under the guidance of the court actor Adolf Winds he received two years of comprehensive training. Bockenheuser started his stage career under the pseudonym Kurt Brenkendorf in Gdansk in 1903. His subject was initially that of the youthful hero and lover, also during his stage positions in Lübeck , Hanover , Neustrelitz , Ulm and Reval in the Russian Empire and St. Petersburg .

Arriving in Berlin at the beginning of the First World War , Brenkendorf continued his theater work, but soon found a liking for the still young medium of film. From the beginning he was given leading roles, he made his debut as detective Fred Horst in a crime film. Crime series should remain his profession for the time being, Kurt Brenkendorf played the master detective Joe Jenkins in 18 other films .

In 1918 he played together with Conrad Veidt in the films Sacrifice of Society and The Mexican Woman . In Sacrifice of Society , he played the role of factory owner Spinegg . In 1918 he was also seen in the film Schirokko at the side of Margarete Schön . Since 1920 Brenkendorf has been in front of the camera almost exclusively, most recently only in supporting roles. Directed by Robert Wiene , he starred alongside Lil Dagover in the silent film The Hunt for Death . In 1920 he was also seen in a leading role in the film The Spark Call of the Riobamba . In 1930 he played the role of jeweler Sanderson in the silent film Witnesses Wanted .

However, he did not make the transition to sound film. For a long time the sound film had no tasks in store for him, and so in 1930 Kurt Brenkendorf switched to the technical-chemical industry for five years, for which he worked as operations manager. Several small roles - General in Fridericus , waiters in Love Is Strange , Upper in When women are silent - return could Brenke village in the second half of the 1930s before the camera, but after the outbreak of the Second World War had finally ended his film career, and he was hired as a commercial clerk by the company Eugen Heimbucher at the beginning of the 1940s. In the autumn of 1941 his trail is lost.

Filmography (selection)

1915: Around 500,000 marks 1915: Satan Opium 1916: women who sacrifice themselves (also screenplay) 1917: The Memoirs of Satan, Part 1: Dr. Mors 1917: The Memoirs of Satan, Part 2: Fanatics of Life 1917: The golden bridge 1917: Mrs. Maria's experience 1917: The noble lady 1918: victim of society 1918: Sirocco 1918: XYZ 1918: Brockhaus, volume thirteen 1919: The earth current motor 1919: The Mexican 1920: The radio call of the Riobamba 1920: The sign of the Malay 1920: Slaves of the XX. Century 1920: The hunt for death 1922: ghosts 1922: wilderness

1923: The chain rattles 1924: The heart of Lilian Thorland 1924: Temporary gentleman 1924: Triad of the Night 1926: The Lord of the Night 1928: panic 1929: special registration 1929: Secret police 1929: youth tragedy 1929: The Gypsy Primate 1929: The moral judge 1930: people in the fire 1930: Witnesses wanted 1936: Fridericus 1937: love goes strange ways 1937: When women are silent 1937: Revolutionary wedding 1937: The Indian tomb 1939: Robert and Bertram

Web links

• Kurt Brenkendorf at filmportal.de
• Kurt Brenkendorf at The German Early Cinema Database
• Kurt Brenkendorf in the Internet Movie Database (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ According to other sources, 1885 is given as the year of birth and Kurt Benno Brenkendorf as the birth name, see Piet Hein Honig, Hanns-Georg Rodek : 100001. The show business encyclopedia of the 20th century. Showbiz-Data-Verlag, Villingen-Schwenningen 1992, ISBN 3-929009-01-5 , p. 129. Other sources also give 1886 as the year of birth, cf. Kurt Brenkendorf. In: filmportal.de , Deutsches Filminstitut , accessed on August 13, 2018.
2. ↑ Camera eye and nose: the detective in early German cinema pp. 281, 287 (excerpts available from Google Books)
3. ^ Conrad Veidt-Filmographie Filmjahr 1918
4. ↑ Victims of society  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Cast list for the film at the Friedrich Wilhelm Murnau Foundation  
5. ↑ Margarete Schön portrait of the actress at Cinéartistes.com
6. ↑ Beyond Caligari: the films of Robert Wiene p. 208 (excerpts available from Google Books)
7. ↑ The radio call of the Riobamba ( Memento of the original of October 18, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Cast and production details at the German Film Institute 
8. ↑ Witnesses wanted ( Memento of the original from October 19, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Cast and production details at the German Film Institute 
9. ↑ Der Alte Fritz ( Memento of the original from May 24, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Cast list for the film at the Friedrich Wilhelm Murnau Foundation 
10. ↑ When women are silent ( Memento of the original from September 28, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Entry at Transit-Film