Kurt Dunkelmann
Kurt Dunkelmann (born November 3, 1906 in Crivitz , † April 27, 1983 in Ribnitz-Damgarten ) was a German shipbuilder. He worked as general director of the Rostock Neptunwerft as well as an actor and artist.
Life
From 1926 to 1929, Dunkelmann studied shipbuilding at the technical college in Bremen . There he also joined the Alemannia fraternity in Bremen in 1926 . After completing his studies, he returned to his home in Mecklenburg, where he worked as an engineer in the following years . During the time of National Socialism, Dunkelmann had been a member of the NSDAP since 1933 , later he became a member of the SED .
From 1959 to 1974 he was general director of the Rostock Neptun shipyard.
In 1936, Dunkelmann married the actress Erika Dunkelmann (née Allwart). The marriage had five children.
From 1954 on, Dunkelmann played roles in various DEFA feature films. He also wrote several Low German books and devoted himself to watercolor painting . He died on April 27, 1983 in his home town of Rostock, where a street was posthumously named after him.
In 1963 he was awarded the Order of Labor Banner .
Kurt Dunkelmann and his wife found their final resting place in the Schifferfriedhof in Ahrenshoop.
Filmography
- 1954: Ernst Thälmann - son of his class
- 1955: Ernst Thälmann - leader in his class
- 1956: The dream ship
- 1957: locks and cottages
- 1957: track into the night
- 1961: September love
- 1965: As long as there is life in me
Works
- The last and the first lot . Rostock 1982
- All not so easy in life . Rostock 1984
- Rostock boys . Rostock (1997)
literature
- Helge Dvorak: Biographical Lexicon of the German Burschenschaft. Volume II: Artists. Winter, Heidelberg 2018, ISBN 978-3-8253-6813-5 , pp. 153-154.
Web links
- Literature by and about Kurt Dunkelmann in the catalog of the German National Library
- Kurt Dunkelmann in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Kurt Dunkelmann at DEFA-Sternstunden
- Kurt Dunkelmann in the Low German Bibliography and Biography (PBuB)
Individual evidence
- ↑ The vast majority of sources (GND, Landesbibliographie MV, Lexikon der Burschenschafter, Kürschner, Low German authors) name Ribnitz-Damgarten as his place of death. The previous information in Wikipedia ( Rostock ) seems to be incorrect.
- ↑ Harry Waibel : Servants of many masters. Former Nazi functionaries in the Soviet Zone / GDR. Peter Lang, Frankfurt am Main et al. 2011, ISBN 978-3-631-63542-1 , p. 73.
- ^ State Council awarded high honors , In: Neues Deutschland , May 1, 1963, p. 2
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Dunkelmann, Kurt |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Meyer, Theodor (pseudonym) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German shipbuilder, worked as general director of the Rostock Neptune shipyard and as an actor and artist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | November 3, 1906 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Crivitz |
| DATE OF DEATH | April 27, 1983 |
| Place of death | Ribnitz-Damgarten |