Kurt Hepperlin

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Kurt Oskar Georg Hepperlin (born July 16, 1920 in Hammelburg , † October 26, 1992 in Nuremberg ) was a German stage and film actor as well as a documentary film director.

Live and act

The son of the photographer Oskar Hepperlin attended high school and a conservatory, completed a photography apprenticeship and received his acting training from Lilly Ackermann . After early theater positions in Arnstadt and Würzburg, Kurt Hepperlin was drafted into the Wehrmacht and served as a Stuka pilot. After the war, Hepperlin found employment on theaters in Bamberg, Darmstadt, Mainz, Heidelberg, Essen and finally Nuremberg. His most important post-war roles include the horse dealer Walther in Gerhart Hauptmann's Fuhrmann Henschel , Friedrich in William Shakespeare's As You Like It , Schinderhannes in Carl Zuckmayer's play of the same name , Danton in Georg Büchner's Danton's Death , Werner in Gotthold Ephraim Lessing's Minna von Barnhelm and the John Procter in Arthur Miller's Witch Hunt .

In his later years, Hepperlin directed the Florian Geyer Games in Giebelstadt . In this market town, Kurt-Hepperlin-Strasse was named after the artist after his death. Kurt Hepperlin was also active in film and television. In 1948 he made his debut as a film actor, and in the 1950s he gained his first experience as an assistant director at the Institute for Scientific Film . From 1956, Hepperlin directed documentary and cultural films. He worked as a director and cameraman for the Bavarian television in Würzburg. Since the early 1960s, he has also found employment in television productions. Hepperlin was last seen at the beginning of the 1980s in two episodes of the ZDF series Aktenzeichen XY ... unsolved . As a radio play speaker he only occasionally stood in front of the microphones.

Filmography

as an actor, unless otherwise stated:

Radio plays

literature

  • 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 , p. 272 ​​f.
  • Johann Caspar Glenzdorf: Glenzdorf's international film lexicon. Biographical manual for the entire film industry. Volume 2: Hed – Peis. Prominent-Filmverlag, Bad Münder 1961, DNB 451560744 , p. 648.

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personal data
SURNAME Hepperlin, Kurt
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Hepperlin, Kurt Oskar Georg (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German stage, film and television actor, documentary filmmaker and television director
DATE OF BIRTH July 16, 1920
PLACE OF BIRTH Hammelburg
DATE OF DEATH October 26, 1992
Place of death Nuremberg