Kurt Meister

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Kurt Meister (born May 15, 1901 in Dessau , Duchy of Anhalt ; † June 30, 1961 ) was a German actor , theater and radio play director , author , radio play and voice actor .

biography

Kurt Meister began his theater career in 1916. His stations included Leipzig , Dresden , Berlin and Hamburg , among others . He worked as both an actor and a director. On September 15, 1941, he celebrated his 25th stage anniversary at the Deutsches Theater Metz .

After World War II he joined to about 1953 in several feature films in smaller and larger secondary roles, including in Helmut Käutner episodic film in those days (1947), where he held the 4th of history with Erica Balqué , Eva Gotthardt and Hermann Schomberg was seen , or in 1951 in the film The Lost by and with Peter Lorre . In the late 1950s, he was also involved in at least two television productions. In 1958 he wrote the screenplay and directed the folk play The Spanish Fly in a performance at the Millowitsch Theater in Cologne . A year later, in another television recording from the theater itself , he was on stage next to the siblings Willy and Lucy Millowitsch , who, as usual, played the leading roles.

He was also used as a voice actor. For example, he lent Édouard Delmont as Doktor Spiletti in the films Don Camillo and Peppone and Don Camillo's Return , as well as Jo Dest as Smerloff in Wages of Fear and Marcel Dalio as Ferez in White Freight for Rio .

His main field of activity was radio . Initially at the NWDR studio in Hamburg, where he mainly worked as a speaker. In 1952 he went to the NWDR studio in Cologne as a freelancer, where he was given a permanent position as a director on July 1, 1953. His multi-part radio plays Winnetou , Der Schatz im Silbersee and Old Surehand based on the novels by Karl May , which, in contrast to the later films, he staged true to the factory, were best known . The main character Old Shatterhand was voiced by Kurt Lieck each time , Winnetou voiced by Hansjörg Felmy and Werner Rundshagen . He also worked for the school radio . He also wrote the radio play First class existence to sell and edited several literary models for the funk, including St. Nikolaus in Not by Felix Timmermans (directed by Eduard Hermann ) and We are not alone by James Hilton (directed by Heinz-Günter Stamm ) both 1950 from the year the same time he was heard as a radio speaker in numerous productions, mainly in the main or major supporting roles, including in a miniseries of known Paul Temple series , namely Paul Temple and the case Vandyke , with including René Deltgen , Annemarie Cordes , Kurt Lieck and Herbert Hennies .

His last known address was: Köln-Sülz , Grafenwerthstraße 141.

Filmography

Script and direction

actor

Radio plays (selection)

Direction only

  • 1950: First class existence for sale (also author)
  • 1951: The Life of the Waltz King
  • 1952: Arizona Charley's boy
  • 1952: Liselotte from the Palatinate
  • 1952: The glass mountain (also radio processing)
  • 1953: The house with the cherub
  • 1953: The scarlet flower
  • 1954: The thunderstorm
  • 1954: Robinson shouldn't die (after Friedrich Forster )
  • 1954/55: The Big Risk (10 parts)
  • 1955: News from Schilda - episode: treasure hunt
  • 1955: The chameleon lady
  • 1956: Winnetou (after Karl May) (10 parts)
  • 1956: fire
  • 1956: News from Schilda; Result: the poor poor house
  • 1956: Livingstone's last journey (7 parts)
  • 1956: Attorney Gordon Grantley chats from his practice (10 parts)
  • 1958: It happened in ... Greenland ; Result: The gift of the Eskimos
  • 1958: Old Surehand (after Karl May) (10 parts)
  • 1958: It happened in ... Austria; Result: the crazy landmark
  • 1958: It happened in ... Thuringia; Result: The King of Erfurt
  • 1958: It happened in ... USA; The result: robbers and gendarmes
  • 1960: It happened in ... Bavaria; Result: three-man bobsleigh

Director and speaker

  • 1952: The service pistol (police inspector)
  • 1952/53: Who does Peter belong to? (Attorney Dr. Durius) (12 parts)
  • 1953: News from Schilda; Episode: The festival of the big animals (The captain of the airport at Schilda)
  • 1953/54: Reporter Rex Rendal (12 parts)
  • 1955: The treasure in the Silbersee (narrator) (after Karl May ) (8 parts)
  • 1957: It happened in ... Brighton / Sussex; Episode: The blue shark belly (Selwyn Dunkard, pub host)
  • 1957: It happened ... in the Netherlands; Result: Giraffe free home (Witt)
  • 1957: From the life of David Copperfield (Mr. Dick) (after Charles Dickens ) (10 parts)
  • 1958: It happened in ... Northern Germany; Episode: Fideles Prison (Katzmeier)

Speakers only

  • 1945: The beaver fur (based on Gerhart Hauptmann ) - Director: Ludwig Cremer
  • 1946: Who is without guilt (Jahn, court usher) - Director: Otto Kurth
  • 1946: A marriage proposal (after Anton Pawlowitsch Chekhov ) (Stepan Stepanowitsch Tschubukow) - Director: Fritz Schröder-Jahn
  • 1947: Outside the door (cabaret director) - Director: Ludwig Cremer
  • 1948: The Ghost Express - Director: Fritz Schröder-Jahn
  • 1948: The Buxtehude Nativity Scene (The Landlord) - Director: Fritz Schröder-Jahn
  • 1949: Der Schmuck (Doré) - Director: Otto Kurth
  • 1949: Midnight Salibi (Kelly) - Director: Fritz Schröder-Jahn
  • 1951: From the secret files of Scotland Yard; 4th episode: An ambitious nurse (Dr. Mansfield) - Director: Eduard Hermann
  • 1951: The devil rides on the express train (Mayor) (by Herbert Reinecker ) - Director: Fritz Schröder-Jahn
  • 1953: Paul Temple and the Vandyke case (Inspector Eden) - Director: Eduard Hermann
  • 1954: But the Tsar is not allowed to find out (Police Chief of St. Petersburg) - Director: Hermann Pfeiffer
  • 1954: Flies and Trumpet Blowing (Professor) - Director: Hermann Pfeiffer
  • 1954: Twice Napoleon (Legère) - Director: Hermann Pfeiffer
  • 1955: A thing emerges - Director: Eduard Hermann
  • 1956: Die Panne (Alfredo Traps) - Director: Gustav Burmester
  • 1957: It happened in ... France; Episode: The King of Urania (Baptiste Dupont) - Director: Eduard Hermann
  • 1957: O Wildnis (Nat Miller) (after Eugene O'Neill ) - Director: Otto Kurth
  • 1958: It happened in ... England; Episode: The Sniffing Commission (Severin Aman) - Director: Otto Kurth
  • 1958: It happened in ... Bavaria; Episode: Trouble with Jenny (Gustav Braumann) - Director: Raoul Wolfgang Schnell
  • 1959: It happened in ... USA; Episode: Himself is the Man (Doctor Rodgers) - Director: Hermann Pfeiffer
  • 1960: It happened in ... Poland; Episode: Father Tsar (Mlodzek) - Director: Raoul Wolfgang Schnell
  • 1960: It happened in ... the USA; Result: The Four Million Dollar Check (Director) - Director: Hermann Pfeiffer

literature

  • WDR archive / biographies (as of September 9, 2011)
  • The internet database of the ARD radio play archive, accessed on September 12, 2011 (all information on radio plays)

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Deutsches Bühnen-Jahrbuch, 54th year, 1943
  2. Archived copy ( memento of the original dated February 11, 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. , accessed September 16, 2011 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.synchrondatenbank.de

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