Kurt Oligmüller
Kurt Oligmüller (born July 28, 1922 in Bochum , † February 20, 1983 in Noville , Switzerland ) was a German actor .
Life
Growing up in poor conditions, Kurt Oligmüller initially earned his living as a warehouse worker and then became a commercial apprentice. During a visit to Saladin Schmitt at his drama school in Bochum , he recognized the talent of the auditor and enabled him to complete a two-year training course. He then had to serve as a soldier on a minesweeper in World War II . After 1945, Oligmüller was temporarily director of the Bad Godesberg Theater. He then took to the stage as an actor in Oberhausen , went to the German National Theater Weimar from 1951 to 1953, after an episode at the Maxim-Gorki-Theater in Berlin, and then until 1957 at the Deutsches Theater in Berlin. For the remaining two years, until he left for the Federal Republic in 1959, he was on stage in Leipzig .
Kurt Oligmüller played at various theaters in Wunsiedel , Münster , Mannheim and in Basel , Switzerland , until 1963 , before he finally gave up the acting profession. He began to work in the financial sector and went into business for himself as an asset manager in Switzerland . After devastating miscalculations that deprived him and many of his customers of their entire fortune, he and his wife Renate committed suicide on February 20, 1983 in a barn near Noville (Switzerland).
Filmography
- 1953: The invincible
- 1954: Dangerous cargo
- 1954: Stronger than the night
- 1954: beacon
- 1955: 52 weeks are a year
- 1957: rivals at the wheel
- 1957: Lissy
- 1957: two mothers
- 1958: The black battalion (Černý prapor)
theatre
- 1953: Anatolij Surow: The green signal (Sibirjakow) - Director: Maxim Vallentin ( Maxim-Gorki-Theater Berlin)
- 1955: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe : Faust. The tragedy first part (Faust) - Director: Wolfgang Langhoff ( Deutsches Theater Berlin )
- 1955: Hedda Zinner : Lützower - Director: Wolfgang Langhoff (Deutsches Theater Berlin)
- 1957: Barrie Stavis : Joe Hill (Attorney General Stone) - Director: Johannes Arpe (Schauspiel Leipzig | Schauspielhaus Leipzig)
- 1962: Bertolt Brecht / Kurt Weill : The Threepenny Opera - Director:? ( Theater Münster (Westphalia) )
Radio plays
- 1953: Friedrich Wolf : Krassin saves Italia (Leutnant Viglieri) - Director: Joachim Witte (radio play - Broadcasting of the GDR )
- 1956: Robert Ardrey : Leuchtfeuer (Charleston, lighthouse keeper) - Director: Gerhard Rentzsch (radio play - Broadcasting of the GDR)
- 1956: Wolfgang Schreyer : The Order (Sergeant Anast) - Director: Lothar Dutombé (radio play - Broadcasting of the GDR)
- 1956: Günther Weisenborn : Memorial (first reporter) - Director: Wolfgang Schonendorf (radio play - Broadcasting of the GDR)
- 1956: William Shakespeare : Hamlet, Prince of Denmark (King Klaudius) - Director: Martin Flörchinger (radio play - Broadcasting of the GDR)
- 1957: Günther Weisenborn: Beijing (narrator) - director: Otto Dierichs (radio play - radio of the GDR)
- 1957: Wolfgang Weyrauch : How do we know each other? (Policeman) - Director: Peter Thomas (radio play - Broadcasting of the GDR)
- 1957: Wolfgang Schreyer: Das Assentat (Dr. Gisevius) - Director: Lothar Dutombé (radio documentary play - Broadcasting of the GDR)
- 1958: Otto Tausig : Der Fall van der Lubbe (Heines) - Director: Erich-Alexander Winds (documentary radio play - Broadcasting of the GDR)
- 1958: Friedrich Karl Kaul : cause of fire unknown (Horst Loritz) - director: Helmut Hellstorff (detective radio play - radio of the GDR)
- 1958: Günter Schiffel : The Trial (defender Thomsen) - Director: Werner Hoffmann (children's radio play - Broadcasting of the GDR)
- 1958: Bruno Apitz : Naked Among Wolves (Bochow) - Director: Joachim Witte (radio play - Broadcasting of the GDR)
- 1958: Friedrich Schlotterbeck / Anna Schlotterbeck : Die Unbrechlichen (Radtke) - Director: Theodor Popp (documentary radio play - Broadcasting of the GDR)
- 1959: Rolf H. Czayka : Der Wolf von Benedetto (Castelletto) - Director: Wolfgang Brunecker (radio play - Broadcasting of the GDR)
- 1959: Rolf Schneider : A gentleman from Brazil (flower) - Director: Hans Knötzsch (radio play - Broadcasting of the GDR)
Web links
- Kurt Oligmüller in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Kurt Oligmüller at filmportal.de
Individual evidence
- ↑ Berliner Zeitung of August 25, 1957, p. 3
personal data | |
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SURNAME | Oligmüller, Kurt |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German actor |
DATE OF BIRTH | July 28, 1922 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Bochum |
DATE OF DEATH | February 20, 1983 |
Place of death | Noville , Switzerland |