Kurt Oligmüller

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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

theatre

Radio plays

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Individual evidence

  1. Berliner Zeitung of August 25, 1957, p. 3