Kurt Rackelmann

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Kurt Rackelmann (born April 21, 1910 in Magdeburg , † March 31, 1973 in Frankfurt am Main ) was a German actor .

Life

Kurt Rackelmann started out as a shop window decorator. But he was drawn to acting. He started on a traveling stage , where he not only had to play all the common roles of a Schmieren theater, but also had to take care of the renovation and advertising. In 1932 he went to a poor traveling circus. Here he played balalaika, gave comic lectures and danced to Russian folk songs. Soon his appearance was the most attractive of the whole program. Now Kurt Rackelmann went to the municipal theaters of his hometown Magdeburg as an actor . At first he was a comedian, then a character comedian. At the end of the 1930s he lived in Magdeburg at Saarstrasse 17-19 , today's Emanuel-Larisch-Weg 21 in Magdeburg's Leipziger Strasse district .

The next stops in his career were then the Städtische Bühnen in Münster and the Mannheim National Theater , where he shone above all as a slip in a Midsummer Night's Dream and as Wilhelm Vogt in Captain von Köpenick . After the Second World War he was first involved in the opening of the Heidelberger Kammerspiele under Karl-Heinz Stroux and then in the founding of the Rhein-Neckar-Bühne. He then stood in Stuttgart together with Curt Goetz in Dr. med. Job Praetorius on the stage. Soon afterwards he was a permanent guest at the Deutsches Theater in Munich , but also played in Frankfurt am Main , Stuttgart and Nuremberg as the Frog in the Fledermaus , as Sigismund in the Weissen Rößl and as Poldi, together with Johannes Heesters , in the operetta Wedding Night in Paradise .

Now Kurt Rackelmann got his first film role. It was Hannes in the comedy film It's all about wine . In the meantime he played at the theater in Darmstadt , where his greatest success was the leading role in the play Romulus the Great by Friedrich Dürrenmatt . With the films The Miss Scuderi and Secret marriages he gave at the DEFA his debut. Here he played a number of supporting roles in many films, but was also very often active for German television . He appeared several times at the changing variety revues in Berlin's Friedrichstadt-Palast .

Filmography

theatre

Radio plays

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Magdeburg address book for 1939 , part I, page 302
  2. ↑ Berliner Zeitung of February 12, 1961; P. 12.
personal data
SURNAME Rackelmann, Kurt
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German actor
DATE OF BIRTH April 21, 1910
PLACE OF BIRTH Magdeburg
DATE OF DEATH March 31, 1973
Place of death Frankfurt am Main