Kurt Rupli

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Kurt Rupli (born August 16, 1899 in Mannheim , German Reich ; † March 24, 1960 in Berlin ) was a German feature film and documentary film director , theater actor , screenwriter and film producer or production manager .

Live and act

Kurt Rupli began his training in 1916 at the Mannheim school of drama and rhetoric. During the First World War he suffered wounds on both legs. In 1919 first engagements as an actor at the Nationaltheater Mannheim and the Heimatfronttheater Mannheim followed.

In 1920 Rupli became the main editor of the art educational program “Beuthener Bühne” and employee of the feature section of the Ostdeutsche Morgenpost . In 1921 he worked as an actor at the Landestheater Meiningen . In 1922 he took over the management of the city theater in Sonneberg for a short time and in 1923 founded the Badisches Volkskunsttheater in Mannheim . In 1924 he became director of the city theater in Fulda and was director of the Palatinate home theater in Mannheim from 1927 to 1929 . In 1929 he became head of the Emelka theater operations Capitol Film-Bühne and artistic director of the West German Emelka theater. Since 1933 he was a member of the NSDAP .

From 1932 to 1934 he was in charge of the West German theater operations of the Koerfer Group in Cologne, Düsseldorf, Dortmund and Aachen.

In 1934/35 he took over the position of head of production at Rota Film AG in Berlin , where he founded Mars-Film GmbH in 1935. In the same year he wrote the manuscript for Curt Oertel's Pole Poppenspäler film, his first contribution to a cinema entertainment production and directed the short film Arena Humsti Bumsti , for which he also wrote the screenplay .

From 1937 onwards, Rupli primarily produced documentary films for UFA , which at times had a strong Nazi propaganda character, in particular Das Wort aus Stein (1939), an ideologically disguised homage to the National Socialist building program. In 1939 he shot the short film Parade on the occasion of Adolf Hitler's 50th birthday and in 1940 produced a further homage to the regime with a short film about Nuremberg , the city of the Nazi party rallies. Rupli's regime-loyal productions regularly received numerous ratings from the Nazi government such as "artistically valuable", "culturally valuable" and "popular education". In April 1942, Kurt Rupli became head of the cultural film department of Prague Film . In 1945 he fled to Hengersberg in Lower Bavaria . Between 1947 and 1948 he and his wife founded a theater in Traunstein together with other actors .

In 1947, Rupli was classified as a follower by the Deggendorf Chamber of Justice and paid a penalty of 300 Reichsmarks . In 1950 he became director of the Capitols / Apollo Theater in Düsseldorf. In 1959 he, meanwhile administrative director of UFA, went back to Berlin and was appointed head of production by UFA general director Arno Hauke .

After his death, his ashes were buried in the mountain cemetery in Heidelberg.

Private

From 1920 to 1925 Rupli was married to Natalie Luise Emilie Helbing and had a son with her. From an extramarital relationship with the actress Margarethe Kellner-Conrady, his daughter Ruth Baumgarte was born in 1923 . In 1927 he married Antonie Faas, who after his death lived in Spain for the rest of her life.

Filmography

Until 1937 short films with a feature story, then cultural and documentary films:

  • 1935: Pole Poppenspäler
  • 1935: Arena Humsti Bumsti
  • 1936: The creepy Helene
  • 1936: happiness and glass
  • 1936: Under the slipper
  • 1936: The Stranger's Hand
  • 1937: The miracle cure
  • 1937: The clown
  • 1937: The musician from Dornburg
  • 1938: Salzburg, the festival city
  • 1939: parade
  • 1939: Emergency community rear building
  • 1939: The word made of stone
  • 1940: Nuremberg, the city of the Nazi party rallies
  • 1940: The Black Art of Johannes Gutenberg
  • 1940: helping hands
  • 1942: Posen, city under construction
  • 1942: Upper Silesia
  • 1942: Märkische run
  • 1943: Copernicus
  • 1943: German architectural styles
  • 1943: Prague Baroque
  • 1944: Johann Gregor Mendel
  • 1944: The orchestra
  • 1945: Rübezahl's Reich

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ The Reichstag party grounds in the film on Google Books .
  2. ↑ Red numbers , Der Spiegel # 32/1960.
personal data
SURNAME Rupli, Kurt
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German film director, theater actor, screenwriter and film producer
DATE OF BIRTH August 16, 1899
PLACE OF BIRTH Mannheim , German Empire
DATE OF DEATH March 24, 1960
Place of death Berlin