Kurt Schmengler
Kurt Schmengler (born May 1, 1919 in Neuwied ; † May 4, 1998 in Mainz ) was a German actor .
Life
Kurt Schmengler began to study at the drama school in Bremen, until in 1942 he was commanded as a naval clerk in the 27th submarine flotilla on a minesweeper in Gotenhafen . His request to be posted to Danzig to continue his acting studies was granted and he was able to take the exam there in 1944. He was then transferred to the North Sea island of Norderney to help build a theater stage here. At the Kurtheater Norderney , Corporal Kurt Schmengler acted as artistic director and had his first major roles to play here. He provided his audience, now mostly soldiers, with boulevard theater, which not only contributed to entertainment but was also intended to raise morale in war. After the war it belonged temporarily to the Mainz City Theater , from which he was fired in 1952 because of a speech at the First German Culture Congress in Leipzig . Like several of his colleagues there, he came to the Berliner Ensemble from the Meininger Theater . The star role in Bertolt Brecht's Life of Galileo brought him back to the Norderneyer Kurtheater in the mid-1970s.
Filmography
- 1969: Moor and the Ravens of London
- 1971: KLK to PTX - Die Rote Kapelle
- 1972: The Great Journey of Agathe Schweigert (TV movie)
- 1973: The prosecutor has the floor: Night shopping (TV series)
- 1973: The Invisible Visor (TV series, episode 1)
- 1974: Still too skinny for love?
Radio plays
- 1967: Leonid Leonow : Professor Skutarewski - Director: Helmut Hellstorff (radio play - Broadcasting of the GDR )
- 1967: Rolf Wohlgemuth : betrayed and sold - director: Peter Groeger (radio play - radio of the GDR)
- 1968: Lev Tolstoy : War and Peace - Director: Werner Grunow (radio play, part 7 - Broadcasting of the GDR)
- 1968: Alexander Lukin / Dimitri Poljanowski : Let's assume it's love - Director: Ingeborg Milster (children's radio play - Broadcasting of the GDR)
- 1968: Erasmus Schöfer : Monument Pfeiffer - Director: Fritz-Ernst Fechner (radio play - Broadcasting of the GDR)
- 1968: Maxim Gorki : Pasquarello - Der Redakteur - Director: Detlef Kurzweg (Children's radio play - Broadcasting of the GDR)
- 1969: Eduard Claudius : From the difficult beginning - Director: Horst Liepach (children's radio play - Broadcasting of the GDR)
- 1970: Alexej Sergej : The Giant's Son (Reviervorsteher) - Director: Manfred Täubert (Children's radio play - Broadcasting of the GDR)
- 1971: Bertolt Brecht : Die Tage der Commune (Officer of the Line) - Director: Manfred Wekwerth / Joachim Tenschert (Theater radio play - Litera )
Web links
- Kurt Schmengler in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Kurt Schmengler at filmportal.de
- Kurt Schmengler in the ARD radio play database
Individual evidence
- ^ Kurt Schmengler drama student in Danzig
- ↑ Neues Deutschland from June 15, 1951, p. 3
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Schmengler, Kurt |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German actor |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 1, 1919 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Neuwied |
| DATE OF DEATH | May 4, 1998 |
| Place of death | Mainz |