Kurt Seifert (actor)
Kurt Seifert , born Kurt Max Karl Seifert (born July 4, 1903 in Essen , † December 3, 1950 in Berlin ) was a German actor , singer and stage director .
Life
Seifert had attended secondary school and at the age of 16 embarked on a stage career - debut as Minister of State von Haugk in the student romance ' Alt-Heidelberg '. His early stage stations included a. Luxemburg , Hanover and Magdeburg , where he was first seen as a lyrical baritone, later as a comedian (for example as the title hero in ' Der Juxbaron ', as Colonel Ollendorf in ' Der Bettelstudent ' and in the Arnold and Bach- Schwank ' Hurra, ein Junge ') . began. At some of these venues he also worked as a senior director (e.g. Hanover's Mellini Theater and Leipzig's Operetta Theater ).
In 1932 the native of Essen went to Berlin, where from 1934 he concentrated on working in front of the camera. Until his untimely death in December 1950, Seifert worked with episode roles - mostly humorous and / or quirky, original, lifelike types - in numerous entertainment films. For example, he was a publishing director in “ A Waltz with You ”, a stable master in Harry Piel's “ The Man in the Saddle ”, an ex-convict in “ The Styx thing ” and Grethe Weiser's husband in “ We make music ”. He received a rare leading role in 1939 with Bertram in the farce " Robert and Bertram ", which was underlaid with anti-Semitic undertones .
During this film-intensive time, Kurt Seifert remained connected to the stage (as an actor as well as a director ), for example he could be seen as Otto Lauschke in Schmidseder's operetta “ Frauen im Metropol ” at the Berlin Metropol Theater . For a time (shortly after the end of the war) Seifert directed the Neukölln Theater in Berlin . One of his last successes as an actor (in the early post-war period) was the play ' The Lord in the House ', in which he could be seen in the Berlin Renaissance Theater in the 1948/49 season .
Seifert was buried in the forest cemetery in Berlin-Dahlem .
Movies
- 1934: The island
- 1934: visit in the evening
- 1934: Love and the first railroad
- 1935: make me happy
- 1935: love song
- 1936: Stjenka Razin
- 1936: The castle in Flanders
- 1936: Lucky children
- 1936: Intermezzo
- 1936: How the hare goes
- 1937: And you, my darling, are going with me
- 1937: patriots
- 1937: Tango Notturno
- 1937: The detours of the beautiful Karl
- 1938: The small and the big love
- 1938: The girl with a good reputation
- 1938: Andalusian nights
- 1938: Discretion a matter of honor
- 1938: Sergeant Berry
- 1938: Life can be so beautiful
- 1939: Robert and Bertram
- 1940: Heart furnished with modern furniture
- 1940: the dark point
- 1940: The gas man
- 1941: Mrs. Luna
- 1941: A crash in the front building
- 1941: Sunday children
- 1941: What a fruit
- 1942: The thing with Styx
- 1942: We make music
- 1942: A waltz with you
- 1943/44: Peter Voss, the millionaire (premiere: 1946)
- 1944: engaged people (unfinished)
- 1945: The man in the saddle (WP: 2000)
- 1945: The Strange Miss Sylvia (unfinished)
- 1948: Life lies ahead of us
- 1948: Anonymous letters
- 1949: Nights on the Nile
- 1949: By a nose's length
- 1949: marriage to Erika
- 1949: One night in the private room
- 1950: Maharajah against his will
- 1950: Black Forest girl
- 1950: When men cheat
- 1950: wedding in the hay
- 1951: Eva in tails
literature
- Deutsches Bühnen-Jahrbuch 60th year 1952, Berlin 1951. p. 74
- Johann Caspar Glenzdorf: Glenzdorf's international film lexicon. Biographical manual for the entire film industry. Volume 3: Peit – Zz. Prominent-Filmverlag, Bad Münder 1961, DNB 451560752 , p. 1592.
Web links
- Kurt Seifert at filmportal.de
- Kurt Seifert in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Kurt Seifert on cyranos.ch
personal data | |
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SURNAME | Seifert, Kurt |
ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Seifert, Kurt Max Karl (maiden name) |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German actor, singer and stage director |
DATE OF BIRTH | 4th July 1903 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | eat |
DATE OF DEATH | 3rd December 1950 |
Place of death | Berlin |