Kurt Seifert (actor)

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Grave site, Hüttenweg 47, in Berlin-Dahlem

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'sThe 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

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.

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