Lothar Firmans

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Lothar Firmans (born November 10, 1896 in Ohrdruf ; † November 25, 1964 in Nieder-Mörlen ) was a German actor and theater director .

Life

The son of the theater director Georg Firmans received his acting training in Gdansk . Early engagements led him to stages in Lübeck , Bremen , Schwerin and Karlsruhe . He played Rühmann's flight instructor Hansen in the classic film Quax, the break pilot with Heinz Rühmann .

After the war he worked at the comedy and theater on Schiffbauerdamm , as well as at the Dresden State Theater . As State Secretary in Marriage in the Shadow , he received his first post-war role at DEFA . The production planned with him in a leading role, No Hüsung based on Fritz Reuter , was canceled in 1952 and later realized with a different cast.

Firmans then devoted himself mainly to the theater and was an actor and director on the stages of the Hanseatic city of Lübeck until 1954 . From 1954 he was active at the Saarbrücken City Theater . Here he embodied Alexander I in Reinhold Schneider's Die Abrechnung in 1954 and the Elector in The Prince of Homburg in 1955 and the title character in Wallenstein . Most recently he was on stage in Mannheim . His son Georg Firmans (* 1935) became a painter, set designer, gallery director and commercial artist.

His brother was Josef Firmans .

Filmography

theatre

literature

  • Kürschner's biographical theater manual , edited by Herbert A. Frenzel and Hans Joachim Moser, Walter de Gruyter & Co., Berlin 1956, DNB 010075518

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Place of death according to defa-sternstunden.de, according to filmportal.de the place of death is West Berlin
personal data
SURNAME Firmans, Lothar
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German actor and theater director
DATE OF BIRTH November 10, 1896
PLACE OF BIRTH Ohrdruf
DATE OF DEATH November 25, 1964
Place of death Nieder-Mörlen