Lothar Körner

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Lothar Körner (born May 16, 1883 in the German Reich ; † March 6, 1961 in Berlin-Wilmersdorf , bourgeois Lothar Zahn ) was a German stage and film actor with excursions to directing the theater.

Lothar Körner

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At the turn of the century, Körner received his artistic training from Cord Hachmann and then began to play theater. Until 1905 he worked at the Munich Volkstheater and in West Prussian Bromberg, before moving to the Berlin theater in the capital of the Reich. In these early years, Körner took up the subject of character heroes and played among others Coriolan , Othello (both by William Shakespeare ) and Wallenstein (by Friedrich Schiller ). After an interlude in Strasbourg in Alsace, Körner was brought in by Max Reinhardt to the Deutsche Theater, which he directed .

Here the Danish film director Stellan Rye engaged him and several of his colleagues from the Deutsches Theater (including Paul Wegener , Grete Berger and Lyda Salmonova ) for central roles in four of his stagings, which were shot in quick succession in the spring / summer of 1913. Grains played the Count Schwarzenberg in Ryes legendary The Student of Prague - staging, the equally mysterious as crippled antique dealer Coppi Lander in another show history, the eyes of Ole Brandis , the faithless lover Franz Lohmann in the social drama gendarme Mobius and a father's role in Evinrude . Despite this famous debut, Körner remained primarily a man of the theater.

Lothar Körner did not return to film until 1920, when he accepted an engagement at the City Theater in Leipzig and appeared in culturally and historically insignificant cinema productions such as The Carpet Maker of Baghdad . In 1923 he played the title role in the world premiere of Bertolt Brechts Baal in the Old Theater in Leipzig . Körner then continued to play theater in the German provinces (e.g. in Nuremberg) and returned to Berlin in the late 1920s. There he was briefly (until 1931) employed again at the Berlin theater, this time as a director. In 1931/32, Körner worked as an actor at the German National Theater on Schiffbauer Damm, then for one season as senior director at the Albert Theater in Dresden . At the beginning of the Nazi era, Körner was briefly brought to the Deutsche Theater Berlin, where he was again allowed to direct. At the same time he also staged on a Marburg summer stage. With small roles, Körner also resumed his film career. In 1936 he was one of several speakers for the propagandistic blood and soil film Ewiger Wald .

In his later years (from the late 1930s) Lothar Körner worked at a wide variety of (mostly less important) Berlin venues; so z. B. at the Theater der Jugend and the Nationaltheater Friedrichshagen, up to the closure of all German theaters in the summer of 1944 by Joseph Goebbels , but also in Heinrich George's important Schiller Theater. In the Schiller film of 1940, Körner also got his last (tiny) film role: he played a bookseller. Immediately before the outbreak of World War II , grains were also seen at the Heidelberg Festival.

In the first years after 1945 Lothar Körner made his way through the East German provinces and belonged to the ensembles of the Mecklenburg State Theater Schwerin and the Parkbühne Leipzig. At the beginning of the 1950s until his 70th birthday, Körner found a meager income at the so-called event ring for West Berlin. He then retired to Berlin-Wilmersdorf for private life.

Filmography

literature

  • Heinrich Hagemann (Ed.): Specialized lexicon of the German stage members . Pallas and Hagemanns Bühnen-Verlag, Berlin 1906, p. 62.
  • Johann Caspar Glenzdorf: Glenzdorf's international film lexicon. Biographical manual for the entire film industry. Volume 2: Hed – Peis. Prominent-Filmverlag, Bad Münder 1961, DNB 451560744 , p. 870.

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personal data
SURNAME Körner, Lothar
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German actor
DATE OF BIRTH May 16, 1883
PLACE OF BIRTH German Empire
DATE OF DEATH March 6, 1961
Place of death Berlin-Wilmersdorf