Ludwig Kerscher

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Ludwig F. Kerscher (born August 18, 1912 ; † after 1960 in Munich ) was a German stage and film actor .

Live and act

Kerscher began at the age of 18 in the field of opera / operetta at the municipal theater in Landshut, Bavaria, but can no longer be proven with a stage festival engagement. In 1936, the inexperienced film maker was cast in the main and title role of Standschützen Bruggler in the world war drama of the same name and suddenly became known. In the four years that followed, until shortly after the outbreak of World War II, Kerscher played small to medium-sized roles in nine other films. He was often used as a down-to-earth type, including several times in white and blue stories and homeland films. He was the servant Michl in Die Jugendsünde , the young farmer Stiegler Hartl in Spiel auf der Tenne , the innkeeper Toni Schöbinger in The Adventure Goes Onalongside Johannes Heesters and the Carinthian farmer Kluiber in Luis Trenker's Der Feuerteufel . His part as mountaineer Bruno Pirk in the Heimat film Im Schatten des Berg was Kerscher's last appearance in the cinema.

In the same year 1940, the 28-year-old was apparently drafted into the Wehrmacht. According to cyrano.ch, Kerscher, who was currently in a relationship to the actor Leopold Kerscher that cannot be identified , was sent to the Eastern Front and was taken prisoner there. Since he was listed as resident in Glenzdorf's International Film Lexikon at Munich 52, Perhamer Str. 53, he must in all probability still have been alive after 1960/61, even if cyrano.ch speculates about an early death as a result of the war. His daughter is the actress Melitta Tegeler. Kerscher's grandson Nicolai Tegeler also took up the acting profession.

Filmography (complete)

  • 1936: Standschütze Bruggler
  • 1936: The sin of youth
  • 1937: Play on the threshing floor
  • 1937: The Katzensteg
  • 1938: The adventure continues
  • 1939: border fire
  • 1939: the poor millionaire
  • 1939: The fire devil
  • 1940: love school
  • 1940: In the shadow of the mountain

Radio plays

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ according to the Reichsfilmkammer file
  2. ↑ German Stage Yearbook 1931
  3. ↑ Kerscher on cyrano.ch
  4. ^ Johann Caspar Glenzdorf: Glenzdorfs international film lexicon. Biographical manual for the entire film industry. Volume 2: Hed – Peis. Prominent-Filmverlag, Bad Münder 1961, DNB 451560744 , p. 816.

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personal data
SURNAME Kerscher, Ludwig
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Kerscher, Ludwig F.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German actor on stage and film
DATE OF BIRTH August 18, 1912
PLACE OF BIRTH German Empire
DATE OF DEATH after 1960
Place of death Munich