Ludwig Trautmann

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Ludwig Trautmann before 1930 on a photograph by Alexander Binder

Ludwig Trautmann (born November 22, 1885 in Dachsbach , † January 24, 1957 in Berlin ) was a German actor .

Life

The trained salesman grew a. in Nuremberg, Karlsberg and Duisburg and appeared for the first time in June 1901 in front of a paying audience. His stage stations were among others Bochum , Konstanz and Hermannstadt . He got in touch with film through a cinema owner in Baden-Baden .

On April 9, 1912, he signed a contract with the Bioskop film company and made his debut in front of the camera in the popular Madeleine . Soon he became known in the role of detective Brown, directed by Harry Piel . In 1916 he played in Dora Brandes and Das Liebes-ABC at the side of Asta Nielsen and became the first German film star. During the First World War he also acted several times as a director and producer. In the last year of the war, 1918, Trautmann was sent to Scandinavia (Norway, Sweden, Finland) by the state, the Supreme Army Command, as part of a film propaganda company.

From 1924 to 1932 Trautmann was not seen on the screen, and instead he went on tours as a lecturer with equally underemployed colleagues. Shortly after the sound film era began, he reappeared in a few supporting roles. His early ingratiation with the National Socialists (party member from June 1933 to October 1935) did not bring Trautmann a career boost in the 3rd Reich, his acting style was considered hopelessly out of date. From July 13th to October 12th, 1935 he was imprisoned for homosexual acts on the basis of § 175 in the Columbia and Lichtenburg concentration camps near Torgau, after which he was expelled from the Reich Theater Chamber and the Reich Film Chamber . On the other hand, when he emigrated to Switzerland, Trautmann gave completely different reasons for his detention to the immigration police and described himself as a victim of denunciation .

On December 1, 1935, he fled to Switzerland (Basel, Zurich, Bern), where he unsuccessfully applied for political asylum, but received permission to participate in lectures on film history and to participate in radio plays until 1936. For a while (February 1937) he traveled to Austria with his presumed partner Sybille Sabine Countess von Lerchenfeld. When he had to leave Switzerland again in the spring of 1937, the immigration police ordered Trautmann, who had incurred numerous debts in the Confederation, not to be allowed back into the country. Ludwig Trautmann went to Paris and tried again with lectures on film history such as 'Der Werdegang des Deutschen Films' to keep afloat financially. In 1939 he returned to the German Empire. In 1940 he was serving a new six-month prison sentence for violating Section 175.

After the war he played at the Volksbühne Berlin and was offered a few film roles. He died after a long illness in a hospital in Berlin-Schöneberg . His grave in the local cemetery was leveled.

Filmography (selection)

literature

  • Kay Less : Between the stage and the barracks. Lexicon of persecuted theater, film and music artists from 1933 to 1945 . With a foreword by Paul Spiegel . Metropol, Berlin 2008, ISBN 978-3-938690-10-9 , p. 348.
  • Kay Less : 'In life, more is taken from you than given ...'. Lexicon of filmmakers who emigrated from Germany and Austria between 1933 and 1945. A general overview. ACABUS-Verlag, Hamburg 2011, ISBN 978-3-86282-049-8 , p. 648 f.

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Remarks

  1. ↑ According to Kay Less: The film's large lexicon of people is the place in Franconia where he was born, "Dachsbach". Helga and Karlheinz Wendtland: Beloved Kintopp , IMDb et al. Give “Dasebach an der Esch / Luxemburg” as the place of birth, but apparently no place with this name exists.
  2. ^ Aliens police dossier in the Basel State Archives
personal data
SURNAME Trautmann, Ludwig
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German actor
DATE OF BIRTH November 22, 1885
PLACE OF BIRTH Dachsbach
DATE OF DEATH January 24, 1957
Place of death Berlin