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Manfred Kunst (born December 12, 1951 ) is a German former actor who also sang about some records with hits . He became famous in the 1950s and 1960s.

Career

Manfred Kunst played in several movies, but mainly on television, a. a. He played the leading role in the 1962 film made for television by Bavarian Radio The Little Lord based on Frances Hodgson Burnett's 1886 children's book of the same name . Albrecht Schoenhals played his grandfather, Gertrud Kückelmann his mother. This film is now considered a classic film and the first German film adaptation of the material. He took on the same role in 1964 in a radio play that the Deutsche Grammophon Gesellschaft published on a long-playing record due to the film's great success .

He had previously played in the crime comedy Der Gauner und der liebe Gott (1960) alongside Gert Fröbe , Karlheinz Böhm , Rudolf Vogel and Ellen Schwiers , as well as in the war film drama A Day That Never Ends (1959) alongside Hansjörg Felmy and Ruth Leuwerik and in Alfred Vohrer's literary film adaptation Until that Money You Divorce ... (1960) as well as in other feature and television films. He made his acting debut in the film Herz ohne Gnade (1958) with Barbara Rütting , Felmy and Werner Hinz , and had his first title role in the Kurt Reiss film Tim und die dienstbaren Geister (1959).

Manfred Kunst was discovered for advertising as a toddler, after a photographer had photographed him sitting on a rocking horse in front of the Hamburg Alsterhaus .

Soon the boy also appeared as a singer, a. a. on television entertainment show Do you Love the Show? It emerged singles as Bambini Twist / Let the tiger not to the house (1963) and the old railway / Because I am so musical (1965). In a duet with Ilse Werner in 1965 he sang A thing with a whistle / You got that from me for the Ariola record company . At that time he had a continuous series role alongside Werner as Paulchen Seibold in the 13-part series The Brides of My Sons , which ran successfully on German television until 1966. Manfred Kunst participated in other television series, including a. also in an early part of the Stahlnetz series .

His child's voice was also present in the radio drama. For example, he had a leading role in 1960 in the NDR production by Dylan Thomas Real Christmas in the adaptation of Erich Fried .

He was also seen in theater recordings for television, for example as Pud in The Death in the Apple Tree in 1960, directed by Wilhelm Semmelroth , in 1961 as Bruno in Christmas on the Market Square by Henri Ghéon, and in 1962 in Egon Monk's Brecht production of Galilei's Life as a Boy Cosmo.

In the late 1950s and early 1960s, Manfred Kunst was one of the most famous child actors in Germany. It was featured in television magazines, for example in issue 1/1960 of Gong or issue 49/1960 of Bild + Funk , adorned record covers (for example the first edition of the long-playing record Der kleine Lord ) like posters and was very much in film, radio and television for over eight years present. From the age of 16 he no longer worked in the acting or artistic field.

The photographer Georg Schmidt dedicated a chapter to Manfred art and his "smile that beguiled everyone" in 2003 in his photo book Bremen - the 1960s .

Filmography

Radio plays

Discography

  • 1963: Bambini Twist / Don't let the tiger into the house (single)
  • 1964: Der kleine Lord (radio play version, with Ella Büchi , Richard Münch and many others) (LP)
  • 1965: The Old Railroad / Because I'm So Musical (Single)
  • 1965: A thing with a whistle / You got that from me (with Ilse Werner ) (single)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ The little Lord at pidax-film.de
  2. ↑ a b classics of the German television game at krimiserien.heimat.eu
  3. ^ Georg Schmidt: Bremen - the 60s: Of new freedom of movement, the bankruptcy at Borgward and a rebellious youth , Wartberg-Verlag 2003
personal data
SURNAME Art, Manfred
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German former actor
DATE OF BIRTH December 12, 1951