Konrad Mayerhoff

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Konrad Mayerhoff (born April 14, 1901 in Chemnitz , † October 27, 1969 in Hamburg ) was a German stage, film and television actor and theater director .

Life

The son of the cantor and church music director Robert Franz Mayerhoff received his acting training from Daniel and began his artistic career in Dresden in 1920. He then went to Hirschberg in Silesia and other German provincial theaters and performed at the theater in his home town of Chemnitz throughout the 1930s. There he also worked as a game director (director) in the last season of 1938/39. The war years spent Konrad Mayerhoff mainly on Berlin stages. In the capital of the Reich he appeared at the People's Theater and the New Comedy Theater. In 1941/42 he appeared at the Deutsches Theater in occupied Oslo (Norway), most recently, in the 1943/44 season, Mayerhoff had a guest performance director.

Grave of Konrad Mayerhoff

After the end of the war, Konrad Mayerhoff moved to Hamburg, where he also began filming for Real-Film . His stage stations in the Hanseatic city were the comedy, the theater in the room , the intimate theater and finally the young theater. From 1953 to 1957 he was a member of the ensemble of the Wiesbaden State Theater for four seasons, where he was not found as McLean in “Das kleine Teehaus”, as Mitteldorf in “Der Biberpelz”, as Hector in “Leokadia” or as Demokos in “The Trojan War instead ”and when Daniel could see in“ The Robbers ”. From 1959 to 1960 Konrad Mayerhoff was engaged at the Frankfurt Theater am Roßmarkt. In the 1960s he returned to Hamburg and played there again at the Theater im Zimmer.

Mayerhoff's roles in film and television rarely went beyond batch roles . He made his last TV appearance in the crime film "Exklusiv!" This film with Detective Inspector Trimmel ( Walter Richter ) as a police investigator, shot in 1969, the year Mayerhoff died, i.e. before the official start of the Tatort series (1970) , was subsequently added to this ARD crime series and belatedly as a "Tatort" episode in 1971 , re-broadcast.

Since 1938 the artist was also active as a voice actor and in fairy tale radio plays (e.g. as castellan in Hui Buh ). Konrad Mayerhoff was married to the actress Katharina Brauren . Her grave is in the Protestant cemetery in Ahrensburg.

Filmography

literature

  • 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. 1101.
  • Herbert A. Frenzel , Hans Joachim Moser (ed.): Kürschner's biographical theater manual. Drama, opera, film, radio. Germany, Austria, Switzerland. De Gruyter, Berlin 1956, DNB 010075518 , p. 476.

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personal data
SURNAME Mayerhoff, Konrad
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German actor on stage, film and television as well as theater director
DATE OF BIRTH April 14, 1901
PLACE OF BIRTH Chemnitz
DATE OF DEATH October 27, 1969
Place of death Hamburg