Olaf Bach
Olaf Bach , born as Othello Bockermann (born April 7, 1892 in Hamburg ; † November 1, 1963 ), was a German stage and film actor .
Live and act
The son of an artist was supposed to be an architect, but finally decided on a stage career and trained in his native Hamburg with Arthur Wehrlin for the theater. Olaf Bach made his stage debut in 1910 at the city theater of the Hanseatic city. Further stage stations were Ludwigsburg, Ulm, Stuttgart, Mannheim, Kattowitz, Breslau and Halle until he finally reached Berlin. During this time, guest performances took him to several European capitals. Bach's theater partners included celebrated stage greats such as Albert Bassermann , Alexander Moissi and Maria Orska . After the Second World War, Bach continued his theatrical work at the Schloßtheater in Berlin-Steglitz in 1946. His last engagement there can be proven in the season 1951/52 as a guest artist. Bach's great character roles include Tellheim, Mortimer, Wilhelm Tell, Jedermann, Egmont, Karl Moor, Orestes and the Marquis Posa.
During his time in Berlin, film also began to have roles available for the artist: in 1921/22 Olaf Bach took part in a handful of silent films of lesser importance, and since 1932 the Berliner by choice had been a frequent cast in talkies for around a decade. There he embodied a burglar, a boxer, a miller and a farmer, sometimes a hotel servant, a Pole, a helmsman and finally even a Brazilian police chief. In Richard Eichberg's Indian love drama The Indian Tomb , he was the maharajah of a mountain people in 1937, and in the 1934 film adaptation of Wilhelm Tell , he played the Swiss patriot Arnold von Melchthal. After the end of the war in 1945, Olaf Bach never returned in front of a film camera.
Filmography
- 1921: Women's confession, part 1
- 1921: The harbor lorry, two parts
- 1921: The Brillantenmieze, two parts
- 1922: The experiences of a chambermaid
- 1922: Marie Antoinette
- 1932: crooks honor
- 1933: When the village music plays on Sunday evening
- 1934: The lost valley
- 1934: Quarrel about Jolanthe
- 1936: Stjenka Razin
- 1937: The great adventure
- 1937: The Indian tomb
- 1938: The Impossible Mr. Pitt
- 1938: Discretion a matter of honor
- 1938: Shadows over St. Pauli
- 1938: Women for Golden Hill
- 1939: Star of Rio
- 1940: The enchanted princess
- 1941: The way out into the open
- 1943: then
literature
- Wilhelm Kosch : Deutsches Theater-Lexikon, Biographisches und Bibliographisches Handbuch, first volume, Klagenfurt and Vienna 1953, p. 166
- Johann Caspar Glenzdorf: Glenzdorf's international film lexicon. Biographical manual for the entire film industry. Volume 1: A-Heck. Prominent-Filmverlag, Bad Münder 1960, DNB 451560736 , p. 82.
Web links
- Olaf Bach in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Olaf Bach at filmportal.de
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Bach, Olaf |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Bockermann, Othello (maiden name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German actor on stage and film |
| DATE OF BIRTH | April 7, 1892 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Hamburg |
| DATE OF DEATH | November 1, 1963 |