Oskar Höcker (actor, 1892)

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Hugo Wilhelm Oskar Höcker (born July 21, 1892 in Karlsruhe , † December 14, 1959 in Enzklösterle Baden-Württemberg ) was a German actor and writer .

Life

Höcker was born as the son of the Baden court actor Hugo Höcker and the actress Minna Höcker-Berens . After completing school he trained as an actor at the Vienna Theater Academy under Albert Heine .

At the age of 20 he worked in Katowice, which was followed by offers that took him to Bremen and to Munich's Kammerspiele in the Schauspielhaus. Then Höcker played roles at the Deutsches Theater , the Schiller Theater , the Volksbühne and the Theater der Jugend in the Schiller Theater. Other stage stations in Berlin were the theater in Stresemannstrasse, the Komödienhaus and, after 1945, the Komödie and the grandstand

With the film since 1930, he was one of those supporting actors who were regularly hired for large-scale productions. From 1930 to 1945 alone he acted in more than 70 films. His last cinematic work was the role of a law enforcement officer in the satire The Torch Bearer . Afterwards Oskar Höcker settled in the climatic health resort Enzklösterle , where he died in 1959 at the age of 67.

Filmography

theatre

literature

  • Frank Arnau (Ed.): Universal Filmlexikon 1933, D 33.Berlin 1933

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Oskar Höcker. In: filmportal.de . German Film Institute , accessed January 19, 2017 .
  2. ↑ Oskar Höcker at DEFA -Star hours (accessed on August 6, 2014)
  3. ↑ Biography at cyranos.ch
  4. ↑ Oskar Höcker in the Internet Movie Database (English)
personal data
SURNAME Hump, Oskar
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Höcker, Hugo Wilhelm Oskar (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German actor and writer
DATE OF BIRTH July 21, 1892
PLACE OF BIRTH Karlsruhe
DATE OF DEATH December 14, 1959
Place of death Enzklösterle Baden-Württemberg