Otto Krone (actor)
Adolf Ernst Hans Werner Otto Krone (born July 14, 1898 in Hanover ; † March 19, 1974 in West Berlin ) was a German actor from the pre-war and DEFA times and voice actor .
Life
Born the second of four sons of the Bochum AEG general director Max Krone, he volunteered for the Navy in 1914 at the age of 16 and went to sea as an ensign . The reason was the compulsory obligation of his adult older brother, whom he did not want to be inferior to. At the end of the First World War he left the Navy with the rank of first lieutenant at sea . At his father's request, he began training as a banker. He soon realized, however, that he has an inclination for acting. In the early 1920s he returned to Bochum from Berlin, where the family had lived until 1910, and completed a dramaturgical training in the Bochum Schauspielhaus under Saladin Schmitt . After his debut in Bochum, he went back to Berlin, where he worked on various stages and in film. In the Second World War , Krone was re-engaged and promoted to lieutenant captain. After the war he worked in theaters in Aschersleben , Schwerin and Berlin (West), among others , before he was engaged at the Hans-Otto-Theater in Potsdam from 1954 to 1961 . During this time, Krone was also increasingly in front of the camera. Perhaps one of his most distinctive roles as a character actor is that of the large farmer Palm in the two-part film “ Schlösser und Katen ”. After the Wall was built in 1961, he played in theaters in Hamburg, Essen, Feuchtwangen, West Berlin and Hof. He played with Michel Piccoli , Heinrich George and René Deltgen , among others . He also worked as a voice actor, so he spoke z. B. 1940 the narrator (Allan Jeayes) in " The Thief of Baghdad ".
Private
Otto was married three times, his first marriage was son Klaus (* approx. 1930; lost during the turmoil of the last days of the war) and his second marriage with Klara Margarethe Charlotte Firmes was son Stefan, who died as a baby. In his third marriage Otto was with Michaeline Krone, geb. Reichert (* 1914; † 1986) married. She brought her son Andreas (* 1937; † 2012) into the marriage. Together they had three other sons Thomas (* 1942; † 1990), Raimund (* 1946) and Michael (* 1948), both of whom are also actors. Otto, Michaeline and Thomas are buried in the Schmargendorf cemetery.
Filmography
- 1933: Non Stop to Africa (short film)
- 1934: The colorful plate (short film)
- 1934: love wins
- 1935: Why is Miss Käthe lying?
- 1935: Don't fall in love with Lake Constance
- 1937: Michael company
- 1938: rubber (uncredited)
- 1938: Pour le Mérite
- 1939: The honeymoon
- 1940: The small town poet
- 1950: Benthin family
- 1955: Star with strange feathers
- 1955: Ernst Thälmann - leader in his class
- 1957: locks and cottages
- 1958: The Lottery Swede
- 1959: Ripening summer
- 1959: Cabal and Love (1959)
- 1959: TV epitaval: The Jakubowski case (TV series)
- 1960: people with wings
- 1960: Seilergasse 8
- 1960: TV epitaval: The Dibelius - Schnoor case
- 1961: Conscience in Turmoil (TV)
Radio plays
- 1955: Jan de Hartog : Ship without a harbor (Bruinsma, captain of the "Amsterdam") - Director: Lothar Dutombé (radio play - Broadcasting of the GDR )
Web links
- Otto Krone at filmportal.de
- Otto Krone at the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Otto Krone in the German dubbing index
Individual evidence
- ^ Association of German Electrical Engineers . Membership directory. Springer-Verlag GmbH, Berlin / Heidelberg 1925, p. 15, 145 ( google.de [accessed on January 20, 2017]).
- ↑ Biography on DEFA-Sternstunden.de. Retrieved May 15, 2014.
- ↑ Films with Otto Krone on Videobuster.de. Retrieved May 15, 2014.
- ^ Company Michael - Actors, Cast & Crew. Accessed May 15, 2014.
- ↑ Marriage with Formes ( Memento from May 18, 2014 in the Internet Archive )
personal data | |
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SURNAME | Krone, Otto |
ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Krone, Adolf Ernst Hans Werner Otto (full name) |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German actor from the pre-war and DEFA period |
DATE OF BIRTH | July 14, 1898 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Hanover |
DATE OF DEATH | March 19, 1974 |
Place of death | West Berlin |