Otto Krone (actor)

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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

Portrait photo for the performance of Gorkis Nachtasyl in November 1970 in the Franconian Theater in Maßbach Castle . There he played the main role of Kostylev, Mikhail Ivanovich, hostess .

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

Radio plays

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Association of German Electrical Engineers . Membership directory. Springer-Verlag GmbH, Berlin / Heidelberg 1925, p.  15, 145 ( google.de [accessed on January 20, 2017]).
  2. ↑ Biography on DEFA-Sternstunden.de. Retrieved May 15, 2014.
  3. ↑ Films with Otto Krone on Videobuster.de. Retrieved May 15, 2014.
  4. ^ Company Michael - Actors, Cast & Crew. Accessed May 15, 2014.
  5. ↑ Marriage with Formes ( Memento from May 18, 2014 in the Internet Archive )
personal data
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