Otto Kurth

from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Otto Kurth (born May 31, 1912 in Bremen , † December 13, 1996 in Munich ) was a German actor and director .

Life

Otto Kurth received acting lessons from Erich Ziegel and Mirjam Horwitz and began his stage career at the Hamburger Kammerspiele under the artistic director and founder Erich Ziegel. This was followed by positions as an actor and dramaturge at the Thalia Theater in Hamburg (1933) and the Schauspielhaus in Bremen. From 1938 first directorial work, among others with Jürgen Fehling , with Gustaf Gründgens at the Prussian State Theater in Berlin . After the end of the war, Otto Kurth was head of the radio play department of the Northwest German Broadcasting Corporation (NWDR) from 1945 and became chief radio director in 1947. In this capacity he was responsible as a director for a large number of radio plays from the late 1940s, also on behalf of other broadcasters.

These included an adaptation of the comedy An Angel Called Schmitt with Heinz Rühmann in 1953, the radio play Der kleine Lord in 1956 and in 1958 a radio play version of the novel Doctor Schiwago by Boris Pasternak .

Kurth also worked as a theater director. In 1949 he directed the comedy The Dreaming Girl by Elmer Rice with Hannelore Schroth at the Hamburger Kammerspiele under the artistic director Ida Ehre . Guest productions took him to the Kassel State Theater . Christine Brückner was the assistant director in Kassel .

From the 1960s Otto Kurth could be seen as an actor in numerous television productions such as Der Kommissar , Der Alte , Tadellöser & Wolff and Die Geschwister Oppermann . He also directed several productions.

In 1990 Otto Kurth published the volume Stories and Letters .

He was married to his colleague Margot Kurth. His final resting place is in Munich's north cemetery in the urn wall, row 9, grave no.8.

Filmography (selection)

Director

  • 1959: Isobel (TV movie)
  • 1960: The Land of Promise (TV movie)
  • 1960: The Ice Cold Night (TV movie)

actor

Radio plays (selection)

Director

  • 1947: Now they are singing again
  • 1949: The jewelry
  • 1949: Siegfried
  • 1949: Councilors and guilds in Lübeck around 1380
  • 1950: The Grand Tyrant and the Court
  • 1950: biology and tennis
  • 1950: Aunt Lisbeth
  • 1951: About year and day
  • 1952: Co must die
  • 1953: The Confidential Records and Confessions of a Justified Sinner
  • 1953: The Esperanza ship
  • 1953: buttons
  • 1953: An angel named Schmitt
  • 1953: The pavilion
  • 1954: The man from the woods
  • 1955: The missing diplomat
  • 1955: Mary Celeste
  • 1956: pewter shouting
  • 1956: a road to fame
  • 1956: The Little Lord
  • 1957: a big family
  • 1957: Mrs. Maigret as a detective
  • 1957: It happened in ... Holland ; Result: It was just love
  • 1957: It happened in… Flanders; Consequence: Small border traffic
  • 1957: It happened in ... England; Consequence: Not easy to be a fool
  • 1958: It happened in ... England; Result: the sniffing commission
  • 1958: The bridgehead
  • 1958: Feldgendarmerie
  • 1958: The military training area
  • 1958: imprisonment and release
  • 1958: homecoming
  • 1958: It happened in the ... Karawanken; Consequence: Cross-border commuters
  • 1958: It happened in ... Italy; Result: In stato interesting
  • 1958: Doctor Zhivago
  • 1959: It happened in… Sweden; Consequence: As long as the flame is still glowing
  • 1959: It happened in ... England; Result: the man with the briefcase
  • 1959: It happened in ... Austria; Result: the handbag miracle
  • 1960: It happened in ... Sweden; Result: the maneuver begins
  • 1960: It happened in ... Serbia; Result: The brothers from Macedonia
  • 1960: It happened ... in Kyrgyzstan; Result: a poor chicken
  • 1960: It happened in ... southern Germany; Result: It started out so harmlessly
  • 1962: Treasure Island
  • 1962: Oresty
  • 1964: The practice cartridge
  • 1964: And the crooked thing becomes straight
  • 1964: The donkey shadow trial
  • 1964: Jansen's revolver
  • 1965: The second motif
  • 1965: Death of a student
  • 1966: Helen and Edward and Henry
  • 1969: The difficult task
  • 1969: The bore
  • 1969: ghosts in the house
  • 1970: Murder in the rectory
  • 1971: Pat
  • 1972: The poodle with the lion's mane
  • 1973: Open up, the bell rings
  • 1974: Pierre Frachet: Abélard and Héloise (detective radio play - SDR )
  • 1976: Got the wrong guy
  • 1976: your little secret
  • 1977: Fred Kassack: Discretion (detective radio play - BR )

speaker

  • 1946: Who is without guilt (also director)
  • 1948: We are not alone (also directed)
  • 1951: The Message in a Bottle (also director)
  • 1952: Co must die (also director)
  • 1952: The court withdraws to deliberate (episode: The White Magician) - Director: Gerd Fricke
  • 1953: The confidential records and confessions of a justified sinner (also directed)
  • 1953: The court withdraws to deliberate (episode: The Kiss in the Gazebo) - Director: Gerd Fricke
  • 1953: For lack of evidence (also direction)
  • 1953: The court withdraws to deliberate (result: child abduction) - Director: Gerd Fricke
  • 1954: The court withdraws to deliberate (episode: The man without a testimony) - Director: Gerd Fricke
  • 1954: The court withdraws to deliberate (episode: a false twenties) - Director: Gerd Fricke
  • 1954: The gigantic machine - operated by dwarfs - Director: Wolfgang Schwade
  • 1954: crane feathers (also director)
  • 1956: The Animal in the Jungle - Director: Oswald Döpke
  • 1957: The Divine Comedy (Part 1) (also director)
  • 1957: The fruits of the cactus. A journey through the State of Israel - Director: Fritz Schröder-Jahn
  • 1958: The Mother - Director: Werner Honig
  • 1961: The Villa Remiro (also director)
  • 1962: Cäcilien-Ode - Director: Gert Westphal
  • 1962: The hunt for the perpetrator (episode: Call in the Belvedere) - Director: SO Wagner
  • 1963: ten, twenty, thirty ... (also director)
  • 1964: Mr. Huneker's Lady Sacrifice (The Huneker Gambit) - Director: Wolfgang Schenck
  • 1965: Prelude to Amphitryon (Part 1: First Prelude) (also director)
  • 1965: The divine Aretino (also director)
  • 1967: I am one, I am not one - Director: Heinz Hostnig
    • Award: Stereo Prize of the German Broadcasting Industry 1967
  • 1967: The thing with the TV boss (Part 3: Kate goes into business for herself) (also director)
  • 1968: Trial in Nuremberg - Director: Raoul Wolfgang Schnell
  • 1968: The Dead of Spoon River - Director: Wolfgang Schenck
  • 1969: The difficult task. A satire from the 19th century (also directed)
  • 1969: Ich, der Robot (3rd and 4th part) - Director: Günther Sauer
  • 1971: Pat (2 parts) new version (also direction)
  • 1972: The Poodle with the Lion's Mane (2 parts) (also director)
  • 1972: The tapes - Director: Wolfgang Schenck
  • 1973: September 14, 1944 - On the Day of the Exaltation of the Cross - Director: Hellmuth Kirchammer
  • 1974: Werkmeister Lorenz - Director: Wolfgang Schenck
  • 1974: The Police Station - Director: Hans Dieter Schwarze
  • 1974: The second confession of Leo Koczyk - Director: Heinz Wilhelm Schwarz
  • 1975: Mainly Queenie, but also Sam, Fred Bates and others - Director: Otto Düben
  • 1975: With excellent high tension (also direction)
  • 1976: Miko Panzer rides again - Director: Klaus Mehrländer
  • 1976: Your Little Secret (Son jardin secret) (also director)
  • 1976: Joachimstaler '35 - Director: Wolfgang Wölfer
  • 1976: The Flight of Icarus (3rd part) (also director)
  • 1977: Kubenka's Revenge - Directed by Hans Quest
  • 1977: The Paths of Flies (also director)
  • 1977: The bomb came from Santa Claus - Director: Lilian Westphal
  • 1978: A Murder for Tomorrow (also director)
  • 1978: Drei Tage Frost (2 parts) (also director)
    • Note: CD edition: Pidax Film Media Ltd. (Alive) 2015 (October)
  • 1978: The Doll (also director)
  • 1978: Deadly Sand - Director: Heinz Wilhelm Schwarz
  • 1978: Enemy (also director)
  • 1979: The Tambour or How the Chicken Gets into the Kettle - Director: Hans Bernd Müller
  • 1979: The Arbuckle case (long version) - Director: Klaus Mehrländer
  • 1979: The Mata Hari Case (also director)
  • 1980: The Misconduct - Director: Raoul Wolfgang Schnell
  • 1981: My child, beloved child - Director: Heinz Wilhelm Schwarz
  • 1981: A letter from Jerusalem - author and director: Oswald Döpke
  • 1982: Bluebeard - Director: Ernst Wendt
  • 1983: Monodialog / Hyperhypotheses - Director: Raoul Wolfgang Schnell
  • 1983: Three serious cases of charity - Director: Hartmut Kirste
  • 1984: Marble Angel - Director: Heinz Hostnig
  • 1984: Who Loves Each Other - Director: Otto Düben
  • 1984: You are wrong, Lysistrata. Indignant speeches by indignant women (also direction)
    • Note: CD edition: Der Hörverlag 2005
  • 1985: Scoop or: The big message - adaptation and direction: Heinz von Cramer
  • 1987: Ball upside down or Großer Schwof in Serner's Tanzpalais. Radio play for the mature youth in various fashion dances based on Walter Serner's stories - adaptation and direction: Heinz von Cramer
  • 1988: Botho Strauss : Bagatelles - Director: Dieter Dorn

Works

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Munich cemetery administration (date and place of death, burial place, name and occupation of the wife)
  2. ↑ a b chief director over the waves . In: Der Spiegel . No. 4 , 1947 ( online ).
  3. ↑ Hans-Joachim Schaefer: You may not have tried everything: memories . Kassel University Press, Kassel 2007, ISBN 978-3-89958-288-8 , p. 495
  4. ↑ The stage twitches . In: Der Spiegel . No. 43 , 1949 ( online ).
  5. ↑ Hans-Joachim Schaefer: You may not have tried everything: memories . Kassel University Press, Kassel 2007, ISBN 978-3-89958-288-8 , p. 494 ff.
personal data
SURNAME Kurth, Otto
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German actor and director
DATE OF BIRTH May 31, 1912
PLACE OF BIRTH Bremen
DATE OF DEATH December 13, 1996
Place of death Munich