Paul Esser

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Paul Esser (born April 24, 1913 in Kapellen am Niederrhein ; † January 20, 1988 in Tenerife ) was a German theater and film actor and voice actor .

Life

After two years of acting lessons with Adolf Dell , he began his first engagement in 1939 at the Paderborn City Theater . Appearances in Weimar , Posen , Memel and Schneidemühl followed . In 1943 he played at the Deutsches Theater in Berlin , where he stayed until the theater was closed due to the war in autumn 1944.

After the end of the war, Esser followed Gustaf Gründgens' call to the Düsseldorfer Schauspielhaus . After working as a director in Frankfurt am Main, he went to Berlin. He played the role of Wilhelm Tell in the reopening of the Schiller Theater in Berlin in 1951. The theater on Kurfürstendamm was also one of his places of activity.

In 1949 he played the fellow traveler Hans Behnke in the DEFA film Rotation , in The Cold Heart the cocky Ezekiel and in Der Untertan 1951 the cocky Prussian district president von Wulckow. After switching to German film, Esser was only seen in supporting roles. Mostly he acted inflated superiors, for example the government councilor Motzmann in the Heinz Erhardt comedy What's the matter with Willi? (1970). He also achieved fame through his portrayal of the crook Blom in the Astrid Lindgren film adaptations by Pippi Longstocking with Inger Nilsson .

In two episodes of the crime series Tatort , he was Berlin Commissioner Kasulke in 1971 and 1972.

After Esser had unsuccessfully applied for the management of the theater of the Freie Volksbühne , he founded his own theater, the "Schauspielhaus Hansa" , in 1963 in the rooms of a large cinema in Berlin, Alt-Moabit 48. In 1974 it was renamed the Hansa Theater . Esser remained in charge until 1981.

On May 18, 1981, he was awarded the Federal Cross of Merit, 1st class. Paul Esser is buried in the forest cemetery in Gauting .

Filmography

theatre

Radio plays

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Hansa Theater
  2. ↑ Information from the Federal President's Office
  3. ^ Grave of Paul Esser
personal data
SURNAME Esser, Paul
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German theater and film actor as well as voice actor
DATE OF BIRTH April 24, 1913
PLACE OF BIRTH Chapels , North Rhine-Westphalia, German Empire
DATE OF DEATH January 20, 1988
Place of death Tenerife , Spain