Paul Rehkopf

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Paul Anton Heinrich Rehkopf (born May 21, 1872 in Braunschweig , † June 27, 1949 in Berlin ) was a German actor and opera singer (bass).

Life

Paul Rehkopf made his debut in Rostock in 1891 . From 1892 to 1898 he played in Basel and Zurich , from 1898 to 1917 in Posen , Mainz , Breslau and at the royal theater in Wiesbaden . In 1917 he came to Berlin to the Meinhard and Bernauer Bühnen ( Berlin theater , theater on Königgrätzer Strasse and Komödienhaus on Schiffbauerdamm). In 1925 he moved to the Saltenburg- Bühnen, in 1927 to the Theater des Westens . In the 1930s he played at the Rose Theater , the Wallner Theater , the Theater des Volkes ( Großes Schauspielhaus ), the Komische Oper in Friedrichstrasse and in the collectives “Volkstheater Neue Welt” and “Die Vaganten”.

From 1917 Rehkopf took part in a very large number of silent and later sound films. He embodied, often only brief appearances, sharply drawn secondary and marginal characters of all kinds. He was the pimp in Karl Grune's The Girl Shepherd (1919), the gravedigger in Fritz Lang's The tired death (1921), he was Thomas Münzer in Luther - Film (1927). Larger tasks in the film offered him the title role in the forgotten but preserved Der Vagabund (1923) by Bruno Lange, his gangster type "the gentle Paul" in the milieu study Spelunke by EW Emo (1928) and the central role of the beggar in the as a major work of proletarian film classified Beyond the Street by Leo Mittler (1929).

Paul Rehkopf was buried in the south-west cemetery in Stahnsdorf (block Stahnsdorf field 12 no. 133).

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SURNAME Rehkopf, Paul
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Rehkopf, Paul Anton Heinrich (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German actor and opera singer (bass)
DATE OF BIRTH May 21, 1872
PLACE OF BIRTH Braunschweig
DATE OF DEATH June 27, 1949
Place of death Berlin