Peter Lühr

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Peter Lühr (born May 3, 1906 in Hamburg , † March 15, 1988 in Munich ) was a German actor and voice actor .

Life

Peter Lühr was born into a merchant family and graduated from high school at the age of 17. He then took acting lessons from Arnold Marlé in Hamburg . Various engagements followed in Dessau , Kassel , Düsseldorf (with Walter Bruno Iltz ) and Leipzig . From 1947 Lühr belonged to the ensemble of the Münchner Kammerspiele . Lühr also gave acting lessons and directed, but his passion was acting. As a voice actor he lent a. a. Michael Gough (in Royal Love ) and Laurence Olivier (in Hamlet ) his voice.

Because of his performance as Tarragon alongside Thomas Holtzmann as Wladimir in Samuel Beckett's Waiting for Godot , directed by George Tabori , this production of the Münchner Kammerspiele was invited to the Berlin Theatertreffen in 1984 . In 1983 he shone in the title role of Dieter Dorn's production of Merlin (Tankred Dorst, with Ursula Ehler), a theatrical sensation at the Kammerspiele, which lasted two evenings. In 1987 Dieter Dorn's production of William Shakespeare's Troilus and Cressida was also invited to the Theatertreffen . a. next to Sunnyi Melles embodied Pandarus. In Dorn's production of Goethe's Faust I , shortly before his death, he spoke with great force the appropriation that Rolf Boysen took on in the film adaptation the following year .

With regard to the reception of his achievements, Lühr was referred to as a so-called actor of age, since with increasing age his role representations became more concise, differentiated and deep. In 1981 Lühr received the cultural honorary award of the state capital Munich .

As an acting teacher he has u. a. Mario Adorf teaches and influences.

The grave of the actor Peter Lühr in the cemetery in Keitum on Sylt.

On the occasion of his 100th birthday, a special exhibition entitled Peter Lühr - The Unforgettable Roles was shown in the Deutsches Theatermuseum (formerly the Clara Ziegler Foundation ) from June 2 to June 17, 2006 .

Lühr died in 1988 at the age of 81. His grave is in the cemetery of the Church of St. Severin (Keitum) on Sylt .

Trivia

The son Peter von Strombeck , who also worked as an actor, emerged from the connection with the actress Heide von Strombeck .

Honors

Filmography

Radio plays

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Mario Adorf on July 7, 2010 in "The European", accessed on September 26, 2014
  2. ^ The grave of Peter Lühr "Grave of Peter Lühr", accessed on September 3, 2016
personal data
SURNAME Lühr, Peter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German actor
DATE OF BIRTH May 3, 1906
PLACE OF BIRTH Hamburg
DATE OF DEATH March 15, 1988
Place of death Munich