Ralph Lothar

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Ralph Günther Lothar (born July 29, 1910 in Berlin ; † October 14, 1981 there ; also listed as Ralf Günther Lothar ) was a German actor , radio play and voice actor , director and screenwriter .

Life

Ralph Lothar was born the son of the magistrate Heinrich Lothar and his wife Selvani. After completing secondary school , he attended a private drama school and received classical ballet training from Eugenie Eduardowa in Berlin. He made his debut in 1929 at the Deutsches Theater in Franz Werfel's drama Paulus among the Jews and then worked on theaters in Remscheid , Wilhelmshaven and Koblenz . From 1939 Ralph Lothar played in Berlin at the Rose Theater and the Theater in Behrenstrasse . After military service and prisoner of war, engagements as an actor and director at various stages followed in Berlin (German Theater, Komische Oper , Theater am Schiffbauerdamm , Comedy , Renaissance Theater and Schiller Theater ).

First roles in film productions embodied Ralph Lothar 1941 The way out of Rolf Hansen with Zarah Leander , Hans Stüwe and Siegfried Breuer and 1943 in trust I you my wife of Kurt Hoffmann with Heinz Rühmann , Lil Adina and Werner Fuetterer . In the 1950s he could be seen in feature films such as 1954 The Disappeared Miniature by Carl-Heinz Schroth with Paola Loew , Paul Westermeier , Paul Bildt and Lina Carstens and in 1956 Black Forest Melody by Géza von Bolváry with Erica Beer , Claus Biederstaedt and Willy Fritsch . From the mid-1950s he increasingly turned to directing and initially worked as an assistant director for the film productions Viktor and Viktoria and Banktresor 713, among others . After his first own work for cinema and television , he was in the television series Jedermannstrasse 11 and country doctor Dr. Brock is responsible for the direction. His last appearance as an actor was in five episodes of the television series Drei Damen vom Grill in the role of Eric Reimann.

Ralph Lothar also worked as a narrator in several radio play productions . He also worked as a voice actor. He could be heard as a German voice in the films Sindbad the Seafarer , Twelve Noon and Dirty Laurel .

He was also a lecturer in directing at the Institute for Theater Studies at the Free University of Berlin and wrote the screenplay for the 1950 feature film The Staircase . He provided the idea for the 1956 film The Don Cossack Song .

Lothar was married and had a daughter.

Ralph Lothar died in Berlin in 1981 at the age of 71. His grave is in the Dahlem cemetery .

Filmography (selection)

actor

Director

Assistant director

script

theatre

Radio plays (selection)

  • 1948: George Bernard Shaw : The Emperor of America - Director: Alfred Braun ( Berliner Rundfunk )
  • 1949: William Shakespeare : Romeo and Juliet (Mercurio) - Director: Alfred Braun (Berliner Rundfunk)
  • 1949: George Bernard Shaw: Saint Johanna - Director: Alfred Braun (Berliner Rundfunk)
  • 1950: State secret
  • 1951: Voices over the river
  • 1953: after-patrol
  • 1953: The horse of the happy lark
  • 1956: A dead man chats something (episode from the multi-part "Where is 'Mister Milburry'")
  • 1958: Sardinian Feme (episode from the series "The Hunt for the Perpetrator")
  • 1971: The Pappberg
  • 1971: Father's funeral
  • 1972: ritual
  • 1973: The tricorn
  • 1974: On the trail of the first fortunes

Synchronization (selection)

literature

  • Johann Caspar Glenzdorf: Glenzdorf's international film lexicon. Biographical manual for the entire film industry. Volume 2: Hed – Peis. Prominent-Filmverlag, Bad Münder 1961, DNB 451560744 , pp. 1027-1028.
  • Herbert A. Frenzel , Hans Joachim Moser (ed.): Kürschner's biographical theater manual. Drama, opera, film, radio. Germany, Austria, Switzerland. De Gruyter, Berlin 1956, DNB 010075518 , p. 445.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Jedermannstrasse 11 in Michael Reufsteck , Stefan Niggemeier Das Fernsehlexikon . All over 7000 programs from Ally McBeal to the ZDF hit parade. Goldmann, Munich, 2005, ISBN 978-3-442-30124-9 , pp. 607-608; The television lexicon online at fernsehserien.de; Retrieved April 5, 2016
  2. ^ Hans-Jürgen Mende: Lexicon of Berlin burial places . Pharus-Plan, Berlin 2018, ISBN 978-3-86514-206-1 , p. 571.
personal data
SURNAME Lothar, Ralph
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Lothar, Ralph Günther (full name); Lothar, Ralf Günther
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German actor, radio play speaker, voice actor, director and screenwriter
DATE OF BIRTH July 29, 1910
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH October 14, 1981
Place of death Berlin