Richard Ludwig (actor)

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Richard Ludwig (* 2. March 1881 in Nidda , Hessen , German Empire , † after 1960) was a German actor of stage and film and theater director .

Life

Ludwig received his artistic training at the turn of the century and began his theater career in the 1901/02 season as a trainee at the Hoftheater Darmstadt. After a tour of Pomerania and West Prussia, he went to the city theater in Colmar in Alsace for two seasons in 1903. Up until the outbreak of World War I, obligations followed, which took him to Wiesbaden, Barmen, Detmold (also worked as a director at the court theater there in 1908/09), Hagen and finally (1912–1914) at the Aachen City Theater. Drafted in when the war broke out in August 1914, Ludwig remained committed to military service until 1917, with exceptions. His return to civilian life began in the 1918/19 season with the offer to work in Krefeld not only as an actor, but again as a director. Since 1919 Ludwig has also been active on theaters in Berlin, such as the Lustspielhaus, the Wallner Theater, the Great Playhouse, the English Theater, the Trianon Theater and the International Theater. His first last season brought him to the Theater am Nollendorfplatz in 1934/35, then he was expelled from the Reich Theater Chamber by the National Socialists in October 1935 because he refused to divorce his Jewish wife. From then on he was only allowed to appear on the stage with special permits, which were revoked from time to time until 1943.

Ludwig came to film during the First World War. After a first attempt, in which he worked alongside Rudolph and Joseph Schildkraut under the direction of Richard Oswald in 1915 , films with him between 1919 and 1948 can be proven. He appeared in a number of silent comedies directed by Heinrich Bolten-Baeckers , who also produced many of them in his own BB film Fabrikation (Berlin), alongside character comedians such as Konrad Dreher , Leo Peukert and Arnold Rieck in small roles on. Peukert also directed some of the comedies. Ludwig played respected figures such as ministers, aristocrats, pastors and pharmacists just as he knew how to characterize subordinate figures, railway attendants or estate managers. He was also able to successfully continue this line in the sound film era. It is noticeable that he was repeatedly cast as a foreigner in propaganda films of the Third Reich . B. as an English ambassador, English officer, American concert-goer or as a major in the Russian guard. Shortly after the end of the war, Richard Ludwig could only be seen twice in the film.

Filmography

Silent films

  • 1915: demon and man
  • 1919: In the railroad attendant's house [role: railroad attendant Franz Fernhuber]
  • 1919: My Leopold [role: Leopold]
  • 1920: Poor little Pierrot
  • 1920: The suburban Caruso [role: Anton Mückenfett]
  • 1920: Doctor Klaus [role: Max von Boden]
  • 1920: Killemann has a pat [role: Dr. Ernst Martini]
  • 1920: Lolo's father
  • 1920: Lottchen's marriage [role: Pastor Engelbrecht]
  • 1920: The man with the monkey head
  • 1921: It comes from love
  • 1921: Professor Rehbein and his pupil (directed by Leo Peukert ) [role: pharmacist]
  • 1921: Free path for the capable [role: Minister of Fine Arts]
  • 1921: The Lord Impresario (Directed by Leo Peukert )
  • 1922: Black Forest children (directed by Leo Peukert ) [role: Schröder, princely estate manager]
  • 1922: The night in the Black Mouse
  • 1922: Hotel zum Golden Engel [role: Lohmann, hotel owner]
  • 1923: Troubled honeymoon [role: Felix]
  • 1925: The gentleman without a flat [role: lawyer]
  • 1925: Götz von Berlichingen named with the iron hand [role: Count Ravenstein]
  • 1925: In the vortex of traffic. A film for everyone (Direction Leo Peukert )

Sound films

  • 1930: Terra Melophon Magazin No. 1 (episode film) [role: draftsman]
  • 1931: I'll stay with you, also: Mary's start in marriage
  • 1934: I don't know you and I love you
  • 1935: Barcarole [role: guest at Prince Lopuchin]
  • 1936: The violet from Potsdamer Platz [role: Kriminalrat]
  • 1936: A wedding dream
  • 1936: family parade
  • 1936: Final chord [role: doctor]
  • 1937: Other World [role: captain]
  • 1938: The secret of Betty Bonn [role: captain of the lifeline]
  • 1939: Bel Ami [role: Butler]
  • 1939: Escape into the dark
  • 1939: error of heart
  • 1940: Jud Suess
  • 1940: The girl in the anteroom
  • 1940: Affair
  • 1941: Carl Peters [role: English ambassador in Berlin]
  • 1941: Hallgarten Scout Troop [role: English officer]
  • 1942: Secret files WB1 [role: Major of the Russian Guard]
  • 1943: The Eternal Sound [role: American listener]
  • 1946: Tell the truth [role: head waiter Rudolf]
  • 1948: Life lies ahead of us , also: The 5 from Titan [role: antique dealer]

Web links

literature

  • Trapp, Frithjof; Mittenzwei, Werner; Rischbieter, Henning; Schneider, Hansjörg: Handbook of the German-speaking Exile Theater 1933–1945 / Biographical Lexicon of Theater Artists. Volume 2, p. 620. Munich 1999
  • J. Hoberman: Bridge of Light: Yiddish Film Between Two Worlds. Interfaces, studies in visual culture. Illustrated edition. UPNE Publishing House, 2010. ISBN 9781584658702 . Length 416 pages
  • Salomon Siegbert Prawer: Between Two Worlds: The Jewish Presence in German and Austrian Film, 1910-1933 (= Volume 3 of Film Europa, author SS Prawer) Verlag Berghahn Books, 2005. ISBN 9781782387916 . Length 240 pages
  • Irene Stratenwert with Hermann Simon (Ed.): Pioneers in Celluloid. Jews in the early film world . Henschel, Berlin 2004, ISBN 3-89487-471-6 . Here p. 204
  • Friedrich von Zglinicki: The way of the film. History of cinematography and its predecessors. Berlin: Rembrandt Verlag 1956.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ “Demon and Man” based on a Yiddish play by Abraham S. Schomer, which Oswald adapted for the film, cf. Prawer p. 149, Hoberman p. 361; only mentioned by GECD, missing from IMDb and filmportal
  2. ↑ cf. Zglinicki p. 384
  3. ↑ with Rudolph and Joseph Schildkraut, directed by Richard Oswald
  4. ^ The author of the manuscript was Konrad Dreher
  5. ↑ Original title “The Night in the Green Monkey”, had to be changed after censorship, cf. Decision of the Higher Film Inspectorate A.78.22 of August 24, 1922; were objected to as immoral u. a. the slider dances performed in the second act (cf. charleston-formation.de ( memento of the original from December 19, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and remove then this reference and the contemporary drawing by Heinrich Zille ) @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.charleston-formation.de
  6. ↑ the cast list from the Ring-Film AG film program from 1925 is reproduced by Zglinicki p. 385
  7. ↑ movie poster shown. at filmportal.de/material
  8. ↑ movie poster shown. at filmportal.de/material
personal data
SURNAME Ludwig, Richard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German actor in stage and film and theater director
DATE OF BIRTH March 2, 1881
PLACE OF BIRTH Nidda , Hesse , German Empire
DATE OF DEATH after 1960