Robert Klein-Loerk

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Robert Klein-Lörk (* around 1906/1907 in Berlin ; † early 1964 in New York City , United States ) was a German actor and cabaret artist .

Live and act

The exact dates of the artist, who has largely been forgotten today, are currently unknown. Klein-Lörk began his stage career in 1926 in his hometown of Berlin. In the 1927/28 season he was seen in Heinz Saltenburg's German Art Theater, where Klein-Lörk was at the side of renowned and established colleagues such as Gustav Fröhlich , Heinrich Gretler , Ferdinand Hart , Eugen Klöpfer , Johannes Riemann and Franz Lederer as well as the actresses Maria Orska , Charlotte Ander , Maria Fein , Käthe Dorsch and Renate Müller performed.

Since 1929, Klein-Lörk has appeared in films several times, performed in cabarets such as ping-pong and neglected the classic theater business. With the pupil Goldstaub in the cinema classic The Blue Angel , Klein-Lörk was supposed to get his most famous film role in the winter of 1929/30. As a staunch communist, Klein-Lörk was forced to flee Germany in 1933, the year he came to power . He first settled in Vienna, where he appeared as a cabaret artist at the cabaret theaters Literatur am Naschmarkt and "ABC". In addition, he worked in the Austrian capital in 1935 with a tiny role as a pickpocket for the last time in a film. Klein-Lörk's last important stage appearance in Vienna took place in March / April 1937 when he was part of Jura Soyfer's " The Embassy of Astoria ".

When the German National Socialists annexed Austria , Robert Klein-Lörk had to flee again and moved to the United States. He was seen in New York in 1946 in memory of Soyfer, who died of typhus in the Buchenwald concentration camp in 1939, in a performance of his play " End of the World ", with his former "ABC" colleague Leon Askin at his side . Nothing is known about Klein-Loerk's later years; he died in the winter of 1963/64 in his last adopted home, New York.

Filmography

literature

  • Kay Less : "In life, more is taken from you than given ...". Lexicon of filmmakers who emigrated from Germany and Austria between 1933 and 1945. A general overview. ACABUS Verlag, Hamburg 2011, ISBN 978-3-86282-049-8 , p. 585.

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personal data
SURNAME Klein-Loerk, Robert
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German actor and cabaret artist
DATE OF BIRTH around 1906–1907
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin , Kingdom of Prussia , German Empire
DATE OF DEATH 1964
Place of death New York City , New York , United States