Robert Klupp

Robert Klupp (born December 4, 1891 in Hamburg , † January 30, 1975 in Munich ) was a German actor , director , theater manager , radio and voice actor .

At the theater

Klupp had attended the teachers' seminar in Hamburg and in 1909 had taken private acting lessons from Julius Brandt . He made his stage debut in the same year with Thomas Diafoirus in Molière's The Imaginary Sick and Rörlund in Henrik Ibsen's pillars of society at the German People's Theater in his hometown.

Klupp's subject at a young age was that of the youthful hero and lover. He stayed at the Volkstheater until 1911, then moved to the Landestheater Linz for two seasons and in 1913/14 to the Theater in der Josefstadt in Vienna . After his military service during the First World War, from which he was discharged wounded in 1918, Klupp was given the management of a front theater in 1918. From 1919 to 1924, the man from Hamburg was part of the ensemble of the Berlin Theater on Königgrätzer Strasse . Klupp was also able to work as a director for the first time at the Hessisches Landestheater Darmstadt , where he had been the first bon vivant from 1924 to 1928. During this time he worked with Werner Finck , among others . In 1928 he went to the Baden-Baden municipal theater as senior theater director for two years before being appointed director of this stage in 1930.

The takeover of power by the National Socialists meant an abrupt end to Klupp's activities in the Reich. The racially persecuted man evaded to Strasbourg in Alsace and joined the German-speaking ensemble of the Théâtre municipal de Strasbourg. In the next five years (until 1938) he was the director of this theater company. In 1937 Klupp also worked as a director of the ' Jedermann Festival of Strasbourg Cathedral'. In the Hofmannsthal play of the same name , he embodied the devil.

At a young age Klupp played an abundance of classical stage roles, such as Don Karlos, Gyges, Leander, Bolingbroke (in Das Glas Wasser ), König (in Grillparzer's Die Jüdin von Toledo ), Gabriel Schilling (in Hauptmanns Gabriel Schilling's Escape ) and the Dauphin (in Shaw's St. Johanna ) . He was also seen in more modern plays, for example as Peer Bille in Curt Goetz 's court comedy Hocus-pocus , as Leberecht Riedel in Relatives are also people and as a rider in Arthur Schnitzler's Das weite Land .

Klupp's years in exile and during the Second World War have been largely unexplained to date; it is only after the war that he can be traced back to German theaters. Although based in Berlin and listed as artistic director in the yearbooks of the German Theater Members' Association, Klupps did not work in the theater until 1951. Only then did he find employment as a broadcaster, first at RIAS , then also at NWDR and SFB . From 1954, after an absence of more than twenty years in the German theater business, he returned to the (Berlin) stages (Hebbel Theater and Die Tribüne).

Film, television and dubbing

Robert Klupp came to film and television late. Already at an advanced age, he was offered the roles of serious persons and dignified dignitaries. His lordly appearance made him ideal for judges, political pullers and representatives of the upper classes, but Klupp also played pastor and butler.

Robert Klupp has also frequently worked as a voice actor and has lent the German voice to colleagues such as Claude Rains , Otto Kruger , Herbert Marshall , Wilfrid Hyde-White , Cecil Parker , Felix Aylmer and John McIntire in an abundance of Anglo-American productions .

Filmography (selection)

TV unless otherwise stated

• 1953: The Enchanted King's Son (movie)
• 1956: A heart beats for Erika (movie)
• 1960: The crooks comedy
• 1963: The black panther of Ratana (movie)
• 1963: Fires blaze everywhere
• 1963: The grotto
• 1963: Deliberately
• 1964: mine or yours
• 1964: The story of Joel Brand
• 1964: Dr. med. Job Praetorius (movie)
• 1964: The crime museum - the fountain pen
• 1965: Where was Friedrich Weisgerber?
• 1966: Paris is worth a trip
• 1967: The Ivar Kreuger case
• 1967: The assassination attempt - Schleicher: General of the last hour
• 1969: tides
• 1970: Strange Stories; Result: A letter from the past
• 1971: Pauls Esbeck
• 1971: Conspiracy in Ulm - The Reichswehr Trial 1930
• 1972: A dead man stops at 8:10 a.m.
• 1973: You don't play with love (movie)
• 1973: Homicide Squad

literature

• 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. 364.
• Wilhelm Kosch: Deutsches Theater-Lexikon , second volume, p. 1028. Klagenfurt and Vienna 1960
• 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 , p. 849.

Web links

• Robert Klupp in the Internet Movie Database (English)
• Robert Klupp in the German dubbing file