Rolf Loer

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Rolf Loer , actually Lawrence F. Koehler , also Rolf Lör or Rolf Loehr (born January 19, 1892 in Minneapolis , Minnesota ; † October 12, 1964 in Jackson Heights , New York ) was a German-American actor , violinist and music teacher .

Life

His real name was Lawrence F. Koehler, his father was the conductor Friedrich Ernst Georg Koehler (1868–1926), who emigrated from Hamburg to America , and his mother was Magdalena Koehler, née Oberth (1865–1957). His brother Clarence Franz Koehler (1896–1980) was also a musician: he composed. Since Lawrence F. showed a talent for playing the violin , his father sent him to Germany to the Klindworth-Scharwenka Conservatory , where he began studying with Arrigo Serato in 1909 , which he continued until the outbreak of the First World War .

As a young adult he lived in Berlin until his middle years. Under the stage name Rolf Loer he played for silent films in a number of films of the German Mutoscope & Biograph GmbH , the figure of Super Gangsters Phantomas that before him Erich Kaiser-Titz had played. After 1921/22 he also took on other roles. He appeared in front of the camera together with well-known actors of his time such as Victor Colani , Blandine Ebinger , Frydel Fredy , Hanni Reinwald , Conrad Veidt and Paul Westermeier . Films with Loer can be traced between 1917 and 1925.

Loer returned to America before the outbreak of World War II . There he took up a position as a violinist with the Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra , but then moved to New York , where he gave violin lessons in private lessons.

He died in Jackson Heights, New York, in October 1964, and is buried in Flushing Cemetery , where well-known musicians such as jazz trumpeters Louis Armstrong (1901–1971) and Dizzy Gillespie (1917–1993) rest.

Filmography

  • 1917: A sharp shot (involvement uncertain)
  • 1918: The bells of the (Sankt) Katharinenkirche
  • 1918: The awakening Venus
  • 1917/18: The stolen hotel
  • 1918: a nocturnal event
  • 1918: The partner
  • 1918: The yellow shadow
  • 1918: The luck of Lindenberg
  • 1918: The game of poker
  • 1919: About diamonds and women
  • 1919: The lady in the car
  • 1919/20: Prof. Larousse
  • 1919/20: The man in the fog
  • 1920: The double face
  • 1920/21: Urn number 13
  • 1921/22: Tie Maker - The Usurer of Berlin
  • 1922: Street jugglers
  • 1922/23: The world in flames, 1st part: Hate and love
  • 1923: The world in flames, part 2
  • 1923: he is your brother
  • 1923: The stolen hotel
  • 1924: German heroes in difficult times
  • 1924/25: fate

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Photo (from the Hermann Leiser publishing house) and short biography at findagrave.com , created by: SDKoehler, added: Oct. 8, 2014
  2. ↑ cf. findagrave.com
  3. ↑ cf. "Orchestra is on Paying Basis," article in Oregon Sunday Journal , April 30, 1916, p. 6th
  4. ↑ cf. "Violin Lessons to be Given in New Pfalz", advert in New Pfalz Independent & Times , Sep. 9, 1953, p. 6th
  5. ↑ cf. findagrave.com
personal data
SURNAME Loer, Rolf
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Koehler, Lawrence F. (real name); Loer, Rolf; Loehr, Rolf
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German-American actor, violinist and music teacher
DATE OF BIRTH January 19, 1892
PLACE OF BIRTH Minneapolis , Minnesota
DATE OF DEATH October 12, 1964
Place of death Jackson Heights , New York