Rolf from Goth

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Rolf von Goth around 1929 on a photograph by Alexander Binder

Rolf von Goth (born November 5, 1906 in Windhoek / German South West Africa ; † November 9, 1981 in Berlin ) was a German actor and radio play director .

Life

He began his film career in the late 1920s with small roles in films such as Metropolis , Don Juan in Girls' School, and Spring Awakening . His engagements became more and more numerous in the 1930s and he became a popular supporting actor. His best-known films include Boycott , Between Night and Morning , Master Detective , A Girl with Procuration and The Castle in Flanders .

During the Second World War he only played in the film The Woman of My Dreams (1944), then he retired from the film business.

Grave of Rolf von Goth in the Heerstrasse cemetery in Berlin-Westend

After the war he went to Berlin and started a new career as a radio play director at what was then NWDR Berlin , which later became the SFB . There he was responsible for the production of over two hundred radio plays. This included, for example, the play The Love of the Four Colonels by Peter Ustinov in 1952 , in a radio adaptation by Thilo Koch . At that time, Siegfried Schürenberg , Ernst Schröder , Walter Süssenguth and Ernst Konstantin were among the speakers . He rarely had to other broadcasting centers operate as in 1964, where he worked for the WDR the six-part thriller bells of death of Ernst Hall staged. The main actors included Hermann Lenschau , Alwin Joachim Meyer , Helmut Peine and Fritz Rasp .

He was married to the actress Karin Hardt .

Rolf von Goth died just a few days after his 75th birthday on November 9, 1981 in Berlin. He was buried in the Heerstraße cemetery in the Charlottenburg district in today's Berlin-Westend district (grave location: II-Ur 3-219).

Filmography (selection)

Radio plays (selection)

  • 1951: The bridge
  • 1951: Two in the twilight
  • 1952: The people with the cardboard box
  • 1952: The Chaconne Johann Sebastian Bach
  • 1952: The love of the four colonels (by Peter Ustinov )
  • 1952: love carousel
  • 1952: Camera is running
  • 1952: Claire Laboiteuse
  • 1952: The glowing Robert
  • 1953: Help is given to Mr. Brown
  • 1953: It got dark before evening
  • 1953: Snow White and the Beauty Queen
  • 1953: A pot full of rice for General Tschang
  • 1954: Siegfried
  • 1956: the past destroyed
  • 1957: Under a false flag
  • 1959: Nocturnal conversation with a despised person (by Friedrich Dürrenmatt )
  • 1959: The case of Dr. Concern
  • 1959: The Bear (by Anton Chekhov )
  • 1959: The deadly voice
  • 1960: blown
  • 1960: light in the attic
  • 1961: The man from the moon
  • 1962: the art of doing business
  • 1962: The swapped suitcase
  • 1962: Back to zero
  • 1962: TV quiz
  • 1963: The night train
  • 1963: Dream fair
  • 1963: Too much money
  • 1963: door to door (by Horst Pillau )
  • 1964: high above Iceland
  • 1964: The man on the palm
  • 1964: Bells of Death (by Ernst Hall ) - 6 parts
  • 1964: The will
  • 1964: The trip to Italy
  • 1965: Another night
  • 1967: gas light (by Patrick Hamilton )
  • 1967: A Christmas child for Cherokee (after O. Henry )
  • 1968: Guilt and atonement in the Carpathian Mountains
  • 1969: Five fingers make one hand - 6 parts
  • 1972: The Wolf Game
  • 1972: liqueur
  • 1973: Angel of the Morning
  • 1973: About the use of winter mountains
  • 1974: Young widow with no assets
  • 1974: After the day the television came on
  • 1976: head-on collision
  • 1977: funeral pyre for apostles
  • 1980: Prima donna

literature

  • Kay Less : Between the stage and the barracks. Lexicon of persecuted theater, film and music artists from 1933 to 1945 . With a foreword by Paul Spiegel . Metropol, Berlin 2008, ISBN 978-3-938690-10-9 , p. 139.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Place of death, according to the information provided by the administration of the Heerstraße cemetery (certification of death by the Wilmersdorf registry office)
  2. ^ Hans-Jürgen Mende : Lexicon of Berlin burial places . Pharus-Plan, Berlin 2018, ISBN 978-3-86514-206-1 . Pp. 486-487.
personal data
SURNAME Goth, Rolf von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German actor
DATE OF BIRTH 5th November 1906
PLACE OF BIRTH Windhoek , German Southwest Africa
DATE OF DEATH November 9, 1981
Place of death Berlin