Rudi Godden

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Rudi Godden (born April 18, 1907 in Berlin as Rudi Lißbauer , † January 4, 1941 ibid) was a German singer and film actor .

Life

Rudi Godden was the son of an Austrian café animal and was adopted by his stepfather, a cinema owner, after his early death. In addition to attending school in Berlin, Rostock and Hamburg, Godden, who initially wanted to be an opera singer, took singing lessons at the Hamburg Opera School, which he did not continue. After a broken commercial apprenticeship, he worked as an extra at the Berliner Kammerspiele and the Deutsches Schauspielhaus . Since the late 1920s he went on tour with the singing quartet "Blue Boys", which he co-founded. Since 1935 he was a member of the cabaret "The Eight Unfettered".

In 1936 he accepted a contract with Tobis and stood in front of the camera for the first time for the film Truxa . In the years 1937 to 1940, major roles followed, including one of the title roles in Hans H. Zerlett's anti-Semitic musical comedy Robert and Bertram (1939). Except in the film Life Can Be So Beautiful , in which he first took on a serious role, his role subject was the charming, always in a good mood, heartbreaker. In addition to his film work, he appeared in operettas in the Admiralspalast and in the Metropol. a. he played the main male role in Schmidseder's women in the Metropol .

He was married to the cabaret artist Gerti Godden since 1937 .

Rudi Godden died unexpectedly in 1941 at the age of 33 from the effects of blood poisoning. His grave in the Old Twelve Apostles Cemetery in Berlin-Schöneberg has been preserved.

Filmography

literature

  • Volker Kühn (Ed.): Germany's Awakening: Cabaret under the swastika; 1933-1945 . Volume 3. Weinheim: Quadriga, 1989 ISBN 3-88679-163-7 , p. 373f. (Short biography)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ CineGraph, IMDb and filmportal.de name January 4th, Kay Less: The large personal dictionary of films and Ulrich Liebe (ed.): From Adorf to Ziemann. The bibliography of actor biographies 1900-2000 on the other hand January 3, 1941 as the date of death.
  2. ^ Hans-Jürgen Mende: Lexicon of Berlin burial places . Pharus-Plan, Berlin 2018, ISBN 978-3-86514-206-1 , p. 752.
personal data
SURNAME Godden, Rudy
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Lißbauer, Rudi (real name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German singer and film actor
DATE OF BIRTH April 18, 1907
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH January 4, 1941
Place of death Berlin