Rudolf Fernau

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Rudolf Fernau (born January 7, 1898 in Munich ; † November 4, 1985 there ; actually Andreas Rolf Neuberger ) was a German stage and film actor .

Life

Before Rudolf Fernau appeared for the first time as an actor at the age of 18, he completed a musical education for piano and violin. As an actor, he appeared in roles at various theaters before becoming a member of the Stuttgart State Theater from 1929 .

At the age of 38, Fernau was given a role in the film Traitor in 1936 . In his next film, In the Name of the People (1938), he also played a demonic murderer. His best-known film role during the Nazi era was that of Dr. Crippen in the crime film Dr. Crippen on board . Fernau was a member of the NSDAP and in 1944, in the final phase of the Second World War , was placed on the God-gifted list of film actors of the Reich Ministry for Public Enlightenment and Propaganda , which included those actors who Goebbels thought they needed for propaganda films .

After the Second World War, Fernau was initially sentenced to nine months in prison and a life-long ban on denazification , and only to a small fine when revised in January 1946. In 1947 Fernau played at the State Theater in Munich and in 1949 at the Schlosspark and Schiller Theater in Berlin. When he received film offers again afterwards, he again embodied the image of the often mentally confused monster . He played u. a. in Children, Mothers, and a General (1955) and in Confess Dr. Corda! (1958). Rudolf Fernau was also seen in several Edgar Wallace films of the 1960s. Fernau also became famous with post-war audiences with roles in the Dr. Mabuse film adaptations In the steel network of Dr. Mabuse (1961) and The Invisible Claws of Dr. Mabuse (1962).

Later the actor appeared again more often on the theater stage and was seen less often in film roles. In the Simmel film Bis zur bitteren Neige (1975) and in the Fallada film Everyone dies for himself (1976) as well as in some television games he played in his usual roles.

In 1972 he published his memoir entitled Als Lied's Began. An actor's life diary.

Fernau was buried in 1985 in the Haidhausen cemetery in Munich.

Awards

  • 1929 and 1936: Stuttgart state actor
  • 1957: Berlin state actor
  • 1965: Federal Cross of Merit, First Class
  • 1979: Large Federal Cross of Merit
  • 1979: Filmband in gold for many years of excellent work in German film
  • 1983: Thomas Mann Medal and Medal of Honor from the City of Munich

Filmography

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b Ernst Klee : The cultural lexicon for the Third Reich. Who was what before and after 1945. S. Fischer, Frankfurt am Main 2007, ISBN 978-3-10-039326-5 , p. 150.
  2. ^ Günther Rühle : Theater in Germany 1946–1966. Its events - its people . S. Fischer Verlag, Frankfurt 2014
personal data
SURNAME Fernau, Rudolf
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Neuberger, Andreas Rolf (real name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German stage and film actor
DATE OF BIRTH January 7, 1898
PLACE OF BIRTH Munich
DATE OF DEATH 4th November 1985
Place of death Munich