Rudolf Kalvius

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Rudolf Kalvius (* 23. March 1900 in Darmstadt , German Empire ; † 25. September 1972 in Munich , Federal Republic of Germany ) was a German actor of stage and film and theater director .

Live and act

Kalvius began his acting career in the course of the 1920s when he appeared on stages in the north German province (e.g. at the Lübeck City Theater and then for several years at the Braunschweiger Landestheater). In the Third Reich, Kalvius found a second professional pillar in addition to acting in stage direction. Shortly before the outbreak of the Second World War, he worked in both functions at the Leipziger Schauspielhaus, while at the same time he was engaged at the Berlin Rose Theater. During the war, Rudolf Kalvius was committed to the Potsdamer Schauspielhaus and worked there primarily as senior theater director but also as deputy director. At the same time, he also appeared in front of the camera for the first time in these years in small roles, for example in the two successful Käutner productions Auf Wiedersehn, Franziska (as a lawyer) and Romance in Moll (as a doctor).

The post-war period began in Darmstadt in the 1945/46 season. Here he staged a performance of Klabund's XYZ: Spiel zu Dreien in the orangery . From 1946 Rudolf Kalvius was a permanent member of the ensemble of the Kassel State Theater for almost two decades (until 1965). Here you could see him in the plays Don Karlos, With my eyes, Jeanne or The Lark and Satan's End, among others . Occasionally he was able to direct here too. In addition, Kalvius intensified his work in front of film and television cameras. Here he worked preferably in the implementation of classical literature by Theodor Fontane ( Irrungen - Wirrungen ), Gotthold Ephraim Lessing ( Emilia Galotti ) and William Shakespeare ( Troilus and Cressida ). Rudolf Kalvius, who had also worked as a radio play speaker, spent his twilight years in Munich, where he died at the age of 72.

Filmography

literature

  • Kürschner's Biographical Theater Handbook, Walter de Gruyter Co., Berlin 1956, p. 339
  • Glenzdorfs Internationales Film-Lexikon, first volume, Bad Münder 1960, p. 788

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personal data
SURNAME Kalvius, Rudolf
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German actor on stage and film
DATE OF BIRTH March 23, 1900
PLACE OF BIRTH Darmstadt , German Empire
DATE OF DEATH September 25, 1972
Place of death Munich , Federal Republic of Germany