Rudolf Klein-Rogge
Friedrich Rudolf Klein-Rogge (born November 24, 1885 in Cologne , † May 29, 1955 in Wetzelsdorf near Jagerberg , Austria ) was a German actor of the 1920s and 1930s.
Life
Rudolf Klein-Rogge was born the son of a judge-martial and, in addition to studying art history, attended Hans Siebert's drama school . After appearances in Halberstadt , Aachen , Kiel , Düsseldorf and a longer engagement at the Stadttheater in Nuremberg , he and his then wife Thea von Harbou moved to Berlin because they believed they could only advance their careers there. At first he worked at the Lessing Theater and also staged his own plays.
After the relationship broke up, Thea von Harbou entered into a new relationship with Fritz Lang . She introduced the two of them and ensured that Klein-Rogge received various roles in Lang's works. Under Lang's direction, he played some of his best-known roles, where he was often cast in villain roles: in Lang's two Dr. Mabuse films, he played the eponymous super criminal, in The Nibelungen he was seen as the Hun King Etzel , and in Metropolis he played the mad scientist Rotwang. After the war, Klein-Rogge tried to get involved in film roles again through contact with Fritz Lang. However, Lang did not find a suitable role for him. So he tried his hand at being a theater director in Graz . He directed several plays until the early 1950s.
He did not recover from a stroke he suffered one night. He died on May 29, 1955 in Wetzelsdorf near Jagerberg on his estate, which he had been given over by his brother in 1943 and which was torn down in the 1980s. Klein-Rogge was married four times: with Gerda Melchior , Margarete Neff , Thea von Harbou and Mary Johnson . Hilde Finkelnburg was a stepdaughter from her first marriage . As a " half-Jewish " endangered under National Socialism, Klein-Rogge and Thea von Harbou gave her the code name Ela Elborg and a forged Aryan certificate. The marriage to Mary Johnson had a daughter, Karin (* 1933), and a son, Egil Hartmut († 1943).
Klein-Rogge was buried at Steinfeldfriedhof in Graz, Friedhofgasse 33, the grave was abandoned in 1990.
Filmography
- 1919: A billionaire's games
- 1919: The light on the window
- 1919: The whims of a billionaire
- 1919: morphine
- 1919: Flitter Dörtje
- 1919: nun and dancer
- 1920: The closed chain
- 1920: The wandering picture
- 1920: The night of horror in the asylum Ivoy
- 1920: The cabinet of Dr. Caligari
- 1920: Wildes Blut, by Robert Wiene
- 1920: The black count, von Otz Tollen
- 1920: Four for the woman
- 1921: Pearls mean tears
- 1921: The Night of Cornelius Brower
- 1921: At the loom of time
- 1921: The tired death
- 1921: Circus of Life
- 1922: Doctor Mabuse, the gambler
- 1923: The stone rider
- 1923: The Princess Suwarin
- 1923: Shadow - A nocturnal hallucination
- 1924: The Nibelungs
- 1925: The husband of his wife
- 1925: Pietro, the corsair
- 1926: The laughing cricket
- 1926: Trafficking in Girls - An International Danger
- 1926: the pink diamond
- 1927: Metropolis
- 1927: The Gypsy Baron
- 1927: The last night
- 1927: The Lord of the Night
- 1927: Casanova ( Casanova )
- 1927: Tingel Tangel
- 1927: The most sophisticated woman in Berlin
- 1927: The girl from Frisco
- 1928: One night in Yoshiwara
- 1928: Volga-Volga
- 1928: La Faute de Monique
- 1928: The Sand Countess
- 1928: spies
- 1928: the fates of girls
- 1928: The most beautiful woman in Paris
- 1929: Tu m'appartiens!
- 1929: Le Requin
- 1929: Le Maison Des Hommes Vivants
- 1929: Perjury
- 1930: Tarakanova
- 1932: The white god Eskimo
- 1933: The will of Dr. Mabuse
- 1933: The Judas of Tyrol
- 1934: Between heaven and earth
- 1934: The women from Tannhof
- 1934: The Brenken case
- 1934: Elisabeth and the fool
- 1934: Hanneles Ascension
- 1934: The smugglers from Watzmann / Grenzpost IV
- 1934: The world without a mask
- 1934: border fire
- 1934: I was happy to kiss women
- 1935: The multiplication table of love
- 1935: The old and the young king
- 1935: The Cossack and the Nightingale
- 1935: The Nurse King
- 1936: a strange guest
- 1936: The hour of temptation
- 1936: morality
- 1936: The court concert
- 1936: The Emperor of California
- 1936: The unheard woman
- 1936: Intermezzo
- 1937: The yellow flag
- 1937: From midnight
- 1937: Truxa
- 1937: The divine Jette
- 1937: The Katzensteg
- 1937: Woman and Death
- 1937: Madame Bovary
- 1937: Dispute over the boy Jo
- 1937: The ruler
- 1938: Adventure in Morocco
- 1938: two women
- 1939: Parkstrasse 13
- 1939: People from the Varieté
- 1939: Password Machin
- 1939: Rhenish bridal trip
- 1939: Schneider Wibbel
- 1939: Robert Koch, the fighter against death
- 1940: imperfect love
- 1940: Kora Terry
- 1940: The Queen's Heart
- 1942: Wedding at Bärenhof
- 1949: witches
Web links
- Rudolf Klein-Rogge in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Rudolf Klein-Rogge at filmportal.de
- Pictures by Rudolf Klein-Rogge In: Virtual History
- Literature by and about Rudolf Klein-Rogge in the catalog of the German National Library
- Rudolf Klein-Rogge at steffi-line.de
Individual evidence
- ↑ S. Weltmann: Wetzelsdorf near Jagerberg Anno 2000 . “Rudolf Klein-Rogge - Nachlass” on Google Sites, accessed January 10, 2017.
- ^ Hanns-Georg Rodek : Ela fell in love . Report, in: Die Welt , November 16, 2011.
- ^ Stephanie D'heil: Rudolf Klein-Rogge . www.steffi-line.de, public favorites, accessed on December 13, 2016.
- ↑ Graz knerger.de, accessed May 1, 2019 - "C1-131 (grave site closed in 1990)"
personal data | |
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SURNAME | Klein-Rogge, Rudolf |
ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Klein-Rogge, Friedrich Rudolf (full name) |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German actor |
DATE OF BIRTH | November 24, 1885 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Cologne |
DATE OF DEATH | May 29, 1955 |
Place of death | Wetzelsdorf near Jagerberg , Austria |