Rudolf Koch-Riehl

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Rudolf Koch-Riehl (* 1900 in Bremen , † September 2, 1956 in Bonn ) was a German actor , director and radio play speaker .

Life

Rudolf Koch-Riehl gained his first stage experience at the Schauspielhaus in Bremen. From 1924 he had engagements at various theaters in Berlin . From 1933 to 1944 he was also co-director and director at the Theater am Schiffbauerdamm . There and in the Lessing Theater in the 1930s, for example , several comedies were staged. After 1945 guest performances followed, among other things, again at the theater in Bremen.

In the 1930s and 1940s Rudolf Koch-Riehl worked in various film productions . Among them was the Nazi propaganda film Jungens in 1941 , which today can only be shown as a reserved film under strict conditions. He also played in entertainment films such as Sergeant Berry by Herbert Selpin with Hans Albers , Edwin Juergensen and Alexander Golling in 1938 and in 1944 Große Freiheit No. 7 by Helmut Käutner with Hans Albers, Ilse Werner and Hans Söhnker .

In addition, Rudolf Koch-Riehl also worked as a radio play speaker. So it was him in 1952 in a radio play adaptation of Stefan Zweig's Chess Story in the direction of Ludwig Cremer heard.

Rudolf Koch-Riehl married the writer Magda Koch-Riehl , who became famous under the pseudonym Ada Halenza.

Filmography (selection)

  • 1934: I sing myself into your heart
  • 1936: The tired Theodor
  • 1937: homesickness
  • 1938: Shots in cabin 7
  • 1938: The house tyrant
  • 1938: Weltstrasse See - World Port Hamburg (documentary film with game story)
  • 1938: Sergeant Berry
  • 1939: Rhenish bridal trip
  • 1941: boys
  • 1944: The man whose name was stolen
  • 1944: Great Freedom No. 7

Radio plays (selection)

  • 1952: The Nose - Director: Gert Westphal
  • 1952: Chess - Director: Ludwig Cremer
  • 1952: Dresses without People - Director: Gert Westphal

literature

  • Johann Caspar Glenzdorf: Glenzdorf's international film lexicon. Biographical manual for the entire film industry. Volume 2: Hed – Peis. Prominent-Filmverlag, Bad Münder 1961, DNB 451560744 , p. 860.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Sergeant Berry at Murnau Foundation online; accessed on May 1, 2016
  2. ↑ Schach (Schachnovelle) on ARD audio play database; accessed on August 2, 2016
personal data
SURNAME Koch-Riehl, Rudolf
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German actor, director and radio play speaker
DATE OF BIRTH 1900
PLACE OF BIRTH Bremen
DATE OF DEATH 2nd September 1956
Place of death Bonn