Rudolf Möller (actor)

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Rudolf Möller (born August 18, 1914 in Elmshorn ; † January 16, 2008 in Hamburg ) was a German actor , radio play speaker and genealogist .

Life

Rudolf Möller was born in Elmshorn in Schleswig-Holstein in 1914 and came to acting late. First he learned the profession of pharmacist , which his parents had intended for him.

As a soldier, he was taken prisoner by the Soviets in the course of World War II and was interned in Kiev . Here he was one of the co-founders of a self-organized group of twelve who prepared and performed regular entertainment programs to stabilize fellow prisoners. During the performances in the camp, he acted as the emcee .

After his return to Germany at the end of the 1940s, Möller, who had shaped his artistic work in captivity, trained as an actor in Hamburg. Public appearances as a stage actor followed between 1952 and 1955 in Cuxhaven within the ensemble "Das Schauspiel". He had other early engagements, for example, at the Landestheater Detmold and at the Landesbühne Rendsburg .

From 1958 Möller lived in Hamburg, where he worked at a number of theaters, such as the Ernst-Deutsch-Theater and from the mid-1960s for decades at the Ohnsorg-Theater . A number of his appearances here have been preserved as TV recordings or recordings. Over time, the Hamburg press counted him "one of the reliable pillars of the Hamburg theater landscape". As early as the end of the 1950s, Möller had found his way to radio as a radio play speaker (e.g. Permit, my name is Cox , 1959, director: SO Wagner ). Together with the ensemble of the Ohnsorg Theater, he also appeared in front of the microphones in several dialect radio plays . Here you could hear him, for example, in 1967 with Otto Lüthje , Erna Raupach-Petersen and Werner Riepel in Gorch Fock's Low German singspiel De Keunigin by Honolulu . A year earlier he could already be seen in the same role in a High German version of the play in a television recording from the Ohnsorg Theater.

In addition, the actor has been a regular guest actor in television series as diverse as Das Kriminalgericht (1964), Intercontinental Express (1966), Police Radio calls (1969), Bauern, Bonzen und Bomben (1973), On behalf of Madame (1975) ), The Black Forest Clinic (1991) and Großstadtrevier (1991). He also played cinema roles, including in the Lilli Palmer scandal film Ms. Warren's Trade and the Edgar Wallace classic The Gang of Terror (both 1960). He was also seen as an actor in various television films, including the Tatort: ​​Nachtfrost (1974) staged by Wolfgang Petersen .

In his later years he also had a major television appearance as co-host of Dieter Thomas Heck in the first broadcast of the major ZDF entertainment show Melodies for Millions , in which he announced Vico Torriani's interpretation of the Capri fishermen . At the Karl May Games in Bad Segeberg , the actor, who was a passionate rider, was also responsible for many years of riding training for numerous less experienced colleagues.

The extensive work he did in his spare time as a genealogist and local historian was reflected in numerous publications in the Zeitschrift für Niederdeutsche Familienkunde , in which in 1994 (on his eightieth birthday) a selection bibliography of Möller's genealogical publications was published. His work and collection on the history of pastors in the North Elbe are considered to be important.

In addition, Möller campaigned for the maintenance of the Low German language and held numerous readings in this context. His voice had been regularly heard in Low German radio plays since the early 1960s. The actor was happy to read Low German texts in old people's homes into old age. Acting was also close to his heart, although his playing age was often a lot younger than his actual age.

Möller was married and had four daughters. He lived in Hamburg-Eidelstedt . The actor, who was particularly prominent in Hamburg, died in 2008 at the age of ninety-three.

Filmography (selection)

Radio plays

  • 1949: Ship without a harbor - Director: Fritz Schröder-Jahn
  • 1950: A day like tomorrow - Director: Fritz Schröder-Jahn
  • 1950: The Hopkins Manuscript - Director: Gustav Burmester
  • 1950: Sam Small's Adventure - Director: Kurt Reiss
  • 1950: Cherries for Rome - Director: Arno Assmann
  • 1956: De ruge Hoff - Director: Hans Tügel
  • 1959: Vun den Padd af - Director: Hans Tügel
  • 1959: Allow me, my name is Cox (3rd season: 7th part: Rien ne vas plus) - Director: SO Wagner
  • 1960: Visit in the evening (from the series: The hunt for the perpetrator ) - Director: SO Wagner
  • 1961: Een Handbreet again - Director: Rudolf Beiswanger
  • 1962: The Times (from the series: The Hunt for the Perpetrator) - Director: SO Wagner
  • 1962: Dat last vull glass - Director: Hans Tügel
  • 1962: Dat Düvelsspill - Director: Hans Tügel
  • 1963: Shadow games - Director: Kraft-Alexander zu Hohenlohe-Oehringen
  • 1963: Die Tour (from the series: The hunt for the perpetrator) - Director: SO Wagner
  • 1963: Against de Vörschrift - Director: Curt Timm
  • 1964: Der Sklave (from the series: Adventure of the Future) - Director: SO Wagner
  • 1964: Beach of Strangers - Director: Gert Westphal
  • 1966: De Hölten Deern - Director: Günther Siegmund
  • 1967: Dat weer de Nachtigall, de sung - Director: Curt Timm
  • 1967: De Keunigin von Honolulu - Director: Günther Siegmund
  • 1969: Anstahn - Director: Curt Timm
  • 1969: Aflopen Water - Director: Curt Timm
  • 1969: Nawerslüüd - Director: Günther Siegmund
  • 1970: Keen Weg torügg - directed by Jutta Zech and Heinz Lanker
  • 1970: De Lindenbööm - Director: Günther Siegmund
  • 1971: Twee left Hannen - Director: Günther Siegmund
  • 1971: De Trepp - Director: Hans Tügel
  • 1972: Lehrjohrn - Director: Rudolf Beiswanger
  • 1973: To laat? - Director: Karl-Heinz Kreienbaum
  • 1978: Camper-Korl sien tweten Droom - Director: Heinz Lanker

literature

  • The stage as a fountain of youth . In: Hamburger Abendblatt . No. 192 , August 18, 1994, p. 22 ( online [PDF] with portrait).
  • In the footsteps of the pastors . In: Hamburger Abendblatt . No. 192 , August 17, 1984, pp. 1 ( online [PDF] with portrait).
  • Rolf Hillmer: Rudolf Möller 80 years old ; in: Journal for Low German Family Studies ; Ed .: Die Maus, Gesellschaft für Familienforschung eV, Bremen; Genealogical-Heraldic Society with the seat in Göttingen eV; Genealogical Society, seat Hamburg, eV; Lower Saxony State Association for Family Studies eV, Hanover, 69. 1994, 3, pp. 136-139.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ farmers, bigwigs and bombs , query date: February 23, 2015.
  2. ↑ Hamburger Abendblatt on August 17, 1984 , page 1
personal data
SURNAME Möller, Rudolf
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German actor and genealogist
DATE OF BIRTH August 18, 1914
PLACE OF BIRTH Elmshorn
DATE OF DEATH January 16, 2008
Place of death Hamburg