Rudolf Platte

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Rudolf Platte in the comedians ' cabaret , 1937

Rudolf Antonius Heinrich Platte (born February 12, 1904 in Dortmund-Hörde , † December 18, 1984 in Berlin ) was a German actor .

Life

Memorial plaque on the facade of the former monastery brewery in Hörde
Plaque on the former home in Hildesheim

When Rudolf Platte was three years old, his parents moved with him to Hildesheim . The son of the businessman Josef Platte and his wife Karoline left school at the age of sixteen and took acting lessons. Rudolf Platte began as an actor in the theater and made his debut in 1925 as Shylock in The Merchant of Venice by William Shakespeare at the Düsseldorf Open Air Theater . This was followed by engagements in Bad Harzburg , Hildesheim, Hagen , Wuppertal and at the Residenz Theater in Hanover. He spent some time at the Lobe Theater in Wroclaw , where he also directed.

In 1927 he came to Berlin and ran the cabaret Die Katakombe together with Werner Finck and Hans Deppe . In the 1930s, Platte also appeared in music revues in Berlin. With his appearance in the revue A kiss travels around the world with Hilde Seipp and Aribert Mog to the music of Josef Rixner , he also gained media attention.

Platte made his film debut in the 1929 silent film Revolte im Erziehungshaus . After that he was seen in more than 200 films in the further course of his career. In it, Platte often played roles of misunderstood, reserved and shy, but loving people. It was almost always small, simple people whom he embodied as a “man from the street”, so to speak.

From 1940 to 1944 he was director of the theater on Behrenstrasse and from 1945 to 1947 he was director of the theater on Schiffbauerdamm . As an actor, Rudolf Platte mastered both tragic and comedic characters and played both on stage and, from the 1970s, increasingly on television - in series as well as in sophisticated literary adaptations. Through his role as the gradually blind tram driver in the play Das Fenster zum Flur by Curt Flatow and Horst Pillau , with whom he appeared in 278 performances at the Hebbel Theater , Platte became one of the most popular Berlin folk actors.

Rudolf Platte was married to Vally Hager for the first time, then briefly to actress Georgia Lind for a second time in 1942 . The actress Marina Ried was his wife from 1942 to 1953 , after which he remarried Georgia Lind.

When he died of heart failure in 1984 - eight days after his wife - at the age of 80, the newspapers hailed him as the "last real people's actor". The childless couple bequeathed their joint fortune of around two million marks to the Hermann Gmeiner Fund to promote the SOS Children's Villages .

Rudolf Platte was buried next to his wife in the Wilmersdorf cemetery in Berlin. Her final resting place has been an honorary grave of the State of Berlin since November 2010. Since November 2009 a memorial plaque in Hildesheim has been commemorating his last residence there.

Filmography (selection)

Radio plays

  • 1952: With two fifty marks in my pocket ... (Director: Raoul Wolfgang Schnell )
  • 1960: The Most Beautiful Day (Director: Rolf Purucker )
  • 1961: The window to the hallway
  • 1962: Der Hauptmann von Köpenick (based on Carl Zuckmayer, released on LP)
  • 1964: The Honor (Director: Heinz-Günter Stamm )
  • 1974: Radio (Director: Rolf von Goth )
  • 1976: Walk, run or hop (Director: Ludwig Cremer )
  • 1979: Banca Rotta (Director: Rolf von Goth)

Awards

literature

Web links

Commons : Rudolf Platte  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Dirk Buchholz: Rudolf Platte (1904–1984). in: Hörde, contributions to city history. Wittmaack Verlag, Dortmund 1990, ISBN 3-9802117-3-8 .
  2. ↑ knerger.de: The grave of Rudolf Platte
personal data
SURNAME Platte, Rudolf
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Platte, Rudolf Antonius Heinrich (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German actor
DATE OF BIRTH February 12, 1904
PLACE OF BIRTH Hörde , Germany
DATE OF DEATH 18th December 1984
Place of death Berlin , Germany