Rudolf Vogel (actor)

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Rudolf Vogel (born November 10, 1900 in Planegg , † August 9, 1967 in Munich ) was a German actor and radio play speaker .

Life

Rudolf Vogel's grave

Rudolf Vogel was a son of Alfred Walter von Heymel , the co-founder of Insel-Verlag in Leipzig . He grew up with adoptive parents and graduated from the Max-Gymnasium in Munich . In 1918 he did military service and then worked in the banking industry. Rudolf Vogel completed his acting training with Konstantin Delcroix in Munich from 1922 to 1924 . On October 17, 1924 he was on stage for the first time. From 1926 to 1929 he was at the Landesbühne in Munich and then until 1944 at the State Theater, where he was a member until he was called up in 1944.

After the war, Vogel was part of the Münchner Kammerspiele ensemble from 1948 . He was Franz Moor in Schiller's The Robbers , Dervish in Nathan the Wise , Landlord in Minna von Barnhelm , Lucky in Waiting for Godot , Geronimo in The Taming of the Shrew and Jacques in As You Like It . Vogel often played in supporting roles and often served as servants. His specialty was the borderline between comedy and eeriness. He also embodied the title character in Moliere's comedies and shone in 1962 in Karl Valentin's The Confirmation .

Rudolf Vogel has acted in many films, where he preferred to play difficult, petty, sometimes malicious philistines. In the film Heidi , he played a kind-hearted person as a house servant for once. Vogel was also active as a voice actor since the 1940s . He was also used as a speaker in numerous radio play productions, for example in a whole series of episodes in the Brumml-G'schichten series alongside Michl Lang or in 1948 directed by Fritz Benscher in Sturm im Wasserglas, among others with Otto Osthoff and Annemarie Cordes as a partner.

Rudolf Vogel is the father of the actor Peter Vogel . In 1966 he received the Federal Cross of Merit, First Class.

Rudolf Vogel died on August 9, 1967 at the age of 66 in Munich. He was buried in the old Bogenhausen cemetery in Munich (grave no. 65, western wall in the northern third).

Filmography

Radio plays (selection)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Knerger.de: The grave of Rudolf Vogel
personal data
SURNAME Vogel, Rudolf
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German actor
DATE OF BIRTH November 10, 1900
PLACE OF BIRTH Planegg
DATE OF DEATH August 9, 1967
Place of death Munich