Ulrich von der Trenck
Ulrich von der Trenck (exactly: Albert Ulrich Freiherr von der Trenck , born September 30, 1883 in Greiz , † September 28, 1958 in Dresden ) was a German actor .
Life
The son of a pastor was already noticed in school at theater performances, but only attended the universities in Leipzig and Grenoble after graduating from high school to study German, modern foreign languages and philosophy. When he received the offer to work as an actor at the New Theater in Leipzig , he broke off the doctoral thesis he had already started and began working at the theater under the stage name Adalbert Ulrici, which initially took him to the Ducal Court Theater in Meiningen in 1906/1907 . In 1909 Ulrich von der Trenck moved to the Stadttheater Konstanz , where he also took on his first directorial duties. This was followed by engagements in Detmold , in the Deutsches Schauspielhaus Berlin and as senior theater director in Bremerhaven and Dresden .
In September 1919 he got an engagement at the Badisches Landestheater . Here he embodied both classic characters such as Riccaut in Lessing's Minna von Barnhelm and contemporary characters such as Michael Kramer from Gerhart Hauptmann . In 1924 he became a state actor and, in addition to classics such as Shakespeare's Othello , from 1927 onwards he also premiered various of his own plays, which he had already started in Dresden at the Alberttheater with his play Christinchens Märchenbuch (first performance at Christmas 1918). From 1931 on he was director at the Badisches Landestheater, where he said goodbye in 1941 with his favorite role as Mephisto in Goethe's Faust . First he went to the city theater in Zittau and then in 1947 to the state theater in Dresden, where he lived until his death.
Ulrich von der Trenck was married to Ida Wiesmann († January 15, 1933) and his second marriage to Rosa Schmidt (1899–1998), daughter of a pastor at the Church of the Resurrection in Dresden-Plauen , and later worked at the Leubnitz-Neuostra Church . He had three children, two children from his first marriage. The second marriage has a son, Eckart von der Trenck, who is also an actor, and others. a. at the German National Theater Weimar , and is a film actor.
Filmography
- 1952: The condemned village
- 1954: Witches
- 1954: beacon
- 1954: Carola Lamberti - One from the circus
- 1955: The Kulm ox
- 1956: Thomas Müntzer - A film of German history
theatre
- 1947: William Shakespeare : A Midsummer Night's Dream - Director: Hans Müller ( Stadttheater Zittau )
- 1953: Vasek Kana : Saints without a halo - Director: Guido Reif ( Staatstheater Dresden )
- 1955: Friedrich Schiller : Wallenstein - Director: Hannes Fischer (Staatstheater Dresden)
Radio plays
- 1951: Friedrich Schiller : Cabal and Love (valet) - Director: Martin Hellberg (radio play - MDR )
Own pieces
- Christinchens storybook. A Christmas fairy tale for young and old. Dresden, Christmas 1918. Albert Hille printing and publishing house, Dresden 1919.
Awards
- 1924: State actor
Web links
- Ulrich von der Trenck in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Ulrich von der Trenck at filmportal.de
- Ulrich von der Trenck at Meininger Actors and the Film
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Ulrich von der Trenck at Stadtlexikon Karlsruhe
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Trenck, Ulrich von der |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German actor |
| DATE OF BIRTH | September 30, 1883 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Greiz |
| DATE OF DEATH | September 28, 1958 |
| Place of death | Dresden |