Viktor Schwanneke

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Viktor Schwanneke (born February 8, 1880 in Hedwigsburg , Pilsenbrück community , Wolfenbüttel district , † June 7, 1931 in Berlin ) was a German actor .

Live and act

Schwanneke began his professional career as a bank clerk in Hanover and switched to acting shortly after the turn of the century. Initially engaged at the Union Theater, a summer stage in Hanover, he came to Rudolstadt in autumn 1904 for his first permanent engagement . Theater engagements followed in Frankfurt an der Oder and Stettin .

In 1908 he went to Munich to take up an engagement at the court theater there. There he made a career as first comedian in the following years; Among his best-known roles are the theater director Striese in The Robbery of the Sabine Women , the Knight Beichenwang in What you want and the Schummrich in The tender relatives .

In 1916 the director Maximilian Sladek brought him to Berlin for a guest performance. Here he first succeeded in the comedy The Flea in the Panzerhaus . When the revolutionary unrest also hit Munich at the end of 1918, Schwanneke was brought to Munich as interim director at the Bavarian State Theater ( State Opera and State Theater ). In 1920 he finally settled in Berlin and initially worked as an actor and director at the 'Kleiner Schauspielhaus' in Charlottenburg. Other Schwanneke venues included the Volksbühne and Die Tribüne . Shortly before his death, he celebrated one of his greatest later successes under Max Reinhardt's artistic directorship in Der Schwierige , a comedy by Hugo von Hofmannsthal .

In addition to his theater work, the unionized Viktor Schwanneke also took care of the social issues of his colleagues. He was not only a member, but also on the board of directors of the German Stage Members' Cooperative . In an obituary it says: "He did not use his great popularity with his colleagues and the audience for himself, but for his poorer colleagues."

In the inter-war period, from 1922 until immediately before his death in 1931, he also took on an abundance of supporting roles in not-too-important movies.

Schwanneke had been the owner of the wine taverns named after him in Rankestrasse since March 1922 , an artists' meeting place for film and theater people. His daughter was the actress Ellen Schwanneke .

Viktor Schwanneke died in Berlin in 1931 at the age of 51 and was buried in the Old St. Matthew Cemetery in Berlin-Schöneberg . The grave has not been preserved.

Filmography (selection)

  • 1922: Marie Antoinette
  • 1922: The known stranger
  • 1922: Pilgrimage of love
  • 1923: One woman, one animal, one diamond
  • 1924: new territory
  • 1924: comedians
  • 1924: Horrido
  • 1924: Battle for the plaice
  • 1925: In the vortex of traffic
  • 1927: I once had a beautiful fatherland
  • 1929: Love Waltz
  • 1930: The one from the fairground
  • 1930: Moritz makes his fortune
  • 1930: Love Waltz
  • 1931: ... and that is the main thing
  • 1931: D-Zug 13 is late

literature

  • German stage yearbook. Vol. 43, 1932, ISSN  0070-4431 , p. 114 f.
  • Johann Caspar Glenzdorf: Glenzdorf's international film lexicon. Biographical manual for the entire film industry. Volume 3: Peit – Zz. Prominent-Filmverlag, Bad Münder 1961, DNB 451560752 , p. 1577.

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ German stage yearbook. Vol. 43, 1932, p. 115.
  2. ^ Hans-Jürgen Mende: Lexicon of Berlin tombs . Haude & Spener, Berlin 2006. p. 309.
personal data
SURNAME Schwanneke, Viktor
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German actor
DATE OF BIRTH February 8, 1880
PLACE OF BIRTH Hedwigsburg , municipality of Pilsenbrück
DATE OF DEATH June 7, 1931
Place of death Berlin