Volker von Collande
Volker Hubertus Valentin Maria von Mitschke-Collande (born November 21, 1913 in Dresden , † October 29, 1990 in Hanover ) was a German actor , screenwriter and director .
family
Volker von Collande came from a noble Silesian family and was the son of the painter Constantin von Mitschke-Collande (1884-1956) and his first wife Hilde Wiecke (1892-1984), whose father Paul Wiecke was an actor and theater director in Dresden .
Collande married Ingeborg Hertel (born June 25, 1917 in Berlin) on October 29, 1936 in Berlin-Wilmersdorf , the daughter of the engineer Paul Hertel and his wife Hedwig . The marriage was divorced on July 30, 1938 in Berlin.
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His second marriage was on April 13, 1939 in Berlin-Dahlem, the dance teacher Gisela Hartwig called von Naso (born December 20, 1917 in Berlin; † February 6, 2008 in Frankfurt am Main), the daughter of the writer Eckart Hartwig called von Naso (1888–1976), chief dramaturge of the Württemberg State Theater in Stuttgart , and his wife Ursula geb. von Witzendorff (1895–1945). This marriage was divorced on November 29, 1942, also in Berlin.
In his third marriage, on June 28, 1944 in Berlin-Charlottenburg , von Collande married the ballet master Isabella Vernici (born June 28, 1915 in Poltava , Ukraine ; † July 26, 1986 in Munich ), the widow of the ballet solo dancer Max Modler and an illegitimate daughter by the artist Iwan Grigoryevich Miassojadow with Malwine Vernici . The marriage was divorced on April 4, 1950 in Hamburg .
Finally he married the fourth marriage on December 16, 1950, the speech teacher and voice therapist Irene Nathusius (born March 29, 1928 in Hamburg ), daughter of the businessman Walter Berthold Nathusius and Gerda Maria Schurig . Their daughter, Nora von Collande, is also an actress and writer.
His sister Gisela von Collande (1915–1960) was also a well-known actress.
Volker von Collande was buried in the Ohlsdorf cemetery at grid square AC 11 (near Stiller Weg and Riedemann mausoleum).
Life
Collande first did an apprenticeship as a bricklayer and then completed a degree in architecture at the Dresden State Building School. Only then did he take acting lessons and made his debut in 1933 at the Deutsches Theater Berlin as Valentin in Faust . In the same year he began working as an assistant director and radio announcer in Stuttgart. During the National Socialist era , Collande was a member of the NSDAP .
In the following years he worked as a theater actor in Berlin and from 1947 in Saarbrücken and in the 1950s at the Deutsches Schauspielhaus in Hamburg.
In addition, since 1933 he has acted in over 30 feature films, as a screenwriter and as a director of films and radio plays. The film he made, Wedding on Immenhof (1956), became particularly popular . He later worked as a theater manager at Freiburg Theater , at Theater Regensburg and at the Theater Wolfsburg and served as cultural adviser to the Volkswagen AG operates.
Filmography
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literature
- Genealogical handbook of the nobility , noble houses, B Volume XX. (Volume 104 of the complete series) CA Starke Verlag, Limburg (Lahn) 1993, ISSN 0435-2408 , page 302.
Web links
- Volker von Collande in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Volker von Collande at filmportal.de (with photo gallery)
- Pictures by Volker von Collande In: Virtual History
Individual evidence
- ^ Ernst Klee : The culture lexicon for the Third Reich. Who was what before and after 1945. S. Fischer, Frankfurt am Main 2007, ISBN 978-3-10-039326-5 , p. 100.
| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Collande, Volker von |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Mitschke-Collande, Volker Hubertus Valentin Maria von (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German actor, screenwriter and director |
| DATE OF BIRTH | November 21, 1913 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Dresden |
| DATE OF DEATH | October 29, 1990 |
| Place of death | Hanover |