Waldemar Pottier

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Waldemar Carl Ernst Pottier , also Waldemar Pottier-Jacoby , (born December 30, 1914 in Berlin ; † end of 2004 there ) was a German actor and child star in silent films.

Life

Klein Waldemar, great-nephew of the Essen city theater director Stanislaus Fuchs, was pushed to film and stage by his mother from the beginning of his life. Less than a year old, he made his debut in front of the camera in the melodrama Das Geschick der Julia Tobaldi at the side of Erna Morena . When he was just two years old, he was the smallest angel in a performance by Max Reinhardt in the Theater am Bülowplatz. At the age of four he was Klein Fritzchen in a performance of Wie once in May , a year later Waldemar Pottier began to film regularly in addition to his theater work (child role in the play Confession ).

Pottier played child roles of all kinds, mostly sons of worried mothers. He was given a central role in 1921 with little Jonny in Horrible Nights , Lupu Pick's psychologizing thriller with horror elements. Film trips took Waldemar Pottier, who was not even ten, to Stockholm (with Dimitri Buchowetzki's Carousel of Life ). In 1924 he was one of the two title characters - the other was Loni Nest , who was almost the same age - in the film Two Children . In 1925, Pottier caused a sensation in the press with the depiction of the blind boy in " Um Recht und Ehre " alongside Harry Liedtke . In the edition of the Lichtbild-Bühne of May 7, 1925, it says: “Little Waldemar Pottier gave a brilliant performance as a blind boy. He has a scene of slowly coming closer, feeling the face of his great friend and only recognizing him with his hands and the smell, a scene that is artistically perfect. ”With his sensitive military cadet Joachim von Lingen in the drama Das noble blood ended in the winter of 1926/27 just as largely as Pottier's film career early on.

While he worked intensively in front of the camera in the 1920s, Pottier also continued his stage activities. For example, in the middle of the decade he was seen as the little prince in August Strindberg's play Erich the XIV. In the 30s, Pottier was only very sporadically active in front of the camera and on the theater stage, a "non-Aryan" maternal grandmother turned out to be 1933 as an obstacle to accepting other role offers. It was not until May 25, 1936, that Hans Hinkel, who was responsible for cultural personalities in the Reich Ministry for Public Enlightenment and Propaganda , granted him a special permit that could be revoked at any time.

Thereupon Pottier was allowed to play theater again, although until 1945 there was hardly any evidence of a permanent engagement, only during the Second World War he was a member of the guest performance director Otto Müller for a season. From 1937 to 1939 Waldemar Pottier played tiny roles in several films until he was drafted when the war broke out in 1939. Immediately after the end of the war, he tried to stay afloat in the eastern zone with theater in the province (Volksbühne des Landes Brandenburg, Wittenberge-Eberswalde). In 1949 the Berliner followed an engagement at the State Theater in Oldenburg . After that he only worked in the East and played tiny roles in DEFA films. Waldemar Pottier continued to live in the west of Berlin, in Wilmersdorf, and earned his living in the chemical industry.

Filmography

literature

  • Kurt Mühsam, Egon Jacobsohn: Lexikon des Films , p. 144 f., Berlin 1926

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ according to Pottier's Reichsfilmkammer file
personal data
SURNAME Pottier, Waldemar
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Pottier, Waldemar Carl Ernst (full name); Pottier-Jacoby, Waldemar (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German actor and child actor in silent films
DATE OF BIRTH December 30, 1914
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH 2004
Place of death Berlin