Walter Amtrup

Walter Amtrup (around 1970)

Walter Amtrup as Tellheim in " Minna von Barnhelm " (1930s)

Walter Amtrup as banker de Bleusse in "Die Niederlage", 1959

Walter Amtrup as Caesar in " Julius Caesar ", 1959

Walter Amtrup as Nathan in " Nathan the Wise ", 1965

Walter Amtrup as Shrewsbury in " Maria Stuart ", 1956

Walter Amtrup as Wallenstein , 1955

Walter Amtrup (center) with son Niels-Torsten and Heinz Liefers (right, seated) in "Antigone" on the Erfurt cathedral steps (approx. 1960)

Walter Amtrup (standing), Klaus Mertens and Renate-Catharina Schroff in “Parkstraße 13”, 1963

Walter Otto Hugo Karl Amtrup (born March 15, 1904 in Hamburg , German Empire ; † August 7, 1974 in Erfurt , GDR ) was a German actor , voice actor , opera singer ( bass ) and acting teacher.

Life

Walter Amtrup was born on March 15, 1904 as the son of a district judge in Hamburg-Altona . He graduated from a secondary school in Lüneburg and from 1925 to 1931 attended the Hochschule für Musik in Berlin-Charlottenburg , where he was trained as an actor and opera singer.

Amtrup had his first engagement in 1932/33 as an opera singer at the Landestheater Altenburg . This was followed by stage positions as an actor in Meißen , Neisse , Wilhelmshaven , Hanau , Bunzlau , at the Schwerin State Theater and at the municipal theaters in Chemnitz until the end of the war . From 1947 to 1951 he worked at the Flensburg Theater , after which he resigned from the stage for a few years and worked as a magazine administrator.

In 1955 he moved with his family to the GDR to take up an engagement as a character actor at the Erfurt Municipal Theaters . After eleven years of activity, he moved to the Meininger Theater , where he ended his artistic career in 1969.

family

Walter Amtrup was with the former opera singer Johanna Amtrup, geb. Kieling, married; The marriage resulted in three children: Karin (* 1936), Turid (* 1943) and Niels-Torsten (* 1951). The marine biologist and dolphin researcher Karsten Brensing (* 1967) is Walter Amtrup's grandson.

Artistic career

Training and engagements

• 1925–1931: Training at the University of Music in Berlin, specializing in drama / opera
• 1932–1933: Landestheater Altenburg
• 1933: Meißen City Theater
• 1934: City Theater Neisse
• 1935: New theater in the Jade Cities, Wilhelmshaven
• 1936: City Theater Hanau
• 1937–1941: Schwerin State Theater
• 1941–1945: Chemnitz Municipal Theaters
• 1947–1951: Flensburg Municipal Theaters
• 1955–1966: Erfurt Municipal Theaters
• 1966–1969: Meininger Theater

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theatre

Altenburg Theater

• 1931: UB 16 (radio operator)
• 1931: The miracle firs at their roots (Aquarius)
• 1932: Manon Lescaut (landlord)

Meißen theater

• 1933: Hunt him - a man (Bless-Karle)

Theater Neisse

• 1933: Schlageter (Schlageter)
• 1933: Doctor and pharmacist (pharmacist Stößel)
• 1933: UB 16 (helmsman)
• 1933: The Man with the Gray Temples (Baron Jaro Milanovici)
• 1934: The great opportunity
• 1934: Don Cesar (Minister of Intrigue)

Wilhelmshaven Theater

• 1934: All against one - One against all (Wasa)
• 1934: Christa, I am waiting for you (Hans Tettenborn)
• 1934: Minna von Barnhelm (Major von Tellheim)
• 1934: The sea and the waves of love (Naukleros)
• 1935: Breakfast at Rudolstadt (Duke Alba)
• 1935: Anna Kronthaler (Gaenswürger)
• 1935: The miracle water (Adam Schrott)
• 1935: Don Carlos (Marquis Posa)

Hanau Theater

• 1935: Peer Gynt (Peer Gynt)
• 1935: In the sky of Europe
• 1936: The island (Handelsattaché Raaz)

Theater Bunzlau

• 1936: Treaty on Karakat (Risa Khan)

Schwerin Theater

• ?: The throne between continents (Borkdorf / Sollikow; double role)
• 1937: Prince Friedrich von Homburg (Count Hohenzollern)
• 1938: De adlige Rosenblome (Knight Hinrich von der Bröderborg)
• 1939: The other general

Chemnitz Theater

• 1941: love comedy
• 1941: Maria Stuart (Melvil)
• 1942: The Lieutenant Vary (Auditor)
• 1942: A gust of wind (chairman of appeal judge)
• 1942: The big curve (Dr. Timm)
• 1942: The bride of Messina (Drege)
• 1942: Donna Diana (Diana's father Don Diego)
• 1943: Need of God (Monk Severin)
• 1943: Her talisman (Tsing)
• 1943: The medal (Bauer Merkl)
• 1944: The Piccolomini (Count Terzky)
• 1944: Uncle Bonaparte (Montklupo lawyer)

Flensburg Theater

• 1947: An inspector arrives (Inspector Goole)
• 1947: Pinkepank (Mayor)
• 1948: The Devil's General (Engineer Oderbruch)
• 1948: Nathan the Wise (Nathan)
• 1948: Egmont (Krämer Soest)
• 1948: Der Freischütz (Samiel, the black hunter)
• 1948: The first wife Selby (Philip Logan)
• 1948: As You Like It (Charles, Friedrichs Ringer)
• 1948: Romeo and Juliet (Count Capulet)
• 1948: The happy vineyard (Mr. Rindsfuß)
• 1948: Outside the door (Colonel)
• 1948: The Miser (Police Commissioner)
• 1948: Puss in Boots (Magician Hudriwudri)
• 1948: The chalk circle (pen)
• 1948: The Threepenny Opera (Police Chief Brown)
• 1948: Nebel (Lieutenant Schubert, detective)
• 1948: Lady Windermeres Fan (Butler Parker)
• 1948: Jeppe vom Berge (Jakob Schuster)
• 1948: Hamlet (Claudius - King of Denmark, Hamlet's uncle)
• 1948: Cinderella (Court Marshal Grasemück)
• 1948: When the Snow Melts (Wlad)
• 1949: The Liar and the Nun (Butler Petrops)
• 1949: White Freight (Missionary)
• 1949: The Patriot (Wing Adjutant Murawiew)
• 1949: The clever lover (Rittmeister Bernardo)
• 1949: Don Karlos (Duke of Medina Sidonia, Admiral)
• 1949: A game of death and love (Jérom von Courvoisier)
• 1950: The Wild Duck (Commander Flor)
• 1950: The Swap (Thomas Pollok Nagevire, Broker)
• 1950: Robert Guiskard (old man)
• 1950: one-man (chairman) [WP]
• 1950: dog in the brain (professor)
• 1950: Jedermann (a poor neighbor)
• 1951: Wilhelm Tell (Werner Freiherr von Attinghausen)
• 1951: And Pippa dances (glass painter Scheidler)
• 1951: The brave little tailor (sorcerer)
• 1951: A Midsummer Night's Dream (Egeus)
• ?: Season in Salzburg (Christian Dahlmann)
• ?: People in White (Dr. Clayton)
• ?: In the white Rößl (Kaiser)
• ?: Your 106th birthday (Monsignor Mouret, Bishop)
• ?: Ballad am Strom (Büchler, river boatman)
• ?: Pygmalion (Colonel Pickering)
• ?: The Nightingale (Grand Vizier)
• ?: Barbara Blomberg (Duke Alba)
• ?: The dirty hands (Karsky)
• ?: Woman in an ermine (Stojahn)

Municipal theaters of Erfurt

• 1955: Wallenstein (Wallenstein)
• 1956: Hamlet (ghost of Hamlet's father)
• 1956: The Lützower
• 1956: Riots in Bukhara (Sultan)
• 1956: Mary Queen of Scots (Earl of Shrewsbury)
• 1957: The Taming of the Shrew (Vincentio)
• 1957: King Lear (Count of Gloster)
• 1957: The Caucasian Chalk Circle (Governor)
• ?: All's well that ends well (Lafeu, an old nobleman)
• 1958: The diary of Anne Frank (Otto Frank)
• 1958: Schweyk in World War II (Hitler) [on 45 cm high stilts]
• 1958: Götz von Berlichingen (Emperor Maximilian)
• 1958: The bridge
• 1958: Das Märchen (Herr Charly) ["An evening with Curt Goetz " - was filmed by DEFA ]
• 1958: Bail (Dr. Fuller)
• 1958: Treasure Island (father)
• 1958: Definitely suspicious (English)
• 1959: Credit from Nibelungen (General Fabiani)
• 1959: What You Want (Orsino)
• 1959: The defeat (Bankier de Bleusse)
• 1959: 15 strings of money
• 1959: Julius Caesar (Caesar)
• 1959: The auditor (school inspector Khlopov)
• 1959: Wilhelm Tell (Werner Freiherr von Attinghausen)
• 1959: Winter battle (Lieutenant Colonel von Quabbe)
• 1960: Antigone (Theresias) [on the steps of the cathedral]
• 1960: The Weber (The old Hilse)
• 1961: The Life of Galileo (Sagredo)
• 1961: Richard III. (Lord Hastings)
• 1961: Irkutsk stories
• 1961: The Maid of Orleans (La Hire, royal officer) [on the steps of the cathedral]
• 1961: The Stronger (Engineer)
• 1961: Optimistic Tragedy (1st Elder)
• 1961: A small dream factory
• 1961: And that on Christmas Eve (The other father)
• 1962: Before sunset (Privy Councilor Matthias Clausen)
• 1962: Urfaust [on the steps of the cathedral]
• 1962: An Ideal Husband (Earl of Caversham)
• 1962: The Dutch bride
• 1963: The marriage swindler (Andersch)
• 1963: Egmont (Duke Alba) [on the steps of the cathedral]
• 1963: Parkstrasse 13 (Dr. Elken)
• 1963: The 11th commandment (pastry chef)
• 1963: Macbeth (Duncan)
• 1964: War and Peace (doctor)
• 1964: Romeo and Juliet (brother Lorenzo) [on the steps of the cathedral]
• 1964: The beast of Samarkant (Indian trader Shalakandavra)
• 1964: Prof. Hudebrauch (Guttler)
• 1964: Peter and the Wolf (Narrator)
• 1964: The robbers (Count von Moor)
• 1965: Mother Courage and her children (soldier)
• 1965: On the way (father)
• 1965: Comedy of Errors (Aegon)
• 1965: Helen Turner's Vultures (Captain Brixon)
• 1965: Nathan the Wise (Nathan)
• 1966: The visit of the old lady (butler) [u. a. as a guest in Leipzig]

Meininger Theater (excerpt)

• The fireworks (Albert Oberholzer)
• The visit of the old lady (butler)
• Herod and Mariamne (Sameas, a Pharisee)
• On the way (train controller)
• The robbers (Daniel, house servant)
• Maria Stuart (Melvil, steward)
• Caesar and Cleopatra (3rd official / majordomo)
• Amphitryon (Argatiphontidas)

Movie and TV

as an actor

• 1957: Polonia Express
• 1959: The Speculator (TV)
• 1960: The dogs stop barking (television)

as a voice actor

• 1958: Cash Thieves - as Bocek (Czechoslovak film)
• 1958: Test pilot - as Anufrijew (Mosfilm)
• 1959: The Invention of Perdition - as Count Artigas (Czechoslovak film)
• 1959: The Last Chance - mentioned by name, but without reference to which role (Italian film)
• 1960: animal catcher - as animal catcher - not mentioned by name (Soviet film)
• 1961: The Black Face - as a father, not mentioned by name (Hungarian film)

Web links

• Walter Amtrup: Ring Parable (Nathan the Wise, Gotthold Ephraim Lessing) , YouTube

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Walter Amtrups approval certificate as acting coach
2. ↑ Karsten Brensing , accessed on May 14, 2017 (English)
3. ↑ Extract from Walter Amtrup's workbook (1)
4. ↑ ^{a b c d e f g h} German Stage Yearbook, excerpts 1932–1940 (PDF file)
5. ↑ ^{a b} excerpt from Walter Amtrup's workbook (2)
6. ↑ The dogs no longer bark , GDR television
7. ↑ Progress Film Program 104/1958
8. ^ Progress film program 79/1958
9. ↑ Progress Film Program 5/1959
10. ↑ Progress Film Program 76/1959
11. ^ Progress film program 16/1960
12. ↑ Progress Film Program 44/1961