Walter Klam

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Walter Klam (born January 11, 1904 in Berlin ; † August 9, 1983 in Bad Bevensen ) was a German actor , radio play and voice actor .

Life

Walter Klam's grave

Walter Klam initially studied law in his hometown, but then turned to acting, having played Faust as a high school graduate . He took lessons from Ferdinand Gregori and made his debut in 1924 at the Rose Theater as a choir leader in The Bride of Messina by Friedrich Schiller . Other stages in his stage career were Hagen, Breslau and Darmstadt, and Klam also made guest appearances in Vienna and Switzerland in later years.

In 1937 Walter Klam came to Hamburg, where he first played at the Altonaer Stadttheater , was engaged at the Deutsches Schauspielhaus from 1942 to 1954 and then went to the Thalia Theater , of which he was a member until his death. There he was seen in comedies by Curt Goetz , as Archbishop in The Unruly Saint by Paul Vincent Carroll , as von Wehrhahn in Hauptmann's Der Biberpelz , as Police Director in Der Hauptmann von Köpenick by Carl Zuckmayer or as Mr van Daan in The Diary of Anne Frank . In 1974 he celebrated in the forest of Alexander Ostrovsky both its 50th anniversary on stage as well as his 20-year affiliation with the Thalia Theater. Klam was also the ensemble spokesman and member of the supervisory board of the Haus am Alstertor.

Walter Klam first appeared in front of the camera in 1936 in the film Secret of an Old House . In the following decades he played mostly in smaller roles in various films such as Gasparone , Der Hauptmann von Köpenick or Confessions of the impostor Felix Krull . Klam was seen on television in the episode The Calmette Case from the series The Criminal Court and in episode roles in the series Miss Molly Mill and The beautiful Marianne .

In addition, Walter Klam worked extensively as a speaker in radio plays for the NWDR and the later NDR between 1945 and 1975 , including the radio play adaptation of Der Hauptmann von Köpenick , directed by Helmut Käutner , in Beauberdes Fräulein by Ralph Benatzky , in several episodes of the series The court withdraws for deliberation or the interrogation of Lukullus by Bertolt Brecht .

Walter Klam also worked as a voice actor and lent his voice to well-known colleagues such as Bernard Blier ( The game was his curse ), Walter Gotell ( 55 days in Beijing ) or Christopher Lee ( Storm over the Nile ).

Walter Klam died during a spa stay in Bad Bevensen, Lower Saxony. He found his final resting place in the Hamburg cemetery Ohlsdorf near chapel 2 (grave location U15-324).

Trivia

Regarding his son Henning , Walter Klam once predicted his fellow actor Carl Voscherau : "Watch out, the boy will still be mayor of Hamburg!"

Filmography (selection)

Radio plays (selection)

  • 1945: The Captain of Köpenick - Director: Helmut Käutner
  • 1945: In the White Horse Inn - Director: Otto Kurth
  • 1946: The Dreyfus Affair - Director: Kurt Reiss
  • 1946: Charming Fräulein - Director: Karl-Heinz Reichel
  • 1947: What if ... - Director: Ludwig Cremer
  • 1948: Stalingrad - Director: Ludwig Cremer
  • 1948: The Ghost Express - Director: Fritz Schröder-Jahn
  • 1949: The Doll - Directed by Fritz Schröder-Jahn
  • 1949: Midnight Salibi - Director: Fritz Schröder-Jahn
  • 1950: Michael Kramer - Director: Otto Kurth
  • 1950: A day like tomorrow - Director: Fritz Schröder-Jahn
  • 1951: Geronimo and the robbers - Director: Fritz Schröder-Jahn
  • 1951: The Devil (Part 1-3) - Director: Heinrich Koch
  • 1951: The Miser - Director: Fritz Schröder-Jahn
  • 1952: Blown Traces - Director: Gerd Fricke
  • 1952: That won't come back - Director: Hans Freundt
  • 1952: The King of Albania - Director: Fritz Schröder-Jahn
  • 1953: The past has no doors - Director: Gustav Burmester
  • 1954: Sabeth - Director: Gustav Burmester
  • 1954: The Special Train - Director: Kurt Reiss
  • 1954: Master detective Kalle Blomquist (Part 2 and 4) - Director: Kurt Reiss
  • 1954: The Caine Was Her Destiny - Director: Julius Gellner
  • 1955: Maria Stuart - Directed by Gustav Burmester
  • 1956: File 414: Wilhelm Voigt - Director: Kurt Reiss
  • 1956: The interrogation of Lukullus - Director: Fritz Schröder-Jahn
  • 1957: Two green limousines (from the series: The Hunt for the Perpetrator ) - Director: SO Wagner
  • 1957: The Ides of March - Director: Gert Westphal
  • 1958: The Juvenile Court - Director: Gerlach Fiedler
  • 1959 Espionage (4 episodes) - Director: SO Wagner
  • 1959: A Dangerous Drive - Director: Kurt Reiss
  • 1959: Storks and Tar Jackets - Director: Gustav Burmester
  • 1960: 20 years from 2000 - Director: Fritz Schröder-Jahn
  • 1960: The Dream of the Moon - Director: Wolfgang Schwade
  • 1961: Frisco 27 ​​980 - Director: Friedhelm Ortmann
  • 1962: At the last minute - Director: Günter Siebert
  • 1964: Schaltdeenst - Director: Curt Timm
  • 1965: Incident in Vichy - Director: Willi Schmidt
  • 1966: The streets of Pompeii - Director: Harro Torneck
  • 1967: De Düppler Sturmmarsch - Director: Hans Tügel
  • 1968: Vacation in Florida - Director: Fritz Schröder-Jahn
  • 1968: Report on the plague in London, submitted by citizens of the city who perished from it in 1665, between May and November - Director: Heinz von Cramer
  • 1970: Spuk - Director: Hans-Bernd Müller
  • 1972: Excluded - Director: Fritz Schröder-Jahn
  • 1975: Der Bonze - Director: Gerlach Fiedler

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Willi Paetsch: Theaternotizen , Hamburger Abendblatt, January 10, 1964 , accessed on June 8, 2015
  2. ↑ Brigitte Ehrich: A bon vivant from old school , Hamburger Abendblatt from January 11, 1974 , accessed on June 8, 2015
  3. ↑ Eberhard von Wiese: "The dear audience - you never know where you are." , Hamburger Abendblatt, April 6, 1977 , accessed June 8, 2015
  4. ↑ a b On the death of Walter Klam , Hamburger Abendblatt dated August 12, 1983 , accessed on June 8, 2015
  5. ^ Information from the information center of the Hamburg cemetery Ohlsdorf from June 9, 2015
  6. ↑ Dirk C. Fleck: Von unmistakable beauty , Der Hamburger , accessed on June 8, 2015
personal data
SURNAME Klam, Walter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German actor and radio play speaker
DATE OF BIRTH January 11, 1904
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH August 9, 1983
Place of death Bad Bevensen