Walther Kottenkamp
Walther Kottenkamp , alternative spelling Walter Kottenkamp (* 1889 in Bielefeld ; † July 16, 1953 in Stuttgart ) was a German stage and film actor .
Life
Kottenkamp received brief acting lessons from Friedrich Basil in Munich before he made his debut on stage in his native Bielefeld in 1906. Other stages were Bochum, Iserlohn, Eutin, Apolda and Jena, where he arrived in 1912. In 1915 Walter Kottenkamp moved to Cologne, four years later (1919) to Bochum. The most important creative phase of Walter Kottenkamp was the two decades that the Bielefeld native spent from 1925 until the end of the war in 1945 at the Saxon State Theater in Dresden. Here he was filled in the subject heavy hero and hero father. The post-war period began for Walter Kottenkamp in 1947 as a permanent guest at the Staatstheater Stuttgart, where he stayed until his death six years later and often played the role of “Pères nobles”.
Kottenkamp's most important theater roles in those later years were Paul in Lagerkvist's “Barrabas”, the Lord in Wilde's “A Woman Without Meaning” and Wilhelm Tell, Götz von Berlichingen, Falstaff and the Richter von Zalamea. “As in some musical comedies, the drastic comedy of Kottenkamp's characters grew out of the blatant contradiction between the powerful and heavy-caliber masculinity of the appearance and the melancholy of the roles he had to play.” This is how the giant with the sonorous bass voice became part of his roles Sometimes wrapped around your finger or downright disgusted by the (un) fair world of women.
Kottenkamp, who also worked as an acting teacher (among others for Helmut Weiss and Werner Tronjeck ) and had participated in several radio play recordings for the SDR and SWF in the last years of his life , found his way to the cinema camera four times at this time. In these productions he remained loyal to the subject of paternal respect and played Johann Wolfgang von Goethe in the cinematic Goethe episode Encounter with Werther , a chamber singer in the comedy The Blue Straw Hat , Achilles Prince of Brandenburg in the royal time picture Königskinder and a pastor in the bloody homeland film drama Im Banne der Madonna .
Filmography (complete)
- 1949: Meeting with Werther
- 1949: The blue straw hat
- 1950: royal children
- 1951: Under the spell of the Madonna
Radio plays (selection)
- 1951: Minna von Barnhelm
- 1951: Stay, Wanderer
- 1952: the beaver fur
- 1952: a sensitive journey
- 1953: Barrabas (The Resurrected One)
- 1953: Stalingrad
literature
- Deutsches Bühnen-Jahrbuch, born in 1954, obituary on p. 92
- Wilhelm Kosch : Deutsches Theater-Lexikon, Biographisches und Bibliographisches Handbuch, second volume, Klagenfurt and Vienna 1960, p. 1075
- Johann Caspar Glenzdorf: Glenzdorf's international film lexicon. Biographical manual for the entire film industry. Volume 2: Hed – Peis. Prominent-Filmverlag, Bad Münder 1961, DNB 451560744 , p. 889.
Web links
- Walther Kottenkamp in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Walther Kottenkamp at filmportal.de
Individual evidence
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Kottenkamp, Walther |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Kottenkamp, Walter |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German actor on stage and film |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1889 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Bielefeld |
| DATE OF DEATH | July 16, 1953 |
| Place of death | Stuttgart |