Walter Remmer

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Walter Remmer (born March 21, 1887 ; † 1973 ) was a German theater actor . He was considered a comedic original, who often embodied the popular, drastic type comedy.

Life

Gravestone at the Remmers family grave in the New St. Nikolai Cemetery

Walter Remmer was the son of the architect and Hanoverian mayor Friedrich Remmer . He attended the High School in Hanover, in the auditorium of it decades later his series "Heitere evenings" afforded from which he both his "Merry Remmer evenings" as well as after the poet Wilhelm Busch named Wilhelm Busch evenings developed with which he performed throughout Germany.

Remmer first appeared in the theater in 1907. After engagements in Bielefeld and Eisenach - Mühlhausen , he returned to his hometown, where he appeared as a young comedian as early as 1914, in which he was quickly seen as a crowd favorite, especially in comedies, teasing and operetta . He played alternately in the Residenztheater and the Deutsches Theater , in the Schauburg and in the “ Mellini ” operets under Anton Lölgen . Pull pieces of the time were called “Spanish Fly”, “Hussar Fever”, “Jettchen Gebert”, “Blessed Excellency”, “Jonys Bosenfreund”, “Rosita's dark point”, “So'n Greyhound” or “Puppchen”. The role of his life, however, was the cast in Charley's aunt .

Other well-known roles by Remmer were, for example, the Junker Bleichenwang in Was ihr wollt or Hofmarschall von Kalb in Kabale und Liebe . Also included in his repertoire works by Rudolf Presber , Manfred Kyber , Munchausen and its own dialect - parodies .

The Universal Film Lexicon from 1933 recorded Walter Remmer's residence in the house at Marschnerstrasse 7 in Hanover.

In the post-war period Remmer played for a few years on the stage of the Thalia Theater in the Hanomag .

Walter Remmer succumbed to a serious illness at the age of 86.

Web links

Commons : Walter Remmer  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e f g C. H: Walter Remmer , in: Deutsches Bühnen-Jahrbuch , Volume 83 (1975), p. 68; limited preview in Google Book search
  2. ↑ a b c Deutsches Bühnen-Jahrbuch 1968 , year 1976, p. 77; limited preview in Google Book search
  3. ↑ Deutsches Bühnen-Jahrbuch , Volume 71 (1963), p. 58; limited preview in Google Book search
  4. ↑ Universal-Filmlexikon = Universal film lexicon = Lexique universel du film , Berlin, London [1933]; Digitized via archive.org
personal data
SURNAME Remmer, Walter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German theater actor
DATE OF BIRTH March 21, 1887
PLACE OF BIRTH Hanover
DATE OF DEATH 1973
Place of death Hanover