Walter Rilla

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Walter Rilla 1929 on a photograph by Alexander Binder

Walter Wilhelm Karl Ernst Rilla (born  August 22, 1894 in Neunkirchen (Saar) , † November 21, 1980 in Rosenheim ) was a German actor and writer .

Life

The son of the railway engineer Friedrich Wilhelm Rilla and his wife Karoline (born founder) was born in Neunkirchen. The family moved away from Neunkirchen in 1896 due to the father's job. Walter Rilla attended the Fridericianum and the University in Königsberg . He studied literature, art history and philosophy in Breslau, Lausanne and Berlin.

He married Theresa Klausner († 1948), from this marriage comes the film director Wolf Rilla . Since 1959 he was married to the writer Alix Degrelle-Hirth du Frênes.

In 1919 he founded the literary magazine "Erde". At times he was committed to the KPD or, after its founding, to its left-wing split KAPD . From 1920 he worked as a dramaturge for Berlin theaters. Walter Rilla has been one of the most important German character actors since the 1920s. In 1926 he played alongside Elisabeth Bergner in Der Geiger von Florenz , and in 1928 alongside Marlene Dietrich in Princess Olala . In 1934 he went to England for a film role for the first time, followed by his final emigration in 1936. Rilla remained there until the end of the 1950s as a recognized supporting actor in productions such as Star of India or Sabotage Agent .

Back in Germany he had his first role in Confessions of the impostor Felix Krull at the side of Liselotte Pulver and Horst Buchholz . He starred in the Doktor Mabuse films The Testament of Dr. Mabuse and Scotland Yard is chasing Dr. Mabuse as well as in the Edgar Wallace film adaptations The Forger of London and Zimmer 13 . In the latter film and in Ich, Dr. Fu Man Chu he performed in father-daughter constellations together with Karin Dor .

In addition, Rilla was a writer, screenwriter, producer, director and television actor. He had his last appearance next to Ruth Leuwerik and Martin Held in disorder and early grief . In 1966 he received the gold film tape for his work in German film.

He was buried in the cemetery in Oberaudorf .

Filmography

Publications

  • here as Walther Rilla: Politics, Revolution and Violence (= Tribune of Art and Time. A collection of writings. Vol. 24, ZDB -ID 532403-8 ). Erich Reiss Verlag, Berlin 1920 (Reprint: Kraus Reprint, Nendeln 1973, ZDB -ID 532403-8 ).
  • as editor, here as Walther Rilla: Die Erde. Political and cultural policy bi-monthly. Volume 1–2.1 [Vol. 1–2,1], 1919–1920, ZDB ID 220972-x , (Reprint: Kraus Reprint, Nendeln 1970).
  • Seeds of time. Novel. Authorized, author revised translation from English by Ernst Sander. Kindler, Munich 1955.
  • Faint of heart. Novel. Translated from English by the author. Kindler, Munich 1956.
  • As wonderful as the first day. A European journey. Kindler, Munich 1957.

Web links

literature

  • Kay Less : "In life, more is taken from you than given ...". Lexicon of filmmakers who emigrated from Germany and Austria between 1933 and 1945. A general overview. Acabus-Verlag, Hamburg 2011, ISBN 978-3-86282-049-8 , p. 425 f.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Gerhild Krebs: Cinema and Film in the Neunkirchen area (1897-2004), A journey through time from the "Living Photographs" to the Cine Tower, in: Neunkircher Stadtbuch, ed. on behalf of the district town of Neunkirchen by Rainer Knauf and Christoph Trepesch, Ottweiler 2005, pp. 683–705, here pp. 690–691.
  2. ↑ Stephan Reinhardt (ed.): Reader Weimar Republic. German writers and their state from 1918 to 1933. Wagenbach, Berlin 1982, ISBN 3-8031-3010-7 , p. 93.
personal data
SURNAME Rilla, Walter
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Rilla, Walter Wilhelm Karl Ernst (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German actor
DATE OF BIRTH August 22, 1894
PLACE OF BIRTH Neunkirchen (Saar)
DATE OF DEATH November 21, 1980
Place of death Rosenheim