Walther Suessenguth

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Walther Suessenguth , also Walther Süssenguth or Walter Suessenguth ; actually Walther Wilhelm Rudolf Suessenguth (born February 8, 1900 in Schleiz , Thuringia, † April 28, 1964 in Berlin ) was a German actor and voice actor .

Live and act

The son of a theater director received his artistic training at the Dresden Conservatory at the end of the First World War and in 1919 began his first engagement at the Reussian Theater in Gera. Further stage stations were Plauen, Lübeck, Königsberg, Erfurt, Halberstadt, Hanover, Oldenburg, Frankfurt / M., Again Gera, again Königsberg and Hamburg. From 1935 he stayed in Berlin to fulfill an obligation at the Theater der Jugend. This was followed by appearances on theaters in the capital such as the Schillertheater , the Hebbeltheater and the Volksbühne Berlin , interrupted only by one season at the Deutsches Schauspielhaus in Hamburg in 1936/37. Suessenguth had made a name for himself primarily as an interpreter in modern pieces (by authors such as Zuckmayer, Sartre and Werfel), for example in Die Braut von Messina , Der Strom , Sünder und Heiliger , Die Flies , Die Ballade vom Eulenspiegel , Barbara Blomberg , Undine and Jakobowsky and the Colonel . In his later years Suessenguth worked increasingly as a director. His best-known productions included Bahr's Das Konzert , Frank Wedekind's Spring Awakening and Hermann Sudermann's The Butterfly Battle .

Suessenguth's grave in the Wilmersdorf cemetery

Suessenguth made his film debut in the 1934 Storm adaptation Der Schimmelreiter , in which he played the role of the jealous foreman Ole Peters alongside Mathias Wieman and Marianne Hoppe . Until the end of the Second World War he was seen with small roles in twelve other films, for example as Tsar Alexander in Wolfgang Liebeneiner's Bismarck film The Discharge .

Since 1948 Suessenguth has mainly worked as a voice actor, where his voice includes Lon Chaney , Maurice Chevalier , Barry Kelley , Herbert Marshall , John McIntire , Victor McLaglen , Reginald Owen , George Sanders , Spencer Tracy , Tom Tully , Charles Vanel , Orson Welles and Chill Wills borrowed.

In the mid-1950s, Suessenguth appeared again in a few films. He had bigger roles in The City is Full of Secrets (1954), Tsar and Carpenter and Cheated Until Judgment Day . In the last years of his life he was also involved in television productions, for example in Peter Beauvais ' TV film Die kleine Füchse and in the street sweeper Tim Frazer by Francis Durbridge , in which he played the painter and crook Walters.

Walther Suessenguth was buried in the Wilmersdorf cemetery in Dept. E5-UW-217.

His brother was the actor Richard Süssenguth .

Filmography (selection)

theatre

Radio plays

literature

  • Thomas Bridegroom : Walter Suessenguth (1903–1964) . In: ders .: Lexicon of film and television synchronization. More than 2,000 films and series with their German voice actors etc. . Schwarzkopf & Schwarzkopf, Berlin 2001, ISBN 3-89602-289-X , p. 476.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Lt. Registry office Schleiz, Filmportal.de
  2. ^ Frank-Burkhard Habel , Volker Wachter : Lexicon of the GDR Stars. Actors from film and television. Schwarzkopf & Schwarzkopf, Berlin 1999, ISBN 3-89602-304-7 , p. 327.
  3. ^ Joachim Werner Preuss: Theater in the East / West Political Environment: Interface Berlin 1945-1961. Study 2004, p. 96.
personal data
SURNAME Suessenguth, Walther
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Süssenguth, Walther; Suessenguth, Walter; Suessenguth, Walther Wilhelm Rudolf (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German actor and voice actor
DATE OF BIRTH February 8, 1900
PLACE OF BIRTH Schleiz , Thuringia
DATE OF DEATH April 28, 1964
Place of death Berlin