Walter Ullmann (director)

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Walter Ullmann (born December 2, 1902 in Berlin ; lost in 1945) was a German theater director .

Ullmann studied theater studies from 1926 in Berlin with Max Herrmann . One of his first directorial work was The Exchange of Paul Claudel at the Theater Studies Institute in 1927 . Later he worked at the Städtische Bühnen Düsseldorf . From 1938 to 1944 Ullmann staged numerous plays at the Deutsches Volkstheater in Vienna , including the Shakespeare classics Hamlet and Midsummer Night's Dream as well as contemporary plays by the Austrian Richard Billinger , The Gigant and Melusine .

At the end of the Second World War , Ullmann's trail was lost after the occupation of Vienna by Allied troops. His sister Lisa Ullmann, who lives in England, unsuccessfully researched the fate of her brother until her death in 1985.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d Hellmuth Christian Wolff: In memory: Walter Ullmann (1902–1945) director at the Deutsches Volkstheater in Vienna . Mask and Kothurn. Volume 31, Issue 1-4, pages 125-130, doi : 10.7767 / muk.1985.31.14.125 , December 1985
personal data
SURNAME Ullmann, Walter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German theater director
DATE OF BIRTH December 2, 1902
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH after 1945