Werner Funck

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Werner Funck at the beginning of the 1920s

Werner Funck (born February 4, 1881 in Königsberg , † October 6, 1951 in Potsdam ) was a German actor, singer, film director and producer.

Life

Werner Funck graduated from the Kneiphöfische Gymnasium in Königsberg and began studying medicine at the Albertus University in Königsberg , which he soon gave up. Instead, he turned to acting. On October 27, 1901, he made his debut as Antonio in the Merchant of Venice and on May 1, 1903 received a contract as an actor at the Royal Theater in Berlin . He also played in Potsdam, Elberfeld and Königsberg.

Appearance with Enrico Caruso (1913)

In 1912 he completed a vocal training with Max Alfieri (pseudonym of Moritz Adler (1858–1927)) and received an engagement at the Royal Opera House in Berlin. A successful singing career followed in numerous roles (see opera repertoire). The most impressive thing for him was probably the joint appearance with Enrico Caruso on October 24, 1913 on the occasion of a guest performance by the Italian in Berlin.

In 1919 Funck discovered silent films for himself and that year played in ten strips. He also directed some silent films up to 1925 . With the advent of the talkie in the late 1920s, he turned back to acting. At the end of the 1930s he was seen again in a few film roles. During this time he also produced numerous documentaries about German landscapes and cities with his own company.

In 1926 Werner Funck married Eleanor Hübner. The couple moved to Golm near Potsdam around 1930 , and with the support of her husband, the young Ms. Funck began breeding Great Danes on a large property on the street In der Heide . The kennel was called Funcken von der Heide . Due to the lack of role offers during the Second World War , Werner Funck devoted himself more intensively to dog breeding, which his wife continued until 1975 after his death in 1951. Eleanor Funck died in 1989.

Saskia Ludwig , née Funck, member of the federal and state parliament , is Werner Funck's granddaughter.

Operatic repertoire

Opera role
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Aida Amonasro
Bajazzo Tonio, Beppo
Carmen Escamillo
Cavalleria rusticana 0 Alfio
Don Giovanni Don Giovanni
Fidelio Pizarro
Figaro's wedding Count Almaviva
Opera role
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The Flying Dutchman Dutch
The Freischütz hermit
Hans Heiling Hans Heiling
The Huguenots Count de Saint-Bris
Lohengrin Telramund, warriors
Margarethe Mephisto
Mastersingers of Nuremberg Hans Sachs
Opera role
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the Rheingold Wotan
Siegfried walker
Tannhauser Wolfram von Eschenbach
Undine Kühleborn
The Valkyrie Wotan
Tsar and carpenter Peter the first
The Magic Flute speaker

Filmography

as an actor
  • 1919: The red sarafan
  • 1919: The scandal in the Viktoria Club
  • 1919: distress and crime
  • 1919: Maria Evere
  • 1919: Manon. The high song of love
  • 1919: In the service of love
  • 1919: The Naked - A socio-political film
  • 1919: The night of horror
  • 1919: The Sunken
  • 1919: The heir to the Count of Monte Christo
  • 1920: The Indian death
  • 1920: Auri Sacra Fames
  • 1920: The will of an eccentric
  • 1920: The beautiful Miss Lilian
  • 1921: sacrifice of love
  • 1921: Redeemed through love
  • 1921: impostor
  • 1921: you are life
  • 1921: What did I do to you?
  • 1921: Lotte Lore
  • 1921: The witch
  • 1921: Your brother's wife
  • 1922: your bad reputation
  • 1922: The black star
  • 1923: Hallig Hooge
  • 1923: Fridericus Rex - 4th part
  • 1924: The journey to doom
  • 1924: The butterfly battle
  • 1937: When women are silent
  • 1937: Jürgens smells a fuse
  • 1938: The muzzle
  • 1938: Faded melody
  • 1938: The Kapland diamond
  • 1938: Northern Lights
  • 1939: Robert Koch, the fighter against death
  • 1939: twelve minutes past twelve
  • 1939: Password Machin
as a director
  • 1920: The girl from Ackerstrasse - Part 2
  • 1921: impostor
  • 1923: Vineta. The sunken city
  • 1923: The Magyar Princess
  • 1924: The four marriages of Matthias Merenus
  • 1925: On sunny shores
as a director and producer
  • 1920: The man with the doll
  • 1934: Bayreuth, the city of Richard Wagner
  • 1934: by Dr. Eisenbart to the blacksmith of Ruhla
  • 1934: There is peace over all peaks
  • 1934: From the skat fountain to Europe's largest reservoir
  • 1934: Through the Schwarzatal to Weimar
  • 1934: On the Saale bright beach
  • 1934: From Kyffhäuser to Wartburg
  • 1934: Across the rough Rhön
  • 1934: From fake potatoes, the modern Dr. Faust to the optical center of the world
  • 1934: Oberammergau, the village of the passion play and wood carvers
  • 1934: From the Inselsberg to the Sonneberger Reiterlein
  • 1935: Thuringia. Country and people and their work
  • 1938: The Funcken von der Heide
  • 1938: Sunny Rügen
  • 1938: Unknown from Rügen
  • 1938: contemplative country
  • 1938: Old Franconian things around Würzburg
  • 1939: A gem in Franconia
  • 1939: Two dissimilar sisters in Franconia
  • 1939: Romanticism in the Taubertal
  • 1941: Würzburg's history turned into stone

literature

  • The actor Werner Funck. In: 14476 Golm - The local part newspaper for Potsdam-Golm , issue 03, September 2014, pp. 8–11 (digitized version )

Web links

Commons : Werner Funck  - Collection of Images

Individual evidence

  1. Saskia Ludwig, b. Funck: Great Dane breeding in the heath with world champion. (PDF) Retrieved April 18, 2020 .