Werner Kroll

Werner Kroll, 1952

Werner Kroll (born January 15, 1914 in Berlin , † January 30, 1982 in Stuttgart ) was a German pop singer, actor and cabaret artist.

Life

After winning a singing competition in 1931, the former grocer worked as a pop singer on cabaret stages and cabarets such as the cabaret of comedians . As a specialty he gave parodies of well-known sound and film artists such as Richard Tauber , Zarah Leander , Hans Albers and others. v. a. From the 1930s he became known on the radio and made appearances in several films, beginning with a humorous short film by Tobis-Filmkunst GmbH with the title Tobis-Trichter No. 2. (1939). Even after the end of National Socialism , Kroll remained in this profession. He died of cancer in Stuttgart in 1982.

"Once the reputation is ruined, it is quite uninhibited."

- Werner Kroll around 1945 : Attribution in Büchmann: Winged words. , P. 800, 32nd edition, Haude & Spener, Berlin, quoted from.

Filmography

1939: The funnel. (No. II) (short film)
1954: ten on each finger
1955: Yes, yes, love in Tyrol
1958: Two hearts in May
1962: The Crown Attorney (TV)

literature

Berthold Leimbach: Sound documents of cabaret and their interpreters, 1898-1945 . Hubert & Co., Göttingen 1991.
Horst Jaedicke: The good old Südfunk. His radio and television programs from 1924 until the end of broadcasting in 1998 . Hohenheim-Verlag, Stuttgart and Leipzig 2005, ISBN 978-3-89850-126-2 .
Volker Kühn (Ed.): Germany's Awakening: Cabaret under the swastika; 1933-1945. Volume 3. Quadriga, Weinheim 1989, ISBN 3-88679-163-7 , p. 378 (short biography)

Web links

Commons : Werner Kroll - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Search for "Werner Kroll singt" and "... and parodiert" (record archive of the German National Library)
Werner Kroll in the Internet Movie Database (English)

Individual evidence

↑ Year 1914 at Leimbach, 1913 according to DNB
↑ Werner Kroll. Der Spiegel June 14, 1961
↑ Georg Verweyen: Literary Embarrassment: Representation and function of an embarrassing topos in the German-language literature of the 18th to 20th century . LIT Verlag Münster, 2009, ISBN 978-3-8258-1977-4 , p. 108 (accessed on August 14, 2013).

personal data
SURNAME	Kroll, Werner
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German singer, cabaret artist and actor
DATE OF BIRTH	January 15, 1914
PLACE OF BIRTH	Berlin
DATE OF DEATH	January 30, 1982
Place of death	Stuttgart

[1] Year 1914 at Leimbach, 1913 according to DNB

[2] Werner Kroll. Der Spiegel June 14, 1961

[Verweyen2009-3] Georg Verweyen: Literary Embarrassment: Representation and function of an embarrassing topos in the German-language literature of the 18th to 20th century . LIT Verlag Münster, 2009, ISBN 978-3-8258-1977-4 , p. 108 (accessed on August 14, 2013).