Wilhelm Diegelmann

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Wilhelm Diegelmann on a photograph by Alexander Binder (1927)

Wilhelm Diegelmann (born September 28, 1861 in Ellers, today in Neuhof (near Fulda) , † March 1, 1934 in Berlin ) was a German actor .

Life

He began his stage career in 1878 in the choir of the Frankfurt Opera . In 1881 he made his acting debut at the Frankfurt City Theater . There he embodied the title characters in Wallenstein , Nathan the Wise , Wilhelm Tell and King Lear .

Around 1900 he moved to Berlin, where he appeared especially at the Deutsches Theater . He was later seen at the Berlin Theater , the Great Playhouse and the German Art Theater .

In 1913 he came to film through Max Reinhardt . Diegelmann became a busy supporting actor here, often in father figures, but increasingly also in rather comical batch roles. In the classic The Blue Angel, for example, he embodied a captain who, unsuspectingly, hooks up with the singer Lola Lola ( Marlene Dietrich ) after a boat trip and who promptly feels the jealousy of her new husband ( Emil Jannings ). In his last film, he was seen as an old dyke in the Storm adaptation Der Schimmelreiter . Diegelmann continued to appear on the Berlin stages, most recently in Hans Kyser's Rembrandt on trial shortly before his death.

He found his final resting place in the south-west cemetery in Stahnsdorf , but the grave no longer exists.

Filmography (selection)

literature

  • Ludwig Eisenberg's great biographical lexicon of the German stage in the XIX. Century. List, Leipzig 1903, p. 198 .
  • Kay Less : The film's great personal dictionary. The actors, directors, cameramen, producers, composers, screenwriters, film architects, outfitters, costume designers, editors, sound engineers, make-up artists and special effects designers of the 20th century. Volume 2: C - F: John Paddy Carstairs - Peter Fitz. Schwarzkopf & Schwarzkopf, Berlin 2001, ISBN 3-89602-340-3 , pp. 386-387.

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personal data
SURNAME Diegelmann, Wilhelm
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German actor
DATE OF BIRTH September 28, 1861
PLACE OF BIRTH Ellers, zu Neuhof (near Fulda)
DATE OF DEATH March 1, 1934
Place of death Berlin