Wilhelm H. King

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Wilhelm Heinz König , also known as Wilhelm König , (born August 3, 1906 in Essen , German Empire , † August 13, 1978 in West Berlin ) was a German actor in the stage and film industry.

Live and act

Born in Essen, he began his stage career in the second half of the 1920s as Willy Heinz König at the municipal theaters of his hometown. Arriving in Berlin at the beginning of the 1930s, König hardly ever got a permanent engagement (as was the case with the Komödienhaus in 1941), but mostly had to be content with engagements on touring stages.

Instead, Wilhelm König was a frequent cast in the film, where he was given a wide variety of parts, often with a military background. He embodied an actor in ... just a comedian , a student in Fridericus , a musician in Tango Notturno , a grenadier on vacation on his word of honor , a sergeant in the propaganda film Request Concert , a radio operator in All in the World and a painter in Wenn der Junge Wine blooms . In Werner Hochbaum's soldier film Drei Unteroffiziere , König played one of the three title characters. In 1943, König's film career ended and he was drafted.

After the war, Wilhelm König no longer appeared in front of the camera and initially only found employment in tiny, obscure theater venues such as the event ring for West Berlin . In the course of the 1950s, Boleslaw Barlog brought him to the Schiller Theater , to which Wilhelm Heinz König remained loyal to the end.

Filmography

Radio plays

literature

  • Glenzdorfs Internationales Film-Lexikon, second volume, Bad Münder 1961, p. 867

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personal data
SURNAME King, Wilhelm H.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES König, Wilhelm Heinz (full name); King, Willy Heinz; King, Wilhelm
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German actor on stage and film
DATE OF BIRTH August 3, 1906
PLACE OF BIRTH Essen , German Empire
DATE OF DEATH August 13, 1978
Place of death West Berlin