Wilhelm Kürten (actor)

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Wilhelm Kürten (born June 16, 1905 in Duisburg , † after 1961) was a German actor , radio, radio play and voice actor .

Life

After graduating from high school, Kürten took acting lessons from W. Hardt in Wuppertal from 1927 to 1928. In 1928 he made his debut as “Franz von Sickingen” in Goethe's Götz von Berlichingen at the Remscheid Theater, where he received his first stage engagement until 1930. Other theater stations were the Stadttheater Halberstadt (1930–1932), the Lübeck Municipal Theaters (1932–1935), the Aachen City Theater (1935–1939), the Magdeburg Municipal Theaters (1939–1943), Hamburg ( Deutsches Schauspielhaus 1943–1946, Hamburg) Kammerspiele and with Willy Maertens at the Thalia Theater1946–1949) and the Karlsruhe State Theater (1949–1950). Since 1951 he worked as a freelance stage actor and gave a. a. Guest performances in Baden-Baden and Hamburg . One of Kürten's star roles was “Mephisto” in Goethe's Faust I , which he played for the first time in 1932 at the unusual age of 27 in Halberstadt, as well as in 1943 in Magdeburg and 1950 in Karlsruhe . In the German premiere of Georg Kaiser's play Napoleon in New Orleans in 1950 in Karlsruhe, Kürten played the role of "You-You".

In addition, Kürten was a very busy reciter and speaker for radio and speech record productions (including from the Ariola label ). As a director, he also staged numerous cultural programs and radio plays for NWDR , SDR and Radio Bremen . He also worked as a voice actor .

After the ARD began broadcasting , Kürten found a new field of activity as a television actor. In the first years of broadcasting, he played in numerous crime films ( The Man from Outside and A Somewhat Odd Lady , each with Lil Dagover ), popular swans ( My Son, the Minister with Willy Reichert ), literary adaptations ( Viktoria after Knut Hamsun ) and often in Adaptations of plays such as Jean Anouilh's Rendezvous von Senlis , Christian Dietrich Grabbe's Der Teufel ist los and Friedrich Dürrenmatt's visit to the old lady (with Elisabeth Flickenschildt in the leading role).

Filmography

  • 1956: Close encounters
  • 1957: Victoria
  • 1959: The old lady's visit
  • 1960: a somewhat strange lady
  • 1961: The Senlis rendezvous
  • 1961: The devil is loose
  • 1961: Siegfried's death
  • 1961: My son, the Minister
  • 1961: The man from outside
  • 1965: The scapegoat

Radio plays (selection)

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personal data
SURNAME Kürten, Wilhelm
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German actor, radio, radio play and voice actor
DATE OF BIRTH June 16, 1905
PLACE OF BIRTH Duisburg
DATE OF DEATH after 1961