Wilhelm Zeno Diemer
Wilhelm Zeno Diemer (born December 16, 1902 in Munich , † June 7, 1978 in Stuttgart ) was a German actor and theater director .
Live and act
Diemer graduated from the Wilhelmsgymnasium in Munich in 1923 and received acting lessons from court actor Richard Stury in the early 1920s . The native of Munich then made his acting debut on a touring stage. From 1923 engagements at theaters in Regensburg (debut with the Hortensio in Shakespeare's The Taming of the Shrew ), Stralsund, Munich (where he had also directed at the Bayerische Landesbühne from 1925 to 1935), Coburg, Olomouc, Straubing, Passau, Wuppertal, Münster and from 1954 Tübingen (Landestheater). After that, Diemer worked as a freelancer.
His best-known leading theater roles were Hamlet , Faust , Romeo (from Romeo and Juliet ), Othello and the carter Henschel in the Hauptmann play of the same name, as well as Doolittle in George Bernard Shaw's Pygmalion . Only very late, at the age of 60, did Wilhelm Zeno Diemer appear in front of the camera and mainly received episode roles in series, including numerous crime novels. Most recently (1976) he was seen in two Tatort episodes.
Filmography
- 1958: I was a slave to him
- 1963: Antony and Cleopatra
- 1963–67: The fifth column (TV series, three episodes)
- 1966: ten percent
- 1967: The Crime Museum (TV series, one episode)
- 1968: The dam
- 1968: Bel Ami
- 1968: The German champion
- 1969: old comrades
- 1969: Rebellion of the Lost
- 1969–71: Royal Bavarian District Court (TV series, two episodes)
- 1971: The makeshift life
- 1972: The Commissioner (TV series, episode)
- 1973: Crime scene: the dead do not need an apartment
- 1975: Crime scene: eyewitness
- 1976: Lauenstadt inspection: heirs
- 1976: Crime scene: Evening Star
literature
- Herbert A. Frenzel , Hans Joachim Moser (ed.): Kürschner's biographical theater manual. Drama, opera, film, radio. Germany, Austria, Switzerland. De Gruyter, Berlin 1956, DNB 010075518 , p. 120.
- Johann Caspar Glenzdorf: Glenzdorf's international film lexicon. Biographical manual for the entire film industry. Volume 1: A-Heck. Prominent-Filmverlag, Bad Münder 1960, DNB 451560736 , p. 289.
Web links
- Wilhelm Zeno Diemer in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Wilhelm Zeno Diemer at filmportal.de
Individual evidence
- ^ Annual report on the Wilhelms-Gymnasium in Munich 1922/23.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Diemer, Wilhelm Zeno |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German actor on stage and television |
| DATE OF BIRTH | December 16, 1902 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Munich |
| DATE OF DEATH | June 7, 1978 |
| Place of death | Stuttgart |