Willem Holsboer
Willem Jan Holsboer (born August 3, 1905 in Stuttgart , † June 14, 1959 in Munich ) was a German actor , director and theater manager. He is the son of Johann Florian Holsboer and MC Häberle.
stage
After attending grammar school in Esslingen and the Waldorf School in Stuttgart, Holsboer completed vocational training at the Mara Feldern-Förster Theater School in Munich. He made his stage debut as a schoolboy in 1927 in a performance of August Strindberg's Playing With Fire in the Steinickesaal in Schwabing.
In the same year an engagement at the Münchner Kammerspiele followed , which lasted until 1938 and during which Holsboer took on acting roles as well as directing work. In 1938 he moved to the Munich Volkstheater as artistic director . Until 1950 he remained connected to the city's municipal theaters in this role. It was not until 1951 that he left his Munich stage home to give a guest performance at the Deutsches Schauspielhaus in Hamburg for a year and from 1952 to 1953 at the Schauspielhaus Zurich . In 1953 he finally returned to Munich, where he a. a. appeared and directed at the Kleine Komödie .
actor
His well-known stage performances include u. a. the Mitteldorf in Gerhart Hauptmanns Biberpelz (1932), the Mollfels in Christian Dietrich Grabbe's joke, satire, irony and deeper meaning (1936) and the Cosme in Pedro Calderón de la Barcas Dame Kobold (1937).
Director
As a director he staged a. a. Comedies by Plautus , Ferdinand Raimund , Johann Nepomuk Nestroy and Carlo Goldoni and the 1937 world premiere of John Knittel's drama Via Mala based on his novel of the same name.
Dramaturge and translator
In addition, Holsboer arranged a number of works for the stage, including a. Raimunds Bauer as a millionaire , Nestroys a joke he wants to make himself and August von Kotzebues missed .
In addition, he also translated English and French plays into German.
Movie
In 1931 Holsboer made his feature film debut as an actor in Georg Wilhelm Pabsts Kameradschaft . In the following, despite his extensive stage work, he was regularly seen in feature film productions, albeit almost exclusively in supporting roles. He often played in comedies such as once the dear Lord be (with Hans Moser ), love does not go that far and turmoil in paradise (each with the comedian duo Joe Stöckel and Beppo Brem ), music films ( the voice of the heart with Beniamino Gigli and Frech und love with Johannes Heesters ) and operetta adaptations like Die Försterchristel (with Johanna Matz in the title role), Der Bettelstudent and Countess Mariza (with Rudolf Schock ), but also in stage adaptations like Peer Gynt after Henrik Ibsen (with Hans Albers in the title role ), Literary adaptations such as Rudolf Jugert's Rosen im Herbst (based on Theodor Fontanes Effi Briest ), The Disappeared Miniature (based on Erich Kästner ), as Bob Cratchit in a film adaptation of Charles Dickens ' Christmas carol in prose, the circus melodrama Fahrendes Volk (with Hans Albers) and Arthur Maria Rabenalt's Mandrake , a film adaptation of the novel Mandrake. The story of a living being by Hanns Heinz Ewers . One of his rare television productions in 1955 was the Marcel Proust film Madame Aurélie , directed by Carl-Heinz Schroth .
Besides Holsboer was the driving force behind the cinematic compilation Lach Cabinet , a tribute to the Grotestkomiker Karl Valentin : In a storyline the audience into a kind of show of works by Valentin is invited to the Valentin short films in addition to excerpts from old newsreels music twain , The bewitched spotlight , a fateful violin solo , the zither virtuoso and orchestral rehearsal are shown in full. Holsboer not only took care of the compilation as a screenwriter, but also directed the plot.
Private
Willem Holsboer was married to the actress Margot Rupp (* 1919), with whom he stood in front of the camera several times ( Das Orchestrion , once the dear Lord , goodbye on Lake Constance ). This marriage resulted in a son, Florian Holsboer , who was director of the Max Planck Institute for Psychiatry in Munich from 1989 to 2014. Willem Holsboer is buried in the Riem cemetery in Munich.
Filmography
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Web links
- Willem Holsboer in the Internet Movie Database (English)
Individual evidence
- ^ 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. 301.
- ↑ filmportal.de : Das Lachkabinett ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
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| SURNAME | Holsboer, Willem |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Holsboer, Willem Jan (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German actor, director and theater manager |
| DATE OF BIRTH | August 3, 1905 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Stuttgart |
| DATE OF DEATH | June 14, 1959 |
| Place of death | Munich |