Willy A. Kleinau
Willy Adolf Kleinau (born November 12, 1907 in Mulhouse ; † October 18, 1957 near Merseburg ) was a German actor and director .
Life
Kleinau enjoyed an apprenticeship with Louise Dumont in Düsseldorf until 1932 . From 1932 he was mainly active in Meiningen , Konstanz , Potsdam and Wuppertal . After the Second World War he played in Bremen , Göttingen and Hamburg and from 1949 also in Berlin .
He played many great classical stage roles in the Deutsches Theater Berlin and at the Volksbühne . He embodied the city governor in Der Revisor , the old Clausen in Before Sunset and the title character in Wolfgang Langhoff's Faust production in 1949/50. He was involved in Shaw's wife Warren's trade (1950), Gorkis Jegor Bulytschow (1952) and in Lillian Hellman's Die kleine Füchse (1957). In Othello (1953) and Götz von Berlichingen (1955) he was seen as the title character.
His film career began in 1949 and focused on DEFA productions . Less than a month before his 50th birthday, Kleinau died in 1957 as a result of a car accident near Merseburg. His grave is in the Dorotheenstädtischer Friedhof in Berlin.
His written estate is in the archive of the Academy of Arts in Berlin.
Filmography
- 1949: Harbor melody
- 1949: Second hand fate
- 1949: The blue swords
- 1950: The Council of Gods
- 1951: The Wandsbek ax
- 1952: novel of a young marriage
- 1952: career in Paris
- 1952: Shadows over the islands
- 1953: The invincible
- 1954: No husbands
- 1954: Dangerous cargo
- 1954: Carola Lamberti - One from the circus
- 1955: The devil from Mühlenberg
- 1955: A hen party
- 1955: The Miss von Scuderi
- 1955: love, dance and 1000 hits
- 1956: The bath on the threshing floor
- 1956: The farmer from the Brucknerhof
- 1956: forest winter
- 1956: Tsar and carpenter
- 1956: The captain of Köpenick
- 1956: What the swallow sang
- 1957: Ripening summer
- 1957: the most beautiful
- 1957: Spring in Berlin
- 1957: Casino affair
- 1957: like a storm wind
theatre
- 1949: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe : Faust. A Tragedy (Faust) - Director: Wolfgang Langhoff ( Deutsches Theater Berlin )
- 1949: Friedrich Wolf : Tai Yang awakens (factory director) - Director: Wolfgang Langhoff (Deutsches Theater Berlin)
- 1950: Nikolai Gogol : The Auditor (City Governor) - Director: Wolfgang Langhoff (Deutsches Theater Berlin)
- 1951: William Shakespeare : What you want (Tobias) - Director: Wolfgang Heinz (Deutsches Theater Berlin - Kammerspiele)
- 1952: Maxim Gorki : Yegor Bulytschow and the others (Yegor Bulytschow) - Director: Hans Jungbauer (Deutsches Theater Berlin)
- 1952: Friedrich Schiller : Don Carlos (Grand Inquisitor) - Director: Wolfgang Langhoff (Deutsches Theater Berlin)
- 1953: Gotthold Ephraim Lessing : Minna von Barnhelm (Paul Werner) - Director: Hans Jungbauer (Deutsches Theater Berlin - Kammerspiele)
- 1955: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: Götz von Berlichingen (Götz) - Director: Fritz Wisten ( Volksbühne Berlin )
- 1955: Gerhart Hauptmann : Before Sunset (Privy Councilor Clausen) - Director: Wolfgang Heinz (Deutsches Theater Berlin)
- 1956: Hermann Bahr : Das Konzert (Heink) - Director: Robert Meyn (Deutsches Theater Berlin - Kammerspiele)
- 1956: Lillian Hellman : Die kleine Füchse (Horace Giddens) - Director: Wolfgang Heinz (Deutsches Theater Berlin - Kammerspiele)
- 1957: William Shakespeare: König Lear (King Lear) - Director: Wolfgang Langhoff (Deutsches Theater Berlin)
Radio plays
- 1950: Garson Kanin : The Yellowed Manifesto ( Born Yesterday , edited by Maximilian Scheer) (role: businessman) - Director: Gottfried Herrmann ( Berliner Rundfunk )
- 1950: Maximilian Scheer : Paris, April 28th - Director: Werner Stewe (Berliner Rundfunk)
- 1950: Karl Georg Egel : The main book of the Solvays - Director: Gottfried Herrmann (Berliner Rundfunk)
- 1951: Valentina Ljubimowa : Snowball ( Снежок ) - Director: Werner Stewe (Berliner Rundfunk)
- 1951: Maximilian Scheer: "Death trafficking" or "Courage to Freedom" - Director: Werner Stewe (Berliner Rundfunk)
- 1951: Karl Georg Egel: The Song of Helgoland - Director: Gottfried Herrmann (Berliner Rundfunk)
- 1951: Friedrich Karl Kaul : Funkhaus Masurenalle - Director: Gottfried Herrmann (Berliner Rundfunk)
- 1951: Maximilian Scheer: The Sorcerer - Director: Werner Stewe (Berliner Rundfunk)
- 1951: Heinrich von Kleist : The Broken Jug (Village Judge Adam) - Director: Werner Wieland (radio play - Berliner Rundfunk)
- 1952: Adam Tarn : Ortega - Director: Günther Rücker (Berliner Rundfunk)
- 1952: Nikolai Gogol : The Marriage - Director: Gottfried Herrmann (Berliner Rundfunk)
- 1953: Pedro Calderón de la Barca : The good judge (judge) - Director: Peter Brang (Berliner Rundfunk)
- 1955: Anna Seghers : The Seventh Cross (Paul) - Director: Hedda Zinner ( Broadcasting of the GDR )
- 2002: Marianne Weil / Stefan Dutt : Legionaries, Guerrillas, Saboteurs - Director: Marianne Weil / Stefan Dutt (A Socialist Complete Radio Play - DLR )
Awards
- National Prize of the GDR in 1951 and 1953
Web links
- Willy A. Kleinau at filmportal.de
- Willy A. Kleinau in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Biography with photo at defa-stiftung.de
- Willy A. Kleinau Archive in the Archive of the Academy of Arts, Berlin
Individual evidence
- ^ Willy-A.-Kleinau-Archiv inventory overview on the website of the Academy of Arts in Berlin.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Kleinau, Willy A. |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Kleinau, Willy Adolf (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German actor and director |
| DATE OF BIRTH | November 12, 1907 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Mulhouse |
| DATE OF DEATH | October 18, 1957 |
| Place of death | Merseburg |