Willi Grunwald
Willi Grunwald , also Willy Grunwald, (born February 12, 1870 in Linden near Hanover , † unknown) was a German actor , film director and theater director .
Life
Willi Grunwald was born as Wilhelm Grunwald in Linden or Hanover. After school and acting training in Hanover, he made his debut in a city theater in 1890 . After engagements in Gera , Görlitz , Krefeld and Göttingen , he went to the Lessing Theater in Berlin in 1900 . In 1912 he founded the German Art Theater in Berlin with Gerhart Hauptmann , and became its director. From 1921 to 1924 he was artistic director in Hanover and in 1923/24 also took over the management of the Schauburg there . In 1924 he became director of the Three-City Theater in Oberhausen-Hamborn-Gladbeck . But as early as March 1925, as a result of the global economic crisis, the theater association was dissolved and Grunwald left Oberhausen.
From 1917 to 1941 Grunwald worked as a film director, actor and screenwriter.
Filmography
- Director
- 1917: Mrs. Lene's divorce
- 1918: victim of society
- 1918: Didn't you see Fritzchen?
- 1918: The false Demetrius
- 1918: The Semirames vase
- 1919: The honeymoon
- 1919: The seventh great power
- 1919: The black curl
- 1919: The end of the song
- 1919: According to the law
- 1920: Count Sylvain's revenge
- script
- Haven't you seen Fritzchen (adaptation)
- The vase of the Semirames
- actor
- 1928: Schinderhannes
- 1936: practical jokes
- 1941: Ohm Krüger
literature
- Dirk Böttcher , Klaus Mlynek, Waldemar R. Röhrbein, Hugo Thielen: Hannoversches Biographisches Lexikon . From the beginning to the present. Schlütersche, Hannover 2002, ISBN 3-87706-706-9 ( google books ).
- Ines Katenhusen : Art and Politics. Hanover's confrontations with modernity in the Weimar Republic , Volume 5 Hanover, Hahnsche Buchhandlung 1998 ISBN 3-7752-4955-9
- Gerd Lepges: Keep playing - 90 years of theater in Oberhausen 1920–2010 Verlag Karl Maria Laufen Oberhausen 2010 ISBN 978-3-87468-256-5
- Klaus Mlynek and Waldemar R. Röhrbein (editors) (1): History of the City of Hanover Volume 2 - From the beginning of the 19th century to the present Schlütersche Verlagsanstalt und Druckerei, Hanover 1994 ISBN 3-87706-364-0 ( google books ) )
- Klaus Mlynek and Waldemar R. Röhrbein (editors) (2): Hanover Chronicle - From the Beginnings to the Present, Figures Data Facts, Schlütersche Verlagsanstalt und Druckerei, Hanover 1991, ISBN 3-87706-319-5
Web links
- Willi Grunwald in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Willi Grunwald at filmportal.de
- Willi Grunwald at The German Early Cinema Database
- Willi Grunwald at cyranos.ch
Individual evidence
- ↑ Böttcher p. 139
- ↑ Mlynek-Röhrbein (1) p. 468
- ↑ Katenhusen p. 70ff
- ↑ Mlynek-Rohrbein (2) p. 157
- ^ Hugo Thielen : Grunwald, Willy (Wilhelm). In: Hannoversches Biographisches Lexikon , p. 139, online via Google books
- ↑ Lepges pp. 24 and 211
- ↑ Böttcher p. 139
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Grunwald, Willi |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Grunwald, Willy |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German actor, film director and theater director |
| DATE OF BIRTH | February 12, 1870 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Linden (Hanover) |
| DATE OF DEATH | after 1941 |