Willy Leyrer

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Wilhelm "Willy" Leyrer (born April 5, 1908 in Wattenscheid ; † November 30, 1986 , probably in Hesse ) was a German actor .

Live and act

Wilhelm Leyrer had received his artistic training at the Folkwangschule in the late 1920s and began his stage career in 1930 with the Edom in Richard Beer-Hofmann's Jakobs Traum , also in Essen . This was followed by engagements at stages in Bochum , Paderborn , Hildesheim , Lübeck and Erfurt . From 1944 to 1958 the Wattenscheider belonged to the Landestheater Darmstadt , 1957/58 he was also employed at the Münchner Kammerspiele . Willy Leyrer then played again in Essen, made a guest appearance at the festival in Wunsiedel , then worked in Wuppertal and was a long member of the Kassel State Theater ensemble in the 1960s and 1970s .

In his decades of stage work, Leyrer played the entire range from small to large roles, in classical dramas as well as in cheerful folk plays. You saw him u. a. as Shylock in The Merchant of Venice , as Hein Lammers in Der Etappenhase , as Wurm and Miller in Kabale und Liebe , as Antonio in Torquato Tasso , as Kottwitz in Der Prinz von Homburg , as Tobias Rülps in Was ihr wollt , als der Herzog von Kent in King Lear , as a butler in Wallenstein , as Pierre in War and Peace , as Wedekind's King Nicolo and as Büchner's Woyzeck . Shortly after the end of the war in 1945, Leyrer began working frequently for radio plays.

Willy Leyrer appeared in front of the camera quite late; It was only when he was almost 50 years old that he began to work primarily in television and a very few movie productions. He made his debut in 1956 with Alfred Doolittle in a TV version of Shaw's Pygmalion . He later embodied the most diverse types in very different productions, including a number of documentary plays and literary adaptations. In the ZDF crime series The Little Doctor , Leyrer had a continuous role with Mayor Gaston. Most recently he was seen several times in Karl Fruchtmann's ambitious productions . Leyrer last lived in the 1980s in Allendorf-Climbach in Hesse . It is currently unknown whether he died there.

Filmography

  • 1956: Pygmalion
  • 1956: Robinson is not supposed to die
  • 1957: Montserrat
  • 1958: The great wave
  • 1958: The Alcestiad
  • 1959: As far as your feet can carry
  • 1960: The man who was Thursday
  • 1961: an outsider
  • 1963: The Sacco and Vanzetti case
  • 1964: the lamb
  • 1965: The last chapter
  • 1965: Make the most of it
  • 1966: company party
  • 1966: The good man of Sezuan
  • 1967: the auditor
  • 1967: The trial of Joan of Arc at Rouen in 1431
  • 1968: How a Hirschberger learned Danish
  • 1969: retraining
  • 1969: News from the provinces
  • 1970: Days of Vengeance
  • 1972: Anna and Totò
  • 1973: Hamburg Transit (one episode)
  • 1974: The little doctor
  • 1974: Ward 6
  • 1975: enemies
  • 1976: chains
  • 1978: Gesche Gottfried

Radio plays (selection)

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. 438 f.
  • Johann Caspar Glenzdorf: Glenzdorf's international film lexicon. Biographical manual for the entire film industry. Volume 2: Hed – Peis. Prominent-Filmverlag, Bad Münder 1961, DNB 451560744 , p. 990.

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personal data
SURNAME Leyrer, Willy
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Leyrer, Wilhelm
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German actor
DATE OF BIRTH April 5, 1908
PLACE OF BIRTH Wattenscheid
DATE OF DEATH November 30, 1986
Place of death uncertain: Hessen