Willi Schaeffers

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Willi Schaeffers and Lene Ludwig with Schaeffers' mask, 1938

Willi Schaeffers (born September 2, 1884 in Landsberg an der Warthe , Brandenburg province ; † August 10, 1962 in Munich ; also: Willi Schäffers and Schäfers ) was a German cabaret artist , master of the stage , cabaret director and actor . He has acted in over 40 films.

Life

The son of a journalist grew up in Berlin and attended the Realgymnasium in Seesen , where he staged a school cabaret at the age of 15. In 1902 he first appeared on traveling theaters in East Prussia and Silesia. He was a student at the drama school of the Düsseldorfer Schauspielhaus with Louise Dumont and became a member of the ensemble of the Poznan City Theater . Schaeffer's encounter with the cabaret artist Rudolf Nelson led to a 17-year bond.

At this time, Schaeffers, who lived in Berlin from 1909, began performing as a cabaret artist. Guest appearances took him to Hamburg and Munich. In 1910 he came to silent movies. He was a soldier in the First World War. After being wounded, he worked as an entertainer in hospitals and barracks.

Immediately after the First World War he reappeared on the Berlin stages. He made numerous appearances, especially in operettas and revues. In 1928 he received the Harry Lamberts-Paulsen Ring. His performances as an emcee in the cabaret of comedians , of which he was director from 1938 to 1944, became particularly well known . In 1929, the first German sound film The Night Belongs to Us , he was cast in a batch role, which was symptomatic of his film roles.

Gravestone of Willi Schaeffers in the Heerstrasse cemetery in Berlin-Westend

Schaeffers took on minor supporting roles in various feature films. His specialty was caricaturing pomposity and know-it-alls up to and including the Emperor of China in Princess Turandot . He was the focus of some of the short films that were shown in the opening act.

His son Peter became a film producer, songwriter and music publisher.

Willi Schaeffers died of a stroke on August 10, 1962 at the age of 77 in a Munich hospital. He was buried in the state-owned cemetery in Heerstraße in today's Berlin-Westend district (grave location: 15-157). The final resting place of Willi Schaeffers was dedicated as an honorary grave of the State of Berlin from 1975 to 2001 . The grave has since been closed, but the tombstone has been preserved as a memorial stone next to the grave site.

Filmography

  • 1935: In the white Rößl
  • 1935: The merry women
  • 1936: family parade
  • 1936: The Streithammel (short film)
  • 1936: The castle in Flanders
  • 1936: The misunderstood bon vivant
  • 1936: Men before marriage
  • 1936: What does the cat purr with (short film)
  • 1937: People without a fatherland
  • 1937: Jürgens smells fuse (short film)
  • 1937: diamonds
  • 1937: The laughing doctor
  • 1937: Monika
  • 1938: The marriage sanatorium
  • 1938: The secret of Betty Bonn
  • 1938: The stars shine
  • 1938: Fools in the Snow
  • 1938: The Deruga case
  • 1938: Red orchids
  • 1938: dreams are foams (short film)
  • 1939: a difficult case
  • 1949: I'll never forget this night!
  • 1953: women's choice
  • 1953: red roses, red lips, red wine
  • 1953: hit parade
  • 1954: Children become people
  • 1957: happiness is on the road
  • 1957: The great opportunity
  • 1958: Sebastian Kneipp - the water doctor

Works

  • Stolen everything. A strange mixture of nonsense, bad taste and witty poems in 7 sections. Borngräber, Berlin 1910.
  • I warn the curious or whoever reads it too late will be punished! 1 apprentice piece, 3 journeyman pieces, the rest everything (327) master lecture pieces from the workshop of Schaeffers and sons Ltd. Borngraves, Berlin 1912.
  • with Hans Gerbeck: Revolution in the beehive. Comedy in 3 acts and a prelude. Meisel, Berlin 1912 (not for sale stage manuscript).
  • as editor: Bunte Platte. A lecture book for everyone. Staneck, Berlin 1953.
  • Tingeltangel. A life for cabaret. Recorded by Erich Ebermayer . Broschek, Hamburg 1959.

literature

Web links

Commons : Willi Schaeffers  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d Karlheinz Wendtland: Beloved Kintopp. All German feature films from 1929–1945 with numerous artist biographies born in 1933 and 1934, edited by the author Karlheinz Wendtland, Berlin, Chapter: Films 1934, Film No. 28 with Willi Schaeffer's biography.
  2. ↑ Willi Schaeffers, old master of cabaret, has died. His career began in Hamburg . In: Hamburger Abendblatt . Saturday / Sunday, 11./12. August 1962. p. 9. Retrieved November 15, 2019.
  3. ^ Hans-Jürgen Mende : Lexicon of Berlin tombs . Haude & Spener, Berlin 2006, ISBN 978-3-7759-0476-6 . P. 199.
  4. ↑ Template - for information - about the recognition and further preservation of graves of well-known and worthy personalities as honor graves of Berlin (PDF, 158 kB). Berlin House of Representatives, printed matter 14/1607 of November 1, 2001, p. 6. Accessed November 15, 2019.
  5. ↑ District Office Charlottenburg-Wilmersdorf of Berlin: Prominent graves in the state-owned cemetery Heerstrasse . Notice in the cemetery. As of November 2012. Read on December 3, 2019.
personal data
SURNAME Schaeffers, Willi
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Schaeffers, Wilhelm; Schaeffers, Willy; Schäffers, Willi; Schäfers, Willi
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German cabaret artist and actor
DATE OF BIRTH September 2, 1884
PLACE OF BIRTH Landsberg an der Warthe (today Gorzów Wielkopolski , Poland)
DATE OF DEATH August 10, 1962
Place of death Munich