Willy Stettner
Wilhelm "Willy" Stettner , also Willi Stettner (born July 16, 1895 in Darmstadt , Germany , † November 3, 1961 in Hamburg ), was a German actor and singer .
Live and act
Stettner began his theater career right after the First World War . First he appeared as a dance buffo on stages in the German provinces (including Gera and Hamburg ). In the 1925/26 season, the native of Darmstadt was engaged at the Theater des Westens in Berlin, almost at the same time (until 1927) at the Hamburg Operettenhaus . At the end of the Weimar Republic , Stettner returned to the Berlin theaters, his last season in 1932/33 took him to the Komische Oper Berlin .
Willy Stettner appeared in a number of cinema productions in the early sound film years up to 1933 - several operettas and music films in which Stettner was allowed to sporadically show his singing skills - in which he was repeatedly featured as a nobleman (from Fekete in "Schubert's Spring Dream", Count Ferry in "Victoria and her hussar", occupied by Pohl in Quick , Lord James in "Baby"). When the National Socialists came to power , the Jew Stettner had to flee Germany and initially found protection in the Netherlands , where he was on stage in Amsterdam , and in Austria . There he appeared at the Theater an der Wien in 1935/36 . In Vienna he had a liaison with Hortense Raky , which, when this became known, led to the young Austrian falling out of favor with the German film industry in 1937 and being put on the boycott list.
Stettner's attempt to escape to Switzerland together with Raky as a result of the annexation of Austria by Hitler's Germany in March 1938 initially failed for him, but he managed to escape to England. From there he went on a tour of South Africa in August 1939 with his famous singing colleague Richard Tauber , at whose side he had played in the 1930 operetta film "The Land of Smiles". Willy Stettner spent the war years in Switzerland , where he was a member of the Zurich Schauspielhaus ensemble from 1940 to 1942 . During this time he stepped a. a. 1941 as colonel in Leopold Lindtberg's production of Bertolt Brecht's mother Courage and her children . In January 1956, Stettner also took part in the world premiere of Friedrich Dürrenmatt's play The Visit of the Old Lady , directed by Oskar Wälterlin . From 1942 to 1957 Stettner belonged to the Bernhard Theater in Zurich, and from 1948 to the Winterthur Summer Theater .
After the end of the Second World War , Stettner went to Germany as a guest and found work there again in film when he played the small role of a hairdresser in the new version of The Last Man . Here he met his old partner from the "Quick" film from 1932, Hans Albers . Stettner died in Hamburg at the end of 1961.
Filmography
- 1921: The Pacific Express flames
- 1929: The waves of hair and love
- 1930: the land of smiles
- 1931: Schubert's spring dream
- 1931: Victoria and her hussar
- 1931: The night without a break
- 1932: Quick
- 1932: baby
- 1932: A thousand for one night
- 1932: Madame does not want children
- 1933: The daughter of the regiment
- 1935: Ball in the Savoy
- 1950: There is something in the air
- 1955: the last man
literature
- Kay Less : "In life, more is taken from you than given ...". Lexicon of filmmakers who emigrated from Germany and Austria between 1933 and 1945. A general overview. ACABUS Verlag, Hamburg 2011, ISBN 978-3-86282-049-8 , p. 610.
- Willi Stettner . In: Andreas Kotte (Ed.): Theater Lexikon der Schweiz . Volume 3, Chronos, Zurich 2005, ISBN 3-0340-0715-9 , p. 1755.
Web links
- Willy Stettner in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Willy Stettner at filmportal.de
Individual evidence
- ↑ cf. Entry Hortense Raky in 'In life more is taken from you than given ...'., P. 406
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Stettner, Willy |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Stettner, Wilhelm; Stettner, Willi |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German actor and singer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | July 16, 1895 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Darmstadt , Germany |
| DATE OF DEATH | 3rd November 1961 |
| Place of death | Hamburg |