Wolfgang Keppler

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Wolfgang Keppler (born December 26, 1903 in Stuttgart , † after 1952) was an actor in German talkies.

Life

Keppler's creative period fell into the years of the Third Reich . He played theater at the Münchner Kammerspiele under Otto Falckenberg . Films with him can be traced between 1934 and 1952. After the war, he only appeared in films twice.

His most prominent role was probably that of Rittmeister Alexander Repin, which he played alongside Pola Negri in Moscow - Shanghai in 1936 . The title hit from it was also a success on the gramophone record.

In Italy he worked in 1940 in the feature film Amiamoci così , which Giorgio Simonelli made in the studios of the Cinecittà in Rome for the Juventus film. The film was also released under the alternative title La nuova vita .

He also got a small role as a physical education teacher in the Luftwaffe propaganda strip Junge Adler (1943/44).

Filmography

literature

  • Berta Drews : Where on the way. Memories. Verlag Langen Müller, Munich and Vienna 1986, ISBN 3-7844-2098-2
  • Rolf Giesen, Manfred Hobsch: Hitler Youth Quex, Jud Süss and Kolberg. The propaganda films of the Third Reich. Documents and materials on Nazi films. Schwarzkopf & Schwarzkopf Verlag, Berlin 2005, ISBN 3-89602-471-X
  • Jacus: "My heart is homesick". In: Illustrierter Film-Kurier . Vienna 1936, Volume 6, No. 1549, p. 3
  • Torsten Körner: A good friend. Heinz Rühmann. Biography. Aufbau-Verlag, Berlin 2001, ISBN 3-351-02525-4 , pp. 127, 150, 193
  • Manfred Overesch, Friedrich Wilhelm Saal (Ed.): The Third Reich. Volume 1: 1933-1939 (= Chronicle of German Contemporary History: Politics, Economy, Culture, Volume 2). Verlag Droste, Düsseldorf 1982, ISBN 3-7700-0615-1 , pp. 110, 308, 594
  • Holger Schettler: Workers and employees in the film. The representation of the social situation of workers and employees in the German feature film 1918-1939 (= TRI-ERGON-Schriften zum Film, Volume 1). Publishing house for regional history, Bielefeld 1992, ISBN 3-927085-70-7 , p. 306
  • Heide Schönemann: Paul Wegener. Early Modernism in Film Publisher: Edition Axel Menges, Stuttgart and London 2003, ISBN 3-932565-14-2 , p. 135
  • Karlheinz Wendtland: Beloved Kintopp. All German feature films from 1929–1945 with numerous artist biographies. Born in 1933 and 1934. Medium Film Verlag, Berlin [1987]

Web links

Illustrations

  • Two pictures of Keppler in uniform at Virtual History
  • Cinema poster for Terra zu Moscow - Shanghai with mention of Keppler
  • UFA film program on Young Eagles with cast list, with Wolfgang Keppler on it.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ cf. Memoirs of Berta Drews pp. 322, 328–329
  2. ↑ My heart is homesick for your love, song and tango from the Badal film of Terra "Moscow-Shanghai", music by Hans Otto Borgmann, words by Hans Fritz Beckmann. Up. z. B. on ODEON O-4742 a (Be 11 432-2) / back: ODEON O-4742 b (Be 11 433) I just want to waste my whole heart once. Song from dto. dto .: Pola Negri, vocals, with the Odeon artist orchestra under the direction of Hans Otto Borgmann, Berlin, October 1936
  3. ↑ cf. imdb.com , it.wiki (Italian, without naming Keppler). The title hit sung by Dea Garbaccio accompanied by the Orchestra della Radio on Cetra IT 786 on youtube
  4. ↑ Front pages of the programs Illustrierter Film-Kurier Berlin No. 2538 and Illustrierter Film-Kurier Vienna No. 1540, illustrated by virtual-history
  5. ^ Front page of Today's Program. 8th year, no. 503, shown at virtual-history
  6. ^ Title page of the new film program for Heimatblocken , shown at virtual-history
personal data
SURNAME Keppler, Wolfgang
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German actor
DATE OF BIRTH December 26, 1903
PLACE OF BIRTH Stuttgart
DATE OF DEATH after 1952