Alexander Kerst

Friedrich Alexander Kerst ( born February 23, 1924 in Kralup on the Vltava River, † December 9, 2010 in Munich) was an Austrian actor and voice actor.

Biography

Alexander Kerst completed his studies in acting at the Max Reinhardt Seminar in Vienna, where he was trained by Fred Liewehr among others. After initial engagements at the Vienna Burgtheater and the People's Theater ( Vienna) he came 1954 on Kassel and Wuppertal to Munich Studio Theater and was there from 1957 to 1960 member of the ensemble.

This was followed by many others many other engagements in all the major theaters of Germany under directors such as August Ever thing, Hans Schweikart, Karl -Heinz Stroux, Peter Beauvais, Hans Lietzau, Fritz Umgelter. , In roles such as Hector in William Shakespeare's Troilus and Cressida, Templar in Gotthold Ephraim Lessing's Nathan the Wise, or the title roles in Goethe's Urfaust and Götz von Berlichingen.

In Vienna, he founded the Little Theatre in the Konzerthaus with Helmut Qualtinger and Michael Kehl man.

Since 1952, he starred in countless films, including Dawn, The Star of Africa, dogs you want to live forever and my school friend with Heinz Rühmann, and worked with film directors such as Robert Siodmak, John Frankenheimer and Frank Wisbar. At the same time, he appeared in numerous television dramas and series under directors such as Falk Harnack, Rolf von Sydow, Michael Braun, Helmuth Ashley or Jürgen Roland. He was also the radio and in the dubbing studios often in use.

At Munich theaters could be him in recent years very successfully in The heiress of Henry James with heath Weis, GBShaws lover liar with Joan of Koczian, Olympia with Christiane Hörbiger, or gin rummy see with Mary Becker.

In addition to his theater and television work, Alexander Kerst devoted increasingly different recitation programs and readings, eg evenings with texts by Erich Kästner, Ludwig Thoma, Ovid, Eduard Moerike and Friedrich Schiller, which he, inter alia, for Bayerischer Rundfunk, ORF and the Carl Hanser Verlag has designed.

Recent television productions in 2004 were the matriarch among others, Iris Berben, Christoph Waltz, Sophie Rois, Ulrich Noethen, and 2006 Silver Wedding, directed by Matti Geschonneck with Iris Berben, Gisela Schneeberger, Ulrich Noethen, Axel Milberg and Corinna Harfouch.

Alexander Kerst was considered one of the most famous German film, television and theater actor.

In addition, he lent his voice actor as a distinctive voice, inter alia, Martin Landau ( Ed Wood ), Robert Mitchum ( Go to hell, darling! ), Yves Montand (Police Python 357) and Fernando Rey ( Quintet ).

Alexander Kerst died after a long illness on December 9, 2010 in Munich at the age of 86 years. His ashes were interred at the ballot box on the wall Bogenhausener cemetery.

Alexander Kerst was the cousin of the Austrian baritone Paul Wolfrum ( 1943-1990 ).

Filmography