Arthur Kraußneck

Arthur Kraußneck ( born April 9, 1856 in Balle Then / East Prussia, † April 21, 1941 in Berlin) was a German actor.

Career

He began his stage career in 1874 in Mecklenburg, and then played at theaters in Oldenburg, Stettin, Königsberg, Meiningen and Karlsruhe. In 1884 he came to the German Theatre in Berlin. Here he became known in the title role of William Tell, and as Franz Moor in The Robbers. In 1889 he moved to the Berlin theater, from 1894, he served again at the Deutsches Theater. From 1897 until the end of his career in 1932 he was part of the ensemble of the royal theater, which was founded in 1919 renamed the " State Theatre ".

Kraußneck played here many important roles, including the title characters in Wallenstein, Julius Caesar, and Nathan the Wise. In later years he was often on the side of Fritz Kortner on stage, he embodied ATTINGHAUSEN in William Tell (1919), Lodovico in Othello (1921 ), Andrea Doria in The Conspiracy Fiesco ( 1921), Duncan in Macbeth ( 1922), Blücher in Napoleon or The Hundred days ( 1922), Gottschalk Cathy of Heilbronn (1923 ), Rüdiger in Hebbel's Die Nibelungen, Gordon in Wallenstein (1924 and 1931 ), Kottwitz in Prince Frederick of Homburg ( 1925), Tiresias in Oedipus the King (1929 ), Emperor in Götz von Berlichingen (1930 ) and God the Father in Faust I ( 1932).

He worked a few times in the 20s in films. In the popular drama adaptation My Leopold, he was seen in 1924 in a leading role as an old cobbler Weigelt. In Arthur von Gerlach's Ufa - scale production to chronicle Grieshuus ( 1923-25 ​​) by Theodor Storm, he played the patriarch in Frederick Zelniks film adaptation of the play The Weavers (1927 ) by Gerhart Hauptmann pacifist old man 's help. In the second part of Friedrich Feher and Leopold Jessner's Mary Stuart movie (1927 ) he appears as lord of the castle Norfolk.

In April 1930 he appeared on the stage and retired into private life. His last role was the Great Elector in the Prince of Homburg.

Filmography

Sound recordings

• Arthur Kraußneck speaks on the shellac records - brand GNOM between the order numbers 87 and 97 about 12 poems by W. Hey ( 1789-1854 ), such as "Bird at the Window", " child ", " Swan and child." Some of them are located in DMA Berlin.