Günther Lüders
Günther Karl Georg Lueders ( born March 5, 1905 in Lübeck, † March 1, 1975 in Dusseldorf ) was a German actor and director.
Life
The son of the shipowner and businessman Carl Lüders and his wife Anna Dorothea, born Bruggen, began after the visit to the secondary school until the primary maturity from 1921 to 1923 a commercial apprenticeship.
After acting lessons with Karl Heidmann he was in 1923 a member of the touring company of the Cities and Towns Theatre. In the 1920s he played in Lübeck, Dessau and Frankfurt am Main. Since 1934 he was engaged at the Berlin stage. From 1947 to 1954 he played under the direction of Gustaf at the Schauspielhaus Dusseldorf.
Lüders also received frequent small movie roles in which he often showed his comic side. The two most famous films with Günther Lüders likely to Three men in the snow on the book by Erich Kästner, which Lüders plays the servant, John Kessel Huth, and the sinful village, 1954 ( Role: Christian Süßbier ) be. Lueders has also worked as a film director. So he led, inter alia, If we were in (1956 ) as well as in your 's 106th Birthday (1958 ) directed all the angels.
Lueders is also known as an interpreter of the poems of Joachim Ringelnatz, Christian Morgenstern and Wilhelm Busch, which he used to carry forward a very differentiated on successful recitation evenings. Selections from these he managed to talk plates. But even more serious literature, such as Thomas Mann's Buddenbrooks, Tonio Kröger, or Goethe's Reineke Fuchs tried to convey talking on lecture evenings and records Günter Lüders.
In addition, Lüders was primarily one of the most sought-after theater mimes his time. The theater offered him because even more than the film's ability to show the serious aspects of his acting personality, as Polonius, as Elwood P. Dowd, as Captain of Köpenick or his last role as Blue Angel in Peter Zadek's stage version of the novel.
1960 to 1963 he was acting director of the Württemberg State Theatre in Stuttgart, where he was hired in 1962 as director and actor. In addition, he frequently made guest appearances at other theaters, including in 1964 at the Viennese popular theater in King of Frank Wedekind Nicolo.
Furthermore Lüders also worked for radio, for example, He said in the 1960s texts for Hans Rosenthal's satirical monthly magazine The flashback, which was broadcast in the RIAS.
Because of its critical attitude towards the Nazis, he was imprisoned in 1935 for three weeks in Esterwegen. In recognition of his achievements as a reciter him 1974, the German cabaret prize was awarded.
His tomb is located on the Burgtorfriedhof in Lübeck.