Gustav Waldau
Gustav Waldau, also Gustl Waldau, actually Gustav Theodor Robert Clemens Freiherr von Rummel ( born February 27, 1871 Castle Piflas, Ergolding, † May 25, 1958 in Munich) was a German theater and film actor.
Life and work
The native Gustav Freiherr von Rummel quit his officer service in a Munich regiment of the Guards, was first a journalist and then trained to become an actor. He made his debut in 1897 at the Cologne theater.
Waldau took nearly 50 years on various platforms, especially in Munich, but also in Berlin and Vienna. Together with his wife Hertha von Hagen he was one of several decades of the ensemble of the Bavarian State Theatre.
In the film Waldau was used particularly in the thirties and forties. He embodied in supporting roles posh - restrained elderly men. During the period of National Socialism, he received the title state actor and 1941, the Goethe Medal for Art and Science awarded him. In the final stages of World War II, Adolf Hitler took him in August 1944 in the Gottbegnadeten list of major artists, which kept him on the home front before use. Waldau was later awarded the Max -Reinhardt - ring.
Gustav Waldau was buried at the cemetery in Munich Bogenhausener ( grave wall on the right No. 11).