Karl Dannemann
Karl Dannemann, occurred as Carl Dannemann, ( born March 22, 1896 in Bremen, † May 4, 1945 in Werder ), was a German painter and film actor.
Biography
Dannemann was the son of the innkeeper Johann Albert Dannemann (1850-1897) from Neubruchhausen and his wife Clara Marie Caroline Dannemann, born Beermann (1860-1918) from Hemel rings. Both had been married since May 11, 1882. As the youngest of seven children ( Albert Heinrich, Johann Hermann Albert, Conrad, Anna Magdalene Elisabeth Friederike Bernhardine and Albert Dietrich ) Karl Dannemann has not met his father. Age of seven, he got his first ink fountain. But probably at the insistence of his mother, he first completed an apprenticeship with a painter and then trained as a stage painter at the Bremer Theater and attended the evening alongside the Bremer School of Applied Arts - a forerunner of the University of the Arts Bremen. During his studies he is drafted as a soldier in 1916 and returns only in the spring of 1918 returned from Russia. On February 14, 1920, he married Erna Margarete Noeren, born on 17 October 1892 in Bremen.
In 1920 he went to Berlin, where he became a master student of Max Slevogt. In the 1920s he produced some of his most striking works in Bremen. He created the frescoes in Baccus Cellar of Bremen Council cellar., The painting Hindenburg banquet at Bremen City Hall, and various stage designs, portraits, seascapes, still life, urban and landscape images
In the 1930s and 1940s Dannemann operated as an actor in film, where he participated in more than 50 productions in entertainment films equally as in Nazi propaganda films. In 1941 he wrote the screenplay for the film Somewhere in far country (after The Bear by Anton Chekhov ). In this film he also directed for the first time. The film was never performed in his time. From the war effort, he was freed as indispensable and stood on the Gottbegnadeten list.
Dannemann retired in 1945 at the age of 49 years committed suicide to evade capture by Soviet troops. His wife Erna Dannemann died childless on March 2, 1975 in Potsdam -Babelsberg in a nursing home on the avenue to Glienicke.
Honors
- A first public presentation took place during the 2008 Karl Dannemann exhibition in the Kunsthalle Bremen.
- The Carl Dannemann street was named after him in 1961.