Kurt von Ruffin
Kurt von Ruffin ( born September 28, 1901 in Munich, † November 14, 1996 in Berlin) was a German singer and actor.
Life
The son of the Bavarian officer Walther von Ruffin and his wife Olga née von Maffei attended from 1911 to 1917, the New School in Wurzburg, then through high school 1920, the Wilhelm Gymnasium in Munich. He then studied singing with Eugene Robert Weiss and Wilhelm Rode. In 1926 he went to the Mozarteum in Salzburg, and later he was trained on the recommendation of Toscanini in Milan at Giuseppe Borghi.
1927 Kurt von Ruffin received an engagement at the Opera House in Magdeburg, then in Mainz and Nuremberg. From 1930 he was obliged at the Metropol Theater in Berlin. He sang and played in the famous operettas such as Die Fledermaus and in revues at the theater of the West.
With the invention of sound films, he has also been used in several operetta films. Because of his homosexuality, he had to serve 1934/35 nine months in a concentration camp Lichtenburg. In 1936, he received film ban. Ruffin played some time at the German Theatre and from 1941 at the Theater am Nollendorfplatz. In 1942 he was exceptionally in the Heinz Riihmann comedy I entrust my wife to participate.
After the war, Kurt von Ruffin had continued to work as an actor and singer in Berlin at the Komische Oper, at the Theater am Kurfürstendamm and the Renaissance Theatre and from 1984 to the State Drama Theatres in Berlin. In the film he was only occasionally occupied. In 1991, Rosa von Praunheim turned on Ruffin and two other witnesses the documentary pride and gay. About his experiences in Lichtenburg concentration camp, he reported as one of three witnesses in the television report We had a big A on his leg, which was broadcast by NDR and other third programs.