Kurt Vespermann
Kurt Vespermann ( born May 1, 1887 in Kulmsee, West Prussia, † July 13, 1957 in Berlin) was a German actor.
Life
Vespermann was born into a family that has traditionally been active in the artist and Theatermetier. His parents worked in a traveling stage, his great- great-grandparents and earned their living as a theater director and opera singer. Even as a nearly 17 -year-old left Vespermann school in Neustrelitz and went to the theater. As a young hero, he acted on a stage in East Prussia and moved about a year later with little success to the Celler summer theater. His first major success on the stage, he owes his brother Bruno, who took him in 1912 to the stage to Riga, where he worked as a director. Vespermann played there in the Nestroy Posse a joke he wants to make. After that he worked in theaters in Nuremberg and Dessau and moved in 1913 to the Royal Theater in Berlin.
Vespermann also appeared as an actor in silent films in appearance. So he had his first film role in 1915 in the Harry Piel - Crime Police in 1111, where he played a rich sportsman. In the four-part educational film series there be light! he was entrusted with a supporting role. From there, he was involved in many silent films, where he played important supporting roles, such as the Lieutenant René Maria von Gerhard Lamprecht Throta in the first film adaptation of Thomas Mann 's novel Buddenbrooks (1923). His last silent film was the 1929 listed social piece of asphalt playing in the Little People " Milljöh ".
After the war he was from 1945 to 1949 member of the ensemble at the Theater in the Imperial Avenue and then some time at the Renaissance Theater in Berlin, where he was popular with colleagues in each of the time together on stage.
The transition to talkies went smoothly for the actor and had no negative impact on his career. His roles were, as has been the silent film era, supporting roles of all stripes. In 1933 he played with Brigitte Helm, Gustaf and Wolfgang Liebeneiner in the film comedy The beautiful days of Aranjuez.
After the war was followed by a series of age roles that once made him known, especially in the 1950s. He played in 1953 on the side of the then very popular actor Dieter Borsche and Ruth Leuwerik in the Thomas Mann adaptation Royal Highness the Minister of Finance or entered into the literary adaptation The seven dresses Katrin on the side of Sonja Ziemann as husband of Käthe Haack on. In Gerhart Hauptmann- film Before Sunset of 1956 he played alongside Hans Albers whose driver. In 1957, he turned in the comedy of errors Viktor and Viktoria, in the Joan of Koczian plays the main role, a theater director dar. his last appearance in front of a movie camera had Vespermann 1957 in Veit Harlan's scandalous film, unlike you and I was the actor ( § 175 ) for the radio worked and lent his voice to American counterparts, such as Will Geer.
For his achievements Vespermann in 1953 was awarded the Federal Cross of Merit 1st class. The actor was married to actress Lia Eibenschütz since 1927. The couple had their son Gerd Vesper man, the family tradition continuing, chose the profession of the actor.
The deceased at the age of 70 years Kurt Vespermann was buried at the Kaiser Wilhelm Memorial Cemetery in Berlin.