Paul Rehkopf
Paul Anton Heinrich Rehkopf ( born May 21, 1872 in Braunschweig, † June 27, 1949 in Berlin) was a German actor.
Life
Paul Rehkopf debuted in 1891 in Rostock. From 1892 to 1898 he played in Basel and Zurich, from 1898 to 1917 in Poznan, Mainz, Breslau and to the royal spectacles in Wiesbaden. In 1917 he went to Berlin to the Meinhard and Bernauer stages (Berliner Theater, Theater in Königgrätzer road and Comedy House on Schiffbauerdamm ). In 1925 he moved to the Saltsburg stages in 1927 to the Theater of the West. In the 1930s, he played at the Rose Theater, the Wallner Theatre, the Theatre of the People ( Great Theatre ) at the Komische Oper in Friedrichstrasse and in collectives " National Theatre New World " and " The vagrants ".
Since 1917 Rehkopf participated in a very large number of silent and sound films with later. He embodied, in often only brief appearances, sharply drawn minor and marginal figures of all kinds He was the pimp in Karl Grune The Mädchenhirt (1919), the gravedigger in Fritz Lang's The tired Death ( 1921), he was Thomas Munzer in the Luther- film ( 1927). Larger tasks in the film offered him the title role in the forgotten but preserved The Tramp (1923 ) by Bruno Lange, his gangster type " the gentle Paul" in the social study dive by EW Emo (1928 ) and the central role of the beggar in the as a main work of the proletarian film classified Across the street from Leo Mittler ( 1929).
Rehkopf was buried in the West Stahnsdorf on Gütergotzer dam.