Paul Westermeier
Paul Westerberg Meier ( born July 9, 1892 in Berlin, † October 17, 1972 in Berlin) was a German actor.
Life
The son of an official Engelbert Wester Meier and his wife Louise, née Nagora already tried in his youth as a circus clown and played the student theater club. He left school before graduating and took acting lessons with Moritz Zeisler at the Royal Theatre and at the drama school of Maria Seebach.
17 -year-old he made his debut at the Royal Playhouse, and even in 1909 he had his first engagement as a youthful hero and lover in Stralsund. In the next two game years he worked in Plauen, Magdeburg. In 1911 he moved to Hamburg, in the following year to Bremen, where he appeared as Romeo in Romeo and Juliet.
From 1913 he played in Berlin stages, especially at the Metropol Theatre, the theater at the Admiral Palace and Berlin's Thalia Theater. He became a famous star in operettas and revues during the Roaring Twenties. He acted in operettas such as mask in Blue, The Merry Widow, wedding night in Paradise and as Lothar in A Waltz Dream, as well as Giesecke in The White Horse Inn. Several times he was a business partner Lotte foreman.
He transformed himself gradually to the comedian and worked in the 20s in this type as an important supporting actor in several films. Soon he was hardly more than a typical small actor who has appeared in over 200 films. He usually embodied the somewhat grouchy man next door, often with a local flavor.
After the Second World War, he was able to continue his career problems. He was even more determined in the long run role of the gruff Berliner, for example as a captain and opponent of the same triple- occurring Heinz Erhardt in triplets on board. Sometimes, however, you could see the actors also experience atypical quiet as each as a driver in Sauerbruch - That was my life and in The Devil's General.
Wester Meier continued to play at Berlin's theaters and also worked as a radio speaker. He was married to the former actress Lotte Dobschinsky since 1935. In 1967 he received the Film Award for many years of excellent work in the German film. His grave is located in Berlin on the III. Municipal cemetery Stubenrauchstraße in Abt.10 - 189th