Walter Franck
Walter Franck ( * April 16, 1896 in Hüttensteinach, Duchy of Saxe -Meiningen; † August 10, 1961 in Garmisch -Partenkirchen, Bavaria ) was a German stage and film actor.
Life
In 1916 he made his Abitur at Wilhelmsgymnasium Munich.
He studied on his father's philosophy of desire, but secretly took from 1914 to 1916 with Albert Steinrück acting lessons. At one stage he gave students in Munich in 1916 his debut in a production stone RESET. He received his first engagement in 1916/17 at the court theater in Munich. His next stops were Nuremberg (1917 /18), Frankfurt (1918 /19) and the praise Theatre in Wroclaw ( 1919-1921 ).
Leopold Jessner caught up with him in 1923 at the State Theatre in Berlin. From 1924 to 1927 he was engaged at the Deutsches Theater, where he was a George Garga in Brecht's In the Jungle of Cities and as a Grand in the premiere of Bronnen anarchy in Sillian struck in 1924. Herbert Jhering wrote on April 7, 1924 in Berlin stock exchange Courier: "The performance was under the spell of the phenomenal performance of Walter Franck as grand. "
He then returned to the State Theatre, where he held many leading roles took over until 1944. He was seen in the title role of Captain Florian Geyer ( 1927) and that of Woyzeck (1927 ), billionaire son Emperor gas I (1928, Schiller Theater ), Brackenburg in Egmont (1928 ) Kreon in Oedipus the King (1929 ), Scott Goering the South Pole expedition of Captain Scott ( 1930), Brutus in Julius Caesar (1930 ), Octavio in Wallenstein (1931 ), Karl in the Robbers (1932 ), as Faust in Faust II (1933 ), Friedeborn in Cathy of Heilbronn ( 1937), Edward IV in Richard III. (1938 ), Cassius in Julius Caesar (1941 ) and Archduke Matthias in Grillparzer A dispute in the house of Hapsburg (1942 ).
In 1926 he appeared in his only silent film with The Adventures of a Ten Mark certificate, 1927, he became a teacher for roller studies at the State Drama School in Berlin. Already 38 years old, he turned again to the 1934 film, where he was often like smaller character roles. In the history of film Bismarck he was in 1940 when the French Emperor Napoleon III. to see.
After the war he acted at the Hebbel -Theater and at the Renaissance Theater in Berlin. He has played Jean in Strindberg's Miss Julie ( 1946). Guest performances have taken him to Hamburg, Munich and the Ruhr Festival in Recklinghausen. From 1952 on, he worked at the Schiller Theatre and the Castle Park Theatre. He has played in Philip Bruckner Elizabeth of England (1953), Caesar in Shaw's Caesar and Cleopatra (1955), Philip in Don Carlos (1955) and Krapp in Samuel Beckett 's Last Tape (1959).
1953 Franck was awarded the Federal Cross of Merit ( with cross slot ) and 1956, the Grand Cross of Merit, 1955 the Berlin Art Prize and in 1961 the German Critics' Prize. He was a member of the Berlin Academy of Arts. After his death, which overtook him during a vacation in Garmisch -Partenkirchen, Frederick wrote air in theaters today, Issue 9 of him, " Walter Franck seemed created, all evildoers, all poisoners to play all Schubjaks and devil the great world literature. And he played them pretty much all - and he played it terrific. "