You are bidding on one typed, signed letter of the actor and director Willy A Kleinau (1907-1957).

DatedBabylonsberg, 4. April 1954.

directedto the actor Gustav Adolf Keune; Filmography: Shadows Over the Isles (1952); The Doomed Village (1952); Novel of a Young Marriage (1952); The Invincibles (1953).

Willy A. Kleinau also took part in the films "A Roman of a Young Marriage" and "Shadows over the Islands".

Concerns Keunes "current emergency". Kleinau sends him a rental allowance of 200 DM and offers to talk to him.

Signed"Your Willy Kleinau."

Format:A4.

Condition:folded; Paper browned and slightly creased, with corner creases. Please also note the pictures!

Internal note: 2a/7

About Willy A. Kleinau (source: wikipedia):

Willy Adolf Kleinau (* 12. November 1907 in Mulhouse; † 18 October 1957 near Merseburg) was a German actor and director.

Life: Kleinau was trained by Louise Dumont in Düsseldorf until 1932. From 1932 he was mainly active in Meiningen, Konstanz, Potsdam and Wuppertal. After the Second World War he played in Bremen, Göttingen and Hamburg and from 1949 also in Berlin.

He played many great classical stage roles at the Deutsches Theater Berlin and at the Volksbühne. He embodied the mayor in The Revisor, the old Clausen in Before Sunset and the title character in Wolfgang Langhoff's Faust production 1949/50. He appeared in Shaw's Wife Warren's Trade (1950), Gorky's Yegor Bulychev (1952) and Lillian Hellman's The Little Foxes (1957). He starred as the title character in Othello (1953) and Götz von Berlichingen (1955).

His film career began in 1949 and focused on DEFA productions. Just under a month before turning 50. Kleinau died in 1957 as a result of a car accident near Merseburg. His grave is in the Dorotheenstadt Cemetery in Berlin.

His written legacy is in the archive of the Academy of Arts in Berlin.[1]

filmography

1949: Harbor Melody

1949: Secondhand Fate

1949: The Blue Swords

1950: The Council of the Gods

1951: The Wandsbek ax

1952: Novel of a Young Marriage

1952: Career in Paris

1952: Shadows over the Isles

1953: The Invincibles

1954: No Husung

1954: Dangerous Cargo

1954: Carola Lamberti - One from the circus

1955: The Devil from Mühlenberg

1955: A Hen Party

1955: The Miss de Scuderi

1955: Love, dance and 1000 hits

1956: The bath on the threshing floor

1956: The farmer from the Brucknerhof

1956: Forest winter

1956: Tsar and zimmermann

1956: The Captain of Köpenick

1956: What the schwalbe Sang

1957: Summer ripening

1957: The most beautiful

1957: Spring in Berlin

1957: Casino affair

1957: Like a Storm Wind

theatre

1949: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: Faust. A Tragedy (Faust) – Director: Wolfgang Langhoff (Deutsches Theater Berlin)

1949: Friedrich Wolf: Tai Yang awakens (factory director) – Director: Wolfgang Langhoff (Deutsches Theater Berlin)

1950: Nikolai Gogol: The Revisor (City Governor) – Director: Wolfgang Langhoff (Deutsches Theater Berlin)

1951: William Shakespeare: What you want ( Tobias ) – Director: Wolfgang Heinz (Deutsches Theater Berlin – Kammerspiele)

1952: Maxim Gorky: Yegor Bulytschow and the Others (Egor Bulytschow) – Director: Hans Jungbauer (Deutsches Theater Berlin)

1952: Friedrich Schiller: Don Carlos (Grand Inquisitor) – Director: Wolfgang Langhoff (Deutsches Theater Berlin)

1953: Gotthold Ephraim Lessing: Minna von Barnhelm (Paul Werner) – Director: Hans Jungbauer (Deutsches Theater Berlin – Kammerspiele)

1955: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: Götz von Berlichingen (Götz) – Director: Fritz Wisten (Volksbühne Berlin)

1955: Gerhart Hauptmann: Before Sunset (Privy Councilor Clausen) – Director: Wolfgang Heinz (Deutsches Theater Berlin)

1956: Hermann Bahr: The Concert (Heink) – Director: Robert Meyn (Deutsches Theater Berlin – Kammerspiele)

1956: Lillian Hellman: The Little Foxes (Horace Giddens) – Director: Wolfgang Heinz (Deutsches Theater Berlin – Kammerspiele)

1957: William Shakespeare: King Lear (King Lear) – Director: Wolfgang Langhoff (Deutsches Theater Berlin)

radio plays

1950: Garson Kanin: The Yellowed Manifesto (Born Yesterday, edited by Maximilian Scheer) (Role: Businessman) – Director: Gottfried Herrmann (Berliner Rundfunk)

1950: Maximilian Scheer: Paris, 28. April – Director: Werner Stewe (Berliner Rundfunk)

1950: Karl Georg Egel: The main book of the Solvays – Director: Gottfried Herrmann (Berliner Rundfunk)

1951: Valentina Lyubimova: Snowball (Снежок) – Director: Werner Stewe (Berliner Rundfunk)

1951: Maximilian Scheer: "Death Deal" or "Courage to Freedom" - Director: Werner Stewe (Berliner Rundfunk)

1951: Karl Georg Egel: The Song of Helgoland – Director: Gottfried Herrmann (Berliner Rundfunk)

1951: Friedrich Karl Kaul: Funkhaus Masurenalle – director: Gottfried Herrmann (Berliner Rundfunk)

1951: Maximilian Scheer: The Sorcerer – Director: Werner Stewe (Berliner Rundfunk)

1951: Heinrich von Kleist: The Broken Jug (Dorfrichter Adam) – Director: Werner Wieland (HOrspiel – Berliner Rundfunk)

1952: Adam Tarn: Ortega – Director: Günther Rücker (Berliner Rundfunk)

1952: Nikolai Gogol: The Marriage – Director: Gottfried Herrmann (Berliner Rundfunk)

1953: Pedro Calderón de la Barca: The Good Judge (Judge) – Director: Peter Brang (Berliner Rundfunk)

1955: Anna Seghers: The Seventh Cross (Paul) – directed by Hedda Zinner (GDR radio)

2002: Marianne Weil/Stefan Dutt: Legionnaires, Guerrillas, Saboteurs – directed by: Marianne Weil/Stefan Dutt (A total socialist radio play – DLR)

awards

National Prize of the GDR in 1951 and 1953