Walther Suessenguth

Biography

Walther Suessenguth, also Walther Süssenguth or Walter Suessenguth; actually Walther Wilhelm Rudolf Suessenguth (born February 8, 1900 in Schleiz, Thuringia, † April 28, 1964 in Berlin) was a German actor and voice actor. The son of a theater director had received his artistic training at the end of the First World War at the Dresden Conservatory and in 1919 his first engagement at the Reuss Theater in Gera. Other stage stations were Plauen, Lübeck, Königsberg, Erfurt, Halberstadt, Hannover, Oldenburg, Frankfurt / M., Again Gera, again Königsberg and Hamburg. Since 1935 he stayed in Berlin to fulfill a commitment to the theater of youth. This was followed by appearances on metropolitan stages such as the Schiller Theater, the Hebbel Theater and the Volksbühne Berlin, interrupted only by a...