1937Nominee
Best Performance
Fridericus
Kurt Brenkendorf
Actor
Danzig, West Prussia, Germany [now Gdansk, Pomorskie, Poland]
June 13, 1882
Biography
The son of the painter Richard Bockenheuser and his wife Selma, née Boeling, initially studied civil engineering before he became interested in acting. He received two years of training at the City Theater in Danzig and in Dresden under the tutelage of the court actor Adolf Winds . Bockenheuser began his stage career under the pseudonym Kurt Brenkendorf in 1903 in Danzig. His subject was initially that of the youthful hero and lover, also during his stage stations in Lübeck , Hanover , Neustrelitz , Ulm and Reval in the Russian Tsarist Empire and St. Petersburg .
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Representative Works
Awards and Honors
Critical Favorites
1923Winner
Best Performance
Wettlauf ums Glück
1917Nominee
Best Performance
Die Memoiren des Satans. 1. Teil - Doktor Mors
Career Highlights
1918Highlight
Best Performance
Der Todestraum
1921Highlight
Best Performance
Die Jagd nach dem Tode - 4. Teil: Die Goldmine von Sar-Khin