- He went to Munich at the beginning of the 30s, afterwards he moved to Berlin where he continued his stage career successfully.
- He made his stage debut in Leipzig in 1904, it followed engagements in Gera, Münster, again in Lepizig and Frankfurt am Main.
- Walther Brügmann was only rarely active in the film business.
- He became not only established as a stage actor but he also realised plays as a director from 1912.
- From 1922 to 1924 he was director of the municipal theater in Frankfurt. At the same time he was involved in silent films, including alongside Asta Nielsen.
- In 1933, Brügmann moved to the Bavarian State Theater in Munich as director and a year later to the Theater des Volkes in Berlin, where he performed Lippl's Bavarian folk play Die Pfingstorgel with such great success that he was immediately appointed artistic director and chief director. Other productions, such as Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream, Lincke's Frau Luna and Ibsen's Peer Gynt, as well as the 'Kraft durch Freude' revue Rejoice in Life ( Freut euch des Lebens) followed before Brügmann was dismissed in 1936 on the basis of a denunciation and temporarily imprisoned in February 1937. In 1938 he was finally excluded from the Reich Theater Chamber.
- During the years of the National Socialism his career ended in Germany.
- The actor and director Walther Brügmann made an education as a bookseller, beside it he was already interest in acting and he took acting lessons.
- As a result of a denunciation he was suspended from the Reichstheaterkammer. He first worked in Austria and Italy before he emigrated to Switzerland. There he was active again as a director at the Stadttheater Bern, later he became a director of the opera.
- In 1924 he was engaged as opera director at the Leipzig theaters. Here he realized his ideas of modern opera direction and, together with the general music director Gustav Brecher, also opened the venue for modern opera repertoire. Several world premieres took place under his direction at the New Theater in Leipzig, for example Krenek's Jonny Plays on ( Jonny spielt auf) or Brecht and Weill's Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny (Aufstieg und Fall der Stadt Mahagonny).
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