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 .
When Women Keep Silent
1937 · Ober im Hotel
movieFridericus
1937 · General
movieMenschen im Feuer
1931
Zeugen gesucht
1930 · Jeweller Sandersen
The man in the dark
1930 · Peril
movieWettlauf ums Glück
1923
movieDie Jagd nach dem Tode - 4. Teil: Die Goldmine von Sar-Khin
1921 · Badhama
Die Jagd nach dem Tode - 3. Teil: Der Mann im Dunkel
1921 · Badhama
movieDas Zeichen des Malayen
1920
movieDie Jagd nach dem Tode - 2. Teil: Die verbotene Stadt
1920 · Badhama
Der Gefangene - Sklaven des XX. Jahrhunderts
1920 · Gustav Raitz
movieDer Pokal der Fürstin
1920 · Joe Jenkins
The Mexican
1919
Opfer der Gesellschaft
1919
movieDer Todestraum
1918 · Der Todesengel
Der Fluchbeladene. Die Memoiren des Satans. 3. Teil
1918
movieDie Memoiren des Satans. 1. Teil - Doktor Mors
1917
movieDer Seele Saiten schwingen nicht
1917
Die Memoiren des Satans. 2. Fanatiker des Lebens
1917