Adrian Hoven

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Adrian Hoven (actually Wilhelm Arpad Peter Hofkirchner ; born May 18, 1922 in Wöllersdorf , Lower Austria ; † April 8, 1981 in Tegernsee ) was an Austrian actor , director and film producer . He also worked under the pseudonyms Percy Parker and Percy G. Parker .

Life

Adrian Hoven's tomb in the Ottakringer Friedhof

The son of the administrative officer Rudolf Hofkirchner and his wife Gisela, née Fahrnberger, spent his youth mainly in Tyrol, where his grandparents ran a hotel. After graduating from high school , Hoven first began studying mechanical engineering and worked as a works pilot at Messerschmitt . As a paratrooper , he was seriously wounded during the war in North Africa . In 1943 he had an extra job in the racist entertainment film Quax on a trip with Heinz Rühmann .

After the war, he decided to become an actor. He worked as a performer at several Berlin theaters, including the Renaissance Theater and the Theater am Schiffbauerdamm . Eventually he was discovered for the film by the director Helmut Weiss . With the production Tromba set in the circus world, he began a rapid career as a typical youthful hero and lover in the cinema of the 1950s. Hoven also played in Heimat (next to Uschi Glas in Waldrausch ), war ( Canaris ) and crime films ( Inside Out next to Telly Savalas and James Mason , Tatort ) as well as in the New German Film under Rainer Werner Fassbinder ( Welt am Draht , Angst vor der Fear , the right of freedom of the fist , Despair - A journey into the light , Berlin Alexanderplatz and Lili Marleen ).

In 1965, Hoven founded the production company Aquila Film Enterprises (Munich and Berlin) together with Pier A. Caminneci and made his first own film as a director, author and producer: In the psychological crime thriller The Murderer with the Silk Scarf , a little girl ( Susanne Uhlen in her film debut) in front of his mother's murderer, who wants to get rid of it as a witness to his crime. After the film was not a great financial success, Hoven shifted to the horror and erotic subject, where he was able to achieve great business successes (even abroad). In 1966 he produced Jess Franco's sadomasochistic erotic fantasy Necronomicon - Dreamed Sins , which Fritz Lang elicited words of praise.

Hoven was divorced three times and most recently had a relationship with the art dealer Sabine Helms. One of his three sons, Percy Hoven , also worked as an actor and as a presenter (including the first German Big Brother season). Today he devotes himself to painting.

Adrian Hoven died after a heart attack . He was buried in the family grave at Ottakringer Friedhof (group 20, row 30, number 8) in Vienna.

Filmography (selection)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ As the real name Wilhelm Arpad Hofkirchner in the grave database (search for the deceased) of the Vienna cemeteries; as Wilhelm Arpad Peter Hofkirchner in the entries in the IMDB, in filmportal.de and in the Virtual History. Deviating: according to tombstone as Peter W. Hofkirchner.
  2. ↑ See entry in filmportal.de.
personal data
SURNAME Hoven, Adrian
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Hofkirchner, Wilhelm Arpad Peter (real name); Hofkirchner, Peter W. (name on tombstone); Parker, Percy (pseudonym); Parker, Percy G. (pseudonym)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian actor, director and film producer
DATE OF BIRTH May 18, 1922
PLACE OF BIRTH Wöllersdorf , Lower Austria
DATE OF DEATH April 8, 1981
Place of death Tegernsee