Hanne Mertens

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Hanne Hermine Mertens (born April 13, 1909 in Magdeburg ; † between April 21 and April 23, 1945 in Neuengamme concentration camp , Hamburg ) was a German actress .

Life

Stumbling stone in front of the house at Sierichstrasse 66 in Winterhude .

Hanne Mertens, daughter of a lawyer , had three siblings. She finished her school career in 1928 at a Berlin girls' high school . She then trained as an actress at the state academic drama school in Berlin until October 1930. Then she worked in small roles at the Berlin State Theater . The first permanent engagement led Mertens in August 1932 to the municipal theaters of Düsseldorf . In Düsseldorf she performed under the management of Walter Bruno Iltz alongside her colleagues Leo Askenasy , Ludwig Schmitz and Marieluise Claudius . In the meantime she also took part in the Marburg Festival.

In Berlin , where the artist made her film debut in a tiny role in 1934, Mertens worked at the Theater am Nollendorfplatz and at the Volksbühne , where she was seen in 1936 alongside Heinrich George in Hermann Burtes Warbeck . In 1938 Mertens went to Munich , to the Kammerspiele of the theater run by Otto Falckenberg . Her colleagues there included OE Hasse , Heidemarie Hatheyer , Christian Kayßler , Hedwig Wangel and Carl Wery .

In 1943 she followed a call to the Thalia Theater in Hamburg. Mertens, who had already joined the NSDAP on May 1, 1933 , developed over the years from a follower to a declared opponent of the NS regime.

In January 1945 she mocked the NSDAP and its “Führer” at a party and then sang the song 'Es geht alles vorüber, it's everything over' , using the following original sentence in 'first Hitler , then the party' converted. A Gestapo man who was present then wrote a memorandum, which he passed on to his superior. On February 5, 1945, at the instigation of the head of the Hamburg Gestapo , Oberregierungsrat Hans Wilhelm Blomberg , Mertens was arrested for undermining military strength and taken to the Fuhlsbüttel women's prison . There she was taken into dark detention and mistreated.

In view of the approaching British troops, the actress and 70 other "KoLa-Fu" prisoners were transferred to Neuengamme concentration camp on April 20, 1945. These 71 mostly political prisoners, including 13 women, were noted on a liquidation list and were in the local prison bunker during the following nights (21-22. And 22-23. April 1945) hanged .

In 1981 a street in Hamburg-Niendorf was renamed Hanne-Mertens-Weg in honor of the artist . On October 19, 2007, in the presence of Senator for Culture Karin von Welck and the project's patron, Bishop Maria Jepsen , the 2000th stumbling block in memory of the fate of Mertens was unveiled in front of the Thalia Theater. Another stumbling block in front of her residence on Sierichstrasse reminds of the artist.

Filmography

literature

  • Kay Less : Between the stage and the barracks. Lexicon of persecuted theater, film and music artists from 1933 to 1945 . With a foreword by Paul Spiegel . Metropol, Berlin 2008, ISBN 978-3-938690-10-9 , p. 248.
  • “Kola-Fu” memorial book for the victims from the concentration camp, Gestapo prison and subcamp Fuhlsbüttel, ed. from Neuengamme Concentration Camp Memorial, Hamburg 1987.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ as the exact time of her murder is not known, the information diverges from source to source
  2. ↑ a b c Stolpersteine ​​Hamburg - Hanne Mertens
  3. ↑ Volksbuehne Berlin: Spielzeitchronik 1930 to 1940 ( Memento of the original from December 25, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.volksbuehne-berlin.de
  4. ↑ Kay Less : Between the stage and the barracks. Lexicon of persecuted theater, film and music artists from 1933 to 1945 . With a foreword by Paul Spiegel . Metropol, Berlin 2008, ISBN 978-3-938690-10-9 , p. 248 (source: Reichsfilmkammerakte Mertens, Bundesarchiv Berlin).
  5. ↑ a b Kay Less : Between the stage and the barrack. Lexicon of persecuted theater, film and music artists from 1933 to 1945 . With a foreword by Paul Spiegel . Metropol, Berlin 2008, ISBN 978-3-938690-10-9 , p. 248 (source: Neuengamme Concentration Camp Memorial).
  6. ↑ “Kola-Fu” memorial book for the victims from the concentration camp, Gestapo prison and Fuhlsbüttel satellite camp, ed. from Neuengamme Concentration Camp Memorial, Hamburg 1987
  7. ↑ 2000th stumbling block in Hamburg at www.hagalil.com
  8. ↑ Picture from August 13, 2010
  9. ↑ Image from July 7, 2010

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personal data
SURNAME Mertens, Hanne
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Mertens, Hanne Hermine (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German actress
DATE OF BIRTH April 13, 1909
PLACE OF BIRTH Magdeburg
DATE OF DEATH between April 21, 1945 and April 23, 1945
Place of death Neuengamme concentration camp , Hamburg