Hans Brausewetter

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1928 on a photograph by Alexander Binder
Grave in Luisenfriedhof II , Berlin-Charlottenburg

Hans Brausewetter (born May 27, 1899 in Málaga , Spain , † April 29, 1945 in Berlin ) was a German film and theater actor .

Life

As the son of the doctor Max Brausewetter , he grew up in Spain and did not come to Germany until 1914 . After finishing school with Notabitur at grammar school in Stralsund he was a cadet at the Western Front . Discharged from the army in 1918 , he briefly studied philology before taking acting classes. In 1920 he made his stage debut at the Deutsches Volkstheater in Vienna , 1922–1928 and 1937–1945 he worked at the Deutsches Theater Berlin .

Brausewetter made his film debut in 1922. The following year he had success in A Glass of Water by Ludwig Berger . He often played a personable guy who, however, was less successful with women. In 1926, Brausewetter slipped into the uniform of a soldier from the First World War for the cinema: He was the only German actor to appear in Léon Poirier's monumental anti-war film “Verdun”.

In 1939 he appeared together with Heinz Rühmann and Josef Sieber in Bachelors' Paradise , from which the song That Can't Shake a Sailor comes from. In 1940, the trio also performed the song in the propaganda film Request Concert . Brausewetter starred in over 100 films.

In the Third Reich he came into conflict with the Nazi regime several times due to his homosexuality ; Brausewetter, for example, was temporarily arrested in Berlin in October 1936 for violating Section 175 . However, through the intervention of the actress Käthe Haack with Reich Propaganda Minister Joseph Goebbels , he was released again. Brausewetter was listed on Goebbels' Gottbegnadeten list as an important actor of the Nazi state.

In 1943 he played the Baron von Hartenfeld in the well-known feature film Münchhausen co-written by Erich Kästner under the pseudonym Berthold Bürger .

Shortly before the end of the Second World War , Brausewetter was seriously injured as a civilian in a bomb attack by a grenade , succumbed to his injuries on April 29, 1945 and was buried in the Luisenfriedhof II in field A1-12-51 / 52 in Berlin-Charlottenburg .

His sister Renate Brausewetter also worked as an actress in the 1920s. Brausewetter was the uncle of the oceanographer Hans Hass .

Filmography

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Ernst Klee : Kulturlexikon zum Third Reich: Who was what before and after 1945 . 1st edition. S Fischer, Frankfurt am Main 2009, ISBN 978-3-596-17153-8 , pp. 68 .
personal data
SURNAME Shower weather, Hans
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German film and theater actor
DATE OF BIRTH May 27, 1899
PLACE OF BIRTH Málaga , Spain
DATE OF DEATH April 29, 1945
Place of death Berlin