Jürgen Ohlsen

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Jürgen Ohlsen (born March 15, 1917 in Berlin-Schöneberg ; † September 23, 1994 in Düsseldorf ) was a German actor. He was best known for playing the main role of "Heini Völker" in the Hitler Youth Quex .

Life

In 1933 Ohlsen got the role of "Heini Völker" in the propaganda film Hitlerjunge Quex , which Hermann Braun (1917–1945) was originally supposed to take over, but which was canceled due to a sudden and protracted illness. He played, alongside Heinrich George as his father and Berta Drews as his mother, under the direction of Hans Steinhoff, the enthusiastic Hitler Youth, who is ultimately murdered by communists. In the opening credits he is only mentioned anonymously as "a Hitler Youth ". Whether Ohlsen was actually a member of the Hitler Youth is controversial, allegedly he was even a member of the banned South Legion .

The NSDAP sent him as the ideal figure of a Hitler Youth on tour throughout Germany. Also in 1933 he played the role of "Heini Völker" in the six-minute short film All Do With . In 1935 he could be seen as "Heinz Muthesius" in Wunder des Fliegens as a flight enthusiast youth in the German Air Sports Association . This will be his last film; Ohlsen was apparently excluded from the Hitler Youth in 1935 because he was suspected of having played tennis with Jews. This was officially denied, but the young star visibly disappeared from the public in the following years.

The "Youth Leader of the German Reich" Baldur von Schirach were pädo- or lift hydrophilic inclinations and relations with Hitler Youth, especially Jürgen Ohlsen, accused of, but not be substantiate from historical-critical perspective. However, the rumors were so strong that the derived verb quexen was supposed to have been in use in the Hitler Youth since 1933/34 . This word is documented in writing in the book Hitler Youth by Hans Siemsen, which was completed in autumn 1938 and published in London in 1940 in English . It was first published in German in 1947 under the title Die Geschichte des Hitlerjungen Adolf Goers . The fictional story - also for personal protection reasons - is based on the oral stories of the Rhinelander Walter Dickhaut, who escaped from Germany at the beginning of 1936 after brutal interrogation by the Gestapo and became Siemsen's last great love. According to a criticism of the National Socialist film policy in an Austrian newspaper in March 1935, Ohlsen is said to have been sent to a concentration camp “recently” for offenses under the as yet un-tightened gay paragraph 175 . James Ohlsen speculated in an article in 1994 that Jürgen Ohlsen had been discreetly eliminated after the party had discovered his homosexual inclination.

According to the Internet Movie Database , however, Ohlsen died of natural causes in 1994. According to Find a Grave , he is buried at the Unterbach cemetery on field 2, number 51.

Filmography

  • 1933: Hitler Youth Quex : A film about the spirit of sacrifice among German youth
  • 1933: Everyone participates (short film, 6 minutes)
  • 1935: Wunder des Fliegens : The film of a German aviator / Wolkenrausch

Web links

Individual evidence

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  2. ↑ Kurt Schilde: The film for the book to death. In: Berliner Zeitung . January 24, 2007, accessed December 24, 2018 .
  3. ^ Paulus Buscher : The stigma . Verlag Bublies, Koblenz 1988, ISBN 3-926584-01-7 , p. 169 .
  4. ↑ a b Bernd-Ulrich Hergemöller: Man for Man - A biographical lexicon . Suhrkamp Taschenbuch, Hamburg 2001, ISBN 3-518-39766-4 .
  5. ↑ Hans Schmid: The third empire in self-experiment. In: Telepolis. April 4, 2010, accessed December 24, 2018 .
  6. ↑ 'Perfect' Hitlerite falls from Grace . Reading, PA, USA August 22, 1935, pp. 13 (in English, from Google News [accessed December 24, 2018]).
  7. ↑ Gottfried Lorenz : Hans Siemsen - The story of the Hitler Youth Adolf Goers - The case of the Harburg Hitler Youth leader K. Sch. In: Gottfried Lorenz - essays, reviews, lectures. P. 26 , accessed December 24, 2018 .
  8. ↑ Dieter Sudhoff : Afterword . In: Dieter Sudhoff (Ed.): Hans Siemsen - Reading Book (=  Nylands Small Westphalian Library . No. 3 ). Nyland Foundation, Cologne 2003, ISBN 3-936235-02-3 , p. 137 ff . ( (PDF; 1.3 MB) at lwl.org [accessed December 24, 2018]).
  9. ^ Homeopathic doses for German films. In:  Salzburger Chronik , with the illustrated supplement “Oesterreichische Woche”, March 16, 1935, p. 8 (online at ANNO ).Template: ANNO / Maintenance / sch
  10. ↑ James Ohlsen: Information about Jürgen Ohlsen ("Hitlerjunge Quex") requested . In: Forum Homosexuality and Literature . No. 20 . Research focus on homosexuality and literature in the Department of Linguistics and Literature at the University of Siegen, 1994, p. 128 .
  11. ^ Joseph R. Gainey: Jürgen Ohlsen. In: Find a Grave. August 27, 2014, accessed December 24, 2018 .
personal data
SURNAME Ohlsen, Jürgen
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German actor
DATE OF BIRTH March 15, 1917
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin-Schöneberg
DATE OF DEATH September 23, 1994
Place of death Dusseldorf