Adi Lödel

Adi Lödel (born December 14, 1937 in Hamburg ; † June 1955 there ; born as Adolf Heinrich Hoff ) was a German actor , radio play and voice actor .

Live and act

Adolf Heinrich Hoff, son of the vehicle mechanic August Hoff and his wife Elfrieda geb. Isebarn, lost his father in an accident in 1939. His now widowed mother later married the carpenter Willi Lödel, whose last name he took over.

From 1947 Adi Lödel worked on the children's radio of the NWDR Hamburg and received a job in a radio play series. At the same time he dubbed American western films. He was selected from 120 applicants as an actor for the film Alluring Danger .

His carefree, natural portrayal of a growing boy earned him an even more important role: in the American production Decision Before Dawn he played a Hitler Youth who vacillates between his supposed duties and sympathy for a deserter. After further films he played in Children, Mothers and a General again a fanatical German boy during the time of the Second World War.

Adi Lödel took acting lessons from Joseph Offenbach and made his debut under his direction in 1951 at the Deutsches Schauspielhaus in the play Hans im Totoglück . He also worked as an errand boy for the NWDR. Adi Lödel, who made a significant contribution to the upkeep of his unemployed parents and siblings, was found completely unexpectedly hanged on the roof of his parents' living quarters in 1955.

Filmography

1950: Alluring danger
1951: Decision Before Dawn ( Decision Before Dawn )
1951: Help, I am invisible
1951: The veiled Maja
1952: I lost my heart in Heidelberg
1953: War of love according to notes
1954: Father needs a wife (TV)
1955: children, mothers and a general

Radio plays

1949: Beware of counterfeit money - Director: Gustav Burmester
1950: A day like tomorrow - Director: Fritz Schröder-Jahn
1950: Five thousand dollar reward - Director: Fritz Schröder-Jahn
1950: Engel Kirk - Director: Hans Freundt
1951: The Secret of the Yosemite Indians - Director: Kurt Reiss
1951: Stroll through July - Director: SO Wagner
1951: The Big Brothers - Director: Hans Freundt
1951: The Old Robot - Director: Kurt Reiss
1952: The lights are still on behind seven windows - Director: Fritz Schröder-Jahn
1952: Stroll through March - Director: Hans Rosenhauer
1952: Pole Poppenspäler - Author: Theodor Storm ; Director: Werner Perrey
1952: Carousel for sale - Author: Herbert Reinecker and Christian Bock ; Director: Helmut Käutner
1952: Stranitzky and the national hero - Author: Friedrich Dürrenmatt ; Director: Fritz Schröder-Jahn
1952: Leewen Beseuk - Director: Hans Freundt
1952: A pass for Madeleine - Director: Gerlach Fiedler
1953: Finkwarder [...] - Author: Rudolf Kinau ; Director: Hans Freundt
1953: Rungholt - Director: Günter Jansen
1953: Human Comedy (8 parts) - Author: William Saroyan ; Director: Hans Rosenhauer
1953: Encounter in the Forest - Director: Gert Westphal
1953: De Faart na't witte Aland - Director: Hans Tügel
1953: The book with the three golden locks - Director: Günter Siebert
1953: The Flute Angel - Author: Luise Rinser ; Director: Gustav Burmester
1954: Hein Mahrt - Author: Werner Perrey; Director: Hans Tügel
1954: Harten ünner'n Hamer - Director: Hans Tügel
1954: Dutch-Low German hour: Two short radio plays - Director: Hans Tügel
1954: Oold Isen - Director: Hans Tügel
1954: Mostly as ehr Mudder - Author: Rudolf Kinau; Director: Hans Tügel
1954: Das Haus am See - Director: Oswald Döpke
1954: I'm looking for my name - Author: Siegfried Lenz ; Director: Günter Siebert
1954: Wokeen knows me? - Director: Günter Jansen
1955: Control is everything! - Director: SO Wagner
1955: The Madame Bovary from Montparnasse - Director: Gerda von Uslar
1961 ?: De achter uns steiht - Director: Hans Tügel

literature

Anon .: He wrote the last role himself. FILM-REVUE visited the parents and friends of the young actor Adi Lödel, who sought suicide, in: Film-Revue No. 17. Volume 9/1955 of August 9, 1955, p. 26 -27.

Web links

Adi Lödel at filmportal.de
Adi Lödel in the Internet Movie Database (English) (with different dates of birth and death)

Remarks

↑ The sources contradict each other with regard to the exact date of his death; June 2nd and June 21st are mentioned, and occasionally the night of June 23rd to 24th.

personal data
SURNAME	Lödel, Adi
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Hoff, Adolf Heinrich (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German actor
DATE OF BIRTH	December 14, 1937
PLACE OF BIRTH	Hamburg
DATE OF DEATH	June 1955
Place of death	Hamburg

[1] The sources contradict each other with regard to the exact date of his death; June 2nd and June 21st are mentioned, and occasionally the night of June 23rd to 24th.