Arno Assmann

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Arno Assmann (born July 30, 1908 in Breslau ; † November 30, 1979 in Breitbrunn ) was a German actor , director , theater director and voice actor .

biography

Arno Assmann, the son of an authorized signatory , first attended secondary school in his hometown of Breslau . After graduating, he began studying music. Since he played the violin and viola , he financed his studies as a member of a coffee house band. Three years later he went to Frankfurt am Main . There Assmann applied to the theater as an actor, although he had no qualifications and an earlier application in Breslau had failed. But he was lucky and got an engagement . After a while he left Frankfurt for Görlitz . After that, his profession initially took him to Schleswig-Holstein , where he appeared on the stages in Kiel and Lübeck . In the 1930s he finally came to the Düsseldorfer Schauspielhaus via Wiesbaden , where he became a member of the ensemble. As a young character actor, he celebrated great success there in a wide variety of roles.

After the end of the Second World War he moved to Hamburg , where Assmann was engaged on various stages. Here he came into contact with the radio . He was heard in a number of radio plays and operetta programs, such as the title hero in the crime thriller series Gestatten in 1963 , my name is Cox - Die kleine Hexe by Rolf and Alexandra Becker with Peter Pasetti and Hans Cossy, among others . Helmut Käutner engaged him for the first time in 1948 for a feature film. In Der Apfel ist ab , he played the role of Dr. Lutz. This was followed by other film roles such as in 1950 alongside Zarah Leander in her first post-war film Gabriela as the revue director Freddy Lambert. In Max, the pickpocket , he played the role of police inspector Friedrich at the side of the title hero (portrayed by Heinz Rühmann ).

As early as the 1950s he turned to television and soon worked almost exclusively for this medium in addition to his stage work. In 1969 he took the title role in the spy thriller Kim Philby was the third man . In the 1970s, he starred in several film adaptations, as in German hours of Siegfried Lenz alongside Wolfgang Büttner or in Der Stechlin by Theodor Fontane . In the five-part television adaptation of Hans Fallada's novel Bauern, Bonzen und Bomben from 1973, he played the disaffected local editor of a provincial newspaper under the direction of Egon Monk ; In 1978 he appeared in the multi-part TV series Jauche und Levkojen , based on the novel by Christine Brückner, as the Pomeranian landowner Joachim von Quindt, with Edda Seippel , Ulrike Bliefert and Herbert Steinmetz in other leading roles. He also worked occasionally as a director.

Like many of his colleagues, he also worked extensively as a voice actor . He was after the war, the first voice of Stan Laurel in the film on the high seas from the year 1949. He was the German voice of Eddie Constantine as well as by Marcello Mastroianni in Too Bad She's Bad and Divorce Italian and Claude Dauphin in gold helmet .

During this time he was also repeatedly active in the theater. So he went back to Frankfurt from Hamburg. Among his best-known roles of this time were that of Napoleon in Madame-Sans-Gêne and the title role in Büchner's Dantons Tod . In 1955 he moved to the Munich Kammerspiele . There he played in Brecht's The Good Man of Sezuan and in Strindberg's Nach Damascus . In 1959 Assmann became director of the State Theater on Gärtnerplatz in Munich . In 1964 he moved to the Cologne Municipal Theaters as General Director . He carried out this task until 1968. From there he worked as a freelance actor and director. One of his last stage roles was that of Herr von Briest in Effi Briest by Theodor Fontane.

Arno Assmann was married twice, his first marriage to the dancer Heide Heidemann. In 1961, Assmann and the journalist Lore Ostermann , who had previously been married to Rudolf Augstein, married. Ostermann committed suicide in November 1979. A few days later, Assmann took an overdose of sleeping pills. The attempt to save him failed and he died on the way to the clinic. Assmann was buried in the forest cemetery in Munich , new part, in the anatomy grave complex (451-W-15). A street was named after him in the Ramersdorf-Perlach district of Munich .

Filmography

As an actor

As a director

  • 1958: Jim and Jill - TV
  • 1960: I always want to be yours
  • 1967: Getting married is always a risk - TV
  • 1974: The Liar - TV
  • 1978: Martha

Radio plays (selection)

Web links

personal data
SURNAME Assmann, Arno
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German actor, director and artistic director
DATE OF BIRTH July 30, 1908
PLACE OF BIRTH Wroclaw
DATE OF DEATH November 30, 1979
Place of death Breitbrunn