Claus Holm

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Claus Holm , actually Helmut Gerhard Ozygus , (born August 4, 1918 in Bochum , † September 21, 1996 in Berlin ) was a German actor .

Life

Claus Holm was a miner for three years and became boxing champion in 1937 . He came to acting in Berlin in the mid-1940s. After the end of the war he helped set up the Altmark Theater in Salzwedel and was soon in front of the camera for DEFA . The 1947 film drama Marriage in the Shadow of Kurt Maetzig was one of his most important films. He also played at the Theater am Schiffbauerdamm .

1953 fled Holm from the East to the West, where he soon was doing theater again, and belonged since the directorship of Boleslaw Barlog the ensemble of the State Drama Theaters Berlin on. During this time he was also a sought-after film actor. So he played in a few homeland films in the 1950s . In 1957, Holm played the commissioner Axel Kersten in the Oscar- nominated film Night When the Devil Came and was in front of the camera in 1959 for Fritz Lang's remakes of The Tiger of Eschnapur and The Indian Tomb . He also appeared in three Edgar Wallace films.

From the mid-1960s, Holm mainly played theater. On television, he was in 1966 in the German science fiction - television series Space Patrol to be seen as a flight engineer Hasso Sigbjörnson. In the period after that he only appeared in a few films, including 1980 in Rainer Werner Fassbinder's television adaptation, Berlin Alexanderplatz .

Grave of the Holm couple in the Heerstrasse cemetery in Berlin-Westend

Claus Holm recently lived very withdrawn. He died on September 21, 1996 at the age of 78 in Berlin. He was buried next to his wife, the singer Dagmar Holm geb. Stech (1918–1988), in the state-owned cemetery Heerstraße in today's Berlin-Westend district (burial site: 20-B-1a).

Filmography

theatre

synchronization

As a voice actor he lent his voice to Joseph Cotten ( El Perdido ), Gordon Jackson ( The best years of Miss Jean Brodie ) and Michael Ripper ( The Deadly Bees ), among others .

Radio plays

Web links

Commons : Claus Holm  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Versatile type . In: Hamburger Abendblatt . Monday, September 30, 1996. p. 7. Retrieved November 12, 2019.
  2. ^ Hans-Jürgen Mende : Lexicon of Berlin burial places . Pharus-Plan, Berlin 2018, ISBN 978-3-86514-206-1 . P. 488.
personal data
SURNAME Holm, Claus
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Ozygus, Helmut Gerhard (real name); Ozygus, Helmut
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German actor
DATE OF BIRTH August 4, 1918
PLACE OF BIRTH Bochum
DATE OF DEATH September 21, 1996
Place of death Berlin