Ferdinand Hart

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Ferdinand Hart (born October 28, 1893 in Písek , † January 12, 1937 in Prague , Czechoslovakia ) was an actor of Czech origin.

Life

The landowner's son Hart studied after graduating law before the First World War to the Austro-Hungarian Army was drafted. In 1919 he joined the theater and began his stage career in Aussig in northern Bohemia . In the following year he went to the German State Theater in Prague , after another season in 1921 to the Düsseldorfer Schauspielhaus . In the fall of 1922, Hart found himself in Berlin and was committed to the German Theater .

There he was seen under the directorship or direction of Max Reinhardt as Claudius in William Shakespeare's ' Hamlet ', as Petruchio in' The Taming of the Shrew 'and as Mowbray in Berthold Viertel's production of' Richard III. 'as well as by Walter in Friedrich Schiller 's' Kabale und Liebe ', as Odysseus in Heinrich von Kleist 's' Penthesilea . In 1928 Hart was the Mammon in the ' Jedermann ' performance at the Salzburg Festival . Also in 1928 Reinhardt gave him the role of brother Lorenzo in his production of ' Romeo and Juliet '. In addition, Hart also worked at other venues in the capital, such as the Saltenburg theaters , the Volksbühne and the Prussian State Theaters .

Since the end of the silent film era, Ferdinand Hart appeared in front of the camera in numerous supporting roles. Outlawed by the National Socialists as a so-called ' full Jew ', Hart was immediately banned from performing after they came to power in 1933. Ferdinand Hart played his last theater role in February 1933 at the Deutsches Theater with King Thoas in Goethe's ' Iphigenie auf Tauris '. Hart returned to Czechoslovakia in the spring of the same year. There he continued his stage and film work. In Julien Duvivier's remake of the old, Jewish golem legend, he played the clay title character in 1935/36. His film partner was the important French character star Harry Baur . Hart died of a cardiac thrombosis that he contracted in December 1936.

Private

Ferdinand Hart married Edith Krieckler from Frankfurt on September 1, 1928. The marriage was divorced in autumn 1935, and Edith Hart had returned to Germany in the meantime.

Filmography (selection)

literature

  • Kay Less : Between the stage and the barracks. Lexicon of persecuted theater, film and music artists from 1933 to 1945 . With a foreword by Paul Spiegel . Metropol, Berlin 2008, ISBN 978-3-938690-10-9 , p. 161.
  • Kay Less : 'In life, more is taken from you than given ...'. Lexicon of filmmakers who emigrated from Germany and Austria between 1933 and 1945. A general overview. ACABUS-Verlag, Hamburg 2011, ISBN 978-3-86282-049-8 , p. 233 f.

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personal data
SURNAME Hart, Ferdinand
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Czech actor
DATE OF BIRTH October 28, 1893
PLACE OF BIRTH Písek
DATE OF DEATH January 12, 1937
Place of death Prague , Czechoslovakia