Ferdinand Marian (actor)

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Ferdinand Marian , actually Ferdinand Haschkowetz or Ferdinand Haschowetz , (born August 14, 1902 in Vienna , † August 9, 1946 near Freising ) was an Austrian actor .

Life

Marian took his stage name from his father Ferdinand Marian , who was an opera singer. He did not go to drama school, but as a child and adolescent he often accompanied his father to the theater or opera house. There he got to know the world early on which would later become his most important purpose in life. He broke off an engineering degree in Vienna and ran away from home for four years, keeping himself afloat with various jobs. Marian's father owned a house in Trofaiach in Upper Styria, where Ferdinand Marian liked to stay. Finally, with his father's help, he tried it at the theater and worked first as a batch and later as an actor at theaters in Graz , Trier , Mönchengladbach , Aachen , Hamburg and Munich . He had his breakthrough in Hamburg in a performance of Richard Billinger's Rauhnacht . In 1938 he came to the Deutsches Theater in Berlin. In 1939 he achieved his greatest theatrical success there as Iago in Othello . In addition, he has appeared in films since 1933.

Since his roles in The Voice of the Heart (1937) and Detlef Sierck's La Habanera (1938) as the seductive Don Pedro alongside Zarah Leander , Ferdinand Marian became the German heartthrob of the late 1930s. Taking advantage of this popularity among female audiences, the National Socialist decision-makers asked him to take on the leading role in Jud Suss , the most famous anti-Jewish Nazi propaganda film. Marian couldn't turn down this role. At first he refused to take on the role, but was urged by Goebbels to take on the main role, which became his “role of fate”.

"Talked to Marian about the Jud Süss material. He doesn't really want to play the Jew. But I can get him to do it with some help." - Joseph Goebbels in his diary (January 5, 1940)

From then on, Marian was stamped as the actor of "Jud Suss". As a star, he was not yet established enough not to have to fear negative decisions by the Reichsfilmkammer for him . In 1941 he was cast in Ohm Krüger , Hans Steinhoff's Boer War film with anti-British tendencies, in a propaganda-tinged success film. Until the end of the war, Marian could be seen in entertainment films such as Münchhausen (1943) and In flagranti (1943), as well as in the melodrama Romance in Moll (1943). In the final phase of the Second World War , Goebbels added him to the list of actors required for his propaganda films, the Gottbegnadeten list . This saved Marian from a war effort, including on the home front .

On March 30, 1936, Marian married the actress Maria Byk (real name: Annemarie Albertine Böck, after marrying Albertine Haschkowetz) in Hamburg, who had been divorced from the famous director Julius Gellner in 1927 after two years of marriage. With Gellner, she had a daughter who had to emigrate because, as the daughter of a Jewish father, she was considered " half-Jewish ".

Marian was considered politically disinterested. He did not belong to any political party and never professed the ideology of National Socialism . Rather, he made fun of politics and politicians of all stripes. His biographer, the Berlin media scientist and doctor of psychology, Friedrich Knilli , characterizes him as a difficult person who suffered all his life from the disregard he experienced in his parents' home and in his youth. His effect on other people, especially women, and his audience response were extremely important to him, and he suffered from it when (like after 1945) he had no audience.

After the war ended in 1945, he last lived in Freising . Because of his involvement with Jud Suss and the associated involvement in the National Socialist propaganda machine , he was banned from the profession for life by the Allies, as this film was classified as one of the most frightening examples of Nazi propaganda film by the Allies. He died in a car accident in which he probably hit a tree while drunk. To this day, there is speculation about whether it was a suicide because of his jobless situation at the time. This is contradicted, firstly, by the fact that Munich’s American film officer, Eric Pleskow , would have been ready at this point to remove Marian from the blacklist on the basis of presumed innocence, and thus a new phase of his career could have started, and secondly, that apart from Ferdinand Marian, two other passengers sat in the car who were only slightly injured.

Marian was buried in the north cemetery in Munich . Only three years later, his wife Maria Byk committed suicide after she had previously testified in favor of the director Veit Harlan , who was filming “Jud Süß” at the time .

Ferdinand Marian's grave in Munich's north cemetery, grave field 97.

The feature film Jud Suess - film without conscience of Oskar Roehler from 2010 deals with Ferdinand Marian's role in the film Jud Suess of 1940. However, the content of the film with the real event virtually nothing in common.

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  1. ↑ Joseph Goebbels - Diaries 1924 1945 (vol 1 2 3 4 5) . ( archive.org [accessed June 30, 2020]).
  2. ↑ Oliver Rathkolb : Loyal to the Führer and God-Grace. Artist elite in the Third Reich . Österreichischer Bundesverlag, Vienna 1991, ISBN 3-215-07490-7 , p. 178.
  3. ↑ http://www.zeit.de/2010/39/Kino-Legende-Eric-Pleskow?page=1
personal data
SURNAME Marian, Ferdinand
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Haschkowetz, Ferdinand (real name); Haschowetz, Ferdinand
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian actor
DATE OF BIRTH August 14, 1902
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna
DATE OF DEATH August 9, 1946
Place of death near Freising