Fritz Lichtenhahn

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The actor Fritz Lichtenhahn in the radio play studio in a recording by the Berlin photographer Werner Bethsold in January 1990

Fritz Lichtenhahn (born May 6, 1932 in Arosa ; † May 24, 2017 in Hamburg ) was a Swiss theater and film actor and radio play speaker .

Origin and education

Fritz Lichtenhahn whose eponymous father (1881-1935) physician and director was a children's spa facility in Arosa Haus Belmont and later the sanatorium Prasura the same place, put his Matura at the Kantonsschule in Chur from, then began studying German in Zurich , graduated but finally an acting training at the stage studio in Zurich .

Theater career

He gained his first theater experience in Graz (1955–57) and Essen (1957–60). In 1960, Hans Schalla brought him to the Schauspielhaus Bochum for almost ten years , where Lichtenhahn played many great roles in modern and classical plays, including Zettel in Shakespeare's Midsummer Night 's Dream , Malvolio in Was Ihr wollt and Behringer in Eugène Ionesco's Die Nashörner .

From 1969 Fritz Lichtenhahn was engaged at the Deutsches Schauspielhaus Hamburg and in 1973 went to the Staatliche Schauspielbühnen Berlin with Hans Lietzau . He worked with Claus Peymann , among others, and played at the Salzburg Festival , the Württemberg State Theater Stuttgart , the Basler Theater , the Schauspielhaus Zurich and the Bremen Theater am Goetheplatz (1986 title role in both parts of Goethe's Faust ). From 1987 to 1997 he was part of the Thalia Theater ensemble in Hamburg.

Film, television and radio play

In 1972 Fritz Lichtenhahn had his first big television success at the side of Antje Hagen in the role of family man Bruno Semmeling in the three-part film Once in the Life by Dieter Wedel . As a result, he appeared in many television and cinema films, including the two sequels All Years Again - The Semmeling Family (1976) and The Semmeling Affair (2002). In 1990 he played the SED politician Hans Modrow in Who comes too late - The Politburo experiences the German revolution .

He also participated in many radio plays and readings and made recordings for audio book publishers. He made his radio debut in 1959 in the six-part series by the WDR Fischerjungs based on Kipling's Captains Courageous , starring fifteen-year-old Harvey.

Awards and honors

In 1965 Lichtenhahn received the sponsorship award of the state of North Rhine-Westphalia for young artists , in 1966 he was elected to the board of the German Shakespeare Society (West) in Bochum. In autumn 2000 he received the Graubünden government's recognition award . He was a member of the Free Academy of the Arts Hamburg .

Private

Fritz Lichtenhahn last lived in Hamburg, widowed . He was the brother of the musicologist Ernst Lichtenhahn , a great-great-nephew of Johann Karl Lichtenhahn and a great-great- nephew of Ernst Ludwig Lichtenhahn . He came from the Basel bourgeoisie Liechtenhan .

Filmography (selection)

Radio plays (selection)

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ It was Wedel's “Semmeling”: Fritz Lichtenhahn is dead. In: Hamburger Abendblatt . Zeitungsgruppe Hamburg GmbH, May 26, 2017, accessed on May 27, 2017 .
  2. ↑ Hans Danuser : Arosa - as it was then (1907-1928), Vol. 2, self-published by Danuser, Arosa 1998, pp. 41, 157, 200.
  3. ↑ Hans Danuser: Arosa - as it was then (1928-1946), Vol. 3, self-published Danuser, Arosa 1999, p. 137.
  4. ^ Rolf Michaelis : Welttheater als Kammerspiel. In: The time . Zeitverlag Gerd Bucerius , November 14, 1986, No. 47.
personal data
SURNAME Lichtenhahn, Fritz
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss actor
DATE OF BIRTH May 6, 1932
PLACE OF BIRTH Arosa , Switzerland
DATE OF DEATH May 24, 2017
Place of death Hamburg , Germany