Fritz Rasp

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Fritz Heinrich Rasp (born May 13, 1891 in Bayreuth ; † November 30, 1976 in Graefelfing ) was a German actor and radio play speaker , who was best known for his numerous roles as a "film villain". His acting work covered a broad field, ranging from the theater actor with Max Reinhardt to films such as Metropolis and Emil and the detectives .

Life

Rasp grew up as the 13th child of the district geometer Daniel Rasp and his wife Auguste (née Grähl) in Bayreuth. From 1908 to 1909 he learned his trade at a Munich theater school. He overcame a speech impediment and his East Franconian dialect. In 1909 he made his stage debut at the Schauspielhaus in Munich. This was followed by engagements at theaters in Swinoujscie , Tilsit under Francesco Sioli , in Detmold and Bromberg . At this time, Rasp's friendship with the later Iffland-Ring bearer Werner Krauss began .

In May 1914 Rasp got a five-year contract with Max Reinhardt at the Deutsches Theater in Berlin . The actor first worked for the film in 1915/16, soon afterwards with well-known directors such as Ernst Lubitsch and Paul Wegener . From 1916 to 1918 Rasp was in military service, after which he worked again for Max Reinhardt. The stations until 1924 were: the Metropoltheater, the Kleine Schauspielhaus and again the Deutsches Theater. From 1924 he worked as a freelance actor on various Berlin theaters, and in 1922 Rasp's actual film career began; so he also appeared in Fritz Lang's silent film opus Metropolis (as: the narrow one). At the side of the legendary Louise Brooks , he played in the social drama Diary of a Lost in 1929 . The Russian writer Ilja Ehrenburg wrote in retrospect about Rasp's work in Jeanne Ney's love : “Of the actors, I liked Fritz Rasp. He looked like an arch-scoundrel. When he bit the whore on the arm and put a dollar on the wound instead of a bandage, I forgot that I was looking at an actor. […] He played villains, but he had a soft, almost sentimental disposition. I called him Jeanne. "

As a stage actor, Fritz Rasp was not limited to any special subject, but the film actor Rasp "with his gaunt, ascetic figure" was quickly subscribed to "dark figures, seducers, cowardly traitors and crooks" ( Volker Wachter ). He became the arch villain of German film; his portrayal of the thief Grundis in Emil und die Detektiven (the first film adaptation of Erich Kästner's children 's book in 1931 ) will not be forgotten . Rasp was just as ambiguous as caring family fathers, terrorists and police spies in one person ( Lockspitzel Asew by Phil Jutzi ). In 1938, as a taciturn Indian extra (“Tremble, pale face!”), He threw a knife at Ufa star Heinz Rühmann in the film Nanu, you don't know Korff yet? .

After the Second World War , he made films again in 1946, initially for DEFA , and appeared again in Berlin theaters. From 1951 he was engaged on West German theaters, including the Bavarian State Theater in Munich. If Fritz Rasp had already worked in the Edgar Wallace films Der Zinker and Der Hexer in the 30s , he also proved to be an adequate actor for the new edition of West German Wallace films from 1959: Already with the first Wallace adaptation Der Frosch the mask he was seen repeatedly in films of this genre. In 1963 he received the gold film tape for his many years of outstanding work in German film. In 1971, Rasp was seen as part of the Frankfurter Gold TV series " Tatort ". Rasp was most recently in front of the camera in 1974 for the political seniors comedy Lina Braake , which united two veteran Brecht actors in a joint film: Lina Carstens gave the first mother courage on stage, Rasp the Peachum in the first sound film version of the Threepenny Opera .

He was also involved in many productions as a radio play speaker. In the first post-war years mainly in Berlin at the NWDR studio there . After that he worked mainly for the Bavarian Radio in Munich . He was cast in a wide variety of genres. You could hear his voice in numerous classics, crime novels and comedies.

Fritz Rasp died of cancer in 1976 at the age of 85 , and he worked as an actor until the end. His grave is in the Gräfelfing cemetery . The writer Renate Rasp (1935–2015) was his daughter. The son Andreas Rasp (1921–2013) was a high school teacher and poet.

Filmography

Radio plays (selection)

  • 1946: Carl Zuckmayer : Katharina Knie - Director: Hannes Küpper ( Berliner Rundfunk )
  • 1947: John Boynton Priestley : The Foreign City - Editing and direction: Hedda Zinner (Berliner Rundfunk)
  • 1949: Aristophanes : Lysistrata - Director: Carlheinz Riepenhausen (Berliner Rundfunk)
  • 1949: Bodo Uhse : Der Loadträger - Directed by Carlheinz Riepenhausen (Berliner Rundfunk)
  • 1949: Der Schinderhannes (after Carl Zuckmayer ) - Director: Hannes Küpper
  • 1949: Act and atonement of the student Radionomanowitsch Raskolnikoff - Director: Robert Adolf Stemmle
  • 1949: The Auditor (after Nikolai Wassiljewitsch Gogol ) - Director: Boleslaw Barlog
  • 1949: Secret files CB 200 - Director: Robert Adolf Stemmle
  • 1949: A Game from Another Life - Director: Erich Köhler
  • 1950: Karl Sonnabend / Werner Hardt : Der himmlische Landverteiler - director; Werner Stewe (Berliner Rundfunk)
  • 1950: Fifty Years in Fifty Minutes - Director: Curt Goetz-Pflug
  • 1950:… leave all hope behind! - Director: Curt Goetz-Pflug
  • 1950: Don Juan's death - Director: Erich Köhler
  • 1950: Balzac - Director: Erich Köhler
  • 1950: The Last Hour - Director: Heinz-Günter Stamm
  • 1950: The Winslow Case - Director: Robert Adolf Stemmle
  • 1950: House of Heavenly Delight - Director: Theodor Steiner
  • 1950: The Ballad of Peace - Director: Otto Kurth
  • 1951: Hanneles Himmelfahrt (after Gerhart Hauptmann ) - Director: Heinz-Günter Stamm
  • 1951: The great midwifery art - Director: Helmut Brennicke
  • 1951: No, Mr. Gimont - Director: Heinz-Günter Stamm
  • 1951: The Great Night Song - Director: Heinz-Günter Stamm
  • 1951: The Greyhound - Director: Fritz Benscher
  • 1951: Mr Crépin's New Year's Eve - Director: Heinz-Günter Stamm
  • 1952: Tomek Baran - Director: Helmut Brennicke
  • 1952: Irrlicht - Director: Helmut Brennicke
  • 1952: On the way to paradise - Director: Helmut Brennicke
  • 1952: The Black Cockatoo - Director: Willy Purucker
  • 1952: The banquet - directed by Heinz-Günter Stamm
  • 1952: Nikolai Gogol : The Auditor (District Judge) - Director: Walter Ohm (radio play - BR )
  • 1952: The sunken bell (based on Gerhart Hauptmann) - Director: Heinz-Günter Stamm
  • 1953: Carl Zuckmayer : Ulla Winblad or Music and Life of Carl Michael Bellmann - Director: Walter Ohm (radio play - BR / RB / SWF )
  • 1953: Moby Dick - Director: Helmut Brennicke
  • 1953: The Canterville Ghost - Director: Willy Purucker
  • 1953: A Christmas carol (after Charles Dickens ) - Director: Heinz-Günter Stamm
  • 1954: Leonhard Frank : The cause (jury) - Director: Walter Ohm (radio play - BR)
  • 1954: Fate gives Mr. Morris a chance - Director: Heinz-Günter Stamm
  • 1954: Germelshausen - Director: Helmut Brennicke
  • 1955: Merlin is everywhere - Director: Helmut Brennicke
  • 1955: Die Goldgräber - Director: Helmut Brennicke
  • 1955: A hundred minutes too early - Director: Heinz-Günter Stamm
  • 1956: Snow on Kilimanjaro (based on Ernest Hemingway ) - Director: Heinz-Günter Stamm
  • 1956: Mahatma Gandhi - Director: Fränze Roloff
  • 1956: The Little Mermaid (after Hans Christian Andersen ) - Director: Heinz-Günter Stamm
  • 1957: The Ballad of Half a Century - Director: Heinz-Günter Stamm
  • 1957: The Man in the Shield House - Director: Heinz-Günter Stamm
  • 1957: The interrogation of Lukullus - Director: Walter Ohm
  • 1957: Giordano Bruno - Director: Theodor Steiner
  • 1957: The Lord of Toulon - Director: Heinz-Günter Stamm
  • 1957: Hotel Paradiso - Director: Ulrich Lauterbach
  • 1958: Wilhelm Tell (after Friedrich Schiller ) - Director: Heinz-Günter Stamm
  • 1958: Coriolan (based on William Shakespeare ) - Director: Ulrich Lauterbach
  • 1958: The hour of the coltsfoot (by Günter Eich ) - Director: Fritz Schröder-Jahn
  • 1958: Two modern Nô games - Director: Helmut Brennicke
  • 1958: Götz von Berlichingen with the Iron Hand (after Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ) - directed by Heinz-Günter Stamm
  • 1959: The song of the barrel organ - Director: Heinz-Günter Stamm
  • 1959: Leokadia - Director: Heinz von Cramer
  • 1959: The orphan from Lowood - Director: Heinz-Günter Stamm
  • 1960: Dickie Dick Dickens - back in the country - Director: Walter Netzsch
  • 1960: The Uninvited Guest - Director: Jörg Franz
  • 1960: Tistou with the green thumb - Director: Peter Arthur Stiller
  • 1960: Geronimo and the robbers - Director: Heinz Günter Stamm
  • 1960: The Owl Scream - Director: Walter Knaus
  • 1960: Strangers' Beach - Director: Otto Kurth
  • 1960: Wishes or fairy tales on the Arabian Gulf - Director: Theodor Steiner
  • 1960: Peter Voss, the millionaire thief - Director: Heinz-Günter Stamm
  • 1960: The Käthchen von Heilbronn or The Trial by Fire (based on Heinrich von Kleist ) - Director: Heinz-Günter Stamm
  • 1961: The Passengers - Director: Heinz-Günter Stamm
  • 1961: The Big ABC - Director: Erich Köhler
  • 1961: A Victory of the Spirit - Director: Rolf von Goth
  • 1961: Gortstraße - Director: Walter Ohm
  • 1961: The Last Knight - Director: Rolf von Goth
  • 1961: Berlin - Schönhauser Allee - Director: Erich Köhler
  • 1962: Omar and Omar - Director: Otto Kurth
  • 1962: Mr. Blake is in the picture - Director: Rolf von Goth
  • 1962: Wang and the Mandarin - Director: Theodor Steiner
  • 1962: The swapped suitcase - Director: Rolf von Goth
  • 1962: From Another World - Director: Jörg Franz
  • 1962: Raskolnikoff (based on Fjodor Michailowitsch Dostojewski , in an adaptation by Leopold Ahlsen ) - Director: Hermann Wenninger
  • 1962: The Cardinal of Spain: - Director: Heinz Hostnig
  • 1963: The Buzzard Above Us - Director: Peter Schulze-Rohr
  • 1963: Before sunset - Director: Heinz-Günter Stamm
  • 1963: The pale horse - Director: Rolf von Goth
  • 1963: Fair of dreams - Director: Rolf von Goth
  • 1964: Bells of Death - Director: Rolf von Goth
  • 1964: The poor dead man - Director: Heinz-Günter Stamm
  • 1964: The Horse of the Greeks - Director: Hans Bernd Müller
  • 1965: The soldier pale as chalk - Director: Heinz-Günter Stamm
  • 1965: Little Chronicle of Easter Week - directed by Heinz von Cramer
  • 1965: From Hope to Hope - Director: Heinz-Günter Stamm
  • 1966: Pumuckl and the Castle Ghost - Director: Jan Alverdes
  • 1966: The Spielmann - Director: Walter Ohm
  • 1967: Eduard von Keyserling : Evening Houses - Director: Fritz Schröder-Jahn ( BR )
  • 1967: Liebe undsoweiter - directed by Siegfried Niemann and Rolf von Goth
  • 1969: Peer Gynt (based on Henrik Ibsen ) - Director: Heinz-Günter Stamm
  • 1969: Transition - Director: Rolf von Goth
  • 1971: From our guest book: Fritz Rasp memories of an actor - Director: Jo Hanns Müller
  • 1971: The little Lord is around - Director: Heiner Schmidt
  • 1972: The cats of Dr. Watson - Director: Heinz von Cramer
  • 1972: Pankrazius Graunzer - Director: Heinz-Günter Stamm
  • 1972: The poodle with the lion's mane - Director: Otto Kurth
  • 1973: Troilus und Cressida (The Tragedy of Troylus and Cressida) (based on William Shakespeare) - Director: Peter Michel Ladiges
  • 1973: Spoken Architecture of Fear - Director: Peter Michel Ladiges
  • 1973: Hilda - Director: Peter Michel Ladiges
  • 1973: How Not to Retire - Director: Friedrich Scholz
  • 1975: The Journey of the Three Old Men - Director: Otto Düben
  • 1976: The Magic Girl - Director: Heinz von Cramer
  • 1976: San Pedro Claver - Director: Peter Michel Ladiges
  • 1976: the lute. The Wall - Director: Horst H. Vollmer
  • 1976: Mord am Lietzensee - Director: Jörg Jannings
  • 1976: The minaret that flies to the moon - Director: Otto Düben
  • 1976: The ballad of the hopes of the fathers - Director: Hans Gerd Krogmann

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Ilja Ehrenburg: People Years Life , Volume II. People and World, Berlin 1978, pp. 132-133.
  2. ↑ knerger.de: The grave of Fritz Rasp
  3. ↑ Gerd Otto-Rieke: Graves in Bavaria. Without Munich. People who moved us. With 39 individual portraits (= discovering history in cemeteries. Vol. 2). Alabasta-Verlag, Munich 2008, ISBN 978-3-938778-09-8 , p. 113.
  4. ↑ poetenladen.de: Andreas Rasp
personal data
SURNAME Rasp, Fritz
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Rasp, Fritz Heinrich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German film and stage actor
DATE OF BIRTH May 13, 1891
PLACE OF BIRTH Bayreuth
DATE OF DEATH November 30, 1976
Place of death Graefelfing