Gerard Heinz
Gerard Heinz , born as Gerhard Hinze (born January 2, 1904 in Hamburg , † November 20, 1972 in England ) was a German actor in British film.
Live and act
Hinze began his stage career in 1921. His early theater positions include a. a. Duisburg , Bochum and the Deutsches Schauspielhaus in his hometown Hamburg. Most recently (1933) the KPD member was involved in the collective Hamburg actors , for which he also appeared as a dramaturge and director.
In March 1933, Gerhard Hinze got into a battle at the Altona Schillertheater between the “Red Students” and an SA thugs and had to go into hiding. Arrested twice in Berlin , he was held in the Oranienburg concentration camp for four months : from January 9 to 13, 1934 and from March 17 to July 14, 1934. After his release, his colleague Ferdinand Marian hid him for a few days in his apartment until he managed to escape to Switzerland and from there to Prague in 1935 , where he was again involved in the politically left-wing theater ("united front troop"). In the same year he traveled on to the USSR . Here he first appeared at the German Regional Theater of Dnepropetrowsk (including in Heinrich von Kleist's classic “ The Broken Krug ”), a traveling theater for Volga Germans . He later moved to the German Collectivist Theater in Odessa (today's Ukraine ). In 1938, Gerhard Hinze evaded the Stalinist "purges", which were angry at the time, by fleeing to Czechoslovakia .
As a result of the so-called smashing of the rest of the Czech Republic in the spring of 1939, Hinze traveled to Switzerland and in the same year reached England, the home of his partner. When the Second World War broke out , the German in exile was immediately arrested as an "enemy alien" and taken to an internment camp in Canada until the end of 1941 . There Hinze got involved in the camp theater. At the beginning of 1942 he was allowed to return to London and he took up his work on the stage (cabaret performances and regular spoken theater), radio (spokesman for German broadcasts on the BBC ) and film under the pseudonym Gerard Heinz .
In the post-war years, Heinz was seen mostly on London's Westend stages (in lightweight plays such as 1952's Dear Charles ). In British films, Heinz was tied to "Teutonic" characters from the start. He mostly embodied the cultivated as well as unscrupulous and inhumane Nazi scientist and medicin; most recently in horror films. Several times he also played other threatening foreigners. Since the 1950s, Heinz was a frequent cast in television series (including "Sir Francis Drake" and " Simon Templar ").
Filmography (selection)
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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. 170.
Web links
- Gerard Heinz in the Internet Movie Database (English)
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| SURNAME | Heinz, Gerard |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Hinze, Gerhard (maiden name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German actor |
| DATE OF BIRTH | January 2, 1904 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Hamburg |
| DATE OF DEATH | November 20, 1972 |
| Place of death | England |