Hannes Messemer
Hannes Messemer (born May 17, 1924 in Dillingen an der Donau , Bavaria ; † November 2, 1991 in Aachen , North Rhine-Westphalia ) was a German actor and radio play speaker .
Life
Hannes Messemer, son of a publishing clerk, returned from captivity after the end of the Second World War . Without an acting education , he worked as an actor in acting troupes alongside Elisabeth Flickenschildt and Rudolf Fernau . In 1947 he got his first engagement as a theater actor in Tübingen . Numerous stage engagements followed in Hanover , Bochum , Munich ( Kammerspiele ), Hamburg , Düsseldorf and at the Ruhrfestspiele Recklinghausen .
In 1956 Messemer made his film debut alongside Maria Schell in Rose Bernd (after Gerhart Hauptmann ). In the following thirty years of his career, the thin man with the low, hoarse voice embodied classic character roles such as Shakespeare's Richard II and Julius Caesar in Walter Jens ' television play The Conspiracy , but also many nobles and officers. Due to his good language skills, Messemer received roles in English, French, Italian and US productions shortly after starting his film career.
Hannes Messemer played alongside Giulietta Masina in Julien Duvivier's The Artificial Silk Girl , alongside Brigitte Bardot in Babette Goes to War , in The False General with Vittorio De Sica , in Broken Chains with Steve McQueen , as Alfred Jodl and Jean-Paul Belmondo in Brennt Paris? , in Silent Guns with Montgomery Clift , next to Lilli Palmer in Der Kongreß amuses sich amusiert , next to Heinz Rühmann in Friedrich Dürrenmatt's Greek seeks Greek woman and in Die Odessa with Jon Voight .
However, the focus of his work was television, in which Messemer took on roles in over 150 productions. These also included television dramas (The Conspiracy) and stage adaptations ( The Trojan War Will Not Take Place by Jean Giraudoux ) as literary adaptations ( Jenny Treibel , the demons ) and guest appearances in television series ( Derrick , SOKO 5113 ) . 1974/1975 he also played a regular series role in Sergeant Berry . He had his last television appearance in 1989 alongside Agnes Fink in the television game Langusten .
Messemer had acted as a speaker in a large number of radio plays . The ARD radio play database records well over a hundred productions for the period from 1951 to 1984, in which he was mostly heard in leading roles. The actor also used his distinctive voice in numerous productions from Europe (including Perry Rhodan , Horror Series and Edgar Wallace ) and audio book productions, including a collage with poetry and rhetoric by Mao Zedong (LP EMI-Electrola, approx. 1966), and a reading from excerpts from the four Gospels (1972).
Messemer was married four times. His second wife Rosl Schäfer (1952–1977) and his third wife Susanne Korda (1980–1981) also worked as actresses.
Hannes Messemer died on November 2, 1991 in Aachen of cardiovascular failure . His grave is in Campo Santo on Aachen Westfriedhof II .
Filmography (selection)
- 1957: Rose Bernd
- 1957: At night when the devil came
- 1957: The doctor from Stalingrad
- 1957: Madeleine and the legionnaire
- 1957: The glass tower
- 1958: Taiga
- 1959: Babette goes to war (Babette s'en va-t-en guerre)
- 1959: People on the Net
- 1959: The False General (Il generale Della Rovere)
- 1959: Their crime was love (Douze heures d'horloge)
- 1959: a day that never ends
- 1960: stage fright
- 1960: The artificial silk girl
- 1960: It was night in Rome (Era notte a Roma)
- 1960: The Red Hand
- 1960: The Bridge of Fate
- 1960: You don't shoot angels
- 1961: The transport
- 1962: love in September
- 1963: Broken Chains (The Great Escape)
- 1963: Murder on the Grand Canal (Voir Venise… et mourir)
- 1963: The legend of the holy drinker
- 1963: I was Cicero (TV movie)
- 1964: Interpol: The Lady with the Lace Shawl (TV series)
- 1965: Congress has fun
- 1966: Silent weapons
- 1966: The Greek is looking for a Greek
- 1966: The Trojan War does not take place (TV movie)
- 1966: is Paris on fire? (Paris brûle-t-il?)
- 1966: The fifth column - SG III steel cabinet
- 1968: King Richard II.
- 1969: The Conspiracy (TV Movie)
- 1974: The Odessa File (The Odessa File)
- 1974: Who likes to die under palm trees?
- 1974–1975: Sergeant Berry (TV series, 23 episodes)
- 1975: The fatal blow (television play by Walter Jens ) - as Odysseus
- 1976: Five mayor exams
- 1977: The demons
- 1977: The Questioning of Machiavelli (TV movie)
- 1977: Uncle Silas (TV two-part)
- 1977: Generale - Anatomy of the Marne Battle
- 1977: Special Department K1 (episode 15 / death of a gatekeeper)
- 1978: Union of the firm hand
- 1978: Derrick : Death of a fan
- 1978: Police station 1 : The new one
- 1980: Derrick : The Decision
- 1981: Mrs. Jenny Treibel
- 1982: Fleeting acquaintances
- 1983: The Oppermann siblings
- 1983: Those Drombuschs (TV series)
- 1983: SOKO 5113: Coke and Cocoa (TV series)
- 1983: Derrick : Lohmann's inner peace
- 1985: Ghost Stories (Series; Episode: The Conspiracy )
- 1986: The Investigator : Chain Reaction (TV series)
- 1989: Lobsters
Radio plays (selection)
- 1951: Rudolf Jacobs : Rebel of the Desert. Abd el Krim is waiting for his chance. An audio series about the Moroccan freedom fighter - Director: Raoul Wolfgang Schnell (audio image , original radio play - NWDR Cologne )
- 1951: Ernst Drolinvaux : The Alibi - Director: Klaus Stieringer (original radio play , crime radio play - NWDR)
- 1952: Rudyard Kipling : The village that decided the earth was flat (Kipling, writer and journalist) - Director: Heinrich Koch (radio play adaptation - NWDR)
- 1952: Norbert Jacques : The three emeralds. A little criminal radio story (Marguleit) - Director: Klaus Stieringer (short radio play, crime radio play - NWDR)
- 1953: Nikolai Semjonowitsch Leskow : The Man in the Shield House (Wassilij Wassiljewitsch Nachalskij, Officer of the Sjemjonowschen Regiment) - Director: Heinrich Koch (radio play adaptation - NWDR)
- 1954: Jean Schlumberger : Césaire (Benoît) - Director: Klaus Stieringer (radio play - NWDR)
- 1955: Jürgen Gütt : News from Schilda (episode: A boomerang always comes back) (Lieutenant Mutton) - Director: Wilhelm Semmelroth (radio play - NWDR Cologne)
- 1955: Herbert Asmodi : Jenseits vom Paradies (Frank) - Director: Carl Nagel (radio play adaptation - RB / SDR )
- 1956: Josef Martin Bauer : As Far As Your Feet Carry (Part 6) (Kolka) - Director: Franz Zimmermann (radio play adaptation - WDR )
- 1956: Susanne Carwin : The Brothers. A radio play about Theo and Vincent van Gogh (2nd speaker) - Director: Helmut Brennicke (original radio play - BR )
- 1956: Anton Chekhov : Classic of crime fiction: The tragedy on the hunt (Count Alexej Karnejew) - Director: Eduard Hermann (radio play adaptation, crime radio play - WDR)
- 1957: Johan-Mark Elsing : Escape from the Kruger Park (Van Wijk) - Director: Kurt Meister (radio play - WDR)
- 1957: Agatha Christie : Classic of crime fiction: The dead in the library (Mark Gaskell) - Director: Friedhelm Ortmann (radio play adaptation, crime radio play - WDR)
- 1957: Francois Mauriac : Das Lamm - Director: Roland H. Wiegenstein (radio play adaptation, audio image - WDR)
- 1958: Raoul Wolfgang Schnell: Persia Story (6 parts) (Adam) - Director: Otto Kurth (original radio play - WDR)
- 1958: Richard Hey : Every evening chamber music (Sascha Aldinghausen) - Director: Oswald Döpke (original radio play - BR / RB / SFB )
- 1959: Zbigniew Herbert : The Other Room (Er) - Director: Fritz Schröder-Jahn (radio play adaptation, short radio play - NDR )
- 1961: Leopold Ahlsen : All Power of the Earth (Charles Mac Cormy) - Director: Heinz-Günter Stamm (original radio play - BR / SDR)
- 1961: Sivar Arnér : On the Third Day (Elbrus) - Director: Gustav Burmester (radio play - NDR)
- 1962: Das Buch Job (1st narrator) - adaptation (music) and direction: Roland H. Wiegenstein (original radio play - SWF )
- 1963: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe : The Urfaust. Goethe's Faust in its original form (Mephistopheles) - adaptation and direction: Peter Schulze-Rohr (radio play adaptation - SWF / ORF )
- 1964: Fernando de Rojas : Celestina (6 parts) (Sempronio, Diener) - adaptation and direction: Raoul Wolfgang Schnell (radio play adaptation - WDR)
- 1965: JB Priestley : An inspector comes (Inspector Goole) - Director: Heinz Wilhelm Schwarz (radio play adaptation - WDR)
- 1965: Dieter Kühn : Ritornell (Fabert) - Director: Günther Sauer (original radio play - WDR)
- 1966: John P. Wynn : Your verdict, please! (2nd season: 2nd to 4th episode). based on John P. Wynn's script for the BBC television program Kaleidoscope (Hermann Zeidler / Inspektor / Der Baron) - Director: Fritz Benscher (radio play adaptation , detective radio play - BR)
- 1966: Carl Zuckmayer : Midas of the shimmering mountains (2 parts) (William Brown, mine speculator) - Director: Heinz-Günter Stamm (radio play adaptation - BR / ORF)
- 1967: Paul Pörtner : Dialogue with a locked door - Director: Otto Düben (radio play - WDR)
- 1968: Wolfgang Kirchner : People-Free Land (Heiseke) - Director: Frank Guthke (original radio play - SDR)
- 1968: Friedrich Dürrenmatt : Romulus the Great. A historical-unhistorical comedy (Romulus Augustin, Kaiser von Westrom) - Director: Paul Pörtner (radio play adaptation - BR)
- 1969: André Picot : From Studio 13: Schock à la Hitchcock (Philippe Marnet) - Director: Hans Gerd Krogmann (detective radio play - SDR)
- 1971: Helga M. Novak : Home Searches. A double portrait, made audible (K = 55 years, male) - Director: Friedhelm Ortmann (radio play - WDR)
- 1972: Alain Franck : From Studio 13: Garden in the Rain (Yves) - Director: Cläre Schimmel (original radio play, crime radio play - SDR)
- 1973: Åke Hodell : What was Hemingway doing in Africa? - Director: Peter Michel Ladiges (radio play - SWF)
- 1974: Witold Gombrowicz : Verführung (Friedrich) - Director: Ludwig Cremer (radio play - SDR)
- 1974: Herbert Timm : Keys - Director: Günter Siebert (radio play - RB)
- 1975: Georg Kleemann : What should change? (Billing) - Director: Andreas Weber-Schäfer (original radio play , science fiction radio play - SDR)
- 1976: Gordon R. Dickson : Computers don't argue (lawyer Reynolds) - Director: Friedhelm Ortmann (radio play adaptation, crime radio play, science fiction radio play - WDR)
- 1978: Reinhard Lettau : Breakfast Talks in Miami (President Arnulio Manuel Rosa) - Director: Walter Adler (original radio play - SDR / HR / WDR)
- 1980: Nikolai Semjonowitsch Leskow: Tolstoy and no end (Sachar) - Director: Friedhelm Ortmann (radio play adaptation - WDR)
- 1981: Lion Feuchtwanger : Encounters with Judaism: Jud Süß (4 parts) (Weissensee) - Director: Hartmut Kirste (radio play adaptation - SWF / SR )
- 1982: Dante Alighieri : The Divine Comedy (3 parts) (The old Dante) - translation, adaptation, composition and direction: Dieter Schönbach (radio play adaptation - WDR)
- 1983: John le Carré : From Studio 13: Murder in the first degree (Terence Fielding) - Director: Dieter Carls (original radio play, detective radio play - SDR)
- 1983: Dieter Kühn: U-Boot-Spiel (Walter) - Director: Charles Benoit (radio play, dialect radio play - SR DRS )
- 1984: Melchior Schedler : Tollhausshops (Schinzinger) - Director: Günther Sauer (original radio play - HR)
Awards
- 1957: German film award “ Best Male Supporting Role ” for Rose Bernd
- 1958: German film award “ Best Male Leading Role ” for the night when the devil came
- 1959: Golden Gate Award at the San Francisco International Film Festival as "Best Supporting Actor" for The Wrong General
- 1970: Honorable recognition from the General Programs jury at the Adolf Grimme Prize for The Conspiracy
literature
- Jürgen Kasten: Messemer, Hannes. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 17, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1994, ISBN 3-428-00198-2 , p. 213 f. ( Digitized version ).
Web links
- Hannes Messemer in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Hannes Messemer at filmportal.de (with photo gallery)
- Literature by and about Hannes Messemer in the catalog of the German National Library
Individual evidence
- ↑ knerger.de: The grave of Hannes Messemer
- ↑ Il Generale Della Rovere at http://history.sffs.org
- ↑ 7th Grimme Prize 1970. In: grimmepreisarchiv.de. Grimme Institute , accessed on November 12, 2016 .
personal data | |
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SURNAME | Messemer, Hannes |
ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Messmer, Hans |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German actor and radio play speaker |
DATE OF BIRTH | May 17, 1924 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Dillingen an der Donau , Bavaria, Germany |
DATE OF DEATH | November 2, 1991 |
Place of death | Aachen , North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany |