Hannes Messemer

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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)

Radio plays (selection)

Awards

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ knerger.de: The grave of Hannes Messemer
  2. ↑ Il Generale Della Rovere at http://history.sffs.org
  3. ↑ 7th Grimme Prize 1970. In: grimmepreisarchiv.de. Grimme Institute , accessed on November 12, 2016 .
personal data
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