Hannes Stelzer (actor, 1910)

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Hannes Stelzer (born June 20, 1910 in Graz , † December 27, 1944 in Komárom due to a plane crash) was an Austrian actor .

Life

As the eldest son of a poor, wandering family of actors, Stelzer hadn't exactly been driven to acting by his parents. Stelzer started school in Hanau am Main, but due to the wandering of his actor parents, numerous school changes followed, which were associated with integration difficulties.

My first theater experience took place in Mühlhausen / Thuringia . There, mother Stelzer, contrary to her usual habit, brought her son up for a children's dance scene in Die Fledermaus . As a fourteen-year-old, after receiving a rejection for a child's role in film, he made an effort of his own volition to get admission to the Viennese drama school while he was living with a Viennese uncle. He earned his tuition money as a carpenter.

Stelzer's free stage debut was old Klinkert in Hasemann's Daughters of Adolph L'Arronge . He was denied participation as a paid extra in Wallenstein at the Deutsches Volkstheater during the dress rehearsal after the director of the house criticized his childlike appearance.

In 1928 Stelzer was given the opportunity of his first permanent engagement at the New Theater in Frankfurt am Main . However, when after a while his youth turned out to be a problem here too, he moved to Bremen in 1931 . Here Stelzer was given tasks mainly in modern pieces, but also played 'Romeo'. After three years, Stelzer accepted a call to Darmstadt at the Landestheater , where he could increasingly try out the great classical roles. The call for the film was made on the recommendation over Bremen, after all, precisely because of the youth Stelzer: When it 1934 for the old and the young King with Emil Jannings the actor for the young king in Bremen sought recalled the local theater manager at Stelzer, but eventually received Werner Hinz 's role. Jannings, however, was taken with Stelzer and a few months later got him the central role of the priman Kurt von Zedlitz in Traumulus .

So Stelzer's field of activity shifted more and more to film, where he was able to celebrate great successes. He corresponded to the ideas of an intrepid hero and quickly advanced to a popular Ufa star, for example in the title role of Truxa , a tightrope artist , or as Mozart in Eine kleine Nachtmusik .

At the beginning of the war, Stelzer was less able to shoot, but still played the star roles in a number of films, e.g. B. as an aviator in Stukas (1941). Even used as a soldier in aerial combat, he was killed at Christmas 1944. Presumably it was shot down by Soviet flak or airplanes, but according to the Wehrmacht report it crashed when it was caught on a high-voltage line in a snowstorm. He was married to the recently deceased actress Maria Bard (1900–1944).

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SURNAME Stelzer, Hannes
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian actor
DATE OF BIRTH June 20, 1910
PLACE OF BIRTH Graz
DATE OF DEATH December 27, 1944
Place of death Komárom