Hanns Beck-Gaden
Hanns Beck-Gaden (born March 17, 1891 in Munich as Hanns Beck ; † June 20, 1956 in Berchtesgaden ) was a German actor , director , screenwriter , film producer and film architect who specialized in folk themes from the Alpine region.
Live and act
Born in Hanns Beck, he led an unsteady, adventurous life at a young age. As a teenager he attended a hotel management school in England, then he was hired as a sailor on the sailing ship Michigan. Travels took him to South and North America, Africa, India and East Asia. As a so-called stock man - a kind of drover, cowboy - he worked in Australia. In Queensland he lived in the bush for almost a year.
Beck returned to Germany in 1912 to do his military service. Seriously wounded twice in the First World War near Verdun , battery boss Beck soon drew attention to himself with right-wing radical and German-national ideas as well as anti-Semitic attacks. According to his own statements, he was sentenced to death for hate speech against the socialist politician Kurt Eisner and an alleged assassination attempt on a Spartakist and was crammed out of the war by a comrade officer. Beck then joined the reactionary Freikorps and earned his living as an estate employee in Munich-Riem. On the march to the Feldherrnhalle on November 9, 1923, he claims to have also participated.
Hanns Beck was in front of the camera for the first time as early as 1920 - he only later adopted the name Beck-Gaden. His profession were mainly rural-peasant dramas. As a director, Beck-Gaden was responsible for a series of simple mountain dramas with himself and Gritta Ley in the leading roles in the last few years of silent films (1927–1930) . After all, Beck-Gaden, who even benevolent (= right-wing radical) critics attested to being lacking in talent, hardly wanted to hand over directing jobs. The man from Munich then went to Egypt for a time in order, as he claimed, to conquer the local film market for German films. His verbal failures and tirades against German filmmaking before 1933 - the conspiracy theorist Beck-Gaden always saw himself as a victim of the criticism that ridiculed him and left-wing Jewish circles - did not bring him any bonus points when the Nazis came to power, even the brown rulers disapproved of that poor level of his films.
Beck-Gaden finally turned to the theater and after the annexation of Austria in March 1938 became head of the so-called Gaubühne Tirol-Vorarlberg, with which he also went on tours. He also served there as regional director of the Reich Theater Chamber . He would never get an offer from the film again.
Filmography
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- ↑ See Beck-Gaden's personal file of the Reichsfilmkammer, Bundesarchiv Berlin
- ↑ Reich Film Chamber acts B.-G., Federal Archive Berlin
Web links
- Hanns Beck-Gaden in the Internet Movie Database (English)
| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Beck-Gaden, Hanns |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Beck, Hanns |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German director |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 17, 1891 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Munich |
| DATE OF DEATH | June 20, 1956 |
| Place of death | Berchtesgaden |