Hans Christian Blech
Hans Christian Blech (born February 20, 1915 in Darmstadt , † March 5, 1993 in Munich ) was a German actor .
Life
Hans Christian Blech was born into a petty bourgeois family. He graduated from the higher commercial school in Darmstadt, broke off a business apprenticeship and took private acting lessons from state actor Josef Keim. After his debut at the Hessisches Landestheater , the Städtische Schauspiel Baden-Baden was his first permanent engagement . This was followed by: Stadttheater Krefeld (1936–37), theaters of the state capital Kiel (1937–38), Städtischen Bühnen Freiburg (1938–39) and Altes Theater Leipzig (1939–41). Emil Jannings hired Blech in 1939 for the film he produced, The Last Appeal , which, however, was not completed due to the outbreak of war. In 1941 Blech was drafted into the Wehrmacht and served as a soldier in the German-Soviet War . The striking scars on his face do not come from the Second World War , as has often been read , but from a car accident on Darmstadt's Luisenplatz in which the then 14-year-old was involved.
From 1945 Blech was engaged at the Münchner Kammerspiele , whose ensemble he belonged to until 1955, after which he made guest appearances on almost all major German-speaking theaters. He worked u. a. with Bertolt Brecht and Fritz Kortner . His greatest stage successes were the title role in Georg Büchner's Woyzeck , 1952 at the Münchner Kammerspiele (directed by Hans Schweikart ), and Möbius in the world premiere of Friedrich Dürrenmatt's Die Physiker , 1962 at the Schauspielhaus Zürich (directed by Kurt Horwitz ).
Blech made his film debut in 1948 in the DEFA feature film Affaire Blum as the insidious murderer Gabler. He often embodied shady characters, such as B. the soldier trafficker Platzek in 08/15 . He repeatedly played German soldiers in war films (including in 1962 in The Longest Day and 1969 in The Bridge of Remagen ), but was careful to use roles such as that of the concentration camp prisoner in Der Verschlag (1960) and that of the resistance fighter in Break Morituri (1965).
Blech, who worked as a film actor with Helmut Käutner , Bernhard Wicki , Claude Chabrol , Patrice Chéreau and István Szabó , was also frequently cast by directors of the New German Cinema such as Wim Wenders , Reinhard Hauff and Hans W. Geißendörfer . From 1952 he was married to the actress Erni Wilhelmi for a short time .
Hans Christian Blech was buried in the old cemetery in Darmstadt.
His written estate is in the archive of the Academy of Arts in Berlin.
Filmography
- 1948: Blum affair
- 1950: Epilogue - The Secret of the Orplid
- 1950: Decision Before Dawn (Decision Before Dawn)
- 1954: 08/15
- 1954: Phantom of the Great Tent
- 1954: private confession
- 1955: 08/15 - During the war
- 1955: 08/15 - At home
- 1955: Bandits of the Autobahn
- 1955: children, mothers and a general
- 1955: Sauerbruch - That was my life
- 1956: Because you are poor, you have to die earlier
- 1957: Schinderhannes (TV film); Director: Peter Beauvais
- 1958: Black Star in White Night (Un homme se penche sur son passé); Director: Willy Rozier
- 1958: As long as the heart beats
- 1958: The Conversion of Ferdys Pistora (TV film); Director: Rainer Wolffhardt
- 1959: The Pinedus Case (TV movie); Director: Falk Harnack
- 1959: I swear and pledge
- 1959: Ruf ohne Echo (TV film); Director: Rainer Wolffhardt
- 1960: witch hunt (TV film); Director: Ludwig Cremer
- 1960: Björndal's legacy
- 1961: The Shack (L'enclos); Director: Armand Gatti
- 1961: Time of the Innocent (TV film); Director: Fritz Schröder-Jahn
- 1962: All the Power of the Earth (TV movie); Director: August Everding
- 1962: The Longest Day (The Longest Day)
- 1963: The visit
- 1963: Detective Story - Police Station 21 (TV movie); Director: Theo Mezger
- 1963: Maria Stuart (TV film); Director: Hans Lietzau
- 1964: Marie Octobre (TV film); Director: Imo Moszkowicz
- 1965: Morituri
- 1965: The Final Battle (Battle of the Bulge)
- 1966: chimney no.4 (La voleuse)
- 1966: Black Friday (TV movie)
- 1966: Woyzeck (TV film); Director: Rudolf Noelte
- 1967: The persecution and murder of Jean Paul Marat (TV movie); Director: Peter Schulze-Rohr
- 1967: King Oedipus (TV film); Director: Oswald Döpke
- 1967: view from the bridge; (Television film); Director: Ludwig Cremer
- 1968: Cardillac; Director: Edgar Reitz
- 1969: The Bridge at Remagen (The Bridge at Remagen)
- 1970: Le client de la morte season (The Traveler); Director: Moshé Mizrahi
- 1971: The Heart of All Things (TV film); Director: Oswald Döpke
- 1971: Crime scene: Frankfurter Gold
- 1973: The scarlet letter
- 1973: In the Sign of the Cold (TV film); Director: Uwe Brandner
- 1973: The Blue Hotel (TV movie); Director: Stanislav Barabáš
- 1972: Secret Agents (TV film); Director: Eberhard Fechner
- 1972: The Lighthouse (TV movie); Director: Vojtěch Jasný
- 1973: The Monk of San Dominico (Giordano Bruno); Directed by Giuliano Montaldo
- 1974: The flesh of the orchid (La chair de l'orchidée)
- 1974: Death in Astapowo (TV movie); Director: Günter Gräwert
- 1974: The Lonely House (TV movie); Book: Ladislav Mňačko ; Director: Thomas Fantl
- 1975: Van der Valk and the Dead (TV movie); Director: Marcel Cravenne
- 1975: Don Juan in Hell (TV movie); Director: Ludwig Cremer
- 1975: The innocents with the dirty hands (Les innocents aux mains sales)
- 1975: Wrong move
- 1975: Shattered Dreams (L'Appat)
- 1975: Dangerous life is better (Il faut vivre dangereusement); Director: Claude Makovski
- 1975: Views of a clown
- 1976: Hello, I'm from over there (TV film); Directed by Tom Toelle
- 1977: The interrogation of Ernst Niekisch (TV film); Director: Oswald Döpke
- 1977: Victoria
- 1977: The Girls' War
- 1977: Winterspelt 1944
- 1977: Grete Minde
- 1978: Knife in the head
- 1979: Theodor Chindler (television multi-parter); Director: Hans W. Geissendörfer
- 1980: Meister Timpe (TV film); Director: Hartmut Griesmayr
- 1980: Nasvidenje v naslednji vojni; Director: Živojin Pavlović
- 1980: looping
- 1981: The Magic Mountain
- 1981: Collin (TV film); Director: Peter Schulze-Rohr
- 1982: Afflictions (TV film); Director: Oswald Döpke
- 1983: Satan Is On God's Side (TV Movie); Director: Wolfgang Staudte
- 1984: Lenin in Zurich (TV film); Director: Rolf Busch
- 1985: Via Mala (TV movie)
- 1985: Colonel Redl (Redl ezredes)
- 1985: The Organ (TV film); Director: Gero Erhardt
- 1985: The Last Role (TV movie); Director: Egon Günther
- 1986: Keyword Möwe (TV film); Directed by Tom Toelle
- 1986: For family reasons (TV film); Director: Axel von Ambesser
- 1986: Please let the flowers live
- 1987: The Owl's Cry (TV movie); Directed by Tom Toelle
- 1988: The Billionaire Game (two-part TV series); Director: Peter Keglevic
- 1988: Cinema (5-part TV film); Directed by Philippe Lefebvre
- 1990: Hungarian Requiem (Magyar rekviem); Director: Károly Makk
- 1990: the eighth day; Director: Reinhard Münster
- 1990: Whoever comes too late - The Politburo experiences the German Revolution (TV film)
- 1990: Tears came with the clowns (TV film); Director: Reinhard Hauff
- 1991: La Paloma no longer flies (TV movie); Directed by Tom Toelle
- 1992: Funeral of a Countess (TV movie)
- 1992: Mademoiselle Fifi ou Histoire de rire (TV film); Directed by Claude Santelli
- 1992: The Rings of Saturn (TV film); Director: Michael Kehlmann
- 1992: The Great Festival (TV film); Director: Frank Beyer
Radio plays
- 1961: Wolfgang Weyrauch : Totentanz (Head of Personnel) - Director: Martin Walser (Radio play - BR / NDR )
Awards
- 1966: Best Actor for Woyzeck at the Prague International Television Festival
- 1975: Film tape in gold for wrong movement in the ensemble
- 1976: Filmband in gold for many years of excellent work in German film
- 1979: Bambi
- 1981: Gold camera for Collin
- 1991: Adolf Grimme Prize with silver for those who come too late - The Politburo experiences the German revolution (together with Martin Wiebel , Cordt Schnibben , Claudia Rohe , Jürgen Flimm and Dirk Dautzenberg )
- 1991: Full member of the Bavarian Academy of Fine Arts
- 1992: Special Prize of the Bavarian Television Prize
literature
- Thomas Blubacher : Hans-Christian Blech . In: Andreas Kotte (Ed.): Theater Lexikon der Schweiz . Volume 1, Chronos, Zurich 2005, ISBN 3-0340-0715-9 , p. 217.
- Daniel Semler: Hans-Christian Blech - Pictures and documents from the life of the actor, Noa Noa audio book edition, Munich 2000, ISBN 978-3932929205
Web links
- Literature by and about Hans Christian Blech in the catalog of the German National Library
- Hans Christian Blech in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Hans Christian Blech at filmportal.de
- Hans-Christian Blech in the archive of the Academy of Arts, Berlin
Individual evidence
- ↑ Hans Christian Blech Archive Inventory overview on the website of the Academy of Arts in Berlin
personal data | |
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SURNAME | Blech, Hans Christian |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German actor |
DATE OF BIRTH | February 20, 1915 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Darmstadt |
DATE OF DEATH | March 5, 1993 |
Place of death | Munich |