Hans Albrecht Löhr

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Hans Albrecht Löhr (born May 29, 1922 in Berlin ; † August 22 or 28, 1942 with Saplatino, Soviet Union ) was a German theater and film actor, who first appeared in 1931 as a nine-year-old for his film role as " Little Tuesday " in the first filming of Erich Kästner's novel Emil and the Detectives became public knowledge. He died as a young Wehrmacht soldier in action on the Eastern Front during World War II .

Life, historical context

Löhr's career began with a letter to Erich Kästner about his children's novel Emil and the Detectives , which Kästner's publisher Edith Jacobsohn had facsimile . In this letter, Löhr reported that he had looked at all the scenes in the novel in Berlin. The contact continued and Löhr initially received the role of “Little Tuesday” in the first stage version of Emil , which premiered in 1930 in the Theater am Schiffbauerdamm . He later played this role in the first film adaptation of the book . In Berlin that morning an interview was printed from the set; In it Löhr introduced himself with the following words, among other things: “I am 9 years old, for the time being still in elementary school. We are divorced. I haven't seen my father for 6 years. The mother works at the Charité [...] "In 1937 he played in the play An Enemy of Ibsen that at the 1937 Volksbühne in Berlin was given the role of Ejlif.

Hans Albrecht Löhr did not survive the Second World War - he died as a soldier on the Eastern Front in August 1942. The contact between his mother, Lotte Löhr, and Erich Kästner did not break. She attended the first post-war performance in the Metropoltheater in 1947 and wrote in a letter on Kästner's 64th birthday: “You probably know that I [...] received an invitation [...] to look at the 'real' Emil. It was very, very close to me, but it was nice to see the boy again [...] Mr. Lamprecht told me that all the boys - except for Hans Richter - are no longer alive [...]. "

Löhr's physical remains are buried in the Korpowo war cemetery (Russia) (final grave complex, block 16, row 23, grave 1435).

Aftermath, reception

Erich Kästner wrote about Löhr's death in old age: "From this single senseless loss alone I can measure what, multiplied a million times, Hitler has on his conscience."

Dorothee Schön wrote a screenplay about Hans Albrecht Löhr and Erich Kästner. The shooting of Kästner and Little Tuesday began in summer 2015, the world premiere took place at the Munich Film Festival in 2016, the international premiere took place as the opening film of the Portland German Film Festival 2016, and the TV first broadcast was on December 21, 2017 on ARD and ORF at the same time .

literature

  • Emil, Lottchen and the little man. Erich Kästner's children's world. Edited by Ute Harbusch. German Schiller Society, Marbach 1999, ISBN 3-933679-18-4 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Dorothee Schön - Ms. Böhm says no on www.rowohlt-medienagentur.de
  2. ↑ Marbacher Magazin, 86/1999, p. 11.
  3. ↑ Berlin am Morgen, August 9, 1931, quoted from: Marbacher Magazin, 86/1999, p. 13.
  4. ↑ http://ibsen.nb.no/index.gan?id=74820&subid=0
  5. ^ Scenes from the play "Emil and the Detectives" by Erich Kästner at the Metropol-Theater Berlin - German Digital Library. In: deutsche-digitale-bibliothek.de. Retrieved January 31, 2017 .
  6. ↑ quoted from: Marbacher Magazin, 86/1999, p. 18
  7. ↑ Database search at http://www.volksbund.de/
  8. ↑ Dorothee Schön, Michael Töteberg: “Who was the little Tuesday?” Film service 25/2017. Retrieved December 27, 2017.
  9. ^ "Kästner and the little Tuesday" (AT) - a true story with Florian David Fitz in the leading role. August 5, 2015 on presse.wdr.de
  10. ↑ Kästner and the little Tuesday ( memento of the original from September 16, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Website of the Munich Film Festival, accessed on September 14, 2016.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.filmfest-muenchen.de
  11. ↑ Erich Kästner and little tuesday website of the Portland German Film Festival, accessed on September 14, 2016
  12. ↑ Dorothee Schön: “News.” Constantly updated subpage of Dorothee Schön's website. Retrieved December 22, 2017.
personal data
SURNAME Löhr, Hans Albrecht
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German theater and film actor
DATE OF BIRTH May 29, 1922
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH August 22, 1942 or August 28, 1942
Place of death at Saplatino