Hans Carl Müller (actor)

Hans Carl Müller (born November 5, 1889 in Göttingen , † May 29, 1960 in Munich ) was a German actor , theater director and theater manager .

Live and act

theatre

Müller had already played theater at the beginning of the 1910s and was initially employed in the German provinces (e.g. in Tilsit in 1912/13 ). In 1917 Otto Falckenberg brought him to the Münchner Kammerspiele , where he later appeared alongside such renowned colleagues as Friedrich Kayßler , Max Schreck , Elisabeth Bergner , Sybille Binder and Kurt Horwitz . The Graz actress Martha Maria Müller-Newes , who was born in 1894 and married Müller in 1916, also belonged to this ensemble.

In the period that followed, Müller was also seen at cabarets in Berlin before he went to Cologne and Hamburg as a director . A tour to South America brought him to Buenos Aires and Montevideo . In the East Prussian Königsberg, Hans Carl Müller worked as senior theater director at the Neues Schauspielhaus in the early 1930s. In 1933 Müller moved to Mannheim . There he was hired as senior director at the local national theater. While Hans Carl Müller was senior director of the Prussian State Theater in Kassel at the end of the 1930s , he was also invited to the Berlin Komödienhaus as a guest director. During the Second World War , he continued his work in Kassel until the closure of all German theaters in the summer of 1944, as ordered by Goebbels . In the first years after the war, Müller took over the management of the Kassel State Theater.

At the beginning of the 1950s, Müller went to the Theater der Jugend and the Munich Volkstheater . He also returned to the boards of the Münchner Kammerspiele; so one could see him for example in 1955 as Archbishop in Jean Anouilh's The Lark and as Archbishop of London in Ferdinand Bruckner's Elisabeth of England .

Through his marriage to Martha Maria Newes, Müller was Tilly Wedekind's brother-in-law and thus also related to her husband Frank Wedekind .

Activity in film

In the first years of the Weimar Republic , Hans Carl Müller also appeared in front of the camera from time to time. Of particular importance are his Gerenot in Fritz Lang's Nibelungen film, his Schiller friend Kapf in Curt Goetzen's Schiller film and his Emperor Karl V in Hans Kyser's Luther film.

In 1937, when he was guest directing at the Komödienhaus in Berlin, Carl Hans Müller was hired by Terra-Filmkunst to direct two short sound films. His niece Kadidja Wedekind wrote the screenplay for one of these two works, The Real Love . The last time Müller appeared in front of the camera was in 1952 with the small role of a monastery prior in the cinematic folk play Mönche, Mädchen und Panduren of the former director of the Munich Volkstheater, Ferdinand Dörfler .

Filmography

as an actor, unless otherwise stated

• 1919: King Nicolo
• 1920: The drums of Asia
• 1923: Friedrich Schiller
• 1924: The Nibelungs
• 1925: The shot in the shadows
• 1927: Luther
• 1928: Free ride
• 1937: Real Love (short film director)
• 1938: The Hostile Fathers (short film director)
• 1952: monks, girls and pandours

literature

• Herbert A. Frenzel , Hans Joachim Moser (ed.): Kürschner's biographical theater manual. Drama, opera, film, radio. Germany, Austria, Switzerland. De Gruyter, Berlin 1956, DNB 010075518 , p. 502.
• Wilhelm Kosch : German Theater Lexicon. Biographical and bibliographical manual. Volume 2: Hurka - Pallenberg. , Klagenfurt et al. 1960, p. 1551.
• Johann Caspar Glenzdorf: Glenzdorf's international film lexicon. Biographical manual for the entire film industry. Volume 2: Hed – Peis. Prominent-Filmverlag, Bad Münder 1961, DNB 451560744 , p. 1168.

Web links

• Hans Carl Müller in the Internet Movie Database (English)
• Hans Carl Müller at filmportal.de