Hans Christian Blech

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Hans Christian Blech in a picture by the Berlin photographer Werner Bethsold

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.

Hans Christian Blech and Lotte Berger (1938)
Private photo, 1990

Filmography

Radio plays

Awards

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Hans Christian Blech Archive Inventory overview on the website of the Academy of Arts in Berlin
personal data
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