Hans Christian Rudolph

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Hans Christian Rudolph (born December 14, 1943 in Metz ; † January 23, 2014 in Hamburg ) was a German actor .

life and career

He was the younger brother of the director and artistic director Niels-Peter Rudolph .

In the 1960s he took acting lessons in Berlin and played at theaters in Essen , Stuttgart and Berlin. Rudolph celebrated his greatest successes as a theater actor with Jürgen Flimm , with whom he has worked since his time as director of the Cologne theater . He was seen in Cologne in Flimm's productions of Bertolt Brecht's Baal and Goethe's Faust . He delivered outstanding work in Cologne under the director Jürgen Gosch in Maxim Gorki's Nachtasyl and Molière's Der Menschenfeind .

When Jürgen Flimm took over the Thalia Theater in Hamburg as artistic director in 1985 , Rudolph went to the Hanseatic city with his director. Except for a short time between 1991 and 1993 at the Schaubühne on Lehniner Platz in Berlin, Rudolph remained loyal to the Thalia Theater. In Berlin he played the leading roles in A Winter's Tale by William Shakespeare , directed by Luc Bondy, and in Der einsame Weg by Arthur Schnitzler , directed by Andrea Breth . Back in Hamburg, Jürgen Flimm had the most interesting roles ready for him. He played Richard in Richard III. and Shylock in Shakespeare's The Merchant of Venice . Other notable works were the lead roles in The Wild Duck by Henrik Ibsen , in Molière's Misanthrope and Chekhov stagings of Uncle Vanya, Platonov and Three Sisters .

After Flimm left the Thalia Theater, Rudolph continued to be part of the house's ensemble. Its directors were Stephan Kimmig , Andreas Kriegenburg and Hartmut Wickert . During his career, Rudolph concentrated almost exclusively on his theater work; he only appeared in two films: in 1986 Reinhard Hauff cast him in his film Stammheim , which won the Berlinale Golden Bear , as a defender, and in 1999 he had a supporting role in the television film Dr. Robert Schumann, devil romantic .

Awards

literature

  • Jürgen Flimm: Stars, huh! On the death of Hans Christian Rudolph. In: Theater heute , volume 55, issue 3, 2014, ISSN  0040-5507 , pp. 34–35.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Thalia actor Hans Christian Rudolph is dead in: Hamburger Abendblatt and mobile version online on the Internet: January 23, 2014
personal data
SURNAME Rudolph, Hans Christian
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German actor
DATE OF BIRTH December 14, 1943
PLACE OF BIRTH Metz
DATE OF DEATH 23rd January 2014
Place of death Hamburg