Hans Clarin

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Hans Clarin [ klaˈriːn ], bourgeois Hans Joachim Schmid (born September 14, 1929 in Wilhelmshaven , † August 28, 2005 in Aschau im Chiemgau ), was a German actor and voice actor .

Career

Shortly after his birth in Wilhelmshaven, the Hans Clarins family, whose father was a civil servant, moved to Frankfurt am Main . He grew up there and attended the Musisches Gymnasium until 1945 . After that he lived near Ulm . After graduating from high school, he studied acting with Ruth von Zerboni in Munich .

From 1951 he celebrated great success on the stage of the State Theater in Munich under the stage name Clarin , which was recognized as his family name in 1971 . In 1952 he made his film debut in the title role of the fairy tale film Dwarf Nose . Since then he has played in numerous films and from the 1960s in numerous television and radio play productions .

As a speaker

Clarin became known to a wide audience in the 1960s as the German voice actor for Kookie ( Edward Byrnes ) in the successful American television series 77 Sunset Strip . He is at least as well known as the voice of Pumuckl , whom he lent his voice on radio, television and radio plays for almost 40 years. He also spoke in 1980 as a narrator in the Polish - Austrian puppet animation series The Moomins all dialogues. The title role for the radio play records and cassettes Hui-Buh - Das Schlossgespenst and the Asterix series was also spoken by him (the first 29 volumes were published as a radio play from 1986 to 1992). Hans Clarin also worked in the episode Purchased Players (55) in the radio play series The Three Question Marks . In 1969 he spoke in the radio play Spaceship UX3 does not answer the narrator and the Commander Tex Terry.

As an actor

Clarin has appeared in around 200  television and cinema films as well as television series. The best known are white and blue stories on television and the film Das Wirtshaus im Spessart (1957). In Max, the Pickpocket from 1962, he played the black sheep of Heinz Rühmann's family ; and in the film In Beirut, the nights are long ( Twenty-Four Hours to Kill , 1965) he was alongside Lex Barker to see. Clarin was also used twice in Edgar Wallace films , once as the mad Lord Edward Lebanon in The Indian Shawl (1963) and once in a supporting role in Zimmer 13 (1964).

Hans Clarin often starred in children's films . In addition to the fairy tale films such as dwarf nose and the dubbing roles such as in Pumuckl , he played z. B. also with Pippi Longstocking the role of "Donner-Karlsson". Clarin also read live to a child audience in the 1970s. From 1995 to 1999 Clarin played Silvio Kirsch in the television series Pumuckl TV .

In 1969, in Pepe, the Paukerschreck with Uschi Glas and Harald Juhnke , he was the teacher Dr. Happy. Again with Uschi Glas and this time also with Peter Kraus , he could be seen in Veterinarian Christine in 1993 . He worked together with Dietmar Schönherr and Andreas Vitásek in the films An almost perfect divorce (1997) and An almost perfect affair (1996). In 1999 he played again in the film An almost perfect wedding with Andreas Vitásek and Hildegard Knef . Reverend Will Papa (2002) saw him at the side of Otto Schenk and Fritz Wepper . In 2003 he finally succeeded Master Eder as his cousin Ferdinand Eder in the movie Pumuckl and his circus adventure .

Others

As early as the 1960s, he appeared in musical comedies and operettas such as Madame Pompadour , here as Joseph alongside Ingeborg Hallstein , as a singer. In 1994 he tried again in this area. Together with Maxie Renner , daughter of the singer and presenter Dagmar Frederic , he reached eighth place at the 1994 Grand Prix of Folk Music with the song The Girl and the Clown .

In 1968 the youth book Paquito or the world from below was published by him . It was made into a film and broadcast on television.

In 2018, the Hans-Clarin-Weg was named after him in the Freiham development area in Munich.

Private

Hans Clarin was married three times and had five children. His first marriage was to Irene Reiter. With her he had three daughters. The youngest, Irene Clarin , became known as a stage and TV actress herself, in particular through the lead role in the TV series Pastor Lenau (1991). With his second wife Margarethe Freiin von Cramer-Klett (* 1944), a daughter of the hunting writer Ludwig Benedikt von Cramer-Klett , Hans Clarin had a son Philipp and daughter Anna. With the daughter of racing driver and automobile dealer Günther Graf von Hardenberg , Christa-Maria Countess von Hardenberg (* 1945), whose mother out of the Princely House of Fürstenberg came, the actor and comedian married his third wife in 1995 and lived with her in the more than 400 year old “Moserhof” in Aschau, Upper Bavaria; he had acquired the property in 1974 and thus fulfilled a childhood dream; His favorite hobbies were around 30 animals that lived there with him.

Hans Clarin died of heart failure on August 28, 2005 at the age of 75 in his adopted home Aschau im Chiemgau . A week earlier he had been in front of the camera for the television film Der Bergpfarrer - Heimweh nach Hohenau . His last role in a movie was that of the castellan in Hui Buh - The Castle Ghost . Sebastian Niemann's film adaptation of the radio play series was released in 2006. His grave is in the Aschau im Chiemgau cemetery.

Filmography (selection)

Movies

TV Shows

Theater career (selection)

  • 1949: To the golden anchor , Münchner Kammerspiele
  • 1949: End of the line longing , Münchner Kammerspiele
  • 1950: woe to him who lies! , Residenztheater Munich
  • 1952: Police station 21 , Münchner Kammerspiele
  • 1952: Peter Pan , Residenztheater Munich
  • 1952: The Snow Queen , Residenztheater Munich
  • 1953: Jokes, satire, irony and deeper meaning , Residenztheater Munich
  • 1953: Juno and the Peacock , Residenztheater Munich
  • 1953: The Miser , Munich Residence Theater
  • 1953: The soldiers , Residenztheater Munich
  • 1953: Fuhrmann Henschel , Residenztheater Munich
  • 1953: The Robbers , Residenztheater Munich
  • 1954: South , Residenztheater Munich
  • 1954: A Midsummer Night's Dream , Residenztheater Munich
  • 1954: Götz von Berlichingen , Residenztheater Munich
  • 1954: Julius Caesar , Residenztheater Munich
  • 1955: The Marriage Comedy , Residenztheater Munich
  • 1955: Tartuffe , Residenztheater Munich
  • 1956: Heinrich IV. , Residenztheater Munich
  • 1956: Thieves ' Ball , Residenztheater Munich
  • 1956: Faust I , Residenztheater Munich
  • 1956: The Cafehaus , Residenztheater Munich
  • 1957: Servant to two masters , Residenztheater Munich
  • 1957: Easter , Residenztheater Munich
  • 1957: The story of Vasco , Residenztheater Munich
  • 1958: Androclus and the Lion , Residenztheater Munich
  • 1959: Dame Kobold , Cuvilliestheater Munich
  • 1959: George Dandin , Residenztheater Munich
  • 1959: The Portuguese battle , Residenztheater Munich
  • 1960: The clever fool , Residenztheater Munich
  • 1960: The Rhinos , Munich Residence Theater
  • 1960: Volpone , Cuvilliestheater Munich
  • 1960: You never know , Residenztheater Munich
  • 1961: Michael Kramer , Residenztheater Munich
  • 1961: The Egg , Little Freedom Munich
  • 1964: The game of love and chance , Münchner Kammerspiele / tour
  • 1965: A hermit is discovered , Berlin
  • 1965: The Florentine hat , Münchner Kammerspiele
  • 1966: The knife heads , Theater an der Leopoldstrasse, Munich
  • 1967: Charley's Tante , Deutsches Theater Munich
  • 1967: Journey around the world in 80 days , Residenztheater Munich
  • 1968: What is the world doing, monsieur? She's turning, monsieur , tour
  • 1968: Oberon , Bavarian State Opera
  • 1968: The Black Comedy , Münchner Kammerspiele
  • 1968: A Strange Couple , Little Comedy Munich
  • 1969: Woyzeck / Leonce and Lena , Ruhrfestspiele / Recklinghausen
  • 1969: The story of the soldier , Brunnenhof Munich
  • 1970: August, August, August , Landestheater Hannover, tour
  • 1972: Dame Kobold , Landestheater Hannover, tour
  • 1972: Macbeth , tour
  • 1983: Jedermann , Salzburg Festival
  • 1988: The Women's War , comedy in the Bayerischer Hof Munich
  • 1988: Chicago , Deutsches Theater Munich / Berlin
  • 1993: Today neither Hamlet , comedy in the Bayerischer Hof Munich

Audio books and radio plays (selection)

Awards

Autobiography

  • together with Manfred Glück: leafed through. Autobiography . Knaus, Berlin 1995, ISBN 3-8135-4005-7

literature

  • Clarin: Hans. In: C. Bernd Sucher : Theaterlexikon. Authors, directors, actors, dramaturges, stage designers, critics. Completely reworked. u. exp. 2nd edition, Deutscher Taschenbuch Verlag, Munich 1999, ISBN 3-423-03322-3 , p. 117.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. knerger.de: The grave of Hans Clarin