Hans Elwenspoek

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Hans Elwenspoek (born July 8, 1910 in Köthen / Saxony-Anhalt , † January 13, 1989 in Bonn ) was a German actor .

Life

Hans Elwenspoek was the oldest child of the director , actor and theater manager Curt Elwenspoek and his first wife Lotte Hirschberg (née Rübsam). After finishing school, he received his acting training in Berlin with Ernst Legal .

He made his debut in 1930 at the Württemberg State Theater in Esslingen . In the following years he had theater engagements at the Württemberg Volksbühne Stuttgart and at the Landestheater Schneidemühl . Since 1935 he worked with guest contracts and no longer tied himself firmly to a theater.

At the Städtische Bühnen Frankfurt he played Bennelbächer in a new production of Datterich (premiere: August 1962) in 1962, alongside Joseph Offenbach (as Datterich) and Liesel Christ (as the bar waitress Lisette). Later there were the Hebbel Theater in Berlin (1974; as Pope Albert IV. In The Day on which the Pope was kidnapped by João Bethencourt , with Hannelore Schroth as a partner), the Frankfurt Volkstheater (1978; as the old knee in Katharina Knie with Walter Flamme as the clown Julius Schmittolini and Liesel Christ as Bibbo as partners), the Kleine Komödie in Munich, the Aachener Grenzlandtheater (including in Sonny Boys and as Stomil in Tango by Sławomir Mrożek ) and the Düsseldorfer Komödie (in Der Preis von Arthur Miller ) further stage stations. Until 1984 Elwenspoek was an actor on the theater stage. One of his last new stage roles was the widowed master roofer Nikolaj Michailowitsch Tschamutin in the comedy Once Moscow and Back by Alexander Galin (1984; in the Künstlerhaus Munich). In November 1984 he was seen in the role of old Bourcy in the musical Schwank Ein Tag in Paris (director: Wolfgang Kaus ) at the Frankfurt Volkstheater at the side of his long-time stage partner Liesel Christ.

Elwenspoek played numerous roles, mainly in touring productions, where u. a. Wolfgang Reichmann (in Fuhrmann Henschel ), Elfriede Kuzmany (in Der Sturm ), Dietmar Schönherr (in Marat / Sade ), Gerlinde Locker and Alexander Kerst (each in Candida by George Bernard Shaw ) were his partners. In his last years on the stage he was seen several times in touring productions of the "Münchner Schauspielbühne", for example in the 1981/82 season as Georg Talbot, Count of Shrewsbury in Maria Stuart (with Ellen Schwiers , Maria Caleita , Friedrich Joloff and Hertha von Walther as partners) and in the 1982/83 season as Coulmier in Marat / Sade (with Wolfgang Schwarz and Hartmut Reck as partners).

Elwenspoek has worked in numerous films since the 1950s, where he usually portrayed rather unsympathetic or comical hosts, military personnel, cooks, pastors, porters, judges or even detectives. In the 1950s he played supporting roles in several then very successful fairy tale films such as dwarf nose (1953; as head kitchen master), Die goldene Gans (1953; as mayor) or Tischlein deck dich (1956; as landlord, at the side of Margarete Henning- Roth as the landlady). He also worked in supporting roles in the literary film adaptation of Der Schinderhannes (1958; as a farmer), in the anti-war film Die Brücke (1959; as Ortsgruppenleiter Forst), in music films such as When you go swimming in Tenerife (1964 with Peter Kraus ), in some Strips of the so-called "New German Film" such as hunting scenes from Lower Bavaria (1969; as a pastor) and in the crime comedy MitGift (1975; as Senator Mellinski with Nora Minor as a partner).

He has worked for television since the first experimental broadcasts in 1954. He has appeared in numerous television films , television plays and television series . He was seen, sometimes several times, in the television crime novels Der Kommissar , Derrick and Der Alte . From 1969 to 1971 he played the male lead alongside Lilo Hartmann in the nine-part television series Bergmann Family , which described the everyday life of a family in the GDR . His last television role was as the 74-year-old widower Matz Uhl in the television film Die Buddik (1983).

For many years he had a permanent position as a speaker at Bayerischer Rundfunk, where he appeared in numerous radio plays . Elwenspoek was married. He last lived in Geretsried / Upper Bavaria .

Filmography

Radio plays

literature

  • Hermann J. Huber: Langen Müller's Actor Lexicon of the Present. Germany. Austria. Switzerland . Albert Langen. Georg Müller Publishing House. Munich Vienna 1986, p. 217. ISBN 3-7844-2058-3
  • Wilhelm Kosch (Ed.): German Theater Lexicon . Supplementary volume, part 1. A – F. Page 318. De Gruyter, Berlin [et al.]. December 2012, ISBN 978-3-11-028460-7
  • Kay Less : The film's great personal dictionary . The actors, directors, cameramen, producers, composers, screenwriters, film architects, outfitters, costume designers, editors, sound engineers, make-up artists and special effects designers of the 20th century. Volume 2: C-F. John Paddy Carstairs - Peter Fritz. Schwarzkopf & Schwarzkopf, Berlin 2001, ISBN 3-89602-340-3 , p. 548.

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personal data
SURNAME Elwenspoek, Hans
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German actor
DATE OF BIRTH July 8, 1910
PLACE OF BIRTH Koethen
DATE OF DEATH January 13, 1989
Place of death Bonn