Hans Epskamp

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Hans Epskamp (born June 21, 1903 in Hamburg ; † May 26, 1992 in Berlin ) was a German actor .

Life

Born in Hamburg, he took acting lessons soon after completing his school education and made his debut at the Landestheater Darmstadt in 1927 . He then went to the Gera Theater from 1928 to 1930 . In 1935 he came to the Dresden State Theater via stages in Frankfurt am Main and Bremen . He stayed there until 1937. From 1942 to 1944 Epskamp was engaged at the Komödienhaus Berlin . After the war, he resumed his stage work in Strasbourg in Alsace . In 1951 the actor was employed at the Stadttheater Mainz , after which he went to Darmstadt until 1954 . In 1955 he returned to Berlin and took up residence there. For many years he was a member of the Hebbel Theater ensemble .

His radio and film career also began in the 1950s. Later he worked mainly for television. His best-known television roles include the figure of Leibrecht, a prisoner of war, in the six-part television game So far the feet carry from 1959, the first so-called street sweeper on the still young German television. Directed by Fritz Umgelter played Heinz Weiss and Wolfgang Büttner the other leading roles. 1966 saw Epskamp in the 6th episode Die Raumfalle of the cult series Raumpatrouille . Here he played the minister for extra-planetary affairs and worried father-in-law of a well-known SF writer ( Reinhard Glemnitz ) who got into a dangerous situation with the Orion VIII under Commander McLaine ( Dietmar Schönherr ). In the television series Kara Ben Nemsi Effendi (1973-1975), after the first six Orient novels by Karl May , he played under director Günter Gräwert in several episodes the villain Mübarek, who tries to kill the title hero ( Karl-Michael Vogler ). You could see him in the cinema. B. in Public Prosecutor Corda (1953) with Ingeborg Engholm and Paul Klinger . Also with Klinger and the then child star Christine Kaufmann he was seen a year later in the film Rosen-Resli , which was based on a novella by Johanna Spyri . In the Edgar Wallace film The Monk with the Whip (1967) he played the mysterious mastermind who is only revealed at the very end.

His last known appearances were in the mid-1970s. Then he at least retired from the film business.

Hans Epskamp, ​​who died less than a month before his 89th birthday, was buried in a single grave on June 10, 1992 at the Dahlem forest cemetery. The resting place is in field 002, grave number 1641.

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SURNAME Epskamp, ​​Hans
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German actor
DATE OF BIRTH June 21, 1903
PLACE OF BIRTH Hamburg
DATE OF DEATH May 26, 1992
Place of death Berlin