Hans Fitze

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Hans Fitze (born April 16, 1903 in Lübeck , † November 25, 1998 in Hamburg ) was a German actor , radio play speaker , director and theater manager .

Life

Hans Fitze House in Harburg 2011

Born in 1903, Fitze first completed an apprenticeship as a banker from 1920, but also performed as a pianist and conductor. In 1932 he was accepted into the drama school of the Deutsches Schauspielhaus Hamburg , where he also got his first stage engagement as an actor. Further theater stations followed in Hamburg (Neues Theater), Bonn (Schauspielhaus) and Cologne (Städtische Bühnen), before he finally found his artistic home in Hamburg.

In 1945 he took over the management of the municipal stage in the war-torn Hamburg-Harburg and gathered an ensemble around him during this difficult time, with which he played on temporary stages in Harburg. In 1949 Hamburg stopped financing the city theater, whereupon director Fitze continued to run the Harburg theater as a private stage. Since 1954 he has also managed the Altona Theater as a private stage. In his almost fifty years as a principal, Fitze staged over 250 plays and appeared in more than 350 roles. At times, Fitze and his ensemble had more than 10,000 subscribers. He was represented with the district coverage and his own subscription series in Wandsbek and Berne.

The Altona Theater in the "House of Youth"

He attached importance to traditional productions:

"I do conservative theater, and the elderly, who make up a large part of my audience, are growing in our society."

Fitze headed the Altona and Harburg theater until 1994, when he resigned as director under pressure from the cultural authorities. Due to financial difficulties and subsidy cuts, both theaters were temporarily closed. At the time of his departure, after 49 years, Fitze was the longest-serving director worldwide.

In addition to his extensive stage work, Fitze also occasionally appeared in film and television productions, so u. a. next to Hans Albers in 13 little donkeys and the Sonnenhof . He has also made guest appearances on television series such as Our House in Cameroon and Gestatten, my name is Cox!

In addition, he lent his voice as a dubbing actor. a. Michael Hordern ( they were 13 ), Mervyn Johns ( demon woman ) and Joseph Tomelty ( I am master of the house , Simba , life is full of miracles ).

Since 1949, Fitze was also extensively active as a radio play speaker at NWDR Hamburg and its successor at NDR . This also included a large number of dialect radio plays, in which he appeared together with the ensemble of the Ohnsorg Theater .

Hans Fitze was married to the actress Elke Ahlf alias Elly Fitze (1905-2008), who also played for many years at the Altona Theater.

Filmography

Radio plays

  • 1949: Women without a Harbor - Director: Gustav Burmester
  • 1949: Ship without a harbor - Director: Fritz Schröder-Jahn
  • 1950: Sam Small's Adventure - Director: Kurt Reiss
  • 1950: A Son of the Sun (based on Jack London ) - Director: Curt Becker
  • 1950: Caliban - Director: Otto Kurth
  • 1950: Gods, Graves and Scholars - Director: Gustav Burmester
  • 1950: The jump over the shadow - Director: Fritz Schröder-Jahn
  • 1950: The Iron Tower - Author and Director: Günther Schnabel
  • 1950: The Deadly Stars (based on Oscar Wilde ) - Director: Fritz Schröder-Jahn
  • 1950: Hundred Kronen (Illusion) - Director: Kurt Reiss
  • 1950: Stroll through November - Director: Curt Becker
  • 1950: One pays his debt - Director: Fritz Schröder-Jahn
  • 1951: Stroll through December - Director: Curt Becker
  • 1951: If you touch bad luck, you defile (based on John Galsworthy ) - Director: Werner Hausmann
  • 1951: Die Glücksritter or Fortuna here to me (based on Joseph von Eichendorff ) - Director: Gustav Burmester
  • 1951: Stroll through January - Director: Curt Becker
  • 1951: Stroll through February - Director: Curt Becker
  • 1951: Stroll through April - Director: Curt Becker
  • 1951: Sailing - a sport for men - Director: Rudi Fisch
  • 1951: The Secret of the Yosemite Indians - Director: Kurt Reiss
  • 1951: The way to the space ship - Director: Fritz Schröder-Jahn
  • 1951: Mr. Ohnix is ​​looking for his murderer - Director: Hans Rosenhauer
  • 1951: Stroll through July - Director: SO Wagner
  • 1951: Stroll through August - Director: Hans Rosenhauer
  • 1951: The devil rides on the express train (by Herbert Reinecker ) - Director: Fritz Schröder-Jahn
  • 1951: We build our cabbage - Director: Rudi Fisch
  • 1951: Stroll through September - Director: Hans Rosenhauer
  • 1951: Father needs a wife (by Herbert Reinecker) - Director: Fritz Schröder-Jahn
  • 1951: Stroll through October - Director: Hans Rosenhauer
  • 1951: Profession and calling - Director: Hans Rosenhauer
  • 1951: The coup d'état - directed by Fritz Schröder-Jahn
  • 1952: Fahrwohl, Benjowsky - Director: Gert Westphal
  • 1952: From the life of a doctor. The surgeon Ferdinand Sauerbruch tells - Director: Fritz Schröder-Jahn
  • 1952: Der Seelengreifer - Director: Hans Rosenhauer
  • 1952: Stroll through March - Director: Hans Rosenhauer
  • 1952: Ballad vom Meer - Directed by Gustav Burmester
  • 1952: The court withdraws to deliberate ; Episode: Tumult at football - Director: Gerd Fricke
  • 1952: The big clockwork - Director: Fritz Schröder-Jahn
  • 1952: The court withdraws to deliberate; Episode: March 13th - Director: Gerd Fricke
  • 1953: Encounter in the Balkan Express - Director: Gert Westphal
  • 1953: Gobsch - Director: Fritz Schröder-Jahn
  • 1953: En Swien geiht üm - Director: Günter Jansen
  • 1953: Gott sien Speelmann - Director: Hans Tügel
  • 1953: Dat Motiv - Director: Günter Jansen
  • 1954: Smuggelmeier - Director: Günter Jansen
  • 1954: Dutch-Low German hour: Two short radio plays - Director: Hans Tügel
  • 1954: Friekamen - Director: Günter Jansen
  • 1954: Greta - Director: Günter Jansen
  • 1954: De Weg na Huus - Director: Günter Jansen
  • 1954: Dat Hart is klöker - Director: Hans Tügel
  • 1955: Mary Celeste - Director: Otto Kurth
  • 1955: Vampire trial files - Director: Hans Gertberg
  • 1955: Asmus Karsten söcht en niege Heimat - Director: Hans Tügel
  • 1955: The Nigger on Scharhörn - Director: Kurt Reiss
  • 1956: De Börgermeister vun Lütten-Bramdörper - Director: Hans Tügel
  • 1956: De Appelboom in'n Hoff - Director: Günter Jansen
  • 1956: Bunte Mardels - Director: Günter Jansen
  • 1956: De vun'n Weg afkümmt - Director: Hans Tügel
  • 1956: De ruge Hoff - Director: Hans Tügel
  • 1956: The court withdraws to deliberate; Episode: Assault in Julianstraße - Director: Gerd Fricke
  • 1956: Stratenmusik - Director: Hans Tügel
  • 1956: Südamerikan'sche Wull - Director: Günter Jansen
  • 1957: The Man Who Couldn't Sleep - Director: Hans Rosenhauer
  • 1957: Stött di nich an de Nees, Hannes - Director: Günter Jansen
  • 1957: Fear Has Big Eyes - Director: Gustav Burmester
  • 1957: De grote Fahrt - Director: Günter Jansen
  • 1957: Kaspar Troll - Director: Hans Tügel
  • 1957: Pinkerton - Director: Günter Jansen
  • 1957: Dat Wunnerkind - Director: Günter Jansen
  • 1957: De Möllner Gerechtigkeit - Director: Hans Tügel
  • 1958: Karussell för di un mi - Director: Günter Jansen
  • 1958: Fieroben - Director: Günter Jansen
  • 1958: De Doden sünd dod - Director: Hans Tügel
  • 1958: Hamborg sien Uhlenspeegel - Director: Günter Jansen
  • 1958: Right mutt right blieven - Director: Hans Tügel
  • 1958: En lütt Paradies, vun dat de Olen didn't understand anything - Director: Günter Jansen
  • 1959: Spök in'n Dörpen - Director: Otto Lüthje
  • 1959: The hunt for the perpetrator (Der Blumenbote) - Director: SO Wagner
  • 1959: Mudder Elend and Ehr Beerbohm - Director: Hans Tügel
  • 1959: Gott sien Speelmann - Director: Hans Tügel
  • 1960: Bott för de Doden - Director: Hans Tügel
  • 1960: De Lost Söhn - Director: Hans Tügel
  • 1961: Marschmusik för't Leben - Director: Hans Tügel
  • 1962: Dat Düvelsspil - Director: Hans Tügel
  • 1962: De Deenstplan - Director: Curt Timm
  • 1963: De trurige GmbH - Director: Rudolf Beiswanger
  • 1963: Koppgeld - Director: Rudolf Beiswanger
  • 1963: Against de Vörschrift - Director: Curt Timm
  • 1964: Schaltdeenst - Director: Curt Timm
  • 1964: Dat Arvdeel - Director: Otto Lüthje
  • 1965: Sössunsösstig - Director: Curt Timm
  • 1965: De gröne Muskant - Director: Curt Timm
  • 1966: De swarte Hahn - Director: Curt Timm
  • 1968: De Windbütel - Director: Curt Timm
  • 1968: Kriemhilde doesn’t want to be forgotten - Director: Curt Timm
  • 1973: The strange telephone - Director: Gustav Burmester

Unknown date:

  • De mit dat Teken - Director: Curt Timm

Honors

Street sign in Harburg: Hans-Fitze-Straße with biographical information
Memorial plaque on Küchgarten 33 residential building

In 1992 Fitze was appointed professor. On April 16, 2003, when Fitze would have been 100 years old that day, part of the street Küchgarten in Hamburg-Harburg was renamed Hans-Fitze-Straße . Fitze had lived in Küchgarten 33 until 1994, and the building now used by the Hamburg Academy for Music and Culture housed the theater's office and rehearsal stage. In November 2003, a memorial plaque was attached to the Altona Theater at the endeavor of the Altona Citizens' Association and the Patriotic Society of 1756 . Together with his wife Elke Ahlf, who died in 2008, Hans Fitze received an honorary grave in the Harburg New Cemetery in the same year .
Since 2013, a photo and a plaque in the foyer of the Archaeological Museum Hamburg (Helms Museum) have been pointing to the artist's merits.

Remarks

  1. ^ "Theater was his passion", Winsener Anzeiger from November 27, 1998.
  2. ↑ [1]  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Hamburger Abendblatt from March 5, 2003; Harburg gets Hans-Fitze-Strasse@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.abendblatt.de  
  3. ↑ illustrated prehistory of the honorary grave in The History of the Altona City Archives , Part 6 (2008), pages 275-277.

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personal data
SURNAME Fitze, Hans
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German actor, radio play speaker, director and theater director
DATE OF BIRTH April 16, 1903
PLACE OF BIRTH Lübeck
DATE OF DEATH November 25, 1998
Place of death Hamburg