Hans Hinrich

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Hans Hinrich (born November 27, 1903 in Berlin , † October 30, 1974 in Berlin) was a German director , actor and voice actor .

Life and work

Hans Hinrich was initially a theater director. His film career began in 1931 at Ufa , which had switched to sound film technology shortly before and expanded rapidly in the early 1930s. Up until 1938, Hinrich directed a number of films which, although starring Ufa's most important stars ( Hans Albers , Heinrich George , Lil Dagover , Attila Hörbiger ), had only moderate success at the box office. Hinrich was of Jewish descent and converted to the Catholic Church in 1939. Due to the influence of the film actress Maria Krahn , who was well-liked during the Nazi era and with whom he had been married since 1928, he had received a special permit to work until 1939 after his exclusion from the Reich Chamber of Culture in 1936. He then went to Rome , where he directed productions for various Italian film companies until the end of the war.

In 1946, Hinrich began a second career as a film actor in Rome as Giovanni Hinrich or Giovanni Heinrich . He had his biggest appearance in the Hugo adaptation I miserabili , published in 1948 , in which he played the role of Javert alongside Gino Cervi . As a supporting actor, he also appeared occasionally in German movies and from 1955 on in German television productions. Hinrich's last two directorial works were also in Germany: K - Das Haus des Schweigens (1951) was the dark guilt drama of a murderer (with Ernst Deutsch ) and Conchita and the Engineer (1954) an undemanding adventure film about oil drills in the exotic milieu of the Brazilian jungle .

After the end of the Second World War, Hinrich's field of work was initially film dubbing. As a voice actor, he lent his voice to Edward G. Robinson , Claude Rains and Spencer Tracy, among others .

Hinrich was appointed senior director at the Wuppertaler Bühnen in 1955 and from 1958 to 1966 was general manager of the Gelsenkirchen municipal theaters in their new building.

Filmography (selection)

Director

actor

literature

  • Kay Less : Between the stage and the barracks. Lexicon of persecuted theater, film and music artists from 1933 to 1945 . With a foreword by Paul Spiegel . Metropol, Berlin 2008, ISBN 978-3-938690-10-9 , p. 169.
  • Joseph Walk (ed.): Short biographies on the history of the Jews 1918–1945. Edited by the Leo Baeck Institute, Jerusalem. Saur, Munich 1988, ISBN 3-598-10477-4 .

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