Hans Hofer (actor)

Hans Hofer , born in Hanuš Schulhof (born April 12, 1907 in Prague , Austria-Hungary , † April 26, 1973 in Rostock ) was a Czech-Austrian cabaret artist and actor .

Life

Hanuš Schulhof performed at a young age at cabaret theaters in Vienna and Czechoslovakia , including in Prague and Teplitz-Schönau . After the annexation of Austria in March 1938, Hofer left his adopted home Austria, which had existed since 1924, and went with his wife, the soubrette and cabaret artist Lisl Steinitz , at the beginning of May 1938 he returned to Prague.

At the end of July 1942, the Hofers were deported to the Theresienstadt ghetto . Hofer founded his own mezzanine there, the Hofer Cabaret. In the autumn of the same year he worked on Irena Dodalová's film Theresienstadt 1942 . In addition to Karel Švenk , Hans Hofer was one of the leading forces in the creation of cultural creativity in this ghetto. He staged cabaret performances and revues , but also classical pieces such as Franz Molnar's play in the castle and Arthur Schnitzler's farewell souper, as well as the Strauss operetta Die Fledermaus .

In autumn 1944 Hofer and Steinitz were separated. Lisl Steinitz stayed in Theresienstadt for a few days, while Hans Hofer was deported to Auschwitz at the end of September 1944 . Two weeks later he was transferred to the Dachau concentration camp . Hofer was liberated in April 1945 in the Kaufering satellite camp .

Hofer and his wife first returned to Prague. In 1960 the couple settled in Rostock and continued their stage work at the Volkstheater .

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. 179.
• Volker Kühn (Ed.): Germany's Awakening: Cabaret under the swastika; 1933-1945 . Volume 3. Weinheim: Quadriga, 1989 ISBN 3-88679-163-7 , p. 375 (short biography)

Web links

• Hans Hofer in Theresienstadt Lexicon