Hans Mahnke

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Hans Mahnke (born April 22, 1905 in Stralsund ; † May 29, 1978 in Stuttgart ) was a German theater actor who worked mainly at the Württemberg State Theater in Stuttgart.

Life

Education and apprenticeship years

Hans Mahnke was the son of the Stralsund master baker Ludwig Mahnke (1876–1942). After receiving his acting training from Albert Bassermann , Mahnke initially worked as an actor in Cologne, Dessau, at the Stralsund Theater , in Mainz, Hamburg and Frankfurt / Main, before coming to Stuttgart in 1950 at the State Theater, to which he remained lifelong .

Stuttgart

At the time when Paul Hoffmann was in Stuttgart , Mahnke was part of the legendary ensemble of actors that also included Erich Ponto , Hermine Körner , Elisabeth Flickenschildt , Gerhard Just , Edith Heerdegen , Hans Caninenberg , Gisela von Collande and Theodor Loos , and one of them at the time strongest in Germany. In his later years he was next to Just the dominant old man figure of the state theater .

In the 1950s Mahnke played particularly often under Peter Palitzsch a . a. Othello and the Falstaff . He also played Alfred Ill in the drama The Visit of the Old Lady from 1959. In the 1960s a . a. under Benno Besson , Günther Lüders or Rudolf Noelte .

Title roles in the 1960s

At the beginning of the 1960s, Mahnke also shone in plays by modern authors such as Bertolt Brecht and Jewgeni Schwarz . Among other things, his portrayal of the village judge Adam in Noelte's staging of the comedy Der zerbrochne Krug by Heinrich von Kleist at the Ruhrfestspiele Recklinghausen in 1966 was later memorable . Other title roles were Carl Sternheim's Theobald mask in Der in the second half of the 1960s Snob and Molière's conceited sick man .

With Peter Zadek in Bochum

As a mature character actor, Mahnke experienced the Peter Zadek era in Bochum in the first half of the 1970s . Zadek cast him as Shylock in The Merchant of Venice , which Mahnke created as "people who have become ugly, driven into evil" (Peter Paltizsch in Theater heute ). Mahnke was also widely recognized as Sorin in Anton Chekhov's Die Möwe and Graf Gloster in King Lear , another Shakespeare production by Zadek in Bochum. He also played one of his rare film roles under the director. During this time he also had a guest role in the television series A Heart and Soul as Dr. Keller in the episode "A Serious Illness" (1973).

Last roles

Mahnke's last roles in Stuttgart include the portrayal of Müsjö in Die Geisel by Brendan Behan 1976 and that of Arkas in Goethe's Iphigenie in the year he died.

Grave of Hans Mahnke in the forest cemetery in Stuttgart

Mahnke was regarded as one of the great actors who were less aimed at effects, but rather wanted to shape their roles out of reserve. One of his first directors in Stuttgart, Peter Palitzsch, also once observed the aged Mahnke's rare ability to develop his roles as perfect fictional characters and at the same time bring a “person from real life” onto the stage.

Radio play speaker

While Mahnke stayed out of the film business as much as possible and only accepted a few selected roles for television (most recently in Peter Zadek's Ice Age or the mini-series Tadellöser & Wolff based on Walter Kempowski ), the actor was involved in sophisticated radio facilities for plays and novels and original radio plays to notice a far greater commitment. From the early 1950s, he was often the speaker of the leading roles, in radio programs and the like. a. based on materials by Ilse Aichinger , Alfred Andersch , Samuel Beckett , Ingmar Bergman , Günter Eich , Theodor Fontane , Jean Giraudoux , Kenneth Grahame , James Joyce , Franz Kafka , Ephraim Kishon , Heinrich von Kleist , Gotthold Ephraim Lessing , Molière , Antoine de Saint- Exupéry , Jean-Paul Sartre , Shakespeare , George Bernard Shaw , Dylan Thomas and Thornton Wilder .

Hans Mahnke died at the age of 73 and was buried in the Stuttgart forest cemetery in Degerloch .

Filmography

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  • 1955: The hot heart
  • 1957: corruption
  • 1959: The old lady's visit
  • 1959: The broken jug
  • 1960: the conceited sick man
  • 1960: The captain of Köpenick
  • 1961: The last chapter
  • 1961: The oyster and the pearl
  • 1961: The trap
  • 1962: Waiting for Dodo
  • 1963: The accounting
  • 1964: The double Santa Claus
  • 1964: Georges Dandin
  • 1964: Justice in Vorovogorsk
  • 1965: The poor man Luther
  • 1965: Obituary for Egon Müller
  • 1966: The whims of Mr. Lazukov
  • 1966: three sisters
  • 1967: The trial of Joan of Arc at Rouen in 1431
  • 1967: The broken jug
  • 1967: That was Mr. Brummell
  • 1968: Mathilde Möhring
  • 1969: Henry VI. - The war of the roses 1st part
  • 1969: Live and let live
  • 1969: Marija
  • 1971: The pot
  • 1973: one heart and one soul
  • 1973: Little man, what now?
  • 1974: The seagull
  • 1975: Blameworthy & Wolff
  • 1975: Ice Age
  • 1975: In the House of the Commerce Council

Radio plays

Works

Speech plates

  • The Christmas story according to Matthew and Luke, taken from Konstantin Rösch : "The New Testament"
  • Hans Hömberg - Cherries for Rome, with Gustaf Gründgens
  • Living Bible: Ancestors of Faith; Abraham - An Listening to Genesis 12-1 9 in

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ prisma.de: The visit of the old lady
  2. ↑ knerger.de: The grave of Hans Mahnke
personal data
SURNAME Mahnke, Hans
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German theater actor
DATE OF BIRTH April 22, 1905
PLACE OF BIRTH Stralsund
DATE OF DEATH May 29, 1978
Place of death Stuttgart