Hans Mierendorff

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Hans Mierendorff before 1930 on a photograph by Alexander Binder

Hans Mierendorff (civil: Johannes Reinhold Mierendorff ; born June 30, 1882 in Rostock , † December 26, 1955 in Eutin ) was a German actor .

Life

The son of the merchant Carl Mierendorff and his wife Johanna née Reinke, a painter, attended high school in Rostock and the Friderico-Francisceum grammar school in Doberan . After an apprenticeship as a bookseller in Schwerin , he trained as an actor and began to play as an apprentice at the Schwerin court theater . He performed in Hamburg, Halle and Breslau. From 1911 to 1919 he worked on various stages in Berlin , from 1911 to 1913 at the Residenztheater , from 1913 to 1915 at the Lessing Theater , from 1915 to 1917 at the German Art Theater and until 1919 at the Meinhard-Bernauer-Bühnen.

He had his first appearance in the film in 1911 in the Henny Porten film The Adoptive Child, and in the same year played alongside Asta Nielsen as their father in The Foreign Bird , directed by Urban Gad . Mierendorff was often cast as an elegant, distinguished gentleman. He had success in the eight-part series Die Herrin der Welt (1919) produced and partially staged by Joe May .

In 1919 he founded Lucifer-Film GmbH, which he was artistic director until it was sold in 1923. In his own production, he played leading roles in adventure and crime films. His double role in the film I am You (1921) is remarkable . In sound films he only worked as a supporting actor and after 1945 withdrew completely from film work. He then ran a pension on the Baltic Sea .

Hans Mierendorff played in over 150 films. He was married to the animal painter Gertrud Schmidt since 1903. In 1923 he went into his second marriage with the singer and actress Auguste Herta Katsch . His son Klaus Mierendorff (1923–1966) came from this marriage. In 1940 he got his third marriage with her sister Antonie Katsch.

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SURNAME Mierendorff, Hans
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German actor
DATE OF BIRTH June 30, 1882
PLACE OF BIRTH Rostock
DATE OF DEATH December 26, 1955
Place of death Eutin