Hans Pössenbacher

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Hans Pössenbacher (born July 14, 1895 as Hans Pawlow in Graz , Austria , † February 24, 1979 in Munich , Germany ) was a German actor , radio play and voice actor .

biography

Hans Pössenbacher was born in Graz to a German actress and a Russian doctor from Munich. After finishing school, he quickly turned to acting. He received his first engagement in 1920. He played in various German-speaking theaters under the name of his father, Pavlov. In 1933 he took his mother's maiden name, Pössenbacher.

After the National Socialists came to power in 1933, he played supporting roles in two propangada films. He began his theater career in Lübeck and then moved to Zurich . In 1946, the extremely versatile actor moved to the Munich Kammerspiele . He stayed there for 30 years. He could be seen in a wide variety of roles, including plays by Jean Anouilh , William Faulkner , Erich Kästner , Ernst Barlach and Arthur Miller . His greatest stage successes include The Apostle Play by Max Mell and Astutuli , Die Bernauerin and The Christmas Play by Carl Orff .

From 1945 he worked as a freelancer for Bavarian Broadcasting . There he took part in around 1,500 programs over a decade and a half. One of his best-known roles is that of his father in the Brandl family series . He was also heard in some episodes of the Brummlg'schichten series .

He began his film career in 1930 with a small role in the classic film Die Drei von der Gasstelle . More films followed by the end of the war, mostly with minor roles. After the war he continued his film career. He soon got engagements in television too. He is best known here mainly in one of the main roles of the second part ( General ) of the television classic in green area on the beach of the Spree by Hans Scholz in 1960, one of the first street sweeper of the German television , where it meets the head of a field dog unit in occupied northern Norway embodied in the war years 1944/45. The actor could also be seen in numerous television series. These included Alarm in the Mountains , Das Kriminalmuseum , Der Kommissar , Tatort and Derrick . As a voice actor, for example, he loaned Harry Davenport as the French King Louis XI. in The Hunchback of Notre Dame from 1939 his voice.

Hans Pössenbacher, who was married to his colleague Irene Carol , died in Munich in 1979 at the age of 83 and was buried in the Nordfriedhof there (250-UM-5-146).

Filmography (selection)

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ knerger.de: The grave of Hans Pössenbacher
personal data
SURNAME Pössenbacher, Hans
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Pawlow, Hans (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German actor, radio play and voice actor
DATE OF BIRTH July 14, 1895
PLACE OF BIRTH Graz , Austria
DATE OF DEATH February 24, 1979
Place of death Munich , Germany