Hans Rehmann

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Hans Rehmann (born March 20, 1900 in Zurich ; † August 10, 1939 in Langenthal ) was a Swiss actor .

Live and act

Rehmann had studied German and then worked briefly as a teacher at a school. He gained his first acting experience on a touring stage. In 1921 he went to Berlin and took up an engagement at the Volksbühne . Elisabeth Bergner, with whom he appeared in the film Love in 1926 , helped him achieve his subsequent career. Rehmann played leading roles in, among others, König Lear and Der Verschwender , directed by Jürgen Fehling . He was later seen at the Deutsches Theater as Hector in Troilus and Cressida , as a good companion in Jedermann and as Thoas in Iphigenie on Tauris . Heinz Hilpert and Max Reinhardt were among his directors . But he was particularly successful at the Metropol-Theater .

In 1926 Rehmann got his first role in silent films , three years later the director Paul Czinner brought him to London for another silent film . There he played a leading role on the side of Pola Negri in a melodrama . After further theatrical tasks at the Volksbühne, this time at the side of colleagues like Peter Lorre and Lotte Lenya , Rehmann took on leading roles in seven early sound films in the early 1930s . His appearance as the loyal courier of Frederick the Great, Major Lindeneck, was best known in the Prussian film The Flute Concert by Sans-souci . In 1932 he was seen with a professorship role, the male lead, at the side of Asta Nielsen in her only and last sound film Impossible Love .

With the National Socialist "seizure of power" in Germany, Hans Rehmann returned to his old homeland in 1933. There he was seen in a Swiss-German-language movie that same year (1933) . It was to be his last work in front of the camera. Then Rehmann accepted an engagement in Vienna at the Theater in der Josefstadt , where he worked again with Max Reinhardt but also with his right hand Otto Preminger . Rehmann played the title role in Faust I , Bluntschli in Helden and von Asterberg in Alt-Heidelberg .

As a result of an illness with tuberculosis , Rehmann finally withdrew to Switzerland in 1935. He was married to Anna Katharina Salten (1904–1977), the daughter of the journalist and author Felix Salten . He lived in Langenthal, where, having become very religious in the meantime, he worked as a pastor . He died of his illness three weeks before the start of World War II .

Filmography

literature

  • Kay Less : "In life, more is taken from you than given ...". Lexicon of filmmakers who emigrated from Germany and Austria between 1933 and 1945. A general overview. ACABUS Verlag, Hamburg 2011, ISBN 978-3-86282-049-8 , p. 412.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ The date of death August 30, which is often read, is wrong.
  2. ^ Necrology for Hans Rehmann. Schweizer Film = Film Suisse: official organ of Switzerland, accessed on June 11, 2020 .
personal data
SURNAME Rehmann, Hans
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss actor
DATE OF BIRTH March 20, 1900
PLACE OF BIRTH Zurich , Switzerland
DATE OF DEATH August 10, 1939
Place of death Langenthal , Switzerland