Hans Reiser (actor)

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Hans Reiser (born June 3, 1919 in Munich , † June 10, 1992 in Munich) was a German actor .

The trained draftsman and photographer was a stage actor from 1936. He has acted at theaters in Zurich, Berlin and Munich, among others, and has appeared in plays such as Des Teufels General , Tod einer Salesperson and Endstation Sehnsucht . Later he also took on tasks as a theater director , for example in 1971 at the Theater am Dom in Cologne for a performance of Dürrenmatt's Play Strindberg .

Reiser was used as a soldier during the Second World War and was taken prisoner by the US armed forces. During this time he met Klaus Mann and a pen friendship developed between the two artists.

In post-war films he was seen in major supporting roles since the early 1950s. In the artist biography A Song Goes Around the World (The Joseph Schmidt Story) (1958) he took on the role of the famous tenor Joseph Schmidt . In the international production Escape Hans Reiser presented in 1963 the Gestapo -Beamten Kuhn. In the thriller The Strangler from the tower he embodied the investigating inspector. In 1966 he played the fruit and vegetable dealer Thomas Webster, a member of the gang around the antique dealer Michael Donegan ( Horst Tappert ) and the barber shop owner Archibald Arrow ( Günther Neutze ) in the three-part play The Gentlemen ask for cash .

In 1966, Hans Reiser played a leading role alongside Margot Trooger in the television series "Our son Nicki", which ran very successfully on the ARD evening program.

Reiser also starred in a number of Bryan Edgar Wallace films and Tatort thrillers. Hans Reiser's last role (on television) was in the series Zwei Münchner in Hamburg .

It rests in Munich's Westfriedhof .

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ Helmut Koopmann: Donald A. Prater, Thomas Mann. German and world citizen. A biography. - Klaus Harpprecht, Thomas Mann. A biography. In: Arbitrium . tape 16 , no. 1 , 1998, ISSN  0723-2977 , doi : 10.1515 / arbi.1998.16.1.94 .
personal data
SURNAME Reiser, Hans
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German actor
DATE OF BIRTH June 3, 1919
PLACE OF BIRTH Munich
DATE OF DEATH June 10, 1992
Place of death Munich