Hans Schellbach

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Hans Schellbach , actually Johannes Scheliga (born June 28, 1925 in Karf near Beuthen in Upper Silesia , † May 26, 1990 in Sandesneben , Schleswig-Holstein ) was a German actor , most convincing in roles of serious power people, and writer.

Live and act

Johannes Scheliga was born in 1925 as the son of the railway conductor Paul Scheliga and his wife Anna, née Mucha. After graduating from school in Beuthen, he completed a commercial apprenticeship and received acting lessons in Breslau during the Second War . After 1945 he continued his theater career under the stage name Hans Schellbach. You could see him on stages in Hof , Hamburg , Munich , Bamberg , Salzburg and at the Burgtheater in Vienna .

From the mid-1960s he showed a considerable presence in television games . Schellbach, of compact stature, with white hair and a penetrating voice, was mostly given the roles of powerful citizens and officials, generals and industrialists. He also played revolutionaries several times. His appearances were most convincing in ambitious documentary plays of the late 1960s and early 1970s with a contemporary background. Schellbach's characters always had a dominant presence, such as his communist and politician Georgi Dimitrov in the television play The Petkov case . He played Inspector Lestrade in three episodes of a German Sherlock Holmes series (1967/68); In the two-parter about the Dublin Easter Rising of 1916 The Irish Struggle for Freedom from 1969 he played the Irish freedom hero James Connolly and shortly afterwards the Mexican general and national hero Mariano Escobedo in the two-part monarchical drama Maximilian of Mexico .

Schellbach also took part in individual episodes of popular television series from the late 1960s, including Commissioner Freytag , Cliff Dexter , John Klings Adventure and The Fifth Column . He also made an appearance in the street sweeper Melissa .

The cinema was of only secondary importance in Schellbach's work in front of the camera; he made his last appearance there in 1982 with a small role in the Dieter Hallervorden comedy Der Schnüffler .

Filmography (selection)

TV unless otherwise stated

  • 1964: Herod and Marianne
  • 1965: Eight hours
  • 1965: Bernhard Lichtenberg
  • 1965: King Nicolo or This is life
  • 1966: Black Friday
  • 1966: The case of Lothar Malskat
  • 1966: the betrayal of the times
  • 1966: The Fifth Column : Murder on Order (TV series)
  • 1967: Cliff Dexter (series, continuous role)
  • 1967: Civil War in Russia (five-part TV series)
  • 1967: the day the children disappeared
  • 1967: A prisoner with Stalin and Hitler
  • 1967: The Petkov case
  • 1967: Sherlock Holmes
  • 1968: The Wera Sassulitsch case
  • 1968: Sir Roger Casement
  • 1968: The Reformer
  • 1968: The Spanish Civil War
  • 1968: The miracle of Lengede
  • 1969: Naval mutiny in 1917
  • 1969: The Cuba Crisis in 1962
  • 1969: The Irish struggle for freedom
  • 1969: The Sorge case
  • 1969: Kim Philby was the third man

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Pioskowik, Stefan: From actor to writer. In: Upper Silesian Voice. No. 9 (322), 15.-28. May 2015.
  2. ↑ according to the theater archive Kay Less
personal data
SURNAME Schellbach, Hans
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Scheliga, Johannes (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German actor
DATE OF BIRTH June 28, 1925
PLACE OF BIRTH Karf near Beuthen , Upper Silesia
DATE OF DEATH May 26, 1990
Place of death Sandesneben , Schleswig-Holstein