Hans Stuewe

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Hans Stüwe, photograph (around 1929) by Ernst Sandau

Hans Stüwe (born May 14, 1901 in Halle an der Saale ; † May 13, 1976 in Berlin ) was a German actor and opera director .

Life

The son of a landowner studied art history in Halle and Leipzig as well as musicology and singing with Hermann Abert , Hans-Joachim Moser and Arnold Schering . In 1923 Stüwe made his debut as a baritone at the Königsberg Opera . He then switched to working as an opera director and performed several forgotten operas and musical plays. In addition, he published some music theory writings.

After initial hesitation, from 1926 Hans Stüwe also accepted offers as a film actor. The man with the ascetic, distinctive facial features quickly came to the fore. In Prince Louis Ferdinand (1927) he already received the title role. In Feme (1927) he was an assassin, in Schinderhannes (1928) he played the legendary robber captain, he was also the title character in Cagliostro (1929) and the poet prince Johann Wolfgang Goethe in the production Die Jugendgeliebte .

He played a leading role in the first full-length German sound film, Dich hab 'ich leoben (1929). In the nationalistic historical film Tannenberg (1932) he was a self-sacrificing landowner, and in the equally patriotic product Trenck he embodied the title hero. As Baron von Cocceji , Stüwe played the rival of King Frederick the Great for the favor of the dancer Barberina in The Dancer of Sanssouci (1932) ; in Liselotte von der Pfalz (1935) he was seen as her husband, Philip of Orleans. In Richard Eichberg's two-part series The Tiger from Eschnapur and The Indian Tomb (both 1937), Stüwe shone as a German architect and tomb builder Fürbringer. In 1939 he finally embodied the Russian composer Peter Tchaikovsky in It was a glittering ball night at the side of Zarah Leander and Marika Rökk .

After the end of the war, he devoted himself more to staging operas. In 1949, Hans Stüwe made a German text revision and reworking of the opera Il matrimonio segreto (The Secret Marriage) by Domenico Cimarosa , which emphasized the dramatic accents and gave the dialogues an almost cabaret-like feel. Stüwe's version has been performed on more than 40 different opera stages, including Belgium , and recorded for television.

In the summer of 1950 he made several suicide attempts. Recovered, he played a central role in the classic Heimatfilm in 1951, Green is the Heath . In 1957 he had his last film role as a South Seas Hermit in Blue Boys . He then concentrated entirely on working as an opera and theater director and participating in radio broadcasts. His urn was buried anonymously in the Wilmersdorf cemetery.

Filmography

Web links

Commons : Hans Stüwe  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Other information: 1904
  2. ↑ Other information: Marnitz
  3. ↑ knerger.de: The grave of Hans Stüwe
personal data
SURNAME Stüwe, Hans
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German actor
DATE OF BIRTH May 14, 1901
PLACE OF BIRTH Halle on the Saale
DATE OF DEATH May 13, 1976
Place of death Berlin