Hans Sturm (actor)

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Hans Sturm , occasionally incorrectly written as Hans Stürm (born January 21, 1874 in Dresden , † January 17, 1933 in Berlin ) was a German actor , writer , stage director and screenwriter .

Live and act

Sturm began his acting career in Potsdam when he was twenty . In the new century, Louise Dumont signed him to the Düsseldorfer Schauspielhaus , which she directed , where he worked both as an actor and as a director. Immediately before the First World War , Sturm worked in both functions at the Leipziger Schauspielhaus . A little later, Hans Sturm moved to Berlin, where he was led as senior director and writer. In the latter capacity, he wrote a large number of cheerful works that have been performed since 1913. His Schwank Der unfaithful Eckehart was filmed twice in the 1930s (1931 and 1939) and in 1928, still in silent films, as Don Juan in the girls' school .

On the side, Sturm also began working in film. Paul Wegener had brought him just before the war ended in 1918 for two of its productions for the first time before the camera and gave him two years later with the Rabbi Yehudah a role in the legendary Golem - version. Until Wegener had to give up film directing in 1924, Sturm repeatedly played medium-sized roles in his films. In Wegener's mystical drama Living Buddhas , he was also involved in the script together with Wegener and took on a leading role with Professor Campbel. Since then, Hans Sturm has written a number of manuscripts on productions of the late silent film era. In 1925 he wrote the screenplay himself for his model love and trumpet blowing . His only sound film work was the script for the comedy Trara um Liebe by Richard Eichberg , for which he had already worked several times in the silent film.

When Sturm died a few days before Adolf Hitler came to power , he was remembered in an obituary, especially in the role of an actor: “ Especially in the first naturalistic period he had a lot of success due to the sharp, natural nature of his characteristics. He had something of a nerd in life, which was carried over to his stage characters and made them interesting. On the other hand, because of his originality he always remained so closely connected with everything natural that he never fell into the comedic . "

Filmography

as an actor:

as screenwriter:

  • 1924: Living Buddhas
  • 1925: passion
  • 1925: love and trumpet blowing
  • 1926: The girl on the swing
  • 1926: Chaste Susanne
  • 1926: Princess Trulala
  • 1927: The great Lola
  • 1927: Your Highness Radishes
  • 1927: The serfs
  • 1928: The girl from the revue
  • 1931: Trara about love

Catalog of works (selection)

  • The unfaithful Eckehart (Schwank, first performance 1913 in Königsberg (Prussia) )
  • Lehmann's children (Schwank, first performance 1915 in Leipzig )
  • Heinz coughs; Fridolin, the child prodigy; That's how it was once (three one-act plays, premiered in Leipzig in 1916)
  • How do I tie my man? (“A happy, marital chamber play”, premiered in 1917 in Hamburg )
  • Das Extemporale (comedy with M. Färber, world premiere in 1917 in Hamburg and Dresden )
  • Wedding rings (Schwank with A. Engel, first performance 1921 in Hanau )
  • Die Mausefalle (Schwank with H. Bachwitz, first performance 1921 in Hanau )
  • Maze of love (Schwank, first performance 1925 in Leipzig)
  • Playing with fire (comedy, first performed in Bremen in 1927 )
  • The double Rosita (world premiere probably in 1931)
  • The little mouse in the Frensen house (premiered probably in 1932 in Bad Reichenhall )

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ German Stage Yearbook. Vol. 45, 1934, ISSN  0070-4431 , p. 100.

literature

  • Wilhelm Kosch (founder): German Theater Lexicon. Biographical and bibliographical manual. Volume 4: Singer - Tzschoppe. Continued by Ingrid Bigler-Marschall. Saur, Bern et al. 1998, ISBN 3-907820-30-4 , p. 2463.

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personal data
SURNAME Sturm, Hans
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Stürm, Hans (incorrect spelling)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German actor, screenwriter, stage director and writer
DATE OF BIRTH January 21, 1874
PLACE OF BIRTH Dresden
DATE OF DEATH January 17, 1933
Place of death Berlin