Hans von Zedlitz

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Hans Albrecht Freiherr von Zedlitz and Neukirch (* 9. August 1890 in Berlin , † 12. May 1948 in Solothurn , Switzerland ) was a German actor of stage and film as well as a theater director .

Life

Zedlitz-Neukirch was already on stage at the age of 14 and began his professional career with bonvivant roles in Hamburg. He quickly grew into the character subject. His first permanent engagement as an adult led him to the Schauspielhaus Leipzig in 1915. He stayed there for three years before moving to the Bremen Schauspielhaus for a season at the end of the war in 1918. Zedlitz returned to his hometown Berlin in mid-1919 and was engaged at the Thalia Theater in the coming season (1919/1920). At the same time, he accepted offers from the film for the first time, but they did not leave an impression.

In the 1924/25 season, von Zedlitz acted at the Volksbühne in Berlin and in the following season at the United Municipal Theaters of Beuthen-Gleiwitz-Hindenburg (Upper Silesia). In 1926/27 he was seen at the Görlitz City Theater and in 1927/28 at the Brandenburg City Theater, where he was also allowed to stage plays as a director. At this time, the German aristocrat also worked for the first time at the Biel-Solothurn City Theater, which was to become his permanent home since the late 1930s. The 1928/29 season brought Hans von Zedlitz to the Schiller Theater in Altona, and in 1929 he was a brief guest at the Zürcher Schauspielhaus. In 1929/30 he worked at the Deutsches Theater Hannover, from 1930 to 1932 both as an actor and director at the Small Theater in Kassel.

In 1933 he returned to Berlin for the second time, where von Zedlitz had worked for the next three years at the Komödienhaus Berlin and the Theater am Kurfürstendamm. During these years he also returned to the camera for small roles and was given preference for director roles of all kinds. In 1936 the artist, who had been very active up to that point, fell personally when Hans von Zedlitz was expelled from both the Reich Theater Chamber and the Reich Film Chamber due to the fact that he was considered a so-called “ half-Jew ” according to the Nuremberg race laws . Any further artistic work in the German Reich was thus excluded for him.

Zedlitz and his family first emigrated to Vienna, in November 1936 temporarily to Moscow because of a film offer. The German exile was temporarily imprisoned there in 1937 as part of the Stalinist purges . His family returned to Germany and the marriage ended in divorce. After six months in prison, the Soviet authorities deported Zedlitz back to the Reich of Adolf Hitler. After being arrested again, this time by the Gestapo , he finally managed to leave Switzerland in 1938.

There, until shortly before his untimely death in the spring of 1948, Hans von Zedlitz found permanent employment at the Biel-Solothurn City Theater, where he worked both as an actor and as a director. Over 70 roles have been documented in these almost ten years, including the Baptista in Shakespeare's The Taming of the Shrew , Adrian von Bubenberg in Schell's The Mayor of Zurich , Machiavell in Goethe's Egmont and the Mayor in Steinbeck's The Moon went down . Zedlitz's best-known Swiss productions include Fodor's arm like a church mouse , Lessing's Minna von Barnhelm , Molnár's Die Fee and Beer's Der Schatten . In 1945 Zedlitz also made a brief guest appearance at the Stadttheater Basel.

The son Gerd von Zedlitz (1923–1945), child actor in film, emerged from the marriage with the actress Leonore Ehn .

Filmography

  • 1919: The living dead
  • 1919: when life says no
  • 1920: dancer death
  • 1920: The woman in the clouds
  • 1921: The horror of the snake tomb
  • 1923: Blood guilt
  • 1934: To be a great lady for once
  • 1934: virgin against monk
  • 1934: Bad luck
  • 1935: Artists
  • 1935: Night of Transformation
  • 1936: Secret of an old house

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personal data
SURNAME Zedlitz, Hans von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Zedlitz and Neukirch, Hans Albrecht Freiherr von (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German actor on stage and film as well as a theater director
DATE OF BIRTH August 9, 1890
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH May 12, 1948
Place of death Solothurn , Switzerland