Harald Mannl

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Harald Mannl , actually Wenzel Bruno Emil Mannl (born April 25, 1904 in Dresden ; † February 20, 1961 in Munich ) was a German actor and radio play speaker who also directed two DEFA films and one radio play .

Life

Mannl first completed an apprenticeship as a typesetter and took acting lessons. He made his stage debut in his native Dresden in 1922 and was subsequently engaged on various stages throughout Germany. After the end of the Second World War, Mannl went to Munich and appeared as an actor at the Münchner Kammerspiele and in the Kleine Komödie .

During his time in Munich, Mannl had already acted as a voice actor and made his screen debut as an actor in the 1948 film The Lost Face by Kurt Hoffmann in the role of "Leo L'Arronge". This was followed by several appearances in German films, including in The Eternal Game at the side of Will Quadflieg , Willy Birgel and Cornell Borchers , and in 1951 in a supporting role in the Austrian feature film The Blue Star of the South . Mannerl often played shady characters.

From 1952 Mannl also appeared in films from the GDR. He had his first role in the crime film Secret Files Solvay . His greatest film role was that of the scientist Dr. Kurt Wagner in the spy film The Dr. Wagner . The film was also Mannl's directorial debut. Mannl's second directorial work for DEFA became a star with strange feathers in 1955 . After that he was no longer active for DEFA and returned to the Federal Republic, where he still appeared in various entertainment films until his death in 1961 - mainly for television as an actor, for example in 1960 under the direction of Hans Quest in the street sweeper It's time by Francis Durbridge .

Shortly after the war, he began his career as a radio play speaker, mainly for the BR and the SDR . He appeared in numerous leading and supporting roles, for example in the eight-part radio play Treasure Island in 1953 , where he played the role of Squire Trelawney. His partners included Hans Clarin , Benno Sterzenbach and Bum Krüger .

Filmography

As a performer

As a director

Radio plays (selection)

As a speaker

  • 1946: Das Flaschenteufelchen (after Robert Louis Stevenson ) - directed by Cläre Schimmel
  • 1946: Mitja's homecoming (based on Alexander Sergejewitsch Pushkin ) - directed by Cläre Schimmel
  • 1946: Woe to him who lies (based on Franz Grillparzer ) - Director: Cläre Schimmel
  • 1946: The Ride to the East - Director: Cläre Schimmel
  • 1946: Station D in the Eismeer - Director: Cläre Schimmel
  • 1946: Hocus pocus (based on Curt Goetz ) - directed by Cläre Schimmel
  • 1947: With my eyes - Director: Clare Schimmel
  • 1947: Elisabeth Barrett or The House of Forbidden Love - Director: Cläre Schimmel
  • 1947: Now they are singing again (based on Max Frisch ) - Director: Cläre Schimmel
  • 1947: Carl Zuckmayer : Der Hauptmann von Köpenick (Oberwachtmeister) - Director: Alfred Vohrer ( SDR )
  • 1947: Erich Kästner : The lifelong child (privy councilor Schlüter) - directed by Alfred Vohrer (SDR)
  • 1948: Leonhard Frank : It can't go on like this! (Public Prosecutor) - Director: Alfred Vohrer (SDR)
  • 1948: Wolfdietrich Schnurre : One should be against it! (Richter) - Director: Oskar Nitschke (SDR)
  • 1949: Wrongly connected - Director: Heinz-Günter Stamm
  • 1950: Pique-Dame (after Alexander Sergejewitsch Pushkin) - Director: Heinz-Günter Stamm
  • 1950: We are not alone - Director: Heinz-Günter Stamm
  • 1950: A Midsummer Night's Dream (based on William Shakespeare ) - Director: Heinz-Günter Stamm
  • 1951: Remote office please! - Director: Heinz-Günter Stamm
  • 1951: The Portuguese Battle - Director: Otto Kurth
  • 1952: Unmounted Gemstones - Directed by Willy Purucker
  • 1952: The banquet - directed by Heinz-Günter Stamm
  • 1953: The Banquet of Petronius - directed. Otto Kurth
  • 1953: The freedom of the prisoner lieutenant - director: Heinz-Günter Stamm
  • 1953: The one in the middle - Director: Heinz-Günter Stamm
  • 1953: The Lord of Paris - Director: Fritz Benscher
  • 1953: Treasure Island (multi-part based on Robert Louis Stevenson) - Director: Hanns Cremer
  • 1954: The lights are still on behind seven windows - Director: Heinz-Günter Stamm
  • 1955: The girl from the Moorhof (after Selma Lagerlöf ) - Director: Heinz-Günter Stamm
  • 1955: Anna Sophie Hedwig - Director: Ulrich Lauterbach
  • 1955: Barefoot in Athens - Director: Fränze Roloff
  • 1956: Visit from the Zone - Director: Ulrich Lauterbach
  • 1956: Night Watch - Director: Otto Kurth
  • 1956: The portrait of old age - Director: Otto Kurth
  • 1956: Minna von Barnhelm (based on Gotthold Ephraim Lessing ) - director: Heinz-Günter Stamm
  • 1956: Regen (based on William Somerset Maugham ) - Director: Otto Kurth
  • 1957: Egmont (after Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ) - Director: Heinz-Günter Stamm
  • 1957: The Ballad of Half a Century - Director: Heinz-Günter Stamm
  • 1957: Job - Director: Otto Kurth

As a director

  • 1952: The Swabian creation

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Habel / Wachter, p. 243.
personal data
SURNAME Mannl, Harald
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Mannl, Wenzel Bruno Emil (real name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German actor and radio play speaker
DATE OF BIRTH April 25, 1904
PLACE OF BIRTH Dresden
DATE OF DEATH February 20, 1961
Place of death Munich