Hardy Krueger
Eberhard August Franz Ewald "Hardy" Krüger ( born April 12, 1928 in Berlin ; † January 19, 2022 in Palm Springs ) was a German film actor , radio play speaker , voice actor and writer . He was one of the most successful German actors of the 1950s and 1960s. After establishing himself as a film star in Germany, he was featured in international film productions such as Einer kam durch , Hatari! , The Flight of the Phoenix , Barry Lyndon , The Arnhem Bridge and The Wild Geese are world famous. He also moderated television programs and campaigned against right-wing extremism .
Life
Education, war experience and political orientation
Eberhard August Franz Ewald Krüger was born in Berlin in 1928, the son of the engineer Max Krüger (manager of the Berliner Tanklager-GmbH, BeTaLag ) and his wife Auguste Meier. He had a sister. The family moved to Berlin-Biesdorf in the 1930s , where Krüger grew up.
In 1941, at the age of thirteen, at the request of his parents, he came to the elite boarding school at Ordensburg Sonthofen , one of the Nazi- oriented Adolf Hitler Schools (AHS) belonging to the Hitler Youth . His schoolmates included Jakob Muth and Theo Sommer . Until 1944, Krüger was educated here for a future leadership position in the Nazi state , with his career aspirations being an engineer.
During his school days in Sonthofen , Krüger was selected in 1943 to play the apprentice Heinz Baum, known as "Bäumchen", for the Nazi propaganda film Junge Adler , directed by Alfred Weidenmann . The film was shot in the UFA studios in Babelsberg in 1943 and was released in cinemas in May 1944.
acting career
On the advice of Wolfgang Liebeneiner , Krüger became an extra at the Hamburger Schauspielhaus and spokesman for the NWDR . After moving to Hanover , his acting talent soon crystallized. In the 1950s he became a popular film star in Germany, but found German post-war cinema too shallow, which is why he increasingly looked out for international offers.
His portrayal of the fighter pilot Franz von Werra in the British war film One came through made him well-known in English-speaking countries in 1957. In the period that followed, he was seen alternately in German and international productions until the early 1960s, with the quality of the German films improving after his return from England in 1957 ( Der Fuchs von Paris , Banktresor 713 , Confession, Dr. Corda! , the two Käutner productions The Rest is Silence and The Goose by Sedan as well as Boomerang and Two under a Million ) increased noticeably.
After the war he was one of the few German actors to have an international film career; he now called himself Hardy Krüger . He worked in numerous productions up until the 1980s , including Howard Hawks ' animal catcher film Hatari! alongside John Wayne , in the mercenary flick The Wild Geese alongside Richard Burton and Roger Moore , in the star -studded plane crash drama The Flight of the Phoenix by Robert Aldrich starring James Stewart , Richard Attenborough and Peter Finch and in The Red Tent , a Soviet one -Italian co-production with Sean Connery and Claudia Cardinale . In France, he played a German captain in the desert war drama Taxi nach Tobruk alongside Lino Ventura and Charles Aznavour , and took on the male lead in the drama Sundays with Sybill , which won the 1963 Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film .
Due to his Nordic appearance (blonde hair and blue eyes), Krüger was often cast as a Wehrmacht officer of the Second World War, especially in English-language films, for example in the all-star movie The Bridge at Arnhem by his Flight of the Phoenix comrade-in-arms Attenborough and in the War comedy The Mystery of Santa Vittoria as the antagonists of Anthony Quinn and Anna Magnani . However, he also received roles with positive character traits that were supposed to embody the "good Germany".
In 1971 he starred in the Durbridge television crime drama The Knife . German television viewers also know Krüger from the travel stories in the television series Hardys Bordbuch , which was produced by Radio Bremen in the 1960s. At the end of the 1980s, Hardy's log book was continued in the TV series Weltenbummler on ARD , which was produced until 1995.
In the 1980s, Krüger increasingly withdrew from the film business and devoted himself more to writing and his show Weltenbummler . In 2011, after more than two decades, he was back in front of the camera for the ZDF TV film Family Secrets - Love, Guilt and Death alongside Dennenesch Zoudé . In doing so, he explained that he has not retired from acting entirely, but has become choosy about the roles offered.
writer
In 1970 Krüger began a second career as a writer. He published several novels , short stories and personal reports in which he was able to draw on his experiences as a well-travelled cosmopolitan .
Public Engagement
Through the experiences of his youth, particularly shaped by the Second World War, Krüger campaigned against right- wing extremism for many years . Among other things, he supported the Amadeu Antonio Foundation .
Krüger took part in the documentary Von Werra by Werner Schweizer . Without comment, the film describes the rise of the Nazi aviator hero Franz von Werra during the National Socialist era . The images and quotes cited by the director speak for themselves. The screenplay is based on the dissertation Zwischen Ancien Régime und Moderne: Die Adelfamilie von Werra by historian Wilfried Meichtry . Krüger, who had acted in Werra 's 1957 film, reads his notes and describes his own childhood.
Krüger's escape from the Prisoners of War Camp at the end of the war is contrasted with the escape from Werras to New Orleans . The sequence of the scenes, the interweaving of the actions, the documents and themes are intended to contrast the filmic characters in the double portrait. As a youngster at an elite Nazi school like Franz von Werra, Krüger dreamed an instrumentalized and very specific “ dream of flying ”. Like von Werra, Krüger also played a role in Nazi propaganda.
Later, Krüger's views became more critical when he became acquainted with films by Jewish directors. In dealing with his own history, he states in the documentary Von Werra that his life and that of Franz von Werra ran in opposite directions from a certain point in time. After being taken prisoner by the British, von Werra did everything in his power to return to Nazi Germany. Krüger, on the other hand, describes that he later did everything to escape the Nazi dictatorship and also to get out of Germany at the end of the war. Krüger is asked about his own understanding of the role in Einer durch , as well as about the function of his portrayal in post-war Germany .
In 2013, Krüger founded the initiative Together against right-wing violence together with Exit Germany , Klaus Bednarz , Hark Bohm and Dieter Hallervorden . The goal of the initiative is prevention work against right-wing extremism. He was also a supporter of courage against right-wing violence .
private life
Krüger was married to actress Renate Densow (1918–2006) from 1950 to 1964 ; Christiane Krüger , born in 1945, came from this relationship .
His second wife was the Italian painter Francesca Marazzi from 1964 to 1977 . From this marriage came Malaika Krüger (* 1967) and Hardy Krüger junior (* 1968), who also became actors.
During the 1960s and 1970s, Krüger owned and resided in the Hatari Lodge in Tanzania at the foot of Mount Meru , which served as the setting for the film of the same name .
From 1978 he lived in his third marriage with the American photographer and author Anita Park in California and Hamburg . Until 2013, the family lived in a log cabin near Lake Arrowhead in a wooded area of the San Bernardino Mountains above Los Angeles . He then resided in Palm Springs , where he died in January 2022 at the age of 93.
Awards and honors (selection)
Awards received
- 1959: Bravo Otto (Bronze)
- 1960: Bravo Otto (silver)
- 1983: German Film Prize
- 1987: Golden Camera
- 2001: Knight of the French Legion of Honour
- 2002: Bavarian Film Award , Honorary Award
- 2008: Bambi , Honorary Lifetime Achievement Award
- 2009: Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany (Great Cross of Merit)
- 2011: Jupiter Award for Lifetime Achievement
- 2014: Star on the Boulevard der Stars in Berlin
nominations
- 1954: German Film Award in silver for As long as you are there
- 1962: German Film Award in Gold for two out of a million
- 1966: Golden Globe Award for Flight of the Phoenix
filmography
- 1944: Young Eagles
- 1949: I will never forget this night!
- 1949: Katchen for everything
- 1949: The Miss and the Tramp
- 1950: The Girl from the South Seas – Directed by Hans Müller
- 1950: Insel ohne Moral – Directed by Volker von Collande
- 1951: You have to be beautiful
- 1951: My friend the thief
- 1952: My name is Niki
- 1952: I can't marry everyone
- 1952: Illusion in minor
- 1953: The Maiden on the Roof
- 1953: As long as you're here
- 1953: Do you have to get a divorce right away?
- 1953: Me and You
- 1954: The Last Summer
- 1955: On the beautiful blue Danube
- 1955: Heaven is never sold out
- 1955: Alibi
- 1956: The Christel from the post office
- 1956: Liane, the girl from the jungle
- 1957: The One That Got Away
- 1957: The Fox of Paris
- 1957: Bank Vault 713
- 1958: Admit it, Dr. Corda!
- 1959: The Deadly Trap (Blind Date)
- 1958: With your head through the wall (Bachelor of Hearts)
- 1959: The rest is silence
- 1959: The Goose of Sedan (Une fleur au fusil)
- 1960: Boomerang
- 1960: Taxi to Tobruk (Un taxi pour Tobrouk)
- 1961: Two in a million
- 1961: The Dream of Lieschen Müller
- 1962: Hatari!
- 1962: Sundays with Sybill (Les Dimanches de Ville d'Avray)
- 1963: Hardys Bordbuch – directed by Hardy Krüger (TV series, until 1968)
- 1964: His Biggest Shoot (Le gros coup) – Directed by Jean Valère
- 1965: The temptation is called Jenny (Los pianos mecánicos)
- 1965: And the forests will be silent (Le Chant du monde)
- 1965 The Flight of the Phoenix
- 1966: Silent Weapons (The Defector)
- 1967: A Girl Like the Sea (La grande Sauterelle)
- 1968: Le Franciscain de Bourges – Directed by Claude Autant-Lara
- 1969: The Battle of the Neretva (Bitka na Neretvi)
- 1969: The Nun of Monza (La monaca di Monza)
- 1969: The Red Tent (La tenda rossa)
- 1969: The Secret of Santa Vittoria
- 1971: Diabolic (Night Hair Child)
- 1971: The Knife (Three Part TV Movie)
- 1972: Alone (Le solitaire) – Directed by Alain Brunet
- 1972: Death of a Stranger - Directed by Reza S. Badiyi, Uri Massad
- 1973: The Fifth Offensive – Battle of Sutjeska (Sutjeska) – Directed by Stipe Delic
- 1974: Paper Tiger
- 1975: Barry Lyndon
- 1975: Potato Fritz
- 1977: A Bridge Too Far
- 1977 The Wild Geese
- 1978: The Assault Ride of the Blue Fin (Blue Fin) - Directed by Carl Schultz
- 1981: Fine society – limited liability
- 1982 Wrong Is Right
- 1982: The World from Above – Director: Dieter Seelmann, Hardy Krüger (TV documentary series)
- 1984: Inside Man - The Man from the Cold (The Inside Man)
- 1986: Sonnenschauer – Director: Christian Görlitz (Episode from the TV series: Stories from Home)
- 1986: Fall Reunion – Directed by Mario Adorf (TV Play)
- 1987: Weltenbummler – Director: Hardy Krüger (ARD TV series, until 1995)
- 2002: Von Werra – director: Werner Schweizer, documentation
- 2011: Family Secrets - Love, Guilt and Death (TV Movie)
radio plays (selection)
- 1946: Robert Louis Stevenson : Treasure Island (Jim Hawkins) – Director: Gustav Burmester (radio play adaptation – NWDR Hamburg )
- 1948: Manfred Hausmann : Abel with the harmonica (Jumbo) – Director: Gustav Burmester (radio play adaptation – NWDR Hamburg)
- 1948: Archibald MacLeish : Der Eroberer – Director: Hans Quest (radio play adaptation – NWDR Hamburg)
- 1948: Wilhelm T. Wulff : Radio plays of the time (5th episode: General Staff of Black Art) According to the notes of the astrologer Himmler (Oberscharführer) - Director: Ludwig Cremer (radio play adaptation - NWDR Hamburg)
- 1948: Herman Melville : Moby Dick or The White Whale (Part 1) – Director: Gustav Burmester (radio play adaptation – NWDR Hamburg)
- 1949: Hans Egon Gerlach : Goethe tells his life (27th and 34th part) – director: Mathias Wieman (audio picture – NWDR Hamburg)
- 1949: Werner Bergengruen : The Silver Eyes (Markus Koberger) – Director: Gustav Burmester (radio play adaptation – NWDR Hamburg)
- 1949: Harro-Heinz Jacobsen : John with the rusty voice (Frings) – director: Fritz Schröder-Jahn (radio play – NWDR Hamburg)
- 1949: Hans Wolfgang Hillers : Frauen ohne Hafen (Kurtchen) – directed by Gustav Burmester (radio play – NWDR Hamburg)
- 1950: Edward H. Smith : Head or Tail (Panut, journalist) – Director: Fritz Schröder-Jahn (radio play adaptation, short radio play, detective radio play – NWDR Hamburg)
- 1950: CW Ceram : Gods, Graves and Scholars (Part 1: The Thread of Ariadne) (The Young Schliemann) – Director: Gustav Burmester (Audio, Audio Play Adaptation – NWDR Hamburg)
- 1950: Thor Heyerdahl : Kon-Tiki: Adventures in Infinity. Audio sequence based on the expedition report of a raft trip across the Pacific (Thorstein Raaby) – Director: Gerlach Fiedler (audio image, audio play adaptation – NWDR Hamburg)
- 1951: Christopher Fry : The lady is not for the fire (Richard, a writer) – Director: Heinrich Koch (radio play adaptation – NWDR Hamburg)
- 1951: Lars Levi Læstadius : The radio play from abroad: The smashed mirror (Wilhelm Svensson) – Director: Gustav Burmester (radio play adaptation – NWDR Hamburg)
- 1951: Charles Dimont : Good Friday (Longinus) – Director: Fritz Schröder-Jahn ( Original radio play – NWDR Hamburg)
- 1951: Ernst Schnabel : Interview with a star. Diary of a flight around the earth - Director: Fritz Schröder-Jahn ( Feature - NWDR Hamburg)
- 1951: Gisela Prugel : Someone like me (The Boy) – Directed by: Hans Rosenhauer (Original radio play, short radio play – NWDR Hamburg)
- 1951: Gerd Nickstadt , Hans-Dieter Bove : The Secret of the Yosemite Indians (Henry Winter) – Director: Kurt Reiss (radio play – NWDR Hamburg)
- 1951: Heinz Gartmann : The way to the space ship. Audio sequence about the development of rockets – director: Fritz Schröder-Jahn (audio picture – NWDR Hamburg)
- 1951: Oliver La Farge : The Great Night Song (Laughing Boy) – Director: Heinz-Günter Stamm (radio play adaptation – BR )
- 1951: Gerdt von Bassewitz : Peterchens Mondfahrt – director: Heinz-Günter Stamm (radio play adaptation – BR)
- 1952: Günter Eich : The others and I (Antonio) – Director: Gustav Burmester (original radio play – NWDR Hamburg)
- 1952: Giuseppina Ferioli : Between start and finish (Er) – Director: Peter Thomas (radio play – RIAS )
- 1953: Marcel Achard : Jan the dreamer (Clotaire) – Director: Raoul Wolfgang Schnell (radio play adaptation – NWDR)
- 1953: Harald Vock : They live in many houses (McCormick) – directed by Carl Nagel (radio play – RB )
- 1953: Manfred Rössner : Charles III. and Anna of Austria. A little musical love story (Karl III.) – Director: Heinz-Günter Stamm (radio play adaptation – BR)
- 1953: Renate Uhl : Penny (Jack) – Director: Heinz-Günter Stamm (radio play adaptation – BR)
- 1955: Bruni Löbel : Fanta and Tasie (Albert, writer) – Director: Ulrich Lauterbach (radio play – HR )
- 1956: Paul Geraldy : The Young Gentlemen (Jacques) – Director: Eduard Hermann (radio play – WDR )
- 1956: Gisela Prugel: Apoll an der Seine (Maurice Vannier, bookseller) – Director: Kurt Reiss (radio play adaptation – NDR )
- 1958: Heinz-Günter Deiters : A blind man walks through the city (Der Blinde) – Director: Kurt Reiss (radio play – NDR)
Books
- A Farm in Africa . Rowohlt, Reinbek 1970; Bastei Lübbe, Bergisch Gladbach 1993, ISBN 3-404-12020-5 .
- Sawimbulu , Munich 1971; Reissued 1982, ISBN 3-88010-110-4 .
- The Children from the Kastner Farm , Munich 1973, ISBN 3-505-03794-X .
- He who dies standing lives longer . Roman, Percha 1973; Bastei Lübbe, Bergisch Gladbach 1993, ISBN 3-404-11981-9 .
- sound barrier . Roman, Munich 1978; ISBN 3-404-11965-7 .
- The Greek's Wife . Stories, Munich 1980; Lübbe, Bergisch Gladbach 1995, ISBN 3-404-12273-9 .
- Young unrest , novel. Bertelsmann, Munich 1983, ISBN 3-570-01399-5 .
- Siberian journey. Diary of a Journey . Blanvalet, Munich 1985, ISBN 3-7645-3174-6 .
- Breakfast with Theodore . Novel. Lübbe, Bergisch Gladbach 1990, ISBN 3-7857-0591-3 .
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Globetrotter , 3 volumes:
- Journeys to Men and Gods . Lübbe, Bergisch Gladbach 1992, ISBN 3-7857-0649-9 .
- Welcome to five continents . Lübbe, Bergisch Gladbach 1994, ISBN 3-7857-0744-4 .
- Happy days on the blue planet . Lübbe, Bergisch Gladbach 1996, ISBN 3-7857-0844-0 .
- wandering years Encounters of a Young Actor . Lübbe, Bergisch Gladbach 1998; Paperback ibid. 2000, ISBN 3-404-14434-1 .
- Scenes of a Clown . Lübbe, Bergisch Gladbach 2001; Paperback ibid. 2003, ISBN 3-404-61533-6 .
- Delicate flower of hope. Love Letters from a Divided City . Novel. Lübbe, Bergisch Gladbach 2005; Paperback ibid. 2007, ISBN 978-3-404-92250-5 .
- The Other Side of the Sun. Stories. Lübbe, Bergisch Gladbach 2007; Paperback ibid. 2009, ISBN 978-3-404-16323-6 .
- African tango . Novel. Lübbe, Cologne 2010; Paperback ibid. 2012, ISBN 978-3-404-16692-3 .
- What life allows. My Germany and I . Hoffmann and Campe, Hamburg 2016, ISBN 978-3-455-50397-5 .
- A Book of Death and Love . story collection. Hoffmann and Campe, Hamburg 2018, ISBN 978-3-455-00421-2 .
literature
- Jan van Dieken, Hans-Michael Bock : Hardy Krüger - actor. In: CineGraph - Lexicon for German-language film , delivery 14, 1989.
- Hermann J. Huber : Langen Müller's Actor Lexicon of the Present . Germany. Austria. Switzerland . Albert Langen • Georg Müller Verlag GmbH, Munich • Vienna 1986, ISBN 3-7844-2058-3 , p. 543 f.
- Kay less : the great encyclopedia of characters in film . The actors, directors, cinematographers, producers, composers, screenwriters, film architects, set designers, costume designers, cutters, sound engineers, make-up artists and special effects designers of the 20th century. Volume 4: H - L. Botho Höfer - Richard Lester. Schwarzkopf & Schwarzkopf, Berlin 2001, ISBN 3-89602-340-3 , p. 498 ff.
web links
- Hardy Krüger in the Deutsche Synchronkartei
- Hardy Krueger's website
- Literature by and about Hardy Krüger in the German National Library catalogue
- Literature by and about Hardy Krüger in the bibliographic database WorldCat
- Hardy Krueger at the Internet Movie Database
- Hardy Krüger at filmportal.de
- Hardy Krüger biography on "Who's who"
- Der Tagesspiegel , interview with Hardy Krüger: I wanted to be like Jack London. (April 20, 2008 memento at Internet Archive ) March 10, 2002
- Hardy Krueger . In: Virtual History
- Hardy-Krüger Story"- TV documentary 2019 ARTE by Patrick Zeilhofer , available in the Arte Mediathek until April 19, 2022
- "Hardy Krüger - a German legend - TV documentary 2020 ZDF by Patrick Zeilhofer
- 30 minute audio interview with Hardy Krüger , April 2008
- Anna Kentrath: “You are talented – without a doubt!” How the actor Hardy Krüger became a bestselling author who lives his dreams and never tires of standing up for democracy with his personal story. 3 page interview. Centaur, customer magazine of drugstore chain Rossmann (trading chain) , online edition, issue June 2018. Retrieved 7 June 2018 .
itemizations
- ↑ according to Beckmann 's own statement on April 14, 2008
- ↑ Krueger, Hardy. In: Who's Who?: The German Who's Who . Vol. 39, Verlag Herrmann Degener, 2000, p. 801.
- ↑ a b c Andreas Conrad: Actionstar im Wirtschaftswunderland . In: Der Tagesspiegel , April 12, 2018, p. 21.
- ↑ In 90 years, Hardy Krüger was given life several times in WAZ from April 12, 2018
- ↑ World star Hardy Krüger turns 90. Süddeutsche de GmbH, April 12, 2018, retrieved on August 14, 2020 .
- ↑ Hardy Krüger's TV comeback after 24 years. Retrieved February 6, 2021 .
- ↑ Harald Ruppert: The great actor and author read from his books in the Ravensbuch bookstore in Friedrichshafen. Hardy Krüger shakes hands with Hemingway . In: Südkurier of December 8, 2008.
- ↑ From Werra . A film by Werner Schweizer ( Memento of March 23, 2018 at the Internet Archive )
- ↑ "From Werra". A documentary by Werner Schweizer (2002)
- ↑ Bernhard Krebs: Actor Hardy Krüger: From the Hitler school to the fighter against the right. In: Cologne Review . 5 November 2013, retrieved 25 November 2018 .
- ↑ Hatari Lodge
- ↑ NDR: Actor Hardy Krüger died at the age of 93. Retrieved January 20, 2022 .
personal data | |
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SURNAME | Krueger, Hardy |
ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Krueger, Eberhard August Franz Ewald |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German film actor, radio play speaker, voice actor and writer |
BIRTH DATE | April 12, 1928 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Berlin Wedding |
DATE OF DEATH | January 19, 2022 |
PLACE OF DEATH | Palm Springs , California |