Harry Giese

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Harry Giese as spokesman for the German newsreel , 1941

Harry Giese (* 2. March 1903 in Magdeburg , † 20th January 1991 in Berlin ) was a German actor and spokesman of newsreels in the era of National Socialism .

Life

Harry Giese began his career as a stage actor at the age of 18. Giese came to Berlin in the 1930s via the stations in Magdeburg, Meiningen , Aachen and Hamburg ; here he played at the theater on Nollendorfplatz and at the Komödienhaus. Giese took part in the first, still carefully worked out film synchronizations of these years. He was the German voice of John Boles , Franchot Tone , Robert Montgomery , Douglas Fairbanks Jr. and John Loder . During this time he started his career as a spokesperson for news and documentary films at the Tobis weekly newsreel.

After the outbreak of the war, the newsreels in the German Reich were combined into the German newsreel in 1940 . Harry Giese became the voice of the NS uniform newsreel and was promoted to "Greater German spokesman". A document deposited today in the Federal Archives shows that Hitler himself selected him for this activity. In addition, Giese lent his voice to trend films such as LAH im Einsatz (= Leibstandarte SS Adolf Hitler; 1941) and the anti-Semitic propaganda film The Eternal Jew (1940).

The German newsreel was discontinued with the number 755 from March 22, 1945. Giese was not banned from working after the war. The Allied occupying powers classified him as a fellow traveler during the denazification , since he was not a member of the NSDAP . At the end of 1947 he worked again as a voice actor in West Berlin .

Until the 1950s Giese could be heard more often in dubbing. In Die Wendeltreppe , dubbed in 1948, he spoke George Brent and in I dance myself into your heart , dubbed in 1950, he spoke Fred Astaire . Giese's work for the trailer for the anti-Nazi film Being or Not being (in the German version from 1960) must be regarded as macabre irony; its director Ernst Lubitsch had been defamed in Der Ewige Jude by mocking his greeting as a “German director” on arrival in the USA (in December 1922).

Harry Giese tried unsuccessfully to become the spokesman for the New German Newsreel, which was launched in 1950 . His voice was too familiar at the time. Since he was now too old for his role as the adolescent lover, Giese could not continue his stage work. He was still involved in a few advertising films and documentaries, such as The Golden Garden (by Hans Domnick , 1953) and We saw with our eyes: Russia today (by Gerd Nickstadt, 1957). In Alfred Weidenmann's resistance drama Canaris from 1954, Giese could be heard again as the newsreel spokesperson. In Rolf Thiele's Friederike von Barring (1956), his off- screen voice can be heard in the role of Malte von Barring.

When his speaking engagements diminished, his wife, as senior teacher, took care of the family's income. Giese acquired a plot of land in North Tyrol in the 1960s, but did not receive a building permit. The orchid lover was group leader of an orchid society in West Berlin from 1950 to 1962 .

He died in his home in Berlin-Zehlendorf in early 1991 .

Radio plays

  • 1948: sixteen days grace period
  • 1948: curiosities

synchronization

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Harry Giese. Peters Film Info: Directory of Dubbing Actors, December 25, 2009, archived from the original on December 3, 2011 ; accessed on February 12, 2018 .
personal data
SURNAME Giese, Harry
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German actor and spokesman for newsreels during the Nazi era
DATE OF BIRTH March 2, 1903
PLACE OF BIRTH Magdeburg
DATE OF DEATH January 20, 1991
Place of death Berlin