Heinz Schacht

Heinz Schacht (* 21st April 1909 in Gevelsberg ; † 1. February 1987 ) was a German actor , radio speaker and playwright .

Life

After attending secondary school , he studied theater with Friedrich Ettel in Essen . Schacht played his first roles in 1930 at the city theaters in Essen. From 1931 to 1933 an engagement at the Schauspielhaus Zurich followed . After that he also worked as an actor in Königsberg (Prussia) . In 1948 Schacht became a member of the Cologne Theaters .

Heinz Schacht also worked in various film , television and radio play productions . In 1971 he played the main role ( Jakob Schmid ) in the production Der Pedell ( ZDF ), directed by Eberhard Itzenplitz . Among the many television appearances in 1972 was the multi-part film adaptation of the crime novel The Red Scarf by Wilkie Collins, produced by Westdeutscher Rundfunk (WDR) . Schacht played the role of Grandpa Rykalla in the television film Smog by Wolfgang Petersen, based on a script by Wolfgang Quantity .

Grave site for Else and Heinz Schacht in the Melaten cemetery

Heinz Schacht could also be heard as a speaker in the popular radio plays in the Paul Temple series of Nordwestdeutscher Rundfunk (NWDR) and WDR by Francis Durbridge , directed by Eduard Hermann . In the radio play version of The Little Hobbit on WDR from 1980, he played the role of Thorin .

Schacht also wrote the stage play Treffpunkt Standesamt .

Heinz Schacht was married to the actress Else Sprenger. They had a son together.

1956: As far as your feet can carry - Director: Franz Zimmermann (WDR)
1956: Paul Temple and the Madison case - Director: Eduard Hermann (WDR)
1957: From the life of David Copperfield (based on Charles Dickens ) - Director: Kurt Meister (WDR)
1958: The Little Lord - Director: Fritz Peter Vary (WDR)
1958: Paul Temple and the Lawrence Case - Director: Eduard Hermann (WDR)
1962: Paul Temple and the Margo Case - Director: Eduard Hermann (WDR)
1964: Night Watchman Spinning - Director: Manfred Brückner (WDR)
1966: Paul Temple and the Geneva case - Director: Otto Düben (WDR)
1966: Smog (WDR, as Karl Kampmann)
1969: Jürgen Becker : Hausfreunde - Director: Klaus Schöning (radio play - WDR / SDR / SWF)
1980: The little hobbit
1982: I asked you something! State visit to Schalker Markt (WDR)

Johann Caspar Glenzdorf: Glenzdorf's international film lexicon. Biographical manual for the entire film industry. Volume 3: Peit – Zz. Prominent-Filmverlag, Bad Münder 1961, DNB 451560752 , p. 1474.
Herbert A. Frenzel , Hans Joachim Moser (ed.): Kürschner's biographical theater manual. Drama, opera, film, radio. Germany, Austria, Switzerland. De Gruyter, Berlin 1956, DNB 010075518 , p. 633.

↑ Data from the Paul Temple radio plays on HÖRDAT Online; accessed on March 20, 2015
↑ The Little Hobbit on ARD audio play database; Retrieved July 29, 2016.

personal data
SURNAME	Schacht, Heinz
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German actor, radio play speaker and playwright
DATE OF BIRTH	April 21, 1909
PLACE OF BIRTH	Gevelsberg
DATE OF DEATH	February 1, 1987