Heinz von Cleve

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Heinz Max von Cleve (born June 27, 1897 in Schwedt an der Oder; †  October 9, 1984 in Düsseldorf ) was a German actor , voice actor and radio play speaker .

Life

Heinz von Cleve was born as the son of Gottlieb von Cleve, lieutenant in the 2nd Dragoon Regiment zu Schwedt, and Elisabeth Freiin zu Dobenck. After attending school in Schwedt, Elbing and Stettin , he joined the 4th Guards Field Artillery Regiment in Potsdam in 1914 and was promoted to lieutenant in 1915. He was wounded near Krasnostaw during the Mackensen Offensive (July 1915) , was then on the Western Front until the end of the war, received the Iron Cross 1st and 2nd class. After the end of the war, he first learned banking and then studied law and economics in Munich . From 1925 he worked for the Association of Saxon Industrialists in Dresden.

In 1928 he became a theater actor, initially on stages in Meißen , Hamburg , Nuremberg , Görlitz and Berlin . At the beginning of the 1930s he came to film in Berlin. He got his first role in the feature film Waltz War . A whole series of other films followed by 1939, in which he was mostly one of the main actors, such as in 1935 in Light Cavalry at the side of Marika Rökk or in 1936 with Olga Chekhova in The Favorite of the Empress . At that time he was considered "the beautiful man of Ufa ". For Heinz von Cleve, the collaboration with Heinrich George , for whom he felt a great respect, was important. After their joint film “ Ball im Metropol ” (1937), George brought him on stage for his tour with the play The Judge of Zalamea by the Spanish poet Pedro Calderón de la Barca .

After the Second World War, he largely turned his back on film. He did appear occasionally in some television productions. In 1958 he was seen in a leading role in Much Ado About Nothing according to William Shakespeare and as the butler of Clifton Morris in the most famous street sweeper , the Durbridge multi-part The Scarf in a minor supporting role. In 1972 he worked alongside Lore Lorentz in a television recording in the play Dracula from the Düsseldorfer Kom (m) ödchen in a leading role. He also appeared as a voice actor from time to time, for example as the German voice of Fernand Fabré in the French feature film Das Spiel ist aus .

Since 1949 he was often used as a radio play speaker. He could be seen in various roles in several Paul Temple radio plays , which were produced between 1949 and 1968 by the NWDR Cologne and its legal successor the WDR with great success. Another great success was the radio play Der Untertan , made in 1971 , based on the book of the same name by Heinrich Mann , in which he spoke alongside Heinz Drache as one of the main characters.

Above all, he was now active as a stage actor. Besides Düsseldorf, he mainly performed in Aachen , Bonn , Cologne and Wuppertal .

Heinz von Cleve was married four times, namely

  • with Henriette Hammerschlag (* 1897). There is a son from marriage.
  • with the well-known dancer and choreographer Ellen Petz (* 1893), who also performed under the name Ellen von Cleve-Petz during the duration of the marriage. The marriage has a daughter.
  • with Augustina Richter. The marriage remained childless.
  • with Lieselotte Köster (* 1921; not identical with the dancer Liselotte Köster ; 1911–1987). There is a son from marriage.

Heinz von Cleve died in Düsseldorf at the age of 87. He was buried in an urn grave in the Gerresheimer Waldfriedhof (field 21, grave site 54).

Filmography

Radio plays

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  • German Stage yearbook, vol. 94.1985 / 86, pp. 772-773
  • Registry office of the city of Schwedt an der Oder
  • Administration of the Gerresheimer Waldfriedhof

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personal data
SURNAME Cleve, Heinz von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Cleve, Heinz Max von (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German actor, voice actor and radio play speaker
DATE OF BIRTH June 27, 1897
PLACE OF BIRTH Schwedt on the Oder
DATE OF DEATH October 9, 1984
Place of death Dusseldorf