Helmut Brasch

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Helmut Brasch (born August 5, 1912 in Berlin , † July 2, 1987 in Starnberg ) was a German actor , cabaret artist and radio play speaker .

Life

Helmut Brasch learned his acting craft from Paul Bildt and before the Second World War he had an engagement at the Landestheater Meiningen , where he was on stage again after the end of the war in July 1945 until he went to the Hebbel Theater in Berlin in September of the same year . Brasch made a name for himself above all as a founder and copywriter in the field of cabaret. In 1938 he was involved in founding the Dachluke , a cabaret that was closed by the National Socialists shortly after it opened , but was re-established in Ulenspiegel on August 1, 1947 . In May 1948 Brasch called the cabaret onlookers into being, at which Ralf Wolter and Günter Pfitzmann appeared among others . After a guest performance at Struwwelpeter in Frankfurt , he founded the Mausefalle in Stuttgart together with Werner Finck in 1951 . Also in the 1950s, Brasch wrote texts for the Düsseldorfer Kom (m) ödchen and the Rauchfang in Berlin. From 1955 to 1958 he played in Munich at the Kleine Freiheit in several revues by Friedrich Hollaender and was on the stages of various theaters until 1975.

Directed by Veit Harlan , Helmut Brasch made his debut in front of the camera in 1936 in the film Maria, die Maid, classified as a reserve film. Further tasks followed until 1941, and it was not until 1952 that Brasch continued his film career and was seen in numerous productions on television and on the screen until his death. In Robert Siodmak's crime film Night when the Devil Came he played an SS troop leader, in the music film Snow White and the Seven Jugglers he acted as a trainer. In 1968 he was seen alongside Werner Enke and Uschi Glas in the comedy To the point, sweetheart , and in some erotic films at the beginning of the 1970s. From the 1960s onwards, Brasch had guest roles in well-known series such as Kommissar Freytag , Das Kriminalmuseum , Der Alte or in Gerhard Polt's series Fast wia in real life . Brasch played his last role in 1987 as Mr. Schrambeck in several episodes of the series The Caretaker .

Helmut Brasch has also worked as a radio play speaker since the 1960s, including two productions based on novels by the Swedish author couple Maj Sjöwall and Per Wahlöö , in 1979 in Locked and Locked and 1980 in The Terrorists , each in the role of Public Prosecutor Olsson . Brasch himself wrote the radio play The Sad Story of a Chance , which Bayerischer Rundfunk produced in 1951 under the direction of Fritz Benscher .

Filmography (selection)

Radio plays

As an author

As a speaker (selection)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Biography on steffi-line.de, mainly quoted there from: Klaus Budzinski / Reinhard Hippen: Metzler Kabarett Lexikon , 1996
personal data
SURNAME Brasch, Helmut
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German actor, cabaret artist and radio play speaker
DATE OF BIRTH August 5, 1912
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH 2nd July 1987
Place of death Starnberg