Hermann Dieckhoff

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Hermann Dieckhoff (born August 5, 1896 in Bentheim , † December 14, 1958 in Berlin ) was a German actor .

Life

Hermann Dieckhoff was born as the son of a businessman and the actress Frederike Waiden in Bentheim on the Dutch border and grew up in Cologne on the Rhine. After finishing school he became an apprentice at a major bank, was an officer in the First World War and then worked for many years in banking, right up to becoming an authorized signatory . During this time he played, only with the knowledge of his mother, secretly on small stages around the Rhine every now and then. In 1929 he went to Kassel and after an examination by the old actor Hermann Böckler he played on the flower island Siebenbergen near Kassel from Grillparzer to Goethe, most recently Faust in Urfaust . The path led him to the Lessing Theater in Berlin .

After the end of the Nazi era , during which he was not allowed to perform as a so - called half - Jew , Hermann Dieckhoff began working with Karl Kendzia in Halle (Saale) , was brought to the New Theater in the House of Culture of the Soviet Union in Berlin by Robert Trösch , to then to go to the Maxim-Gorki-Theater, to which he belonged until his death. He was and remained without any acting training.

Filmography

theatre

Radio plays

synchronization

year role actor Movie title
1957 Dr. Delpuech Fernand Ledoux Men in white
1958 Monseigneur Myriel Fernand Ledoux The wretched

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Berliner Zeitung of January 26, 1958, p. 3
personal data
SURNAME Dieckhoff, Hermann
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German actor
DATE OF BIRTH 5th August 1896
PLACE OF BIRTH Bentheim
DATE OF DEATH December 14, 1958
Place of death Berlin