Hermann Kiessner

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Hermann Kiessner (born August 6, 1905 in Aschaffenburg ; † May 7, 1995 in Homburg ) was a German actor and radio play speaker .

Life

Hermann Kiessner took acting lessons in Frankfurt am Main in the early 1920s, which he completed in 1925. Commitments initially took him to theaters in Düsseldorf, Mönchengladbach and Oberhausen, before he went on tours abroad to South and South West Africa for a few years. In 1932 he returned to Germany and played at the Meininger Theater . Kiessner came to Berlin via Weimar and Danzig, where he appeared at the Rose Theater , the Volksbühne and the Theater unter den Linden, and in the 1950s also at the Tribune and the Hebbel Theater . Further stations in his stage career were the Münchner Kammerspiele and the Pfalztheater in Kaiserslautern. He played mid-1970s at the Theater of the West the Baron of Morag in Horst Gnekows staging of Carl Zuckmayer's drama The Devil's General alongside Hans-Joachim Kulenkampff as Colonel Harras .

From 1953 Kiessner also worked for film and television. After his first role in the West German production Geliebter Schatten , he shot a few films for DEFA and German television until he was exclusively in front of West German cameras from the end of the 1950s, for example in the documentary plays Der Fall Rohrbach and Der Fall Jakubowski - Reconstruction of a miscarriage of justice . Kiessner's last documented film work was in 1971 an episode role in the series Drüben bei Lehmanns .

Between 1949 and 1959 Kiessner also worked in a number of radio play productions.

Filmography (selection)

Radio plays

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ biography at defa-sternstunden.de , accessed on September 30, 2016
  2. ↑ Photo from Des Teufels General , accessed September 30, 2016
personal data
SURNAME Kiessner, Hermann
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German actor and radio play speaker
DATE OF BIRTH August 6, 1905
PLACE OF BIRTH Aschaffenburg
DATE OF DEATH May 7, 1995
Place of death Homburg