Hermann Nehlsen (actor)

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Hermann Nehlsen , also Hermann Nelsen , Herman Nelsen or Henry Danby , (born January 30, 1916 in Kiel ) was a German actor and radio play speaker .

Life

Nehlsen had a commercial training and then an artistic training in Berlin at the State Drama School. From 1937 onwards he worked at stages in Hamburg and Berlin, before the Kieler was drafted into the Wehrmacht when the war broke out in 1939. Despite stage engagements in Osnabrück and Breslau , Nehlsen remained drafted until shortly before the end of the war. After 1945 he continued his theater work. Nehlsen played in the late 1940s at the Deutsches Theater in Göttingen and from 1954 at the Frankfurt City Theaters . Here he embodied the "Valentin" in Shakespeare's What you want , the "Philippeau" in Büchner's Dantons Tod , the "Alexander Farnese" in Schiller's Don Carlos and the "2. Panzerreiter ”in Brechts The Caucasian Chalk Circle .

Nehlsen got an early film role in Harald Brauns Nachtwache , the first religious film in the Federal Republic with Hans Nielsen , Luise Ullrich and Dieter Borsche in the leading roles. Since the drama was produced by Hans Abich and Rolf Thiele with Film Aufbau GmbH Göttingen , a large part of the DT Göttingen theater ensemble at the time was hired for the supporting roles, including Nehlsen and Peter Paul .

In his almost twenty year career in front of the camera, Nehlsen has worked in films of various genres: He played in comedies such as Géza von Cziffras Mädchen with a poor memory with Peter Weck and Heinz Erhardt , love films such as With roses, love begins , in which he alongside Ingmar Zeisberg played the male lead, war films like Werner Klingler's Blitzmädels to the front after Hans Hellmut Kirst and adventure films like In der Hölle ist noch Platz . A wide audience was Nehlsen mainly by its participation in three of Ernst Ritter von Theumer produced spaghetti westerns known. The German-Italian co-productions The secret of the island of death , May they rest in peace and Rocco - the loner of the Alamo are characterized by hard representations. In particular, the western May they rest in peace, directed by Carlo Lizzani , received wide media coverage , not least because of its political components and the involvement of star director Pier Paolo Pasolini as an insurgent priest.

In addition, Nehlsen worked extensively as a speaker for radio play productions in the 1950s.

From 1957, Hermann Nehlsen was temporarily married to the 20 years younger actress Susanne Cramer .

Filmography (selection)

Radio plays (selection)

literature

  • 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. 514.
  • Kay Less : The film's great personal dictionary . The actors, directors, cameramen, producers, composers, screenwriters, film architects, outfitters, costume designers, editors, sound engineers, make-up artists and special effects designers of the 20th century. Volume 5: L - N. Rudolf Lettinger - Lloyd Nolan. Schwarzkopf & Schwarzkopf, Berlin 2001, ISBN 3-89602-340-3 , p. 633.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Life data according to the personal files of the Wiesbaden State Theater,  p. 277. According to Piet Hein Honig, Hanns-Georg Rodek : 100001. The show business encyclopedia of the 20th century. Showbiz-Data-Verlag, Villingen-Schwenningen 1992, ISBN 3-929009-01-5 , p. 687. He was born in 1920.
  2. ^ Gustav Meier: Film City Göttingen. Pictures for a new world ?. On the history of the Göttingen feature film production 1945 - 1961. Hanover: Reichold 1996, p. 79.
  3. ↑ Ulrich P. Bruckner: For a few more corpses , Munich 2006, p. 127.
  4. ↑ life data cited based on: Piet Hein Honig, Hanns-Georg Rodek: 100001 - The show business encyclopedia of the 20th century , 1992, p. 687.
personal data
SURNAME Nehlsen, Hermann
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Nelsen, Hermann; Nelsen, Herman; Danby, Henry
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German actor and radio play speaker
DATE OF BIRTH January 30, 1916
PLACE OF BIRTH Kiel
DATE OF DEATH 20th century or 21st century