Hermann Pfanz
Hermann Pfanz , also Hermann Pfanz-Sponagl (born December 3, 1873 in Aglasterhausen , German Reich ; † January 1, 1938 in Munich , German Reich), was a German stage actor and theater director as well as a silent film actor during the Weimar Republic .
Live and act
At the theater
Pfanz, born in Baden, received his artistic training from Ernst Schrumpf in Stuttgart. His first engagement took him to Konstanz in the 19th century, after which he worked at the Deutsches Theater Hannover and the Volkstheater in Munich under the direction of his old teacher Schrumpf until the first years of the 20th century. In these early years, among other things, the worm in Kabale und Liebe , the Mephisto in Goethe's Faust , the Shylock in The Merchant of Venice and the Nickel Man in The Sunken Bell were his most important roles. In addition, Pfanz was active as an acting teacher at the beginning of the new century.
This was followed by stage positions in Königsberg, Breslau, Cologne and Berlin, where he was given an engagement at the Volkstheater. Further commitments in the capital brought him to the Lessing Theater, the Berlin Theater (under the direction of Rudolf Bernauer and Carl Meinhard ) as well as to the German Theater and finally (late 1920s) to the New Theater am Zoo. Since the beginning of the 1930s, the Bavarian State Theater was his last artistic home. Here Pfanz was also allowed to direct. At the same time he appeared under the state stage director Otto Kustermann in the context of the festival at the Luisenburg in Wunsiedel . Since 1935 without involvement due to illness, Hermann Pfanz died on New Year's Day 1938 as a result of a serious heart condition.
With the film
Hermann Pfanz stood in front of the camera for the first time immediately after the end of the First World War . In just ten years, from 1919 to the end of the silent film era in 1929, the actor appeared in supporting roles, often as a person of respect or as a dignitary, in a plethora of cinema productions. Pfanz was a school teacher in Der Dorfkaplan , alongside Pola Negri was a castle administrator in the drama Das Martyrium , an insurance director in Das Schwarze Boot , a knight in Die Trütze von Trutzberg , as a partner of Ernst Reicher a police commissioner in the Stuart-Webbs - Crime The Secret of an Hour , a pastor in Little Inge and her three fathers and a colonel in an Andreas Hofer film adaptation from 1929, also his last film role. Pfanz no longer appeared in sound films.
Filmography
- 1919: The village chaplain
- 1920: The riddle in man
- 1920: Martyrdom
- 1920: The black boat
- 1921: The man in the salt
- 1921: The Cursed One
- 1922: The Trutz von Trutzberg
- 1922: About love and throne
- 1922: the big lie
- 1923: sacrifice and love
- 1923: The seeking soul
- 1924: The pearls of Dr. Talmadge
- 1925: The secret of an hour
- 1925: The seeking soul
- 1925: The tragedy of two people
- 1926: the seventh boy
- 1926: Secret sinners
- 1926: Little Inge and her three fathers
- 1927: Valencia
- 1929: Andreas Hofer
literature
- Heinrich Hagemann (Ed.): Specialized lexicon of the German stage members . Pallas and Hagemanns Bühnen-Verlag, Berlin 1906, p. 56.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Deutsches Bühnen-Jahrbuch 1939, obituary p. 109
Web links
- Hermann Pfanz in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Hermann Pfanz at filmportal.de
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Pfanz, Hermann |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Pfanz-Sponagl, Hermann |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German stage and film actor |
| DATE OF BIRTH | December 3, 1873 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Aglasterhausen , German Empire |
| DATE OF DEATH | January 1, 1938 |
| Place of death | Munich , German Empire |