Hermann Speelmans

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Hermann Maria Louise Speelmans (born August 14, 1902 in Uerdingen ; † February 9, 1960 in Berlin ) was a German actor and radio play speaker .

Life

He studied philosophy, art history and sociology in Cologne , Heidelberg and Berlin. During his doctoral thesis on European nihilism , he first came to the theater as an extra in Cologne.

After graduating, he began acting in 1924 at the Schauspielhaus Cologne . In 1925 he played in Hagen and in 1926 at the Deutsches Theater in Berlin. He has been missing since a voyage. Heinz Hilpert had him searched, and when Speelmans reappeared in Marseille , he engaged him in 1928 at the Renaissance theater . In 1930/31 he worked in the stands , later also in the comedy.

After a few minor appearances, Speelmans received his first major film role in 1931 in The Man Who Seeks His Murderer . He was then often used in the productions during the German Reich from 1933 to 1945 as a "whole guy" and good buddy in the film, sometimes as a crook, but often as a friend of the real hero, such as Christian Kuchenreutter in Münchhausen in 1942 .

At the end of the war in 1945 he founded his own traveling theater, the “Werkstatt”, and traveled with it through the province for three years. After that, he reappeared in several films, but also suffered from alcohol problems. Shortly after signing a contract with DEFA , he collapsed on the street and died shortly afterwards. He was buried in the forest cemetery in Zehlendorf , but his grave has since been closed.

Filmography

Radio plays

  • 1951: White jacket - Director: Otto Kurth
  • 1951: Dreyfus Affair - Director: Curt Goetz-Pflug
  • 1951: The loner - Director: Fritz Schröder-Jahn
  • 1952: The lights are still on behind seven windows - Director: Fritz Schröder-Jahn
  • 1952: The curve - Director: Walter Ohm
  • 1952: Alkestis - Director: Friedrich-Carl Kobbe
  • 1953: Othello (based on William Shakespeare ) - Director: Walter Ohm
  • 1953: Panama scandal - Director: Walter Ohm
  • 1953: Find Livingston - Director: Karl Peter Biltz
  • 1953: The useless mouths - director: Walter Ohm
  • 1956: The Martyrdom of the Hypocrites - Director: Walter Ohm
  • 1957: The interrogation of Lukullus - Director: Walter Ohm
  • 1957: The green tent or How Captain Scott discovered the South Pole - Director: Otto Kurth
  • 1958: Heavenly Harmony - Director: Walter Ohm
  • 1958: The Story of Vasco - Director: Walter Ohm
  • 1958: Götz von Berlichingen with the Iron Hand (after Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ) - Director: Heinz-Günter Stamm
  • 1959: François Cenodoxus, the Doctor of Paris - Director: Walter Ohm

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Year of birth 1902 according to Kay Less : The large personal dictionary of the film and Filmportal.de. This information, as well as the other life data, were confirmed by the Steglitz-Zehlendorf cemetery administration on request on August 30, 2011.

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personal data
SURNAME Speelmans, Hermann
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Speelmans, Hermann Maria Louise (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German actor and radio play speaker
DATE OF BIRTH August 14, 1902
PLACE OF BIRTH Uerdingen , today part of Krefeld
DATE OF DEATH February 9, 1960
Place of death Berlin