Hugo Gau-Hamm
Hugo Gau-Hamm (born May 12, 1889 in Mölln-Medow , Rügen , † October 9, 1967 in Berlin (West) ) was a German stage and film actor .
Live and act
theatre
Gau-Hamm had graduated from secondary school and originally intended to turn to painting. Instead, he decided to become an actor in 1909 and in the following year had Erich Ziegel and Alwine Wiecke trained at the theater school of the Berlin Schiller Theater, directed by Raphael Löwenfeld . Then Gau-Hamm received his first permanent engagement in Flensburg. In the last few years before the First World War, the native of Rügen worked at theaters in Hagen, Dortmund, Stettin and Aachen. After his military service from 1915 to 1917, Hugo Gau-Hamm returned to acting and was employed at the Hamburg Thalia Theater from the 1917/18 to 1922 season.
Subsequently, the artist only worked on theaters in Berlin, above all (up until the closure of all German theaters by Joseph Goebbels in the summer of 1944) the State Theater and the Volksbühne. After the war ended in 1945, Gau-Hamm worked at the Hebbel Theater until 1951, and from 1952 at Boleslav Barlog's Schiller and Schloßparktheater. During this time Hugo Gau-Hamm also worked for the radio ( NWDR ).
Movie
When it comes to film, Gau-Hamm was only active in the Third Reich. With a tiny role in his debut in front of the camera, the propaganda material Hans Westmar , he served himself to the brown rulers. In his later films he mostly played down-to-earth, simple people, rarely such high-ranking personalities as General Davout in the wedding of the revolution .
As a functionary
Gau-Hamm was involved in trade union affairs all his life and for many years was a group councilor of the GDBA -Landesverband Berlin.
Filmography
- 1933: Hans Westmar
- 1935: The Last Four from Santa Cruz
- 1936: A passionate doctor
- 1937: People without a fatherland
- 1937: Revolutionary wedding
- 1941: boys
- 1941: A gust of wind
- 1942: my summer's companion
- 1943: Jan and the swindler (premiere: 1947)
- 1943: marriage of inclination
- 1945: We both loved Katharina
literature
- Deutsches Bühnen-Jahrbuch 1960, p. 63 f.
- Johann Caspar Glenzdorf: Glenzdorf's international film lexicon. Biographical manual for the entire film industry. Volume 1: A-Heck. Prominent-Filmverlag, Bad Münder 1960, DNB 451560736 , p. 476.
Web links
- Hugo Gau-Hamm in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Hugo Gau-Hamm at filmportal.de
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Gau-Hamm, Hugo |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German actor on stage and film |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 12, 1889 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Mölln-Medow , Ruegen |
| DATE OF DEATH | October 9, 1967 |
| Place of death | Berlin (West) |