Jaspar von Oertzen (actor)

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Jaspar Sigismund Albrecht von Oertzen (born January 2, 1912 in Schwerin , † April 22, 2008 in Munich ) was a German actor , film director , author and politician .

Family and education

Jaspar von Oertzen was the son of the district judge Carl von Oertzen (1878-1965, family line Roggow ) and Maria Magdalena von Oertzen (1878-1965, line Helpte ). He spent his school days in Rostock . He studied theater and art history at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich . In July 1938 he married the choreographer Ellen Petz (1899–1970), 13 years his senior, in Kassel . The marriage remained childless.

actor

Born in Schwerin, he went to the stage in Munich in 1933 after completing his acting training and made his debut at the Kammerspiele. Subsequently, von Oertzen appeared at various provincial theaters (Rudolstadt, Guben, Kassel) before he came to Berlin when the Second World War broke out. After 1945 von Oertzen was again an ensemble member of the Münchner Kammerspiele until 1959, before he was engaged first in Bremen and later also in Stuttgart.

In 1934 Oertzen made his feature film debut in the comedy Krach um Jolanthe with Marianne Hoppe . In one of his next films, Old Heart Goes on a Journey , he played a young doctor who at the end of the day was allowed to lead the young protagonist (played by Helga Marold ) to the altar. In the following years he worked in several larger UFA productions, where he was mostly committed to supporting roles. He often embodied historical figures such as Prince Friedrich Karl of Prussia in Wolfgang Liebeneiner's Bismarck , Count Alexander Lanskoi under the direction of Josef von Báky in the UFA anniversary film Münchhausen and in 1942 in Veit Harlan's The Great King the Rittmeister Joachim Bernhard von Prittwitz , who the Old Fritz in the battle of Kunersdorf saved the life. In Harlan's monumental endurance drama Kolberg , he played Prince Louis Ferdinand in 1945 , but this scene fell victim to a cut in the film at the last hour.

In the post-war period after the Second World War in Germany , Oertzen's film appearances became rare. He played in several international productions such as The Magic Face , Anatole Litvak's Decision Before Dawn and Billy Wilder's East-West Comedy One, Two, Three . He also played smaller roles in Arthur Maria Rabenalt's drama The Last Waltz and Géza from Bolváry's drama A song goes around the world about the fate of the tenor and Joseph Schmidt . In Georg Wilhelm Pabst's It Happened on July 20, Oertzen portrayed the resistance fighter Albrecht Ritter Mertz von Quirnheim as "Colonel Kerst von Dürnstein" .

He also took roles in numerous television productions - both in stage adaptations as Franz Josef Wilds . Richard II and TV movies such deaths do not need apartment from the series Tatort and episodes of the television series Graf Yoster gives itself the honor , The Fifth Column and Royal Bavarian District Court . In Franco Rossi's multi-part series L'Odissea , based on Homer , he embodied the wise Nestor . In 1977 he retired.

Director and voice actor

In 1956 Oertzen shot Sommerliebe am Bodensee , his first and only feature film as a director , in which u. a. Peter Schamoni and Hubert von Meyerinck participated. He also worked temporarily as a voice actor and lent his voice a. a. Jack Gwillim (Our Man in Rio) and Walter Wolf King ( Dick and Doof as salon Tyroleans) .

Politician and author

From the beginning of the seventies Oertzen became politically active with a focus on social and ecological issues, on which he gave several lectures and published papers. In 1971 he co-founded the first citizens' initiative in Germany, “Save the Rotwand area from destruction”, which successfully fought against the establishment of a ski area in a natural region near Munich. Among other things, he dealt with ethical requirements and guidelines for an ecologically conscious age.

For the Munich city council election in 1978, Oertzen and Carl Amery founded a voter initiative that supported the Association of Independent Germans (AUD); the latter had advertised with the slogan "First Environmental Protection Party" in this election . For the Bavarian state elections in 1978, which took place six months later, he again initiated a voting community that campaigned for the Alliance of Action Group for Independent Germans - The Greens , which had formed the AUD, the Green Action Future (GAZ) and 21 citizens' initiatives .

At first Oertzen did not want to join any particular group within the environmental protection movement, but instead pleaded for a union to form a common party. In the autumn of 1978 he took part in a meeting in Kassel in which all parties and political groups from the ecological movement were involved. However, since he was not a delegate of a specific organization, he appeared as a Green election initiative in Munich . A year later he was a delegate in the founding of the other political association Die Grünen , which was formed on the occasion of the European elections in 1979 and which received 3.2% in the election itself.

At the beginning of 1980, Oertzen was one of the founding members of the Greens alongside Herbert Gruhl , but he turned his back on them in July of the same year. On October 17 and 18, 1981, he helped found the Bavarian State Association of the Ecological Democratic Party (ÖDP) , which took place three months before the federal party. There he was elected as an assessor in the state board. He later became honorary chairman of the party, of which he was a member until his death.

Filmography (selection)

bibliography

  • 1997: Learn to grasp luck , Munich: Schneekluth
  • 2003: Möwenschreie , Norderstedt: Books on Demand
  • 2004: How did we come under ecological threat? , Murnau am Staffelsee: Mankau
  • 2005: Your smile changes the world , Murnau am Staffelsee: Mankau

literature

  • Raphael Mankau (ed.): 20 years of ödp - beginnings, present and Perspectives of ecological and democratic politics dolata verlag 11/1999, 240 p., ISBN 3-9805986-4-0 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Mankau, p. 29
  2. ↑ a b c d Mankau, p. 30
  3. ↑ Mankau, p. 31
  4. ↑ Mankau, p. 37
personal data
SURNAME Oertzen, Jaspar von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Oertzen, Jaspar Sigismund Albrecht von (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German actor, film director, author and politician (ÖDP)
DATE OF BIRTH January 2, 1912
PLACE OF BIRTH Schwerin
DATE OF DEATH April 22, 2008
Place of death Munich