Joachim Hansen

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Joachim Hansen, 1960
Joachim Hansen (arrival at Schiphol Airport), 1960
Joachim Hansen, 1960
Joachim Hansen 1959 as the young Dag in the film And forever sing the woods , illustration by Helmuth Ellgaard

Joachim Hansen (real name Joachim Spieler ; born June 28, 1930 in Frankfurt (Oder) , † September 13, 2007 in Berlin ) was a German actor .

life and career

The son of the teacher and school principal Alfred Spieler and his wife Agnes, b. Radtke, after graduating from high school in Frankfurt an der Oder, initially worked in track mining. Then he moved to West Berlin, where he obtained an interpreting diploma in English and French at a language school. He also acquired language skills in Italian.

The breakthrough with "The Star of Africa"

After training at the Max Reinhardt School for Drama in Berlin, Joachim Spieler played theater in various cities. His theater career began at the theater in Rheydt . Player was cast by director Alfred Weidenmann for the film Der Stern von Afrika (1957) with the leading role. Under pressure from the film distributor, he changed his surname to Hansen when the film started. The war film became one of the most successful films of the 1957 cinema year, and alongside Hansen, his film partners Hansjörg Felmy , Horst Frank and Peer Schmidt made the breakthrough. The theme is the life of the fighter pilot Hans-Joachim Marseille , whom the Nazi propaganda had chosen to be one of its heroes in view of his 158 victories and who died on September 30, 1942. Parts of the film take place in Berlin, the city of Marseille's birth, and were shot here as well. The premiere also took place in West Berlin, including an encounter between the 70-year-old mother of the dead fighter pilot and his actor.

Movie star

The Star of Africa brought Hansen the national breakthrough. Other successful German post-war films such as Dogs, do you want to live forever (1958), And forever singen die Wälder (1959) and its sequel, Das Erbe von Björndal and Via Mala followed. Between 1957 and 1962 he played the male lead in 19 films. Among other things, Hansen shot the adventure film Madeleine and the Legionnaire alongside Hildegard Knef , the Bryan Edgar Wallace film The Secret of the Black Suitcase with Senta Berger and for Via Mala with Christine Kaufmann , Christian Wolff and Gert Fröbe .

From the mid-1960s, Joachim Hansen also played in international film productions, in which he often embodied the German officer type in supporting roles, for example in Die Brücke von Remagen (1968) as a pioneer captain alongside Robert Vaughn and George Segal , in The Eagle has landed (1976) as an SS officer with Robert Duvall , Donald Sutherland and Larry Hagman or in Das alten Gewehr (1975) with Romy Schneider and Philippe Noiret .

Hansen was rarely seen on German television. Even so, there were appearances on television series, television shows, talk shows, and documentary games. As the Hitler conspirator Stauffenberg he stood in front of the camera for television in 1971, in Operation Walküre , directed by Franz Peter Wirth . The historian Joachim Fest had scientifically advised the production and was impressed by the main actor. Rainer Werner Fassbinder cast Hansen for Nora Helmer and Welt am Draht in the 1970s .

In the eighties Hansen was a guest star in the ZDF series Das Traumschiff and in Tatort and in 1973 he appeared on the television show Dalli Dalli with Hans Rosenthal . His last series use was in 2001 in For all cases Stefanie .

In addition, he occasionally lent his voice to radio and dubbing . He embodied the master detective Sherlock Holmes for three radio plays directed by Rolf Ell , The Secret Agreement , The Club of Redheads and The Dog of Baskerville .

The last few years

Since 1986 Joachim Hansen lived with his wife, restaurateur Marion Wolff, and his son in Canada on Vancouver Island , but regularly performed in German theater engagements. "But he kept coming back to Germany, where he proved with theater tours how attractive his name has remained with the audience," said journalist Gudrun Gloth and photographer Franz-Georg Schulze , both of whom had been friends with Hansen for many years, of the dpa . Most recently he had played on various German stages, including a. in The Comedy of Errors by William Shakespeare and in Comedy in the Dark by Peter Shaffer . In 2004 he participated in the Berliner Jedermann Festival in the Berlin Cathedral as Death in a celebrated appearance. He had already embodied Jedermann himself in 1998, 2000 and 2001.

At the beginning of August 2007 Hansen flew to Berlin for a theater tour and wrote a last letter to his long-time, seriously ill friend Hansjörg Felmy , who died a few days later. After the letter was written, Hansen suffered severe cerebral haemorrhage and was found unconscious on the floor. After a five-week permanent coma, he died on September 13th.

Joachim Hansen was a Catholic denomination. In his spare time he enjoyed listening to classical music and hunting.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Walter Habel (Ed.): Who is who? The German who's who. XVII. Output. Frankfurt am Main 1973, p. 371.
  2. ↑ Walter Habel (Ed.): Who is who? The German who's who. XV. Output. Berlin 1967, p. 661.
  3. ↑ Walter Habel (Ed.): Who is who? The German who's who. XV. Output. Berlin 1967, p. 661.
  4. ↑ a b "Joachim Hansen died"  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. in Rheinische Post from September 16, 2007@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / www.rp-online.de  
  5. ↑ "He was also Stauffenberg: The actor Joachim Hansen is dead" in Der Tagesspiegel of September 17, 2007
  6. ↑ "He was also Stauffenberg: The actor Joachim Hansen is dead" in Der Tagesspiegel of September 17, 2007
  7. ↑ "Actor Joachim Hansen is dead" in Der Tagesspiegel from September 16, 2007
  8. ↑ Walter Habel (Ed.): Who is who? The German who's who. XV. Output. Berlin 1967, p. 661.
personal data
SURNAME Hansen, Joachim
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Player, Joachim (real name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German actor
DATE OF BIRTH June 28, 1930
PLACE OF BIRTH Frankfurt (Oder)
DATE OF DEATH September 13, 2007
Place of death Berlin