Joachim Hess
Joachim Hess (born November 21, 1925 in Gelsenkirchen , † July 4, 1992 in Munich ) was a German actor and theater and television director .
Life
Joachim Hess was the son of a teacher and a cellist. After graduating from high school, he attended drama school before being drafted into military service in 1943. After the war ended, Hess began his artistic career at the Städtische Bühnen Kiel , where he received lessons from Bernhard Minetti . In Kiel, Hess worked as a stage manager and assistant director before he appeared on the Hamburg stages from 1948 and took over his first directorial work. In Hamburg, Hess worked at the Deutsches Schauspielhaus and the Ernst-Deutsch-Theater . Other stages in his career as a director included the Berlin Schillertheater , the Theater am Gärtnerplatz in Munich, the Ettlingen Palace Festival , the Heppenheim Festival and the Jagsthausen Castle Festival , which he headed as artistic director in 1982.
From the mid-1950s, Joachim Hess also began working for television, initially as an assistant director, later as a director, screenwriter and in production. Between 1951 and 1969 he occasionally appeared in front of the camera in smaller roles. Hess' well-known directorial work includes films such as Sparks in Neu-Grönland and Bismarck from the rear or Wir never close , for which Helga Feddersen wrote the scripts, the documentary television play Der Fall Hau or the family series Heidi based on the novels by Johanna Spyri . Hess also staged several opera and operetta versions for television.
Filmography
As a director
- 1958: Death at the fairground
- 1959: The broken jug
- 1961–1962: Heinz Erhardt Festival
- 1963: In a strange city
- 1965: the octopus
- 1965: The crime museum - the lighter
- 1966: The Hau case
- 1966: Royal Adventure
- 1966: Schwarzer Peter - fairy tale opera for young and old
- 1967: The preliminary investigation
- 1967: Trees die upright
- 1967: The Marriage of Figaro
- 1968: Fidelio
- 1968: Der Freischütz
- 1969: fourth place
- 1970: Tsar and carpenter
- 1970: Elektra
- 1971: Sparks in New Greenland
- 1971: The Magic Flute
- 1971: The Mastersingers of Nuremberg
- 1972: Mr. Soldan has no past
- 1972: Wozzeck
- 1973: Diamond party
- 1973: Early briefing (series, 2 episodes)
- 1974: The Last Testament
- 1974: Bismarck from behind or We never close
- 1976: Karl, the righteous
- 1977: Watussi
- 1978: Heidi (series)
- 1982: Scary Tales (series)
- 1983: Mensch, Berni
As a director and writer
- 1961: Adieu, princess
- 1962: Heinz Erhardt Festival - A certain Marietta
- 1968: The bird dealer
- 1973: Orpheus in the underworld
As an actor
- 1951: The lost one
- 1955: The devil's general
- 1956: The captain of Köpenick
- 1958: Grabenplatz 17
- 1958: The Schinderhannes
- 1964: Doctor Murke's collected silence
- 1965: Doctor Murke's collected obituaries
- 1969: The Devil of Loudon
Radio plays
As a director
- 1964: The real cases (4th episode: The hunt for Dr. Crippen) - Author: Nikolai von Michalewsky
As a speaker
- 1954: Lord Mountdrago - Writer: William Somerset Maugham - Director: Julius Gellner
Web links
- Joachim Hess in the Internet Movie Database (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Biography on gelsenkirchener-geschichten.de , accessed on July 23, 2016
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Hess, Joachim |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German actor and theater and television director |
| DATE OF BIRTH | November 21, 1925 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Gelsenkirchen |
| DATE OF DEATH | 4th July 1992 |
| Place of death | Munich |