Karl Hellmer

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Karl Hellmer 1953

Karl Hellmer (born March 11, 1896 in Vienna , † May 18, 1974 in Berlin ) was an Austrian actor .

The son of the bricklayer and later manager Josef Hellmer and his wife Anna studied at the electrical and machine school in Pola from 1911 to 1914 . After the First World War he received acting lessons at the Vienna State Academy for Music and Performing Arts from 1918. In 1921 he made his debut at the Akademietheater in the play Lumpazivagabundus .

Hellmer's theater career took him to Pilsen, Meißen, Bad Reinerz and Bielitz and finally to Berlin in 1926. There he stood on various stages and in 1935 received an engagement at the Deutsches Theater . He was mainly used as a comic-tragic character.

The man with the legs that seemed a little too short was given similar tasks in the film. His characters were almost always characterized by melancholy, only in exceptional cases was he one of the winners, as in the film Drei Mäderl about Schubert , where he played the father of the man who snatched his beloved away from the title hero, played by Paul Hörbiger . Shortly before the end of the war, Joseph Goebbels added him to the God-gifted list.

In the post-war cinema of the 1950s , Hellmer regularly played somewhat backward older petty bourgeoisie, including petty criminals like in the crime thriller Der Greifer . In the Heimatfilm Der Bauer vom Brucknerhof he is one of the limited locals who make rehabilitation impossible for a released convict.

Hellmer worked as a theater actor at the Schillertheater Berlin from 1951 . The strange-looking actor celebrated particular success in the magic pieces by Ferdinand Raimund and Johann Nestroy . During his work at the Schillertheater Berlin he also worked as a voice actor.

He had been married to Selma Dietl since 1927 and had two children with his wife and an illegitimate son who was recognized by him. Karl Hellmer, who also held the title of State Actor , was awarded the Federal Cross of Merit 1st Class on September 29, 1971 .

Karl Hellmer's grave is located in the Berlin-Schmargendorf cemetery .

Filmography (selection)

theatre

Radio plays (selection)

  • 1947: Hugo von Hofmannsthal : The Salzburg Great World Theater (Bauer) - Director: Hanns Korngiebel ( RIAS Berlin)
  • 1949: O. Henry : In the circle - Director: Karl Metzner ( RIAS Berlin)
  • 1957: Charles Dickens : The Bells of London (Dorothy Chickenstalker) - Director: Hanns Korngiebel ( SWF / RIAS Berlin / RB )
  • 1962: Ephraim Kishon : Black on White (Kasimir Käsehoch) - Director: Hanns Korngiebel (RIAS Berlin)
  • 1965: Alice Berend : Spreemann & Co. Back then it was - Stories from old Berlin (Master Stanislaus Slovitzka, Shoemaker at Dönhoffplatz) (Story No. 3 in 15 episodes) - Director: Ivo Veit ( RIAS Berlin)
  • 1965: Ulrike Brückner: Berlin ranks. Back then it was - Stories from old Berlin (Onkel Wastl, Bavarian for Sebastian) (Story No. 4 in 8 episodes) - Director: Ivo Veit ( RIAS Berlin)
  • 1967: August Heinrich Kober: Circus Renz. Back then it was - Stories from old Berlin (Zetsomé, right hand of Ernst Renz ) (Story No. 8 in 20 episodes) - Director: Ivo Veit ( RIAS Berlin)
  • 1969: Friedrich Hackländer: Bertha Wegemanns ways. Back then it was - Stories from old Berlin (Johannes Wegemann) (Story No. 11 in 15 episodes) - Director: Ivo Veit (RIAS Berlin)
  • 1971: Edwin Beyssel: The comfortable Gustav. Back then it was - Stories from old Berlin (Xaver Weinzierl, confectioner) (story No. 15 in 12 episodes) - Director: Ivo Veit (RIAS Berlin)
  • 1971: Karl Günther Hufnagel : Agnus Dei - We also slaughter a lamb (Commissioner) - Director: Günter Bommert (RB)
  • 1971: Kazimierz Orlos: Silent Agreement - Director: Siegfried Niemann ( SFB )

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Harry Waibel : Servants of many masters. Former Nazi functionaries in the Soviet Zone / GDR. Peter Lang, Frankfurt am Main et al. 2011, ISBN 978-3-631-63542-1 , p. 133.
personal data
SURNAME Hellmer, Karl
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German actor
DATE OF BIRTH March 11, 1896
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna
DATE OF DEATH May 18, 1974
Place of death Berlin