Klaus Detlef Sierck

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Klaus Detlef Sierck (born March 30, 1925 in Berlin-Charlottenburg , † May 22, 1944 with Nowo Alexandrowka ) was a German child actor .

Life

Klaus Detlef Sierck was born as the son of the theater director and dramaturge Detlef Sierck and the theater actress Lydia Brincken . After his parents separated in 1928, Sierck grew up with his mother.

At the age of nine he stood in front of the film camera for the first time in 1934 and played the farmer's son Hans in Die Saat geht auf . His mother also had a smaller role in this film. In the summer of 1937, at the age of twelve, he shot the film Controversy over the boy Jo in Cairo , in which he played the boy Erwin, who was allegedly exchanged as a child with the title hero (played by Eberhard Itzenplitz ). Several smaller roles followed, such as a bellhop in Veit Harlan's Blown Traces and the child prodigy Frédéric Chopin in the historical film Prussian Love Story (which was banned by censors in 1938 and premiered in 1950) .

One of Sierck's greatest roles was Kadett Hohenhausen in Karl Ritter's Kadetten in 1939 . The anti-Russian propaganda film about Prussian cadets captured and abused by inhuman Cossacks during the Seven Years' War could not initially be shown due to the Hitler-Stalin Pact and was only shown in German cinemas in December 1941, after the attack on the Soviet Union.

This was followed, after a supporting role as the son of Ferdinand Marian in From First Marriage , another leading role, the eponymous hero of the film Head Up, Johannes! , in which the fifteen-year-old Sierck plays a boy who has returned from Argentina, who, after initial integration difficulties, finally learns to appreciate the value system of the new, National Socialist Germany in an NPEA .

Sierck's next film was The Great King , shot at the beginning of 1941 and awarded the highest film rating “Film der Nation” , the last sequel to the Fridericus Rex films with Otto Fee as Frederick the Great , which have been extremely successful since the 1920s . Sierck played the young Prince Heinrich .

This role was his last cinema appearance. In 1942 Sierck went to the theater in Katowice , and soon afterwards he was drafted and fought as a member of the infantry division "Greater Germany" on the Eastern Front, where he died in May 1944 in the Ukraine . His grave is in the Ivanivka military cemetery.

Filmography

Remarks

  1. ↑ Other sources give the date of death March 6, 1944. Since the obituary for Sierck appeared in Film-Kurier No. 45 of June 6, 1944, the May date is more likely.
  2. ^ Bogusław Drewniak: The German Film 1938–1945. A complete overview . Droste-Verlag, Düsseldorf 1987, ISBN 3-7700-0731-X , p. 66.
  3. ↑ The unit, renamed Panzer-Grenadier-Division Großdeutschland at that time, was located in the Kirovograd region
  4. ↑ The only military cemetery with exactly this spelling is the Kirowograd war cemetery near Karliwka , cf. also war graves in Ukraine

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SURNAME Sierck, Klaus Detlef
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Sierck, Claus Detlef
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German child actor
DATE OF BIRTH March 30, 1925
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin-Charlottenburg
DATE OF DEATH March 6, 1944
Place of death with Nowo Alexandrowka