Kurt Haars
Kurt Haars (* 1907 ; † March 31, 1973 in Stuttgart ) was a German film and theater actor who worked extensively as a radio play speaker.
Act
Kurt Haars began his stage career in 1930 at the Bonn City Theater, of which he was a member until 1938. This was followed by engagements at theaters in Gießen, Aachen and finally in 1943 at the Stuttgart Schauspielhaus (until all the German theaters were closed in 1944). In 1946, Haars belonged to the ensemble of the Stuttgart State Theater under the management of Gerhard F. Hering . seen around 1947 in a production of the Threepenny Opera by Bertolt Brecht (with Lina Carstens , Anneliese Römer and Willy Leyrer ) or in Richard Heys Thymian und Drachentod (with Max Mairich , Heinz Reincke and Hans Mahnke ).
His most important stage roles include the chalice in the court-martial drama "Mutiny on the Caine", the Peppone in the comedy "Don Camillo and Peppone", the premier in "Thyme and Dragon Death", the Janik in Fry's "The Dark is Light Enough" and the Burleigh in Schiller's "Maria Stuart". He received these roles in the mid-1950s during his engagement at the Württemberg State Theater in Stuttgart.
In the 1940s and 1950s, Haars was involved in films such as Guilt Alone Is Wine (1949, directed by Fritz Kirchhoff ) and in the crime film Der Geisterzug (1957, directed by Rainer Wolffhardt ). In Ottomar Domnick's experimental film Gino (1960), he played an aging quarry owner alongside Jörg Pleva . Most recently he was seen in Theo Mezger's television series Fernfahrer (1963) .
From 1946 Kurt Haars was involved in numerous radio productions ( Südwestfunk , Süddeutscher Rundfunk ), including a. based on texts by Günter Eich ( F sharp with overtones and lingering, Wanderer ), Francis Durbridge , Ernest Hemingway , Hans Fallada ( who eats out of a tin bowl ) and Heinrich von Kleist .
Radio plays (selection)
The ARD audio game database lists over 450 records in which Haars is listed as a speaker.
- 1946: Maurice Rostand : The man who drove his conscience - Director: Alfred Vohrer
- 1946: Curt Goetz : Hokuspokus - Director: Cläre Schimmel
- 1947: Hans Sattler : Heinrich Heine has the floor. A literary game from the afterlife - Director: Oskar Nitschke
- 1948: Theodor Fontane : Under the pear tree. Not all wait until Judgment Day - Director: Oskar Nitschke
- 1949: Nikolaj Gogol : The Auditor - Director: Oskar Nitschke
- 1950: Otto Heinrich Kühner : The Exercise Cartridge - Director: Helmut Jedele
- 1951: Günter Eich : F sharp with overtones - Director: Cläre Schimmel
- 1951: Günter Eich: Linger, Wanderer - Director: Paul Land
- 1952: Orson Welles : The Fantastic Adventures Harry Limes (10 episodes) (Role: Harry Lime) - Director: Paul Land
- 1952: Gerhart Herrmann Mostar : The court withdraws to deliberate (episode: father and son) - Director: Gerd Fricke
- 1952: Edward J. Mason : School of Excitement (6 episodes) - Director: Paul Land
- 1955: Claus Hubalek : The east-west divan. A tragicomic radio play in four chapters in which a double sofa bed partly tells its terrible fate itself - directed by Otto Kurth
- 1955: Friedrich Schiller : Wallenstein and Wallenstein's Death - Director: Leopold Lindtberg
- 1956: Gerhart Hauptmann : Der Biberfurz - adaptation and direction: Cläre Schimmel
- 1957: Hans Daiber : Let the master praise the work. A cheerful audio series about Wilhelm Busch - Director: Robert Vogel
- 1958: Ernest Dudley : From Studio 13: A case for Dr. Morelle (3 parts) - Director: Oskar Nitschke
- 1958: Dieter Fuss : Das Lied der Drehorgel - Direction: Paul Land
- 1958: Ludvig Holberg : Dramas of world literature: Much shouting about little wool - Director: Paul Land
- 1959: John Dickson Carr : From Studio 13: Death in Jamaica - Director: Oskar Nitschke
- 1959: Albert Camus : State of Siege - Director: Günther Rennert
- 1960: Norman Edwards : Herrenbesuch - Director: Oskar Nitschke
- 1964: Henry Cecil : Black Memoirs (7 parts) - Director: Paul Land
literature
- Kürschner's Biographical Theater Handbook, Walter de Gruyter Co., Berlin 1956, p. 240
- Glenzdorfs Internationales Film-Lexikon, first volume, Bad Münder 1960, p. 570
Web links
- Kurt hair in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Kurt Haars at Discogs (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ according to Piet Hein Honig / Hanns-Georg Rodek: 100.001 The show business encyclopedia of the 20th century, p. 398
- ^ A b Gerhard Friedrich Hering, Vita Huber Gerhard F. Hering, writer, director, director: selected writings . Justus von Liebig Verlag, 1998
- ^ Hermann Vietzen Chronicle of the City of Stuttgart, 1945-1948 . Klett, 1972
- ^ Peter Schaeffers: A theater landscape: Theater in Baden-Württemberg. Texts, information, photos . Rombach, 1968
- ↑ Nicole Metzger: "Put everything in scene, just not yourself": the director Leopold Lindtberg : Braumüller, 2002
- ↑ Susanne Höschel: Radio Play 1945-1949: a Documentation, Volume 1 . Publishing house for Berlin-Brandenburg, 1997
- ↑ Hans Fallada Handbook , edited by Gustav Frank, Stefan Scherer, 2018, p. 534
personal data | |
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SURNAME | Hair, Kurt |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German actor and radio play speaker |
DATE OF BIRTH | 1907 |
DATE OF DEATH | March 31, 1973 |
Place of death | Stuttgart , Germany |