Kurt Haars

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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.

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

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ according to Piet Hein Honig / Hanns-Georg Rodek: 100.001 The show business encyclopedia of the 20th century, p. 398
  2. ^ A b Gerhard Friedrich Hering, Vita Huber Gerhard F. Hering, writer, director, director: selected writings . Justus von Liebig Verlag, 1998
  3. ^ Hermann Vietzen Chronicle of the City of Stuttgart, 1945-1948 . Klett, 1972
  4. ^ Peter Schaeffers: A theater landscape: Theater in Baden-Württemberg. Texts, information, photos . Rombach, 1968
  5. ↑ Nicole Metzger: "Put everything in scene, just not yourself": the director Leopold Lindtberg : Braumüller, 2002
  6. ↑ Susanne Höschel: Radio Play 1945-1949: a Documentation, Volume 1 . Publishing house for Berlin-Brandenburg, 1997
  7. ↑ Hans Fallada Handbook , edited by Gustav Frank, Stefan Scherer, 2018, p. 534
personal data
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