Malte Jaeger

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Photo of Malte Jaeger while filming in 1955
Malte Jaeger (2nd from left) in the film Via Mala 1945

Malte Richard Friedrich Jaeger , in cast lists sometimes also Malte Jäger , (born July 4, 1911 in Hanover , † January 10, 1991 in Ladelund , North Friesland district ) was a German actor , theater director and voice actor .

Life

Malte Jaeger was the youngest son of three children of the newspaper publisher Malte Heinrich Gustav Jaeger and his second wife Metta Christine, née Müller, daughter of a Lower Saxony village school teacher and until then housekeeper for her brother, the local researcher Hans Müller-Brauel . The family moved from Hanover to Hamburg-Altona , Oelckersallee No. 1 , around 1912 . After graduating from high school, he first completed an apprenticeship as a wholesale merchant. Then he attended an acting school. Before beginning his acting career, he worked as a journalist for some time, while in 1927 he received his first broadcasting engagement. His first theater engagement he received in 1937 on the northern marrow Landestheater in Schleswig , where he was Ferdinand in the tragedy Egmont by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe debuted. His first staging was the crime piece Parkstrasse 13 by Axel Ivers . From 1939 until 1945 he went to the State Theater in Berlin . His work in television began in 1939/40 at the experimental station in Berlin under Hanns Farenburg as a speaker and commentator. In the following years he had numerous guest appearances in Bremen , Munich , Berlin and Stuttgart , while he moved his residence to Bad Wiessee. In 1952 he came back to Berlin and worked at the theater on Kurfürstendamm . In addition to acting, he also appeared more often as a director. His roles at the time include:

One of the last sedcard recordings in the mid-1980s

He had his first film appearance in 1934, where he got a small role in the film The Little Relatives by director Hans Deppe . He had to wait three years for his next role, mediated by Mathias Wieman . In Karl Ritter's film company Michael , he played a company commander and made two other films for the director, Pour le Mérite and Legion Condor . His numerous other roles in propaganda films also included that of actuary Faber in Veit Harlan's most notorious work, Jud Suss . In most of the films, which included many entertainment films, he played minor and major supporting roles. Hans Schonath in Philharmonic Orchestra (1944) was one of the bigger roles, and one of his most impressive films was the gloomy Via Mala , which was filmed in 1943 and was only shown in 1948.

After the end of the war, in addition to his theater work and occasional film roles, he returned to radio (more than 2000 appearances there, including treasure chest ) and from 1956 to television. There he played the main role alongside Georg Lehn in the television play Twelve Thousand . Also in Outside in front of Wolfgang Borchert's door he was one of the main actors alongside Paul Edwin Roth , who played Beckmann, who was returning from the war. In 1960 he played Hans-Joachim Lepsius, one of the main characters, in the street sweeper on the green beach of the Spree based on the book of the same name by Hans Scholz . He took on other major television roles in 1967 in The Reichstag Fire Trial or in 1971 in Sand . Jaeger also appeared in various television series, including Die Fifth Kolonne , Timm Thaler , Schwarz Rot Gold or Das Erbe der Guldenburgs . As a voice actor, he has loaned Montgomery Clift in A Place in the Sun and Guy Decomble in You Can't Love ...? his voice.

Malte Jaeger was married to Elisabeth Susanne Jaeger, née von Ingersleben, since 1949. In the early 1960s, he met his future partner, Flemin Elly Philomena Maria Wolf, with whom he lived in a wild marriage for 30 years until his death . He died of an embolism on January 10, 1991 while driving the ambulance from his house in Ladelund to the hospital in Niebüll.

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SURNAME Jaeger, Malte
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Jaeger, Malte Richard Friedrich (full name); Hunter, Malte
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German actor, theater director and voice actor
DATE OF BIRTH 4th July 1911
PLACE OF BIRTH Hanover
DATE OF DEATH January 10, 1991
Place of death Ladelund , North Friesland district