Martin Hirthe

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The grave of Martin Hirthe

Martin Hirthe (born February 13, 1921 in Berlin ; † August 9, 1981 there ) was a German actor and voice actor .

Life

Hirthe, who as a youngster did an internship at Siemens in accordance with his father's wishes , first appeared on a theater stage at the age of 16 in a performance of William Shakespeare's The Merchant of Venice .

He began his post-war career as an actor in Klagenfurt, Austria, in 1949 . He then played in Graz and Vienna , went to Baden-Baden in 1951 and finally to Kassel and Göttingen . 1961 joined Martin Hirthe to the State Drama Theaters Berlin during the directorship of Boleslaw Barlog . In the following two decades he worked there as a character actor. Here he played a leading role in 1962 , the former theater director Hassenreuter, in Hauptmann's Die Ratten . Hirthe completed his last role shortly before his death in 1981 while he was the artistic director of Boy Gobert in a production of Harold Pinter's play Das Treibhaus .

Hirthe was in front of the camera in around 40 television and cinema films , including several productions by Falk Harnack , for example in 1962 in Everyone dies for himself after Hans Fallada with Edith Schultze-Westrum and a year later in Die Wölfe with Thomas Holtzmann . In 1971 he was seen in Unser Willi ist der Beste , in 1976 in the remake of Everyone dies for himself . From 1975 to 1977, Hirthe played the Berlin chief inspector Schmidt in three films in the Tatort television series.

Hirthes deep, energetic voice could also be heard in radio plays, for example in the multiple parts Five dead old ladies , The fourth scalpel , The last visit and Take a seat and die, based on novels by Hans Gruhl from the 1960s. He was also active as a voice actor, especially in cartoons where he often played the role of the villain (e.g. Disney's Robin Hood , Tintin and the Shark Lake and Asterix and Cleopatra ).

Martin Hirthe died of a brain tumor at the age of 60 after a long illness . His grave is located in the forest cemetery in Zehlendorf in section VIII-W-170/171.

Synchronous work

Hirthe also worked as a voice actor and gave his voice to actors, including:

Filmography (selection)

Television (selection)

  • 1959: The Cherry Orchard (as Jermolai Alexejitsch Lopachin)
  • 1960: Whoever survives is guilty (as a car dealer Grebenow)
  • 1960: Waitress Please - (as Gordon Miller)
  • 1961: For Safety's Sake (as Larry Drake)
  • 1962: Everyone dies for himself (as Obergruppenführer Prall)
  • 1963: The Wolves (as treason)
  • 1964: The Gentle One (as The Merchant)
  • 1965: Romulus the Great (as Emperor Zeno)
  • 1966: Live like a prince (as a businessman)
  • 1966: Evening course (as Ambrose Solto)
  • 1966: The Black Hand (as Colonel Artamanov)
  • 1967: The Spanish Doll (as Ivor)
  • 1967: A Castle in Sweden (as Hugo)
  • 1967: Stella (as administrator)
  • 1968: Kidnap - The kidnapping of the Lindbergh baby (as Assistant Chief Brookman)
  • 1968: Mexican Revolution (as Navarro)
  • 1968: Wind in the Branches of Sassafras (as John-Emery Rockefeller)
  • 1969: Diary of a woman murderer (as General Calvados)
  • 1969: The Storm (as Stephano)
  • 1969: The Irish Struggle for Freedom (as Winston Churchill)
  • 1969: Spy under the hood (as editor)
  • 1969: Sir Basil Zaharoff - Realtor of Death (as Lloyd George)
  • 1969: Waterloo (as General Lobau)
  • 1970: Bend Sinister (as Maximow)
  • 1970: How to Get Rid of Your Husband (as Oscar Hurry)
  • 1970: The bastard sign
  • 1970: Friedrich III. '... died as Kaiser' (as Bergmann's privy councilor)
  • 1970: August the Strong - A whole people call him Papa (as August the Strong)
  • 1971: Yester - isn't the name right? (as Edmund Clenz)
  • 1971: His Majesty Gustav Krause (as director Büttner)
  • 1971: The bottle devil (as boatswain)
  • 1971: Maestro of the Revolution (as Prati)
  • 1971: Mr. Tingling hires (as Tingling)
  • 1971: A case for Mr. Schmidt (as Schurek)
  • 1971: Narrenspiegel (as Heinrich)
  • 1972: Flint (as Mr. Hodge)
  • 1972: Max Hölz. A German lesson
  • 1972: The piano (as Wolff attorney)
  • 1972: Manolescu - The almost true biography of a crook (as head of press)
  • 1972: Read yesterday
  • 1973: Once upon a time ... Maria d'Oro and Bello Blue cartoon (as the voice of the king)
  • 1973: A case for Goron (as Leduc)
  • 1974: Arms don't steal (as Toni)
  • 1975: Notated in the factory
  • 1975: Half Eve
  • 1975: Resolved and announced : Go along - caught up
  • 1975: Vierauge (as Snass)
  • 1975: Then as now
  • 1975: Sergeant Berry ... and another coincidence
  • 1975: Crime scene: Death in the subway shaft
  • 1976: Sladek or The Black Army (as Rübezahl)
  • 1976: Intermezzo for five hands (as Monsieur Bernard)
  • 1976: partner wanted
  • 1976: Tatort: ​​Transit into the afterlife
  • 1977: crime scene: fire magic
  • 1977: The interrogation of Ernst Niekisch
  • 1977: Business with the sun
  • 1978: Holocaust - The story of the Weiss family German voice of Hans Meyer (actor) , who portrayed Ernst Kaltenbrunner in the series

Radio plays (selection)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Thomas Bräutigam: Biographical data of Martin Hirthe in: Stars and their German voices: Lexicon of the voice actors. Schüren, 2009, page 125
  2. ↑ program booklet THE RATS. Berlin tragic comedy by Gerhart Hauptmann, season 1962/63, issue 127.
  3. ↑ Biography of Martin Hirthe. In: steffi-line.de
  4. ↑ The grave of Martin Hirthe. In: knerger.de
personal data
SURNAME Hirthe, Martin
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German voice actor and actor
DATE OF BIRTH February 13, 1921
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH August 9, 1981
Place of death Berlin