Paul Henreid

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Paul Henreid (born January 10, 1908 in Trieste ; Austria-Hungary , now Italy ; † March 29, 1992 in Santa Monica , California ; actually Paul Georg Julius Hernried ) was an Austrian - American actor and director who lived in the USA in the Achieved great fame in the 1940s. He became world famous for his role as resistance fighter Victor László in the classic film Casablanca from 1942, in the same year he also played alongside Bette Davis in Journey from the Past .

Life

Paul Henreid was the son of Karl Hirsch, managing director of the Deutsche Agrarbank for Austria, and Marie Lendecke. Henreid's father changed his surname from Hirsch to Hernried in 1904 on the occasion of his departure from the Israelitische Kultusgemeinde.

Henreid completed his acting training at the Vienna Conservatory and the Max Reinhardt Seminar there . He made his theatrical debut here as a student in Goethe's Faust . Engagements in Vienna, London and New York were to follow in his stage career. At the beginning of the 1930s he was discovered for the film by director Otto Preminger and made a few appearances in Austrian film.

From February 1934 at the latest he appeared as "Paul v. Hernried", aided by the toleration of the actually forbidden titles of nobility by the Dollfuss regime, which began in 1933. Paul Henreid's alleged noble origins and the role of his father as an intimate friend of Emperor Franz However, there is no evidence of Joseph I and co-financiers of World War I. From 1940 onwards, he called himself Paul Henreid in the USA.

In 1934 Henreid wanted to accept an invitation from UFA to Berlin and applied for admission to the Nazi Reichsfilmkammer . After the Reich Office for Kinship Research had established that Paul Henreid was a “ Jewish half-race ” of the first degree, he applied for a special permit. This request was personally rejected by Reich Propaganda Minister Joseph Goebbels on December 20, 1937.

Henreid got an engagement in London in 1935 and moved to the USA in 1940. He later also received American citizenship. In both England and the USA Henreid initially received smaller, but then steadily growing, film roles. Only film appearances as a "Nazi henchman" he declined, instead he turned often opponents and victims of National Socialism is He played in. Between two worlds ( "Between Two Worlds") (1944) the young pianist Henry Bergner, who - as Henreid himself - had to flee from the Nazis to England to wait for a ship to America. After his escape failed, Bergner took his own life. In the film he is on his way to the afterlife together with victims of a bomb attack .

Henreid had his two best-known roles in 1942: alongside Bette Davis , he played the protagonist Jerry Durrance in Journey from the Past . In a well-known and often copied scene, his character lights two cigarettes, briefly holds both in his mouth and then gives one of the two to Bette Davis. In the film classic Casablanca by Michael Curtiz , it is the representation of the Czech resistance fighter Victor Laszlo than husband of Ilsa ( Ingrid Bergman ). She wants to escape the Nazis at his side and forego a new beginning of the relationship with Rick Blaine ( Humphrey Bogart ). Finally, Ilsa boarded the plane with her husband Viktor. Henreid often played elegant aristocrats, but also sensitive artists such as the 1947 pianist Robert Schumann in the film Clara Schumann's great love ( Song of Love ). From the 1950s onwards mostly only seen in supporting roles, his last film role in 1977 was the cardinal in the second part of The Exorcist .

Henreid's grave in Woodlawn Cemetery, Santa Monica

In addition, Henreid was also active as a director from the 1950s, primarily for television productions (e.g. individual episodes of the western series Bonanza and Big Valley ). In 1952, the crime film Grausame Richter (alternative title: Die Mitleidlosen ) as well as Starke und Halbstarke (in the original For Men Only ; alternatively The Tall Lie ) appeared, in which Henreid appeared as a producer, took over the direction and also played the male lead. In 1953 he returned to Austria to film.

Henreid was a member of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences . From 1936 until his death in 1992, the actor was married to Elizabeth "Lisl" Camilla Julia Gluck (1908–1993) and they had two children, including the former actress Monika Henreid . Paul Henreid died of pneumonia at the age of 84.

Filmography (selection)

literature

  • Paul Henreid, Julius Fast: Ladies' Man. To Autobiography. St. Martin's Press, London 1984, ISBN 978-0-312-46384-7 .
  • Peter Nau : Before sunset. Paul Henreid in Hollywood . In: Christian Cargnelli, Michael Omasta (eds.): Shadows. Exile. European emigrants in film noir . PVS Verleger, Vienna 1997, ISBN 3-901196-26-9 .
  • Kay Less : 'In life, more is taken from you than given ...'. Lexicon of filmmakers who emigrated from Germany and Austria between 1933 and 1945. A general overview. ACABUS-Verlag, Hamburg 2011, ISBN 978-3-86282-049-8 , p. 237 f.

Web links

Commons : Paul Henreid  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Staudacher, Anna: "... announces the departure from the Mosaic faith" . International Publishing House of Science, Peter Lang GmbH, Frankfurt am Main 2009, ISBN 978-3-631-55832-4 .
  2. ^ Paul Henreid. In: www.youtube.com. Retrieved October 5, 2018 .
  3. ↑ Modern World, 15th year, 5th issue. February 1934, accessed on October 5, 2018 (German).
  4. ↑ Less, Kay: 'In life, more is taken from you than given ...': Lexicon of filmmakers who emigrated from Germany and Austria, 1933 to 1945. 1st edition. Acabus Verlag, Hamburg 2011, ISBN 978-3-86282-049-8 , pp. 237-239 .
  5. ↑ Filmlexikon zweiausendundeins.de
  6. ↑ Lawrence J. Quirk : Ingrid Bergman and Her Films. Translated from American English by Marie Margarete Giese. Goldmann, Munich 1982, p. 66.
personal data
SURNAME Henreid, Paul
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Paul Georg Julius Freiherr von Hernried (real name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian-American actor and director
DATE OF BIRTH January 10, 1908
PLACE OF BIRTH Trieste
DATE OF DEATH March 29, 1992
Place of death Santa Monica , California