Paul Hubschmid

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Paul Hubschmid (born July 20, 1917 in Aarau , † January 1, 2002 in Berlin ) was a Swiss film and theater actor .

Life

Paul Hubschmid was born in 1917 as the first child of Paul Hubschmid senior. born who worked as a canteen manager at the Schönenwerder Bally shoe factories . His mother Alice, b. Noël, the daughter of a chef, wrote for the Aargauer Tagblatt and later managed a “suggestion box” for the Swiss magazine femina . Hubschmid had a brother, Fritz, who was one year younger than him , and a sister Alice who was three years younger .

After graduating from the Alte Kantonsschule in Aarau , Hubschmid completed an acting training at the Max Reinhardt Seminar in Vienna in 1936/37 - his mother had asked Ivan Bally, the patron of the shoe factory, for a scholarship to make the study possible. After completing his training, he made his stage debut at the Deutsches Volkstheater in Vienna; Engagements at the theater in der Josefstadt as well as guest appearances in Berlin , Düsseldorf and Frankfurt followed.

In 1938 Hubschmid got his first film role in the Swiss production Füsilier Wipf (based on the novel by Robert Faesi ); The abused love letters followed in 1940 , after an episode in Gottfried Keller's The People of Seldwyla . Leopold Lindtberg directed both times . In 1948 he received a five-year contract with Universal Pictures in Hollywood , where he worked under the pseudonym Paul Christian - the studio found that the name Hubschmid was hard to pronounce for Americans. He got his first Hollywood leading role alongside Maureen O'Hara and Vincent Price in the production Bagdad (The Black Devils of Baghdad). The Thief of Venice, a US-Italian co-production, was shot on the original location, the comedy No Time for Flowers, directed by Don Siegel, in Vienna.

Back in Hollywood, he made the science fiction film Panic in New York, the first film adaptation of a novel by Ray Bradbury (The Beast from 20,000 Fathoms). In 1953 Hubschmid returned to Germany and played leading roles alongside Marika Rökk (Mask in Blue) and Lilo Pulver (Die Zürcher Verlobung). He became particularly popular in the lead role in the adventure film Der Tiger von Eschnapur , directed by Fritz Lang, as well as its sequel Das indische Grabmal (a remake of the silent films from 1921; directed by Joe May at the time ). In 1961 he got the role of Professor Higgins in the German premiere of the musical My Fair Lady at the Berlin Theater des Westens . The family moved to Berlin. For Paul Hubschmid, Higgins became the role of his life, which he played over 1,000 times, including in Vienna, Munich and Hamburg .

In 1941 Hubschmid married his colleague from Cologne, Ursula von Teubern, in Vienna. In January 1945 their son Peter Christian was born in Bad Ischl , where a romantic comedy was filmed far from the war .

After the death of his wife Ursula in 1963, Hubschmid married twice: in 1967 his German colleague Eva Renzi , whose daughter Anouschka he adopted, and, after the divorce of this marriage, in 1985, the Swiss actress Irène Schiesser, with whom he lived until his death.

The fact that Hubschmid, as a Swiss citizen, worked in what was then Greater Germany during the Nazi regime, which brought him a temporary boycott on Swiss theaters after the war, he later viewed self-critically; he regretted that he had not drawn any clearer conclusions in view of the "atrocities of the Nazi regime". He considered this to be inexcusable to the end, "only explainable by my youth and my Swiss passport."

Awards

Filmography

literature

Web links

Commons : Paul Hubschmid  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Notes, individual evidence

  1. ↑ cf. "Anzeiger from the Affoltern district"; No. 88 of November 9, 2018, page 16
  2. ^ Historical Lexicon of Switzerland - HLS
  3. ↑ quoted from [1] Steffi-Line
  4. ↑ The Allies added the film to the “Official list - Germany - Films made during the Third Reich banned by the Allies after WWII” after World War II , cf. also the wiki article "List of German films banned under Allied military censorship"
personal data
SURNAME Hubschmid, Paul
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Christian, Paul (pseudonym)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss actor
DATE OF BIRTH July 20, 1917
PLACE OF BIRTH Aarau , Switzerland
DATE OF DEATH January 1, 2002
Place of death Berlin , Germany