Peter Harzheim

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Peter Harzheim (born March 29, 1902 in Essen , † July 3, 1967 in Karl-Marx-Stadt ) was a German actor .

Life

Peter Harzheim attended the Folkwang School in his hometown and made his debut in 1922 at what was then Stadttheater Kaiserslautern , from where further engagements took him to numerous stages in Germany, such as Kiel and Flensburg, Hanau, Mönchengladbach, Tilsit, Nordhausen and Görlitz. In the 1930s he was also engaged at the Meininger Theater , here in the subject of "heavy character player". Shortly before the end of the Second World War , Harzheim was drafted into the Wehrmacht and was taken prisoner by the Americans, from which he was able to escape and join his family in Sonneberg, Thuringia. He continued his stage career shortly after the end of the war at the Meininger Theater, then played in Dresden, Schwerin and Plauen and finally came to Karl-Marx-Stadt. Important and well-known roles resin home were the village judge Adam in Heinrich von Kleist's comedy The Broken Jug and Mephisto and Faust in Johann Wolfgang von Goethe's eponymous drama .

Occasionally Peter Harzheim was seen on television and on screen, for example in 1959 in the comedy Before the Lightning Strikes or in 1961 in Der Fremde . Also in 1959 he stood with his wife, the actress Mary-Edith Schreiber (1921-2014), in the film The Women on Niskavuori together in front of the camera.

Filmography

  • 1958: The barbed animal - the new boss
  • 1959: Before lightning strikes
  • 1959: The tactless Hermann
  • 1959: The women of Niskavuori
  • 1960: Water for Canitoga
  • 1961: The Stranger
  • 1961: Joe will make it
  • 1963: interim balance
  • 1964: Summer in Heidkau
  • 1965: Dr. Schlueter - The Pact

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c biography at DEFA-Sternstunden , accessed on November 13, 2016
  2. ↑ Peter Harzheim Meininger Actor and the Film, PDF file, page 20, accessed on November 13, 2016
personal data
SURNAME Harzheim, Peter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German actor
DATE OF BIRTH March 29, 1902
PLACE OF BIRTH eat
DATE OF DEATH 3rd July 1967
Place of death Karl Marx City