Rudolf Hoch

Rudolf Hoch (born September 19, 1880 in Freiburg im Breisgau , German Reich , † July 17, 1936 in Fischen am Ammersee ) was a German actor and director of stage and film.

Live and act

Hoch was trained artistically by Friedrich Basil in Munich at the beginning of the 20th century and initially worked as a character comedian on stages in Munich, Graz, Düsseldorf and Nuremberg (where he was also allowed to work as a director at the Intimate Theater) until the outbreak of World War I. and Vienna. Drafted in the war from 1914–18, Hoch continued his theater career after 1918 and was engaged as an actor and director at the Wiesbaden State Theater until 1922. That year, Hoch settled in Munich and initially became a member of the ensemble of the Kammerspiele and the Schauspielhaus. In the last four years of his life, from 1932 to 1936, Rudolf Hoch belonged to the Munich State Theater.

Hoch preferred to fill Raimundscher and Nestroyscher figures with life. He had with the village judge Adam in-starring Heinrich von Kleist's The Broken Jug , the Appel in Ludwig Thomas Comedy Lottchens birthday and the Nathan Carl Rössler's comedy The five Frankfurt . During the Weimar Republic , Rudolf Hoch also appeared in front of the camera at irregular intervals, but his film appearances are hardly remarkable. In 1934 he directed the Bavarian folk comedy “ He knows what he wants ”.

Hoch had been married to actress Elsa Tiedemann , born in 1898, since 1924 .

Filmography

As an actor, unless otherwise stated

• 1919: Who are not allowed to die
• 1919: sinned out of love
• 1923: Martin Luther
• 1924: your last stupidity
• 1930: A storm voyage around Cape Horn
• 1932: Cruiser Emden
• 1935: He knows what he wants (only direction)

literature

• Wilhelm Kosch : Deutsches Theater-Lexikon, Biographisches und Bibliographisches Handbuch, second volume, Klagenfurt and Vienna 1960, p. 804

Web links

• Rudolf Hoch in the Internet Movie Database (English)