Sepp Rist

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Sepp Rist (born February 24, 1900 in Bad Hindelang , † December 11, 1980 in Röthenbach ) was a German actor .

Life

At the age of twelve, Sepp Rist was already successful at the Allgäu ski championships. In 1922 he won the "obstacle course" in Immenstadt im Allgäu , in 1927 he took part in the German ski jumping championships in Garmisch-Partenkirchen and in cross-country skiing championships. During the First World War , the competitive athlete was initially a stoker on a torpedo boat, and later a radiotelegraph on the 1st U-boat escort semi-flotilla. From 1920 he worked for the Nuremberg police as a radio operator, temporarily also at Fürth airport.

The cameraman Sepp Allgeier discovered him during a ski race in Gurgl . Actress Leni Riefenstahl was so enthusiastic about the photo of the athlete and “nature boy” that she convinced the initially skeptical director Arnold Fanck to give the then “layman” Rist the lead role in the mountain film Storms over Mont Blanc . In this first sound film by Fanck, who in principle did not use stunt doubles, Rist sometimes took high risks between crevasses and avalanches. Numerous other films followed, in which Rist always played the daring adventurer. In the German-American production SOS Eisberg , which was partly shot in the Uummannaq settlement on Greenland in 1932 , Rist went to the limit of his physical capacity. He had to swim between ice floes “almost every day”. He became "almost a seal", as cameraman Hans Ertl wrote, especially since the actor narrowly escaped a polar bear he had brought along in a dramatic chase scene.

While filming the farmer's comedy The Laughing Third (1936), Rist met his future wife, Carla Rust . The two also stood together in the comedy Der Rettende Engel (1940) in front of the camera. In the adventure films The Tiger from Eschnapur (1938) and The Indian Tomb (1938) , Sepp Rist was originally cast as "Sascha Demidoff" and was supposed to represent the lover of the leading actress La Jana . Because he choked himself when jumping into the water from a height of eight meters, allegedly because he had to dodge a shell turtle at the last moment and as a result got an intestinal infection, he had to go to the hospital in what was then Bombay and cancel the unusually exotic filming. Rist was replaced by Gustav Diessl .

In the German-Japanese production Das heilige Ziel (1940), Rist, in the role of a trainer, teaches ski jumping to two young Japanese who absolutely want to take part in the 1940 Olympic Games (which were then canceled due to the war) . The film was inspired in 1937 by a newspaper report that two Japanese had actually taken the vow to forego a private life until they were fit for the Olympics in this discipline. Rist, who had made it known in the Far East through his mountain films, was recommended by the cameraman Richard Angst, who had already shot with the Japanese producer Takeo Ogasawara. During the shooting in Tokyo , Rist is said to have provoked embarrassing incidents with his excessive consumption of alcohol ("15 to 20 bottles of beer daily") to the annoyance of the German embassy there.

In the dramatic Geierwally from 1940 (directed by Hans Steinhoff ), Rist can be seen alongside Heidemarie Hatheyer as the daredevil "Bärenjoseph". The outdoor shots in the Ötztal became a media event. In the anti-British Nazi propaganda film Titanic (1943) , which was only shown in Germany after the Second World War , Rist took on the supporting role of the newly wed, brave Jan, who, unlike the English millionaires, waited in a disciplined manner when the ship went down with his wife. until he's let into a lifeboat.

In 1951, Rist took on the title role in the film Rommel, the desert fox, produced by 20th Century Fox , in the rehearsal and outdoor shoots that were shot in Herrlingen near Ulm. In the actual film, James Mason played the Field Marshal General. As is typical of the time, Rist often appeared in Heimatfilms , but only in small roles in which he primarily played hunters, foresters and other down-to-earth people. In Solange du Leben (1955), directed by Harald Reinl , who plays during the Spanish Civil War and was filmed in the Sierra Nevada , Rist is cast as "Pedro" alongside Marianne Koch .

Most recently, he worked in Bavarian television series such as the Royal Bavarian District Court .

Sepp Rist died at the age of 80. He rests in the cemetery in Bad Hindelang , next to his wife, who died three years before him (grave already abandoned, memorial plaque on the cemetery wall).

Filmography

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ And so it went on ... In: Skiverein Hindelang, accessed on August 15, 2018.
  2. ^ Christian Rapp: Höhenrausch: Der deutsche Bergfilm , Vienna 1997, p. 125
  3. ↑ Angelika Degen: Leni Riefenstahl , Würzburg 2002, p. 130
  4. ↑ Lutz Kinkel: The spotlight: Leni Riefenstahl and the "Third Reich" , Munich 2002, p. 17
  5. ↑ Welcome to La Jana! In: Volksschauspieler.de , accessed on August 15, 2018.
  6. ↑ Hans-Joachim Bieber: SS and Samurai: German-Japanese Cultural Relations 1933–1945 , Munich 2014, p. 507 f.
  7. ↑ In Sölden, 'Die Geierwally' is being built. The whole place helps. In: Filmreporter.de , accessed on August 15, 2018.
  8. ↑ Malte Fiebing-Petersen: The Nazis and their Titanic film. In: Titanicfiles.de , accessed on August 15, 2018.
  9. ↑ Sepp Rist. In: Der Spiegel 7/1951, February 14, 1951, accessed on August 15, 2018.
  10. ↑ The grave of Sepp Rist In: Knerger.de , accessed on August 15, 2018.
personal data
SURNAME Rist, Sepp
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German actor
DATE OF BIRTH February 24, 1900
PLACE OF BIRTH Bad Hindelang
DATE OF DEATH December 11, 1980
Place of death Roethenbach