Hans Söhnker
Hans Albert Edmund Sohnker ( born October 11, 1903 in Kiel, † April 20, 1981 in Berlin) was a German actor.
Life
Sohnker was the son of a bookseller and carpenter. He attended high school in Kiel and the Higher Commercial School, but soon developed a passion for theater. He took acting classes with Clement Schubert and received in 1922 his first engagement at the Theater Kiel. In 1924 he moved to Frankfurt ( Oder) and 1925 to Gdansk, where he participated in musical comedies. Sohnker took lessons in singing, to be trained as an operetta tenor - which in 1929 almost failed because of a nodule on the vocal cords.
After the successful healing process, which had, however, put him out of action for several months, followed by appearances in Baden -Baden, Gdansk, Chemnitz and Bremen. Finally Sohnker 1933 by Victor Janson was discovered for the film The Tsarevich and thus for the Ufa. Sohnker played among others in the films Every woman has a secret (1934 ), The pattern husband (1937 ), wife -to-measure (1940 ), A man of principle (1943 ), The angel with the lyre ( 1944) and Great Freedom No. 7 (1944).
During the time of the Third Reich Sohnker hid in cooperation with other film people always Jews from the Nazis, which he himself was several times on the black list of the Gestapo.
After the war Sohnker was one of the actors from the first hour, the recordings with Boleslaw Barlog theater life in Berlin on Schlossparktheater again. To the film he found in Hello Miss (1949 ), White Shadow (1951 ), The Stronger (1953), let Highness ask (1954 ), What are you talking (1958), Sherlock Holmes and the Deadly Necklace (1962) and in other films. Unlike in the first half of his film career, as he always gave the elegant charmer, he played after the war often characters in whose face the fateful experiences were read.
From the early 1960s Sohnker appeared in numerous television productions. Very successful were the series The Forellenhof (1965 ), in which the actor starred as hotel owners, and somersault ( 1969-1971 ), where he acted as ringmaster. Even with the family series " My sons and I ", which consisted of 13 episodes and was filmed in 1968, he had a major television success. The series " It may not always be hit" (1967 ), which was broadcast on ARD evening program, was among the audience very well and found a positive press coverage. Sohnker occupied the role of the specialist charming grand seigneur and was one of the most popular television stars of the 1960s and 1970s.
Besides his work as an actor well-known as a charming conversationalist Sohnker was often used in different occasions as emcee or moderator. In his films, you Sohnker also often gave opportunity to sing, and many of his points made in the film productions songs (as well as many other titles ) appeared on record.
1968 Sohnker was appointed state actor. In 1973 he was awarded the Federal Cross of Merit, and in 1977 with the Film Award for Lifetime Achievement. His memoirs he published in 1974 under the title " ... and not a day too much ."
Sohnker died in 1981 at the age of 77 years in Berlin -Grunewald. His ashes were buried according to his wishes before Travemünde outside the three -mile zone in the Baltic Sea.
His great-grandniece is the German actress Anneke Kim Sarnau.
Filmography
Songs
Synchronization
As a voice actor he borrowed, inter alia, Rex Harrison ( Unfaithfully Yours ), Laurence Olivier ( visit at night ) and Michael Wilding ( An Ideal Husband ) his voice.