Hannjo Hasse
Hannjo Hasse ( born August 31, 1921 in Bonn, † February 5, 1983 in Falkirk ) was a German actor.
Life
After he initially worked as an office assistance, Hasse studied for three years at Lilly Ackermann's training institute for young German stage in Berlin. The training was interrupted when he was called up for labor service later in 1941 and the Wehrmacht. After the return from captivity Hasse studied briefly at drama school in Weimar, gained his first stage experience as a dramaturge and actor in Nordhausen, before he came over theater engagements in Eisleben, castle and Schwerin to Potsdam, where he from 1954 to 1962 the ensemble of Hans Otto Theater belonged. He then went to Berlin's Volksbühne, where he next Armin Mueller-Stahl in William Shakespeare's Twelfth Night had played in 1961, then to the German theater before he later became a member of the acting ensemble of the DEFA was. Hasse played character roles as Mack the Knife, as well as comic roles in operettas such as the bat.
First experiences with film made the actor in a supporting role in Wolfgang Staudtes the subject from the year 1951. His other film career at the DEFA Hannjo Hasse was often used as a villain, as in the internationally successful The Gleiwitz Case. Hasse embodies directed by Gerhard Klein fanatical Nazis Alfred Naujocks, who organized the attack on the Gleiwitz radio station. Hasse was a member of the solid ensemble cast of DEFA.
Hasse was not just for movies before the camera, he made numerous television films like alchemists in 1968 and Martin Luther in 1981. Besides this he in television series such as Police 110, and as Major Zirrgiebel in Archives of death.
In addition to his appearances as an actor Hasse worked as a voice actor, among other things, he dubbed Philippe Noiret, Pierre Brasseur and Yves Montand.
On May 7, 1971 Hasse received the Art Prize of the GDR.
His tomb is located on the southwest Stahnsdorf.