Hans Deppe
Hans Carl Otto Deppe ( born November 12, 1897 in Berlin, † September 23, 1969 in Berlin) was a German actor and film director.
Life and work
Hans Deppe completed a commercial apprenticeship and thereafter began in 1914 training at the Max-Reinhardt- Seminar in Vienna. In 1918 he went to Berlin, where he worked as a trainee at the Royal Playhouse and was engaged as a character actor in Max Reinhardt's Deutsches Theater from 1921 to 1928. Together with Werner Finck and Rudolf Platte, he founded then the cabaret " The Catacomb ". His film debut was in Lupu Picks 1930/31 turned film Gassenhauer. Supporting roles in successful films such as Phil Jutzis Berlin - Alexanderplatz ( 1931) and A blond dream ( with Lilian Harvey ) followed.
Hans Deppe's first self- staged movie was the Theodor Storm film The Ghost Rider (1934 ), in which he directed in collaboration with Curt Oertel. Although the two directors replaced the Spooky the template with a drama that puts the movie in certain proximity to the blood - and - soil ideology, was the Ghost Rider Deppe's formally the most interesting and best film, especially from the film laboratory with the title " Artistic valuable " was excellent. By 1945, he made 30 more films, mostly comedies, love and home movies - as Schloß Hubertus (1934 ), Divorce Travel (1938 ), Dangerous Spring (1943) and The Heir (1944 ) - occasionally the predicate " Artistic " or " Artistically valuable " received. Deppe's favorite leading man, which he used in many of his films were Hansi Knoteck and Paul Richter.
After the end of World War II, Hans Deppe summarized as a director quickly walk away. In the 1950s, he directed some of the classics of German domestic film as Schwarzwaldmädel (1950 ), Green is the Heath (1951 ), courtesy of the ego (1952 ), Heath schoolmaster Uwe Karsten (1954 ), The pastor of the church box and, when the rhododendrons blossom forth 'n (both 1955). In 1953 he helped the young Romy Schneider When the white lilacs bloom of her film debut. His penultimate film was a remake of Hans H. Zerletts anti-Semitic film comedy Robert and Bertram.
In the 1960s, Hans Deppe again worked as an actor and appeared in numerous television productions.
Deppe's private interest, the actor Charles Regnier said in an interview in 1999, was the art of puppet theater.