Hans Paetsch
Hans Paetsch ( born December 7, 1909 in Altmünsterol in Alsace (today Montreux- Vieux, France); † 3 February 2002 in Hamburg ) was a German actor, director, radio drama and voice actor. He had one of the most famous voices in the German-speaking world and was in the Federal Republic of Germany as a " storyteller of the nation".
Life
Hans Paetsch arrived in the border town Altmünsterol in Alsace, the son of a civil servant to the world. After he had discovered while studying at a school performance his interest in the theater, the philology studies into the background and Paetsch decided to become an actor. He has been engaged in a wide variety of German theaters, including in Lübeck.
After the Second World War in 1947 he found the playhouse, which he would not leave again for the rest of his theatrical life: the Thalia Theatre in Hamburg. The next 28 years, until 1975, he worked under the director Willy Maertens, Kurt Raeck and Boy Gobert as an actor and director.
Most famous Hans Paetsch is a wide audience since the 1960s, as the narrator in countless recordings of classical fairy tales and other radio plays for children, mostly for the recording studio Europe ( including The Witch Schrumpeldei, Little Muck or Hui Buh ), which he more than 30 years his distinctive voice lent. However, there were also radio plays, in which Paetsch other roles assumed, for example, in Europe Series Edgar Wallace. Sporadically, he even put his comedic talents: he was the hapless Gaius Bock Schuster resulted in 1 of the 1980 Asterix series of radio plays, or the mysterious Dr. Stein in the episode Dracula and Frankenstein, the blood prince of HG Francis ' horror series. As a voice actor he said, inter alia, Barry Morse as Lt.. Gerard in the crime series The Fugitive and the Sherriff Roy Coffee in the series Bonanza. In Battlestar Galactica he can be heard as the narrator. In the radio drama series Gabriel Burns he initiates every episode with a bit of text at Point Whitmark he speaks the teaser for the next episode at the end of radio play.
Besides his work as spokesman Hans Paetsch also played numerous supporting roles in film and television. His voice was also heard on music productions, such as in the album Under a false flag ( Die Toten Hosen ), 13 ( The doctors), the pain of love ( Schiller) or the Dance Project fairytale man. It also finds some edutainment CD -ROMs ( and Others Willy, the magic fish and Max and the Secret Formula ( Tivola ) ) with his vocal involvement in the trade. In 2002, the CD was released The Prince Charming, his last release on the radio play excerpts, poems, fairy tales and a hip- hop piece with his voice be heard.
Hans Paetsch was buried in the forest cemetery folk village in Hamburg.