Hans Rehmann
Hans Rehmann (* March 20, 1900 in Zurich, † August 10 1939 in Langenthal ) was a Swiss actor.
Life and work
Rehmann had studied German and then worked briefly as a teacher at a school. First acting experience was gained in a traveling theater. In 1921 he went to Berlin and took an engagement at the Volksbühne. Rehmann starred, among others, in King Lear and The Spendthrift under the direction of Jürgen Fehling. Later they also saw him at the Deutsches Theater as Hector in Troilus and Cressida, a good society in everyone and as Thoas in Iphigénie en Tauride. Its directors included Heinz Hilpert and Max Reinhardt. But successes came mainly at the Metropol Theater.
1926 Rehmann got his first role in the silent film, three years later brought him the director Paul Czinner for another silent film to London. There he played a major role on the side of Pola Negri in a melodrama. After another theater tasks at the elementary stage, this time on the side of colleagues such as Peter Lorre and Lotte Lenya, Rehmann took over at the beginning of the 1930s supporting roles in seven early sound films. Best known for his performance as a faithful messenger of Frederick the Great, Major Lindeneck in which Prussia film The Flute Concert of Sans- Souci. 1932 saw him with a professor role, the male lead, on the side of Asta Nielsen in its sole and final Tonspielfilm Impossible Love.
With the Nazi "seizure of power " in Germany Hans Rehmann 1933 returned to his old home back. There you saw him in the same year (1933 ) in a Swiss German -language movie. It would be his last work before the camera. Then Rehmann took a commitment to Vienna at the theater in the Josefstadt, but where he collaborated again with Max Reinhardt with his right hand Otto Preminger. Rehmann starred in the title role of Faust I, Bluntschli in the hero and the Aster mountain in Old Heidelberg.
Due to illness of tuberculosis is Rehmann moved in 1935 finally back to Switzerland. The son Felix Salten's lived in Langenthal in Zurich, where he now become very religious, served as pastor. He died three weeks before the start of World War II to his illness.