Hans Schlenck
Hans Schlenck ( born March 14, 1901 in Bishop home at the Rhön, † November 13, 1944 at Dormánd, Heves, Hungary ) was a German actor, theater director and theater director.
Life
After university studies in Munich, he opted for the acting profession and gave his debut in 1921 in Kassel. He went with a traveling theater on tour and then sat at the University of Göttingen continued his studies.
After an engagement at the Staatstheater Kassel as an actor, director and playwright, he was obliged in 1927 to the Bavarian State Theater in Munich, where he worked as an actor and director. He was the Marquis of Posa in Don Carlos, Fiesko in Fiesco to Genoa and Tellheim in Minna von Barn-helm, also lovers and bon vivant in various salon pieces.
In 1933 he was senior director of the State Theatre and also the artistic director of the Bavarian State Theatre. In the same year he came also as a film actor to popularity when he was in the title role of Heath schoolmaster Uwe Karsten partner Marianne Hoppe. In 1936 he became the General Director of the State Theatre Oldenburg, 1940 General Director of the Municipal Theatre in Wroclaw. Schlenk was a member of the SS and was part of the personal staff of the Reichsführer- SS Heinrich Himmler. In 1942, he held the rank of SS - Hauptsturmführer. As general director of the Municipal Theatre Breslau he guested on March 15, 1943 for the second time together with his ensemble as part of a troop entertainment event in the concentration camp Auschwitz. In 1944, he made war service in which he was a lieutenant at the front in Hungary.