Harry Riebauer
Harry Riebauer ( born July 4, 1921 in Liberec, Czechoslovakia, † November 8, 1999 in Berlin) was a German actor.
Life
Riebauer took from 1945 to 1947 private acting lessons with Ulrich von der Trenck and received in 1947 an engagement at the theater of Zittau. In 1949 he moved to the Maxim Gorki Theater in Berlin, in 1950 he joined the theater to the Schiffbauerdamm. From 1951 to 1961 he was part of the ensemble of the Volksbühne Berlin, after which he worked as a freelance actor.
In the DEFA film of 1.94 meter Riebauer was usually set to the embodiment of fearsome Nazi thugs, as SA man in the ax of Wandsbek, SS man Stronger than the night and Lieutenant Meyer Ernst Thalmann - leader its class. In the American production Escape he played the warden of a prison camp. In The Story of Little Mook he was in a running race of the seemingly all-powerful rival of the title character. Also in the Edgar Wallace films, he took mainly villains roles in The Strangler of Blackmoor Castle he was but as a Scotland Yard inspector on the side of the law.
Since the seventies, Riebauer operated as a voluntary animal welfare inspector for the city of Berlin.