Hermann Braun
Hermann Braun ( born November 1, 1917 in New York; † January 18, 1945 in Lodz ) was a German actor.
Life
Born as the son of at this time there committed chamber singer Carl Braun in New York Hermann returned immediately after the end of World War II with his father to Germany (Berlin) home. Hermann Braun was discovered as a fifteen year old for the film, as they sought a young actor for the title role in the Nazi propaganda production Hitler Youth Quex. However, Brown became seriously ill, and the role went to the slightly older Jurgen Ohlsen.
Again recover visited Brown in Berlin drama school and then went to the city of Bochum theater. Later he found employment at the Little House of the State Theater in Berlin, among others, directed by Gustaf. As handsome blond actor Brown corresponded in Nazi cinema of the ideal of a Aryan. He was therefore mainly used in tendentious substances with roles targeted, sometimes stormy young men in uniform.
Initially he played mostly small parts, since 1937 almost exclusively leading roles. Brown was a Polish ensign in ride to freedom, a lance corporal in D III 88 and a non-commissioned officer and pilot in combat squadron Lützow - all films with folkish, nationalist or National Socialist tendency. Despite these seemingly regimebejahenden mind Hermann Braun lost his UK- position during the Second World War. Affected by growing doubts about the Nazi regime, he had let himself be carried away by dissident statements.
The 24 -year-old was drafted and sent to the front - first as an ensemble member of the Berlin soldiers stage for entertainment of Wehrmacht soldiers. Last Brown had himself take up arms and received marching orders to the Eastern Front. Brown fell in January 1945, when heavy fighting near Lodz ( Łódź).
Brown came from an artistic family. His father Carl Brown was a famous opera singer, his mother Gertrude Botz was a theater actress at the Lübeck theater, and his sister Anne- Mary Braun was also an actress.