Lotte Hass
Lotte Hass ( 2004)
Charlotte ( " Lotte" ) Hildegard Hass ( née Baierl ) ( born November 6, 1928 in Vienna) is an Austrian diving pioneer. The second wife of the scientist Hans Hass (1919-2013) she worked in some of his films with an underwater model and actress.
Life and work
As Hans Hass searched the summer of 1947 for his office in Vienna, a secretary, Lotte Baierl successfully applied for the job. She had just passed her high school and was a big fan of hatred. Lotte learned in addition to their office work dealing with diving equipment and underwater cameras, because she hoped to be part of the next expedition of hatred. For this, she trained in swimming pools, dived and photographed in the lakes around Vienna. Supported and trained, she was there. Wizard of Hans Hass, Kurt Schaefer
Hans Hass was generally against the participation of a woman on his expeditions. The participation of Lotte but was finally possible, as the Viennese Sascha Film Company insisted that hatred makes his next documentary by a pretty female lead actress for a larger audience more attractive. The choice fell on Lotte Baierl. The more month expedition in 1950 to the Red Sea was very tedious, but successful. Hatred was able to film the first man manta rays and whale sharks. Lotte was active there as an underwater photographer and underwater model. To the delight of the audience she wore in the movie always particularly poor Swimwear textile decorations. In 1970, she published her experiences during the expedition to the Red Sea in her book " A girl on the ocean floor ."
Soon after, she became known internationally. She received film offers from Hollywood, but they all refused because they did not want to be full-time actress.
Just about Lotte in the United States also arrived, came to participate in the expedition to the Red Sea in Germany and Austria but also to criticism, because you doubted the scientific seriousness of Hans Hass. The " Hessian News " described the expedition to the Red Sea due to Lotte's participation as a " pin-up expedition ." Other titled Lotte Baierl mocking "Lotte Haierl ". As early as 1959 sneered the German news magazine "Der Spiegel" in a TV review: " No cave without Lotte". You did not understand what balancing act hate the commercialization of his films had to do: they were produced in the form of documentaries, but fashioned as a feature film and presented to the public. This mixture worked surprisingly well: the film "Adventures in the Red Sea " in 1951 awarded at the Venice Biennial the International Prize for feature-length documentaries.
In early November 1950 on the return flight from Port Sudan to Vienna, Hans Hass and Lotte Baierl engaged. The marriage of hatred with his first wife, actress Hannelore Schroth, was divorced in April 1950. The civil wedding of Hans and Lotte Hass took place in Küsnacht on Lake Zurich on 29 November 1950. The church wedding took place in February 1963 in the Church of Saint Augustine in Vienna.
In the 1950s, Lotte also participated in two " Xarifa " expeditions of Hans Hass in part. After the birth of her daughter Meta in 1958, Lotte Hass from the public withdrew and devoted himself mainly household and education. They rarely returned before the camera. In 1976 she played a supporting role in the episode 29 of "The Man from Portofino " the famous detective series "Derrick".
Movies
- Adventures in the Red Sea (1950 )
- Company Xarifa (1954 )
- Our journey with Captn. Cook ( 1972)
- Derrick: The Man from Portofino (1976 )
Awards
International importance
The first full-length feature films have been shot below the water surface in France early in the years 1946 to 1949. An example is the film " Les traficants de la mer " in 1947. Willy Rozier and Michel Rocca They required that actresses learned to dive and had to dive up to 30 meters depth. What was new in these films also that the scenes have already been illuminated by underwater lights that were powered by batteries with waterproof cables from the escort vessel.
As the world's first film actress of rank, who has been involved in an underwater film, the French actress Françoise Arnoul applicable in Willy Roziers film " L' Épave " which was first shown in 1949.
Filming
In the summer and fall of 2010, her book was A girl on the seabed under the title The Girl filmed on the seabed. It is about the expedition to the Red Sea 1950. In the film Yvonne Strahovski plays its role. For some underwater stunts Catterfeld used a double by Anna von Boetticher. Hans Hass is represented by Benjamin Sadler. The film was broadcast December 8, 2011 at the same time by the ORF and ZDF.