Hans Richter (actor)

Hans Richter (12 January 1919 – 5 October 2008) was a German film actor. He appeared in more than 130 films between 1931 and 1984, mostly in supporting roles. He was born in Brandenburg, Germany and died in Heppenheim, Germany.

Hans Richter
In Die Feuerzangenbowle (1944)
Born	(1919-01-12)12 January 1919 Brandenburg, Germany
Died	5 October 2008(2008-10-05) (aged 89) Heppenheim, Germany
Occupation	Actor
Years active	1931–1992
Spouse(s)	Ingeborg Bieber (1945–2008; his death)
Children	2

Life and career

Hans Richter made his film debut as "Fliegender Hirsch" in Gerhard Lamprecht's Emil and the Detectives (1931), based on the novel of the same name by Erich Kästner. In the following years, Richter become a popular juvenile actor; often playing clever, somewhat cheeky boys[1] (a type similar to Mickey Rooney in the American film during the 1930s). When he reached legal age, he had appeared in over 50 films. After his supporting role as a lazy schoolboy in Die Feuerzangenbowle (1944), Richter got drafted into the German Wehrmacht and was also in war imprisonment for some time.

After the World War, Richter worked as a cabaret artist and also appeared in numerous of the popular Heimatfilms, among them The Black Forest Girl (1950) and The Heath Is Green (1951). He also worked as a film director on two films during the 1950s: Vatertag and Hurrah – Die Firma hat ein Kind, both released in 1955. Since the late 1950s, Richter moved more and more to theatre work, making only sparsely film and television appearances during his later years. He appeared at the Deutsches Schauspielhaus and the Opern- und Schauspielhaus Frankfurt. In 1974, he founded the Festspiele Heppenheim, a summer theatre, in which he worked as an actor/director/producer until his retirement in the 1990s.

Personal life

Hans Richter was married to his wife Ingeborg Bieber for 63 years until his death, aged 89. They had two children. He was awarded the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany in 1983.[2]

Selected filmography

• The Night Without Pause (1931)
• Emil and the Detectives (1931)
• The Blue of Heaven (1932)
• The Burning Secret (1933)
• Three Bluejackets and a Blonde (1933)
• The Page from the Dalmasse Hotel (1933)
• The English Marriage (1934)
• The Black Whale (1934)
• A Precocious Girl (1934)
• Spring Parade (1934)
• Peter (1934)
• Peter, Paul and Nanette (1935)
• Pygmalion (1935)
• Knockout (1935)
• Fresh Wind from Canada (1935)
• Uncle Bräsig (1936)
• The Girl Irene (1936)
• A Hoax (1936)
• The Court Concert (1936)
• The Dreamer (1936)
• The Violet of Potsdamer Platz (1936)
• Storms in May (1938)
• The Night of Decision (1938)
• A Hopeless Case (1939)
• The Fox of Glenarvon (1940)
• Our Miss Doctor (1940)
• 5 June (1942)
• A Salzburg Comedy (1943)
• Young Hearts (1944)
• Die Feuerzangenbowle (1944)
• Blocked Signals (1948)
• I'll Never Forget That Night (1949)
• Artists' Blood (1949)
• Nothing But Coincidence (1949)
• The Last Night (1949)
• Unknown Sender (1950)
• No Sin on the Alpine Pastures (1950)
• You Have to be Beautiful (1951)
• At the Well in Front of the Gate (1952)
• 1. April 2000 (1952)
• Cuba Cabana (1952)
• Knall and Fall as Imposters (1952)
• The Rose of Stamboul (1953)
• The Cousin from Nowhere (1953)
• Knall and Fall as Detectives (1953)
• Red Roses, Red Lips, Red Wine (1953)
• The Little Czar (1954)
• Clivia (1954)
• Love Is Just a Fairytale (1955)
• The Spanish Fly (1955)
• Black Forest Melody (1956)
• The Heart of St. Pauli (1957)
• The Muzzle (1958)
• The Blue Moth (1959)
• The Haunted Castle (1960)
• Beloved Impostor (1961)
• Dance with Me Into the Morning (1962)
• The Black Cobra (1963)
• Our Crazy Nieces (1963)
• Die Feuerzangenbowle (1970)
• Section spéciale (1975)
• Deutschland-Tournee (1984)

References

1. "Hans Richter - Biografie". Archived from the original on 25 January 2016. Retrieved 19 January 2016.
2. Festspiele Heppenheim

Bibliography

• John Holmstrom, The Moving Picture Boy: An International Encyclopaedia from 1895 to 1995, Norwich, Michael Russell, 1996, p.90.

External links

• Hans Richter on IMDb