music, theatre, Film – Hans Korte was versed in many arts. As Mephisto he stood in Goethe’s “Faust” to the stage, for film Director, Dieter Wedel, he was the “king of St. Pauli” in the eponymous satellite.1-more splitter.
He acted show, directed it, who played and even staged an Opera. And a few years ago, he spoke to audiobooks with its precise voice, with which he could so modulate excellent that the critics were enthusiastic about “The perfume” by Patrick Süskind. On the reception of Antonio Tabucchis Roman “Declares Pereira” wrote in 2008, the “Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung”, Korte have defeated with the reading, “makes the Image of the cinema”. Now the actor and Director on the 25. September in München died.
The trademark of Kortes: His distinctive glasses. His characters were lovable, grumpy, cranky, mischievous, serious again. He was born on the 8. April 1929 in Bochum, a musical child who sang enthusiastically. Early on, he had his first performances with the children’s choir with a guest at the Cologne Opera play. He soon got smaller roles. After the Abitur studied Korte music in Cologne and Detmold, played at the theatre, first in Augsburg.
In the 1960s, the Munich chamber matches were attentive to him, and later he played with the Bavarian state theater, or at the Hamburg Thalia theatre. Korte was the Mephisto in Goethe’s “Faust” as well as the village judge Adam in “der zerbrochene Krug” by Heinrich von Kleist. Again and again, he also directed such as “The story of the soldiers” by Igor Stravinsky at the Bavarian state Opera, or Strindberg’s “The father” at Stuttgart the Old Schauspielhaus.
A wide audience Korte was known by his appearances on television. In 1988, he won the German actors award for the role of the upper study Director Himmler in “The father of a murderer” by Alfred Andersch. In the series he played, including “the house on the lake” or “body and soul”. For his role in “The big Bellheim” he received the Adolf Grimme prize and the Golden camera.
Korte was interested in the Hobby-historian, and he loved the piano on which he played often for several hours. “It is a real challenge, a Bruckner score to work through,” he told the German press Agency on the occasion of his 80. Birthday in the year 2009. He was married five times, most recently with the actress Barbara Rath. One of his two sons, Thomas Korte, as a puppeteer a name.
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