Hans Adalbert Schlettow

Hans Adalbert Schlettow (11 June 1888 – 30 April 1945) was a German film actor. Schlettow appeared in around a hundred and sixty films during his career, the majority during the silent era. Among his best-known film roles was ''Hagen von Tronje'' in Fritz Lang's film classic '' Die Nibelungen'' (1924). In 1929 he starred in the British director Anthony Asquith's film '' A Cottage on Dartmoor''.Ryall p.170

He was a member of the Militant League for German Culture and the National Socialist Factory Cell Organization. Schlettow died in the Battle of Berlin.

Selected filmography

* '' Und wenn ich lieb' nimm dich in acht...!'' (1917)
* ''Der breite Weg'' (1917)
* ''Die Gespensterstunde'' (1917)
* '' Klosterfriede'' (1917)
* '' When the Heart Burns with Hate'' (1917)
* ''Vier Finger'' (1919)
* '' The White Roses of Ravensberg'' (1919) as Count Ludwig Erlenstein
* '' Hiob'' (1919)
* '' Countess Doddy'' (1919)
* '' Dias Geheimnis der alten Truhe''
* ''Algol'' (1920) as Peter Hell
* '' The Love of a Thief'' (1920) as Bandit Carlo
* '' Dancer of Death'' (1920)
* '' Mary Tudor'' (1920) as Fabiano Fabiani
* '' The Women of Gnadenstein'' (1921) as Fred Hagen
* '' The Golden Plague'' (1921) as Dr. Jonas Fjeld
* '' The White Death'' (1921) as the groom
* ''Don Juan'' (1922) as Don Juan
* '' The Circle of Death'' (1922) as Konstantin Chrenow
* '' On the Red Cliff'' (1922) as Geert Rantsau
* ''The Shadows of That Night'' (1922) as George Green
* '' The Love Nest'' (1922)
* ''Dr. Mabuse the Gambler'' (1922) as Georg the Chauffeur
* '' What Belongs to Darkness'' (1922) as Prisoner
* '' Die Nibelungen'' (1924) as Hagen of Tronje
* '' Malva'' (1924) as Tadzio
* '' Op Hoop van Zegen'' (1924) as Geert
* '' In the Name of the Kaisers'' (1925) as Lieutenant Boris
* '' If Only It Weren't Love'' (1925)
* '' Frisian Blood'' (1925) as Klaus Detlefsen
* '' Ship in Distress'' (1925) as Pieter Hansen
* '' The Last Horse Carriage in Berlin'' (1926) as Erich Flottmann
* ''The Flames Lie'' (1926) as Konrad Birkinger
* ''Lace'' (1926) as the police commissioner
* '' His Toughest Case'' (1926) as Steppke/Count Strachowsky
* '' German Hearts on the German Rhine'' (1926)
* '' The Owl'' (1927)
* '' My Heidelberg, I Can Not Forget You'' (1927) as Fritz Hansen
* '' The Last Waltz'' (1927) as Prince Alexis
* '' Queen Louise'' (1927) as Prince Louis Ferdinand of Prussia
* '' The Bordellos of Algiers'' (1927) as Mira's brother
* '' Klettermaxe'' (1927)
* '' Aftermath'' (1927) as the milice leader
* ''The Woman with the World Record'' (1927) as Tom Wobber the manager
* '' Thérèse Raquin'' (1928) as Laurent LeClaire
* '' Volga Volga'' (1928) as Stenka Rasin
* ''Song'' (1928) as Laurent LeClaire
* '' Guilty'' (1928) as Brothel-keeper Peter Cornelius
* '' When the Mother and the Daughter'' (1928)
* '' A Cottage on Dartmoor'' (1929) as Harry
* '' Devotion'' (1929) as the man
* ''The Right of the Unborn'' (1929) as Rolf Stürmer
* '' Prisoner Number Seven'' (1929) as Jenõ
* '' The Immortal Vagabond'' (1930) as Franz Lechner
* '' The Great Longing'' (1930) as himself
* '' It Happens Every Day'' (1930)
* '' A Girl from the Reeperbahn'' (1930) as Uwe Bull
* '' Troika'' (1930) as Boris
* ''A Woman Branded'' (1931) as Administrator Bodde
* '' The Mad Bomberg'' (1932) as Baron Giesbert von Bomberg
* '' Sacred Waters'' (1932) as Sepp Blattrer
* '' The Naked Truth'' (1932)
* '' Chauffeur Antoinette'' (1932) as William P. Harrison
* '' Marshal Forwards'' (1932) as Cavalry Master von Oppen
* '' Secret of the Blue Room'' (1932) as Marine Officer Axel Brinck
* '' The Page from the Dalmasse Hotel'' (1933) as Count Tarvagna
* ''Refugees'' (1933) as the Siberian
* '' The Roberts Case'' (1933) as Reimann
* ''The Hunter from Kurpfalz'' (1933) as Baron Axel von Hollperg, Gutsherr
* '' The Hymn of Leuthen'' (1933) as Duke Moritz of Dessau
* '' Hubertus Castle'' (1934) as Schipper
* '' A Woman With Power of Attorney'' (1934) as Veidt
* ''You Are Adorable, Rosmarie'' (1934) as Sepp
* '' Holiday From Myself'' (1934) as Barthel
* '' The Private Life of Louis XIV'' (1935) as the commander of French troops in Heidelberg
* '' Regine'' (1935) as Robert
* '' The Schimeck Family'' (1935) as Franz Baumann
* '' Don't Lose Heart, Suzanne!'' (1935) as the detective
* ''The Empress's Favourite '' (1936) as Baron Axhausen
* ''Stjenka Rasin'' (1936) as Stjenka Rasin
* '' The Hunter of Fall'' (1936) as Huisen Blasi
* '' Yvette'' (1938) as Prince Kravalow
* '' Nights in Andalusia'' (1938) as Sergeant Garcia
* '' Women for Golden Hill'' (1938) as Thomas Trench
* '' Anton the Last'' (1939) as Franz Lugauer
* '' Congo Express'' (1939) as André
* '' Wibbel the Tailor'' (1939) as Heubes
* '' Wunschkonzert'' (1940) as Kramer
* '' The Vulture Wally'' (1940) as Leander Rosenbauer
* ''Between Hamburg and Haiti'' (1940)
* '' Left of the Isar, Right of the Spree'' (1940) as Baron Wickinger
* '' Ohm Krüger'' (1941) as Commandant de Wett
* '' Much Ado About Nixi'' (1942) as the gendarm
* '' The Big Number'' (1943) as Basto-Bastelmeyer
* ''Melusine'' (1944) as Keller the chauffeur
* ''Why Are You Lying, Elisabeth?'' (1944) as Ernst Stadinger

Bibliography

* Hardt, Ursula. ''From Caligari to California: Erich Pommer's Life in the International Film Wars''. Berghahn Books, 1996.
* Ernst Klee. ''Das Kulturlexikon zum Dritten Reich. Wer war was vor und nach 1945''. S. Fischer, Frankfurt am Main 2007, , p. 626.
* Ryall, Tom. ''Anthony Asquith''. Manchester University Press, 2005.

References

1888 births
1945 deaths
German male film actors
Militant League for German Culture members
Actors from Frankfurt
German male silent film actors
20th-century German male actors
German military personnel killed in World War II

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