Hans Joachim Schaufuß (transliterated: Schaufuss) (28 December 1918 – 27 October 1941) was a German actor. Schaufuß began as a

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, appearing in '' Emil and the Detectives'' (1931) and '' The White Demon'' (1932). From the mid-1930s he began to appear in more mature roles. He was killed in Oryol in the

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while serving on the Eastern Front during the

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Biography

Schaufuß was the son of stage and film actor

Hans Hermann Schaufuß Hans Hermann Schaufuß (13 July 1893 – 30 January 1982) was a German actor. He appeared in more than one hundred films from 1922 to 1969. His sons were actors Hans Joachim Schaufuß Hans Joachim Schaufuß (transliterated: Schaufuss) (28 Decemb ...

and the older brother of actor Peter-Timm Schaufuß. Following his role in ''Emil and the Detectives'', from the mid-1930s he began to appear in more mature film roles. Schaufuß would be one of three young actors from ''Emil and the Detectives'' to be killed while serving in the military in World War II. Co-stars Rolf Wenkhaus would be killed in action at age 24 in January 1942 off the coast of Ireland with an aircrew that specialized in attacking Allied shipping and Hans Albrecht Löhr would be killed in action at age 21 in August 1942 on the Eastern Front.''Emil, Lottchen und der kleine Mann. Erich Kästners Kinderwelt.'' Bearbeitet von Ute Harbusch. Marbacher Magazin 86/1999, .

Selected filmography

* '' Emil and the Detectives'' (1931) * '' The White Demon'' (1932) * '' The Burning Secret'' (1933) * '' The Tsarevich'' (1933) * '' Gretel Wins First Prize'' (1933) * ''

Annette in Paradise ''Annette in Paradise'' (german: Annette im Paradies) is a 1934 German-Czech musical film directed by Max Obal and starring Ursula Grabley, Hans Söhnker and Ida Wüst.Bock & Bergfelder p. 128 A separate Czech language version was also released. ...

'' (1934) * ''

Game on Board ''Game on Board'' (german: Spiel an Bord) is a 1936 German comedy crime film directed by Herbert Selpin and starring Viktor de Kowa, Susi Lanner and Alfred Abel.Bock & Bergfelder p. 443 The film's sets were designed by the art director Erich ...

'' (1936) * '' Stjenka Rasin'' (1936) * ''

The Beggar Student ''Der Bettelstudent'' (''The Beggar Student'') is an operetta in three acts by Carl Millöcker with a German libretto by Camillo Walzel (under the pseudonym of F. Zell) and Richard Genée, based on ''Les noces de Fernande'' by Victorien Sar ...

'' (1936) * '' The Dreamer'' (1936)

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* Youngkin, Stephen. '' The Lost One: A Life of Peter Lorre''. University Press of Kentucky, 2005. 1918 births 1941 deaths German male film actors Male actors from Hamburg German male child actors German military personnel killed in World War II 20th-century German male actors German Army personnel of World War II {{Germany-film-actor-stub