Born31 August 1921 (1921-08-31) Bonn, German Realm DiedFebruary 5, 1983, Falkensee, Germany MoviesTrail of the Falcon, The Gleiwitz Case, Stars, Weises Blut, Die schone Lurette Similar PeopleGottfried Kolditz, Herwart Grosse, Gerhard Klein, Rolf Hoppe, Alfred Struwe
Hannjo Hasse (31 August 1921 - 5 February 1983) was an East German actor.
Hasse began studying acting in 1938, and attended Lily Ackermann's Institute for Stage Artists' Education in Berlin. At 1941, he was drafted for the Labour Service, and later to the Army. After the end of the Second World War and his release from captivity, Hasse returned to Weimar, where he spent another six months to complete his drama training.
He made his debut on stage in the Nordhausen Theater, where he was also employed as a dramaturgue. Later, he also worked in theaters in Eisleben, Burg bei Magdeburg and Schwerin, before settling in the Hans Otto Theater in Leipzig, in which he was a member of the regular cast between 1954 and 1962. Afterwards, he moved to Berlin's Volksbühne, and then to the Deutsches Theater. Hasse played a wide range of supporting characters, from Malvolio to the Fledermaus.
Hasse made his first appearance on screen already during 1951, playing a minor role in Der Untertan. From the late 1950s, he focused mainly on cinema and television work. Although his earlier stage roles were mostly comical in nature, he depicted sinister characters almost solely: Renate Seydel, who interviewed him in 1966, commented that he was the most perennial villain in the actors' cast of DEFA and Deutscher Fernsehfunk. He portrayed greedy pioneers who seek to disposses Native Americans in many of East Germany's Red Western pictures. He is also remembered for depicting SD Colonel von Dietrich in the Yugoslav partisan film Walter Defends Sarajevo. In addition to those entertainment films, he also portrayed historical antagonists in several bleaker pictures dealing with recent past, like Alfred Naujocks in The Gleiwitz Case and Adolf Eichmann in the 1966 Lebende Ware - based on the blood for goods affair. Hasse told Seydel that he considered those roles as having educational value, in order to "demonstrate the full horror of Fascism" to younger viewers.
Hasse was awarded the Art Prize of the German Democratic Republic on 7 May 1971. He is buried in the Südwestkirchhof Stahnsdorf.
Filmography
1951: Der Untertan
1954: Gefährliche Fracht
1954: Ernst Thälmann - Sohn seiner Klasse
1955: Ham wa nich!
1959: Kabale und Liebe
1959: Sterne
1959: Bevor der Blitz einschlägt
1960: Vyšší princip
1961: Der Fall Gleiwitz
1961: Gewissen in Aufruhr (TV)
1962: Freispruch mangels Beweises
1962: Nebel
1963: Reserviert für den Tod
1963: An französischen Kaminen
1964: Das Lied vom Trompeter
1966: Die Söhne der großen Bärin
1966: Lebende Ware
1966: Schwarze Panther
1967: Die gefrorenen Blitze
1967: Das Mädchen auf dem Brett
1968: Spur des Falken
1968: Nebelnacht
1969: Mohr und die Raben von London
1969: Tödlicher Irrtum
1969: The Bridge - SS-Standartenführer Hoffmann
1969: Befreiung
1971: KLK Calling PTZ - The Red Orchestra
1972: Valter brani Sarajevo - SS-Standartenführer Von Dietrich