Hans Adalbert Schlettow

Hans Adalbert Schlettow
Hans Adalbert Schlettow
	Hans Adalbert Schlettow
Born	11 June 1888; Frankfurt, German Empire
Died	30 April 1945 (aged 56); Berlin, Germany
Cause of death	Air raid
Nationality	German
Other names	Hans Adelbert Droescher von Schlettow
Years active	1917-1945

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.^[1]

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 on the same day Adolf Hitler committed suicide.

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
At the End of the World (1934) as Le Bucheron
Financial Opportunists (1934), as Dr. Lehmann
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
Stars of Variety (1939) as Tom
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, ISBN 978-3-10-039326-5, p. 626.
Ryall, Tom. Anthony Asquith. Manchester University Press, 2005.