| Fritz
Rasp
Foto: Siegmund Labisch (1863-1942)
1891
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The actor Fritz Rasp was a very noticeable figure and he was predestined
to personify dubious fellows.
He was born in Bayreuth as the 13th child. He made his stage debut
in 1909 in the play "Jugend" at the Schauspielhaus in Munich. led "Jugend".
When he joined the Reinhardt ensemble he was able to get in touch with
many other actors like Werner Krauss.
In 1915 he came in contact with the medium film for the first time.
The title of his first movie can't be proved, most likely it was the movie
"Zucker und Zimt" of director Ernst Matray. In the following year he acted
for the legendary director Ernst Lubitsch in the film "Schuhpalast Pinkus"
(16).
His film career came to a stop when he served in the military from
1916 to 1918 during World War I.
His first roles in front of the camera were appointed to comedic roles
but already in the 20s he was mostly engaged for knavish and twisty characters.
The 20s also marked the breakthrough of his film career, whereas one
wished they had engaged this catchy character more often.
To his well-known movies of those years belong "Jugend" (22), "Der
Mensch am Wege" (23), "Schatten" (23), "Menschen am Meer" (25), the cult
film "Metropolis" (26), "Die Waise von Lowood" (26), "Die Liebe der Jeanne
Ney" (27), "Schinderhannes" (28), "Spione" (28), "Frau im Mond" (29), "Der
Hund von Baskerville" (29) and "Tagebuch einer Verlorenen" (29).
Ilja Ehrenburg, writer of the movie "Die Liebe der Jeanne Ney", wrote
about Rasp in later days: "Of all actors in the movie "Die Liebe der Jeanne
Ney" in 1927 Fritz Rasp was the one who pleased me most. He looked like
a veritable scoundrel. When he bit the girl into her arm and covered the
wound immediately afterwards with a dollar note instead of a adhesive plaster,
I forgot that an actor was in front of me".
Beside the film Fritz Rasp remained busy at the theater as well and
he appeared on many German stages in the next years like the Metropoltheater
and the Deutsches Theater.
The sound movie couldn't harm the career of Fritz Rasp. He already
played in the 30s in several Edgar-Wallace pictures which were very popular
in Germany. Especially in the 50s and 60s there were a lot of remakes based
on stories by Edgar Wallace which could lure a huge number of spectators
into the cinema. Of course Rasp was also called to play one of the suspects.
To Fritz Rasp's most impressive roles of the 30s belong "Dreyfus" (30),
"Der Mörder Dimitri Karamasoff" (30), "Der Zinker" (31), the first
filming of Erich Kästner's "Emil und die Detektive" (31), "Die Drei-Groschen-Oper"
(31), "Der Hexer" (32), "Der Judas von Tirol" (33), "Charleys Tante" (34),
"Der Hund von Baskerville" (36), "Togger" (37), "Nanu, Sie kennen Korff
noch nicht!" (38) and "Frau im Strom" (39).
During and after the first years of World War II his engagements in
front of the camera diminished.
To his few appearances of those years belong "Alarm" (41), "Paracelsus"
(43) and "Irgendwo in Berlin" (46).
Only from the 50s he managed a comeback and he impersonated again numerous
support roles, among others the priorily mentioned Edgar Wallace filmings.
To his most popular productions of the 50s and 60s belong "Hokuspokus"
(53), "Der Cornet" (55), "Don Carlos" (57), "Der Frosch mit der Maske"
(59), "Der rote Kreis" (60), "Bezaubernde Julia" (60), "Die Bande des Schreckens"
(60), "Das schwarze Schaf" (60), "Die seltsame Gräfin" (61), "Der
Zinker" (63) and "Dr. med. Hiob Praetorius" (64).
At the end of his career he also appeared in some TV productions, his
last great triumph he experienced with the TV production "Lina Braake"
at Lina Carsten's side.
Fritz Rasp was awarded with the Filmband in Gold in 1963 for his outstanding
work for the German film.
Other movies with Fritz Rasp:
Hans Trutz im Schlaraffenland (17)
Time is Money (23) Zwischen Abend und Morgen/Der Spuk einer Nacht (23)
Arabella (24) Komödianten (24) Die Puppe vom Lunapark (24) Ein Sommernachtstraum
(25) Das Haus der Lüge (25) Götz von Berlichingen zubenannt mit
der eisernen Hand (25) Qualen der Nacht (26) Der Liebe Lust und Leid (26)
Überflüssige Menschen (26) Kinderseelen klagen an (27) Der geheimnisvolle
Spiegel (27) Der letzte Walzer (27) Die Carmen von St. Pauli (28) Frühlings
Erwachen (29) Die Drei um Edith (29) Die grosse Sehnsucht (30) Tropennächte
(30) Die Pranke (31) Die Vier vom Bob 13 (31) Die grausame Freundin (32)
Der sündige Hof (33) Der Schuss am Nebelhorn (33) Altgermanische Bauernkultur
(34) Grenzfeuer (34) Klein-Dorrit (34) Lockvogel (34) Lockspitzel Asew
(34) Onkel Bräsig (36) Die Leuchter des Kaisers (36) Einmal werd'
ich Dir gefallen (37) Es war eine rauschende Ballnacht (39) Leidenschaft
(40) Skandal in der Botschaft (50) Haus des Lebens (52) Die Mühle
im Schwarzwälder Tal (53) Magic Fire - Frauen um Richard Wagner (55)
Die Bauernpassion (55) Squirrel (55) Madame Aurélie (55) Kopf in
der Schlinge (55) Der Revisor (55) Gottes Utopia (55) Die Heiratskomödie
(55) Ein Weihnachtslied in Prose (55) Das Abschiedsgeschenk (56) Oberst
Chabert (56) Wo war David Preston? (56) Zwölftausend (56) Der öffentliche
Kläger (58) Vor Himmelskörpern wird gewarnt (59) Johanna von
Lothringen (59) Land, das meine Sprache spricht (59) Das mittlere Fenster
(59) Eine Dummheit macht auch der Gescheiteste (59) Kasimir und Karoline
(59) Der Mann, der Donnerstag war (60) Am grünen Strand der Spree
(60) Gericht über Las Casas (60) Das Rätsel der roten Orchidee/Gangster
in London (62) Maria Stuart (63) Herodes und Marianne (64) Eurydike (64)
Volpone (66) Der Prozess der Jeanne d'Arc zu Rouen 1431 (67) Die Verspätung
(69) Serie "Tatort: Frankfurter Gold (71) Die Weber (71) Serie "Der Kommissar:
Tod eines Ladenbesitzers (71) Pero und Jovo (72) Dorothea Merz (76) |
