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Hans Adalbert Schlettow

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Hans Adalbert Schlettow
Hans Adalbert Schlettow
Born(1888-06-11)11 June 1888
Died30 April 1945(1945-04-30) (aged 56)
Cause of deathAir raid
NationalityGerman
Other namesHans Adelbert Droescher von Schlettow
Years active1917-1945

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

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Bibliography

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  • 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.

References

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  1. ^ Ryall p.170