Hans Adalbert Schlettow Explained

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,, p. 626.
• Ryall, Tom. Anthony Asquith. Manchester University Press, 2005.

Notes and References

1. Ryall p.170