Hans Adalbert Schlettow
Hans Adalbert Schlettow
Born	(1888-06-11)11 June 1888 Frankfurt, German Empire
Died	30 April 1945(1945-04-30) (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.

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
• 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.

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