Hermann Braun

Biography

German actor Hermann Braun was born in New York in 1918, since his father "Kammersaenger" Carl Braun had an engagement at the Metropolitan Opera. Back in Germany twelve years old Hermann was detected for his first part in a movie (1933 - Der Jaeger aus Kurpfalz) when he visited his father at the Babelsberg-Filmstudios in Berlin. Due to his talent Hermann was offered the star role in "Hitlerjunge Quax" but he had to decline, because of a protracted illness. In order to this he got a minor part in the movie. Later he began his studies at the acting school Schauspielschule Berlin which he left two years later without an examination. Also because of his talent he got an engagement at the Stadttheater Bochum. Next he played at the Staatstheater Berlin before being new-discovered for the film industry. Among this he played in Emil Jannings 1936 - picture "Traumulus". Due to his negative posture against the Nazi regime, he lost his artist-status and got drafted in 1944. As a radio operator he came to the Russian front where he was shot by snipers in an open field on January 18th 1945. He was 26 years old. He descended from an artistic family. His father Carl Braun was a famous opera singer, his mother Gertrude Botz actress at the Theater Luebeck, and his sister Anne-Mary Braun is an actress too and also worked as a college lecturer at the Staatliche Hochschule fuer Musik und Theater in Hannover, Germany.