Hans Richter

He was awarded with the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany in 1983.

In 1974, he founded the Festspiele Heppenheim, a summer theatre, in which he worked as an actor/director/producer until his retirement in the 1990s.

He was an actor and director, known for Vatertag (1955), Die Feuerzangenbowle (1944) and Hurra - die Firma hat ein Kind (1956). He was married to Ingeborg Bieber.

The effort to establish Hans Richter and Rudolf Carl as a comedian duo failed - there came only two movies into being called "Knall und Fall als Hochstapler" (1952) and "Knall und Fall als Detektive" (1954).

Performed primarily on stage from the late 1950s and was the founder and director of a theatrical company in Heppenheim, Germany from 1984.

After his supporting role as a lazy schoolboy in Die Feuerzangenbowle (1944), Richter got drafted into the German Wehrmacht and was also in war imprisonment for some time.

The first child star of German sound films, celebrated for his role in Emil and the Detectives (1931). He remained essentially typecast for the remainder of his career, unable to shake his image as the perpetual freckle-faced schoolboy. His later roles often saw him as chauffeurs, newspaper sellers, hairdressers or elevator operators.

Hans Richter was born on January 12, 1919 in Nowawes, Germany.