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.
