Hans Peter Korff

{{Short description|German actor (1942–2025)}}

{{Use dmy dates|date=March 2025}}

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| birth_date = {{birth date|1942|8|24|df=y}}

| birth_place = Hamburg, Germany

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| occupation = Actor

| years_active = 1964–2021

| children = 2

| website = {{url|http://leuchtmann-korff.de/m/index.html}}

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Hans Peter Korff (24 August 1942 – 9 March 2025) was a German actor in theatre, film and television. He worked at notable German theatres and became popular in TV series such as Diese Drombuschs.

Life and career

Korff was born in Hamburg on 24 August 1942.{{cite encyclopedia |title=Hans Peter Korff |url=https://www.munzinger.de/search/go/document.jsp?id=00000023370 |access-date=15 March 2025 |encyclopedia=Munzinger Archiv |date=2011}} He was an apprentice to become a typesetter, like his father. At age 17, he joined a student theatre troupe led by {{ill|Claus Peymann|de}}. He studied acting at the Hochschule für Musik und Theater Hamburg with {{ill|Eduard Marks|de}}. He worked at different private theatres in Hamburg between 1964 and 1969, including the Ernst Deutsch Theater. He moved then to the Staatstheater Stuttgart, in 1972 to the Düsseldorfer Schauspielhaus, and in 1974 to Deutsches Schauspielhaus in Hamburg. He worked freelance from 1976, as a guest at the Münchner Kammerspiele and the Volksbühne in Berlin. He worked at the Schauspiel Bochum from 1984.

He worked as an actor in both film and television, playing in around 20 films, 60 television films and 70 television series. He became popular in television series for roles such as the postman Onkel Heini in the ZDF's Neues aus Uhlenbusch series for children (1977 to 1982) and Siegfried "Sigi" Drombusch in Diese Drombuschs (1983 to 1994). He played Uncle Hellmuth in Pappa Ante Portas, a 1991 Loriot film.

= Personal life =

Korff was married to the director Ina-Kathrin Korff (née Petzold) from 1964; they had a daughter, Franziska, born in 1965.{{cite web | title=Ina-Kathrin Korff | website=kleines theater Bad Godesberg - kleines theater nachfolger 2019 e.V. | date=24 March 2019 | url=https://kleinestheater.eu/ensemble-kreativteam/regie/ina-kathrin-korff | language=de | access-date=16 March 2025}} His second wife was the actress Monica Bleibtreu, from the 1980s.{{cite news |title="ZDF-Star Hans Peter Korff ist tot |url=https://www.t-online.de/unterhaltung/stars/id_100629198/hans-peter-korff-der-zdf-star-ist-tot.html |access-date=15 March 2025 |work=T-Online |date=10 March 2025}} He married his third wife, the actress {{ill|Christiane Leuchtmann|de}}, in 1992.[https://www.derwesten.de/staedte/duisburg/nord/christiane-leuchtmann-und-hans-peter-korff-begeisterten-das-publikum-id6370637.html Der Westen: Christiane Leuchtmann und Hans Peter Korff begeisterten das Publikum (German)] They had a son, Johannes Valentin Korff.

Korff died on 9 March 2025, at the age of 82.{{cite news |title="Drombuschs" star Hans Peter Korff is dead |url=https://www.bluewin.ch/en/entertainment/drombuschs-star-hans-peter-korff-is-dead-2597306.html |agency=dpa |access-date=10 March 2025 |publisher=Bue News |date=10 March 2025}}

Filmography

=Film=

Films with Korff included:[https://www.filmportal.de/en/person/hans-peter-korff_f2ffd2d97b0b8862e03053d50b370800 Hans Peter Korff] Filmportal

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  • 1967: Der Eine – der Andere (short)
  • 1969: Ich nicht (short)
  • 1977: Die Anstalt
  • 1978: Alzire oder der neue Kontinent
  • 1981: Die Fälschung (Circle of Deceit)
  • 1983: {{ill|Peppermint Frieden|de}}
  • 1989: Hab' ich nur Deine Liebe
  • 1989: Wayfarers
  • 1991: Pappa ante Portas
  • 1992: Kinder der Landstraße
  • 1992: {{ill|Moebius (1992 film)|de|Moebius (1992)|lt=Moebius}}
  • 1995: {{ill|Nich' mit Leo|de|Nich' mit Leo}}
  • 1995: {{ill|Halali (film)|de|Halali oder Der Schuß ins Brötchen|lt=Halali}}
  • 1999: Beresina oder Die letzten Tage der Schweiz
  • 2003: Adam & Eva
  • 2004: Wedding Daydream (short)
  • 2007: {{ill|GG 19 – Deutschland in 19 Artikeln|de|lt=GG 19}}
  • 2010: Vater Morgana
  • 2015: Sanctuary

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=Television films=

Source:{{cite web | title=Filmografie Hans Peter Korff | website=fernsehserien.de | date=21 January 2021 | url=https://www.fernsehserien.de/hans-peter-korff/filmografie | language=de | access-date=16 March 2025}}{{cite web | title=Hans Peter Korff spielte Siegfried Drombusch | website=Drombuschs.de | url=https://www.drombuschs.de/schauspieler/biografien/hans-peter-korff/ | language=de | access-date=16 March 2025}}

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  • 1969: {{ill|Gnade für Timothy Evans|de}}
  • 1969: {{ill|Zieh den Stecker raus, das Wasser kocht|de}}
  • 1975: {{Ill|Die Stadt im Tal|de}}
  • 1977: {{ill|Unendlich tief unten|de}}
  • 1979: {{ill|The Great Runaway|de|Die große Flatter}}
  • 1982: {{ill|Drei gegen Hollywood|de}}
  • 1986: {{ill|Bankgeheimnisse|de}}
  • 1989: {{ill|Jenseits von Blau|de}}
  • 1991: {{ill|Unser Haus|de||Unser Haus (Film)}}
  • 1995: {{ill|… nächste Woche ist Frieden|de}}
  • 2001: {{ill|The Publisher|de|Der Verleger}}
  • 2001: Vera Brühne
  • 2002: {{ill|Hannas Baby|de}}
  • 2003: {{ill|Mein Weg zu Dir|de}}{{cite web | title=Mein Weg zu dir 23.03.2025 09:00 | website=rbb | url=https://www.rbb-online.de/fernsehen/programm/23_03_2025/1988294.html | language=de | access-date=16 March 2025}}
  • 2006: {{ill|Mein süßes Geheimnis|de}}{{cite web | title=ZUM 80. GEBURTSTAG VON FRIEDRICH VON THUN: Mein süßes Geheimnis | website=BR.de | date=13 May 2022 | url=https://www.br.de/br-fernsehen/programmkalender/ausstrahlung-2893980.html | language=de | access-date=16 March 2025}}
  • 2007: {{ill|Bezaubernde Marie|de}}{{cite web | title=Bezaubernde Marie | website=fernsehserien.de | date=23 March 2007 | url=https://www.fernsehserien.de/bezaubernde-marie | language=de | access-date=16 March 2025}}
  • 2010: {{ill|Der Meisterdieb|de|Der Meisterdieb (2010)}}
  • 2021: {{ill|Meeresleuchten|de|Meeresleuchten (Film)}}{{cite web | last=Huber | first=Joachim | title=ARD-Film "Meeresleuchten": Der Liebe und der Wellen Rauschen | website=Tagesspiegel | date=16 February 2021 | url=https://www.tagesspiegel.de/gesellschaft/medien/der-liebe-und-der-wellen-rauschen-4735801.html | language=de | access-date=16 March 2025}}
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    =Television series=

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    References

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    Further reading

    • Hermann J. Huber: {{ill|Langen Müller's Schauspielerlexikon der Gegenwart|de|Langen Müller’s Schauspielerlexikon der Gegenwart}}. Albert Langen · Georg Müller Verlag, Munich · Vienna 1986, {{ISBN|3-7844-2058-3}}, p. 523.