Hannes Schmidhauser

Hannes Schmidhauser was born and grew up in Ticino. He studied drama at Zurich's Bühnenstudio to be an actor, which he became, but his activities were not limited to this field of action, to say the least. He is indeed known to have performed as a clown (in duet with Emil Hegethschweiler at the Kie Circus), to have had a career in soccer (playing three times in national league, six times in B league, and even winning the Swiss Cup with the Grasshoppers team!), to have been a reporter, a radio director (at Radio Monte Ceneri), a film assistant director, film director, film producer and distributor. Quite dizzying! Of course he was mainly an actor, but as can be expected, he would not be content to tread the boards. He naturally did so (playing at the Hegi Theater from 1947 to 1950 and later in Konstanz, Francfort and Berlin) but he also appeared on the big and small screens. Being chosen by Franz Schnyder for the role of Uli, Jeremias Gotthelf's "hero", was the chance of his lifetime. I