Biografie

28. Januar 1910 · Stanislav, Polen

28. Januar 1973 · Wien, Österreich (abdominale Blutung)

Johann Banner

1,85 m

Banner is best remembered for his portrayal of the Luftwaffe prison-camp guard "Sergeant Schultz" in the TV series Ein Käfig voller Helden (1965). But there remains a certain irony: John Banner was Jewish.

In Die Unbestechlichen (1959) episode Takeover (1962), Banner is pumped for information and says "I know nothing." Six years later, he made the line famous as Sgt. Schultz in Ein Käfig voller Helden (1965).

On February 2, 1973, John Banner was interred at Mauer Cemetery, Vienna, plot no. 57/2/26.

John Banner and Werner Klemperer appeared together nearly 10 years prior to Ein Käfig voller Helden (1965) in the episode Safe Conduct (1956) of Alfred Hitchcock präsentiert (1955).

Passed away in his native Vienna on his 63rd birthday.

On his ironic casting as Sgt. Schultz: "Well, who better to play Nazis than we Jews?"

There is no such thing as a cuddly Nazi. Maybe Hermann Göring was cuddly to his wife. He wasn't cuddly to the city of Rotterdam. Schultz is not a Nazi. I see Schultz as the representative of some kind of goodness in any generation.