Trivia

Hans Peter Hallwachs, son of a veterinarian, attended the acting school "Der Kreis" (Fritz Kirchhoff School) in Berlin from 1959 to 1961 after graduating from high school in Plön and dropping out of law study.

Hallwachs was one of the busiest character actors on German television and played supporting roles in many "Tatort" thrillers.

He made his stage debut as Pater in Max Frisch's Andorra.

He was a German actor, voice actor and radio play speaker/actor.

Since the late 1960s he has also made a name for himself as a character actor in film and television.

Hallwachs played i.a. in Volker Schlöndorff's drama Mord und Totschlag (with the Rolling Stones muse Anita Pallenberg), in Der Stoff aus dem die Träume sind (after Johannes Mario Simmel), in the Erich Kästner film adaptation of Fabian (in the leading role), in Hans -Christoph Blumenberg's drama Der Sommer des Samurai and in the East-West drama Vaterland (with Gerulf Pannach).

After fleeing the former GDR, he first settled in Schleswig-Holstein in 1952 . He began in 1959 a two-year course at the "Fritz-Kirchhoff-Schauspielschule" in Berlin. Mater on he also studied law, journalism and theater studies in Berlin and Hamburg.

After his stage debut, he played in theater at Goetheplatz in Bremen, Stuttgart, at the Munich Kammerspiele, at the Bayerisches Staatsschauspiel, at the Thalia Theater in Hamburg, at the Salzburg Festival and at the Schauspielhaus Graz.

In 2011, Hallwachs took on the role of Albert Einstein in the world premiere of Geister in Princeton, a play by Daniel Kehlmann, at the Schauspielhaus Graz.

From 2013 to 2016 he played Faith (Glauben) in Hugo von Hofmannsthal's 'Jedermann' at the Salzburg Festival.