Karl Hammes was born on 25 March 1896 in Zell (Mosel), Germany. He was an actor, known for Königswalzer (1935) and Spanisches Intermezzo (1929). He died on 10 September 1939 in Warsaw, Mazowieckie, Poland.
After the war he chose a complete other direction for his professional life and he joined the academy of music in Cologne. Subsequent to this education followed appearances as a singer at a opera in Berlin and in 1927 he experienced his first huge success with the play "Parsifal" at the Bayreuther Festspiele.
