Kurt Hahn

Kurt Hahn is the founder and headmaster of the school young Prince Philip attends in flashback, a German educator who has fled his homeland and built an institution on rigorous physical and moral discipline. He believes boys are made through hardship, cold showers, and unflinching honesty, and he watches his pupils with severe, exacting attention.

Klaußner gives Hahn a stern moral clarity that never tips into caricature — you believe every word he says about forging character through suffering, and you understand why it might genuinely help a grieving, displaced boy. The performance makes ideology feel lived-in rather than lectured, which is what makes the flashback land.