Gisela Zoch-Westphal

Gisela Westphal (* 1930 as Gisela Zoch in Comodoro Rivadavia , Argentina ) is a German actress and reciter .

Life

Gisela Westphal (for solo appearances: Gisela Zoch-Westphal) was born in 1930. She received her acting training in Hamburg with Ida Ehre and first engagements at the Hamburger Kammerspiele , Junge Theater and with Helmuth Gmelin in the Theater im Zimmer . In 1954 she met the actor, reciter and director Gert Westphal at the NWDR Hamburg , the forerunner of the North German Broadcasting , and in 1957 she married him. From 1955 she went to Baden-Baden for five years . Guest appearances have taken her to Stuttgart, Berlin and on tours throughout the Federal Republic of Germany. From 1967 to 1969 she took part in the "Götz" festival in Jagsthausen . Every year she appeared at the Salzburg Festival productions of ORF with.

She has lived near Zurich since 1960. Since 1967 she has been increasingly active as a writer for the press and radio. Before she quit theater in 1970 because of her two daughters, she played the prothoe in Kleist's Penthesilea .

Gisela Zoch-Westphal worked as an actress and speaker at German-speaking broadcasters in Germany, Austria and Switzerland. She completed lecture tours in Germany, Austria, Switzerland and Israel as well as lecture evenings in London, Paris and Buenos Aires. From 1978 to 1993 she taught speech training at the Zurich Conservatory .

Since the 1990s, various audio book recordings have been made with works a. a. by Virginia Woolf , Djuna Barnes , Dorothy Parker , Rose Ausländer , Else Lasker-Schüler , Katia Mann and Mascha Kaléko . In 1995, Emilie and Theodor Fontane awarded her exchange of marriage letters, recorded together with Gert Westphal, with the German Record Critics' Prize. Since the death of Gert Westphal, she has taken on the readings of the poetry programs she has put together every year at Reinbek Castle in Schleswig-Holstein .

Gisela Zoch-Westphal has been managing the poetic work of the poet Mascha Kaléko since 1975 . In 2008 she was awarded the Federal Cross of Merit on ribbon for her services . In 1987 she published a biography about Mascha Kaléko.

Stage and radio play roles (selection)

• Fenitschka by Lou Andreas-Salomé
• The White House of Herman Bang
• Theodor Chindler by Bernard von Brentano
• In the field of one night by Jean Cayrol
• The player of Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoyevsky
• The year Lazertis by Günter Eich
• Irrecoverable by Theodor Fontane
• Conversations of German emigrants by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
• Warenka Olessowa by Maxim Gorki
• The hunting rifle by Yasushi Inoue
• Duet for a voice by Tom Kempinski
• Professor Unrat from Heinrich Mann
• Buddenbrooks by Thomas Mann
• Fiorenza by Thomas Mann
• The brothers of Guy de Maupassant
• Don Juan or The Stone Guest of Molière
• Turandot by Friedrich von Schiller
• On the green beach of the Spree by Hans Scholz
• War and Peace by Leo N. Tolstoy
• The Maurizius case by Jakob Wassermann
• Sunflower, Bat by Wolfgang Weyrauch
• The devil's general by Carl Zuckmayer
• The compulsion of Stefan Zweig

Audiobooks (excerpt)

1987 - Mascha Kaléko: From the six lives of Mascha Kaléko (mm - Modern Media) - together with Gert Westphal

1992 - Peter Hacks : A conversation in the Stein house about the absent Herr von Goethe (Litraton)

1993 - Rose Ausländer : "My breath is now called" (Litraton)

1993 - Else Lasker-Schüler : "Only eternity is not exile" (Litraton) - together with Gert Westphal

1993 - Ingeborg Bachmann : Undine leaves. The bark (litraton)

1993 - Peter I. Tschaikowsky : Beloved friend (Litraton) - together with Gert Westphal

1995 - Djuna Barnes : Passion (Litraton)

1995 - Katherine Mansfield : Bliss - The Garden Festival (Litraton)

1996 - Virginia Woolf : A Room to Her Alone (Litraton)

1997 - Dorothy Parker : New York Stories (Litraton)

2001 - Angelika Kauffmann : A poet with a brush (DGG) - together with Gert Westphal

2004 - Katia Mann : From the life of Katia Mann (Kilchberg Reading Association, Switzerland)

2006 - Mascha Kaléko: Interview with myself (DGG) together with Gerd Wameling

Radio plays (excerpt)

• 1954: Paul Valéry : " Mein Faust " (based on the theater fragment "Mon Faust") - Director: Gert Westphal - ( SWF 1954 )
• 1959: Georges Simenon : Maigret and his scruples , director: Gert Westphal
• 1965: Georges Simenon: The Bells of Bicêtre (Fräulein Blanche) - adaptation and direction: Gert Westphal (detective radio play - SWF )
• 1968: Manfred Schwarz : Who shouted - crucify him? (DRS)

Fonts (excerpt)

• Mascha Kaléko : Today tomorrow is already yesterday. Poems from the estate. (Editor). Arani, Berlin 1980. 6th edition 1990, ISBN 3-7605-8550-7 .
• Mascha Kaléko: The storm is ringing in my dreams. Poems and epigrams from the estate. (Editor). Dtv, Munich 1977, ISBN 978-3-423-01294-2 .
• Mascha Kaléko: Parrot and Mummy and other verses. (Editor). Dtv, Munich 1988, ISBN 978-3-423-10580-4 .
• Mascha Kaléko: Verses for Contemporaries. (Editor). Rowohlt, Reinbek near Hamburg 1985, ISBN 978-3-499-33247-0 .
• Mascha Kaléko: The few brilliant years. With an essay by Horst Krüger and a biography by Gisela Zoch-Westphal. Dtv, Munich 2003. 7th edition 2008, ISBN 978-3-423-13149-0 .

Web links

• Literature by and about Gisela Zoch-Westphal in the catalog of the German National Library
• Interview with Gisela Zoch-Westphal on convivio-mundi.de

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Press release ( Memento of the original from March 5, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. of the Deutscher Taschenbuch Verlag , accessed on February 24, 2011.