Astrid Jacob

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Astrid Jacob (born February 27, 1945 in Dresden ) is a German actress , cabaret artist , radio play speaker , theater and opera director.

Life

Astrid Jacob grew up in Bochum and trained at the drama school there from 1962 to 1964 . In addition to permanent engagements at the stages in Frankfurt, Gelsenkirchen, Krefeld, Nuremberg, Saarbrücken and the Stuttgart State Theater , she has made frequent guest appearances at festivals such as Bad Hersfeld , Wunsiedel , Jagsthausen and the Ettlingen Castle Festival . Important roles were the title characters in Maria Stuart by Friedrich Schiller , Mother Courage and Her Children by Bertolt Brecht and Goethe's Iphigenie auf Tauris . Jacob was also Lady Macbeth in William Shakespeare's drama Macbeth and Jenny in Brecht's and Kurt Weill's operas The Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny . From 1978 to 1982 Jacob was a member of the Munich laughing and shooting society . In addition, she was the first woman in Germany to perform her own, often literary-musical programs, which also took her to Italy and what was then the Soviet Union. She is particularly concerned with the work of Mascha Kaléko . She has received multiple cultural awards for her literary performances.

In addition to her work as an actress, Astrid Jacob directs theater and operas. Her productions include the operas The Cunning Little Vixen by Leoš Janáček and Raskolnikoff by Heinrich Sutermeister at the Bremerhaven City Theater and Gioachino Rossini's La Cenerentola at the Giessen City Theater . Here she was the director of the musical My Fair Lady , Beckett's Waiting for Godot , Amadeus by Peter Shaffer and The sexual neuroses of our parents by Lukas Bärfuss . Jacob wrote and staged several revues for the musical quartet Die Schmachtigallen . She also worked in Koblenz, at the Rheinisches Landestheater Neuss , at the State Theater Oldenburg and at the Stuttgart Renitenztheater . Jacob also directed during her time as artistic director of the Neersener Schlossfestspiele , which lasted from 2006 to 2014.

Astrid Jacob has also worked occasionally for television since the early 1970s. For example, she was seen in the series Der Anwalt , at the side of Dieter Hallervorden in the film Didi in full swing and in some Tatort episodes. She also works as a radio play speaker.

Astrid Jacob lives in Munich.

Filmography

Radio plays (selection)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Date of birth at kinotv.com , accessed December 20, 2015
  2. ↑ a b Generalblatt of May 1, 2011 ( Memento of December 22, 2015 in the Internet Archive ), accessed on December 20, 2015
  3. ↑ a b Biography on the website of the Stadttheater Gießen ( memento from December 22, 2015 in the Internet Archive ), accessed on December 20, 2015
  4. ↑ Gereon Tönnihsen: Neersen: Astrid Jacob - A life in chapters , West German newspaper of 24 May 2007 , accessed on 20 December 2015
  5. ^ Short biography at the Frankfurter Bürgerstiftung , accessed on December 20, 2015
  6. ↑ Werner Dohmen: Castle Festival: Artistic Director Astrid Jacob says goodbye , Westdeutsche Zeitung of August 18, 2014 , accessed on December 20, 2015
personal data
SURNAME Jacob, Astrid
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German actress, cabaret artist, radio play speaker, theater and opera director
DATE OF BIRTH February 27, 1945
PLACE OF BIRTH Dresden