Axel Ivers

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Axel Ivers (* 6 June 1902 in Gdansk , Empire ; † 23. October 1964 in Wiesbaden ) was a German actor , theater director , radio speaker , a playwright and translator .

Live and act

Ivers attended the humanistic grammar school in Stettin during the First World War and received his acting training there between 1917 and 1920 under L. Knauth. From 1919, when he made his debut with the role of Bob in Frank Wedekind's Die Büchse der Pandora , until 1923 Ivers was engaged at the Szczecin City Theater. Subsequently, from 1924 to 1928, he belonged to the Stadttheater in Wuppertal for four seasons, and then to the corresponding stage in Bonn for another four seasons. In 1932, the native of Danzig was brought to Wiesbaden to not only appear at the local state theater, but also to direct for the first time. Axel Ivers remained connected to the Hessian state capital for the rest of his life. Here, after the Second World War , he made a name for himself with the staging of works by Gerhart Hauptmann , including Die Ratten (1949), Hanneles Himmelfahrt (1951) and Rose Bernd (1952); Ivers also directed other classics of world literature, such as Somerset Maugham's The Holy Flame or Gotthold Ephraim Lessing's Nathan the Wise .

As a playwright, Ivers wrote mostly undemanding and cheerful pieces: Among other things, he wrote the plays Bob makes himself healthy (premiere: Wiesbaden 1933), Konsul Michael (premiere: Breslau 1934), Spiel am Bord (premiere: Bremen 1935; filmed under the same title in 1936 ), Hero of His Dreams (premiere: Dresden 1936), Parkstraße 13 (premiere: Bremen 1937), The Good Spirit of the House (premiere: Wiesbaden 1939), Zwei im Busch (premiere: Frankfurt am Main 1941), The Forger (premiere: Posen 1942), Herz der Dame (premiere: Wiesbaden 1946) and The King of Uganda (premiere: Trier 1953). Axel Ivers first appeared as a translator after the war for JC Holms and George Abbott's Three Men on a Horse and premiered this comedy in Germany in 1947 at the Berlin Schloßparktheater. Further translations of the pieces followed with McEnroe's Die Silberflöte , Huizinga's Ask My Wife and Giamini's Bambino .

Ivers was also active in radio and film; he recorded his first radio broadcast in 1929. His works Spiel am Bord and Parkstrasse 13 were filmed in the 1930s and 1960s, respectively. To Roger Norman's staging game in the summer breeze wrote Axel Ivers 1938 the screenplay. As an actor in front of film and television cameras, he only appeared after the Second World War. His roles played there were hardly worth mentioning. Mostly Ivers embodied high-ranking dignitaries and academics, for example a public prosecutor (in the murder trial Dr. Jordan ), whom Dr. Stockmann in an implementation of Henrik Ibsen's An Enemy of the People , a Senator in a television adaptation of Jean-Paul Sartre's The Respectful Whore and a Medical Council in an implementation of Peter Adler's The Peace of Our City .

Filmography

As an actor, unless otherwise stated

  • 1938: Spiel im Sommerwind (also screenplay)
  • 1949: murder trial of Dr. Jordan
  • 1952: My wife does stupid things
  • 1955: The Baskerville Hound
  • 1955: Hero in our time
  • 1955: An enemy of the people
  • 1956: The respectful whore
  • 1960: The peace of our city
  • 1962: Parkstraße 13 (only script)

Radio plays (selection)

Author:

  • 1948: Parkstraße 13 (radio play adaptation, detective radio play) - directed by Paul Land

Translator from English:

Translator from Dutch:

Processing (word):

  • 1981: John Cecil Holm, George Abbott: Three men on a horse - Director: Anke Beckert

Speaker:

literature

  • Herbert A. Frenzel , Hans Joachim Moser (ed.): Kürschner's biographical theater manual. Drama, opera, film, radio. Germany, Austria, Switzerland. De Gruyter, Berlin 1956, DNB 010075518 , p. 318.
  • Johann Caspar Glenzdorf: Glenzdorf's international film lexicon. Biographical manual for the entire film industry. Volume 2: Hed – Peis. Prominent-Filmverlag, Bad Münder 1961, DNB 451560744 , p. 741 f.

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personal data
SURNAME Ivers, Axel
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German actor, theater director, radio play speaker, playwright and translator
DATE OF BIRTH June 6, 1902
PLACE OF BIRTH Danzig , German Empire
DATE OF DEATH October 23, 1964
Place of death Wiesbaden , Germany