Axel von Ambesser

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Axel v. Ambesser, 1950

Axel von Ambesser (born June 22, 1910 in Hamburg , † September 6, 1988 in Munich ; actually Axel Eugen Alexander von Oesterreich ) was one of the most famous German actors , film directors and authors of the post-war period .

Grave of Axel von Oesterreich-Ambesser, in the old Niendorf cemetery

Life

Axel von Ambesser was born in Hamburg in 1910 as the son of the import and export merchant Alexander von Oesterreich (1875–1949) and his wife Marie Luise von Massow (1881–1953), a daughter of General Robert von Massow . He chose his stage name "Axel von Ambesser" on the advice of his father in order to be mentioned early on in alphabetical order. Without acting training, he received an engagement at the Hamburger Kammerspiele from artistic director Erich Ziegel and, while he was already acting, received acting lessons from Hans Stiebner and Maria Loja . During this time he also joined the collective of Hamburg actors founded by his friends Gerhard Hinze and Hanuš Burger . During the Third Reich he worked in various theater companies. As a youthful hero he came to the Stadttheater Augsburg , then to the Münchner Kammerspiele with Otto Falckenberg for roles as a lover and character comedian and already in 1936 with Heinz Hilpert at the Deutsches Theater in Berlin . During Hilpert's double directorship, he played at the Theater in der Josefstadt in Vienna . Gustaf Gründgens finally signed him to the State Theater Berlin. He also worked as an actor in various films, such as B. Women are not angels (1943). Ambesser was listed on Joseph Goebbels ' list of the gifted gods as an important actor for film production.

Axel v. Ambesser (right) with part of the Dreamy Days team and L'aiguille rouge , Munich Riem Airport, 1950

After the Second World War , Axel von Ambesser also increasingly worked as an author for the stage, film and television and the post-war cabaret Die Schaubude in Munich, for which he also wrote many articles on tour. He also worked successfully as a film director. His best-known and most successful films are Der Pauker (1958) and Der brave Soldat Schwejk nach Jaroslav Hašek (1960) (both with Heinz Rühmann ), the latter of which received a Golden Globe for best foreign film in the USA ; also Der Gauner und der liebe Gott (1960 with Gert Fröbe ), Kohlhiesels Töchter (1962 with Liselotte Pulver ) and the Pater Brown film He Can't Leave It (1962), also with Heinz Rühmann. During this time Axel von Ambesser was also seen as an actor, for example in Gustav Adolf's Page as Wallenstein . He appeared as a speaker in Es does not always have to be Kaviar (1961 with OW Fischer ) or as the dubbing voice of Charlie Chaplin in Monsieur Verdoux , for whom he also wrote the German dialogue version .

For the theater he staged his own plays such as The Abyssal in Mr. Gerstenberg , Max Mahnke as a person , Encounter in Autumn , How do I lead a marriage? , Omelette Surprise u. a. in Berlin, Munich, Hamburg, Cologne, Düsseldorf, Frankfurt aM and Vienna, in which he also appeared in leading roles. In the post-war years, Axel von Ambesser was the most played living German-speaking author, ahead of Carl Zuckmayer and Bertolt Brecht . He had his last stage roles in the world premiere of Curth Flatow's Romeo with gray temples in Munich and as Emperor Franz Joseph in Ralph Benatzky's operetta Im Weißen Rößl at the Raimund Theater in Vienna .

In later years, Ambesser was often seen on television, including a. in encounter in autumn , omelette surprise , the curtain falls , large train station , old sins do not rust and in the crime scene - advertising murder . Shortly before his death in 1988, he appeared again in front of the camera for the Black Forest Clinic as "Landesgerichtsrat Eckner" in the episode The Old Man . In addition, he was in the 117th edition of the game show The Monday Painters , broadcast on July 12, 1988 in the ARD program , next to his daughter Gwendolyn, for the very last time as a guest live on a television program.

In 1985 he published his autobiography Take a Name with A and in 1987 the novel But don't ask me how ...

Axel von Ambesser was born in 1937 with the actress Inge von Oesterreich-Ambesser. Flemming (1914–1995) married. Like her father, his daughter Gwendolyn von Ambesser works as a director, author and actress and also as a set designer.

Axel von Ambesser was buried in the old Niendorfer cemetery in Hamburg. His real surname v. Austria . In Munich there since 1990 in the district of Sendling the Axel von Ambesser Street .

In April 2011, a biography about Axel von Ambesser, written by his daughter Gwendolyn , was published under the title Actors cannot be grasped. His extensive written estate is in the archive of the Academy of Arts in Berlin .

Awards and honors

Books

Biography;

Novel;

own pieces;

  • Globus AG shows: "An artist's life". Comedy . Publishing house Ahn & Simrock, Hamburg 1939.
  • The hat. Variation in 3 acts . Verlag Ahn & Simrock, Hamburg 1940.
  • How do I get married? Course in 3 acts . Verlag Ahn & Simrock, Hamburg 1940.
  • Courage to live at high prices. Comedy . Publishing house Ahn & Simrock, Hamburg 1943
  • The abysmal in Mr. Gerstenberg . Desch Verlag, Munich 1946
  • The Fall of the Widow of Ephisus . Publishing house Ahn & Simrock, Hamburg 1949.
  • Miracles in the trash or how to avoid work. A picture of life in 3 acts . Publishing house Ahn & Simrock, Hamburg 1959.
  • Encounter in autumn. Comedy in 3 acts . Desch Verlag, Munich 1967 (former title: The travel companion ).
  • Max Mahnke as a person. Comedy in 3 acts . Desch Verlag, Munich around 1973.
  • Omelette surprise . Fun in 5 acts . Publishing house Ahn & Simrock, Hamburg 1979.
  • The widows' school. Fantastic posse . Publishing house Ahn & Simrock, Hamburg 1981.

machined pieces;

  • Lope de Vega : tumult in the madhouse. Comedy in 3 acts ("Los locos de Valencia"). Publishing house Ahn & Simrock, Hamburg 1953.
  • Joseph von Eichendorff : The suitors. Comedy in 3 acts . Desch Verlag, Munich 1967.
  • Brandon Thomas : Charley's aunt . Schwank in 3 acts ("Charley's aunt"). Publishing house Ahn & Simrock, Hamburg 1950
  • Eugène Marin Labiche : The Florentine Hat. Posse in 5 acts ("Un chapeau de paille d'Italie"). Drei Masken Verlag, Munich 1965.
  • Molière : The conceited patient . 3 acts of music and dance ("Le malade imaginaire"). Chronos-Verlag, Hamburg 1950.
  • George Farquhar : The Recruiter. Comedy in 2 acts ("The recruiting officer"). Ahn & Simrock, Munich 1964 (together with Robert Gillner ).

Filmography

Radio plays

(Detective radio play - WDR)

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Source: Family von Oesterreich.
  2. ^ Ernst Klee : The culture lexicon for the Third Reich. Who was what before and after 1945 (= The time of National Socialism. Vol. 17153). Completely revised edition. Fischer-Taschenbuch-Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 2009, ISBN 978-3-596-17153-8 .
  3. ^ Hans Dollinger: The Munich street names . 8th, updated edition. MünchenVerlag, Stuttgart 2016, ISBN 978-3-7630-4039-1 , p. 34 .
  4. ↑ Eva Siebenherz: Renamed streets in Bavaria: What was the street called earlier? (=  Renamed streets in Germany . Volume 2 ). neobooks, Berlin 2016, ISBN 3-7380-8244-1 .
  5. ↑ Axel von Ambesser archive inventory overview on the website of the Academy of Arts in Berlin.
personal data
SURNAME Ambesser, Axel von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Austria, Axel Eugen Alexander von (real name); Oesterreich-Ambesser, Axel von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German film director
DATE OF BIRTH June 22, 1910
PLACE OF BIRTH Hamburg
DATE OF DEATH September 6, 1988
Place of death Munich