Bernhard Minetti
Bernhard Theodor Henry Minetti (born January 26, 1905 in Kiel , † October 12, 1998 in Berlin ) was a German actor .
Life
Born in Kiel, Minetti was the son of the architect Henry Minetti and his wife Johanna nee Schauz. He came from a family who immigrated to Germany in the 19th century from the northern Italian town of Crusinallo , on the northern tip of Lake Orta . From 1911 he attended a reform high school in Kiel, where he graduated from high school in 1923.
His later path to the theater led him to study German and theater studies in Munich . Here he had the opportunity to research the performances of the Münchner Kammerspiele under Hermine Körner and the works of director Hans Schweikart from an analytical perspective. In the years between 1923 and 1925, the desire to become an actor developed.
When the director of the Berlin State Theater, Leopold Jessner , announced that he would be opening a new drama school attached to the theater , Minetti called in in 1925 and was accepted. As a mentor, Jessner opened up a wide range of opportunities for Minetti. But first he had to work in the provinces. In 1927 he made his debut at the Reussisches Theater Gera as a Capuchin in Wallenstein's camp .
Until 1930 he played numerous roles at the theaters in Gera (artistic director Walter Bruno Iltz ) and Darmstadt . From 1930 until the end of the war in 1945 he was engaged at the State Theater in Berlin . Under Jürgen Fehling and Gustaf Gründgens, alongside Werner Krauss and Käthe Gold, he played the great roles offered by classical music and was one of the great theater stars of the 1930s in Berlin.
Minetti was not very interested in the film. Nevertheless, he was involved in the 1931 film adaptation of Alfred Döblin's Berlin Alexanderplatz , where he can be seen alongside Heinrich George . In addition, Minetti was on the list of actors who were needed for film production. For Hitler's birthday on April 20, 1933, he was an actor in the world premiere of Hanns Johst's Staatsschauspiel Schlageter . In 1935 he appeared in Mussolini's play Hundred Days . Between 1934 and 1945 Minetti appeared in 17 films, including 1935 in Executioners, Women and Soldiers , 1938 in Am seidenen Faden , 1939 in the doctor's film Robert Koch, The Fighter of Death , also in 1939 as Martin Luther in Das immortliche Herz and 1940 in the propaganda film Die Rothschilds and Leni Riefenstahls Tiefland , which was made in the war years 1940–1944, but only appeared in 1954.
In post-war Germany, like Gustaf Gründgens, he was attacked as a sympathizer and beneficiary of the Nazi regime, which had made a career under Hitler and Goebbels. Nevertheless, he soon came back to theater engagements. He began the rebuilding again in the province. First he got roles in his hometown of Kiel, then went via Hamburg (where he played the leading role in the world premiere of Jahnn's drama Armut, Reichtum, Mensch und Tier ), Frankfurt am Main and the Düsseldorfer Schauspielhaus back to the Schillertheater in Berlin.
Here Minetti became one of the great character actors in German theater. In the 1970s he played the main roles in the premieres of the Thomas Bernhard plays . In doing so, he made the Austrian playwright very popular. He finally dedicated a very own drama with the name Minetti as the title to the actor . His director for the Bernhard plays was Claus Peymann in Stuttgart and at the Schauspielhaus Bochum .
In the radio drama production The Hobbit of the West German Radio , he took the part of the 1980 Gandalf .
Minetti had been an ensemble member of the Staatliche Schauspielbühnen Berlin for decades . After it was closed, he too became “unemployed” at the age of over 80; at the Berliner Ensemble he was then given his last artistic home. There, Arturo Ui's teacher in Heiner Müller's production of Bertolt Brecht's The Unstoppable Rise of Arturo Ui was his last impressive role. After his death this was taken over by Marianne Hoppe ; after her by Michael Gwisdek .
Bernhard Minetti, who was first married to Anne Gerbrandt, is the father of the actors Hans-Peter Minetti (1926–2006) and Jennifer Minetti (1940–2011) and the grandfather of the actor Daniel Minetti . Minetti was married to the resistance fighter Elisabeth Minetti (1917-2003) for the second time . Until his death in 1998 he lived alternately in Berlin and in the Eifel in Blankenheim in the Euskirchen district , where his second wife Elisabeth also died in September 2003.
Minetti's estate is available for inspection in the archive of the Akademie der Künste (Berlin) . Bernhard Minetti found his final resting place in the Protestant Dorotheenstädtisch-Friedrichwerderscher Friedhof I in the CAL department.
In 2008 the Bernhard-Minetti-Platz in Kiel-Blücherplatz was named after him.
Awards
- 1964: Culture Prize of the City of Kiel
- 1965: Appointment as Berlin State Actor
- 1970: Honorary member of the State Drama Theaters in Berlin / West
- 1971: DGB Culture Prize
- 1973: Berlin Art Prize
- 1974: German Critics' Prize
- 1978: Great Cross of Merit of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany
- 1980: Member of the Akademie der Künste Berlin / West
- 1985: Appointment as Professor E. h. in Berlin / West
- 1988: Honorary member of the Frankfurt Municipal Theaters
- 1994: Berlin Theater Prize
Theater roles (selection)
Before 1945
- 1930/31 - Weislingen in Götz von Berlichingen by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe - Prussian State Theater Berlin
- 1930/31 - Tartuffe in Tartuffe by Molière - Prussian State Theater Berlin
- 1931/32 - Franz Moor in The Robbers by Friedrich Schiller - Prussian State Theater Berlin
- 1932/33 - Wagner in Goethe's Faust I and II - Prussian State Theater Berlin
- 1934/35 - Edmund in King Lear by William Shakespeare - Prussian State Theater Berlin
- 1935/36 - Mephisto in Faust I by Goethe - Prussian State Theater Berlin
- 1936/37 - Buckingham in Richard III. by Shakespeare - Prussian State Theater Berlin
- 1937/38 - Marinelli in Emilia Galotti by Gotthold Ephraim Lessing - Prussian State Theater Berlin
- 1939/40 - Robespierre in Danton's death by Georg Büchner - Prussian State Theater Berlin
- 1939/40 - Angelo in Measure for Measure by Shakespeare - Prussian State Theater Berlin
- 1940/41 - Brutus in Julius Caesar by Shakespeare - Prussian State Theater Berlin
After 1945
- 1947/48 - Oderbruch in Des Teufels General by Carl Zuckmayer - Deutsches Schauspielhaus Hamburg
- 1951/52 - Alceste in The Misanthrope of Molière - Städtische Bühnen Frankfurt
- 1957 - Commissioner of the great powers in the guarantee of Kurt Weill - Städtische Oper Berlin
- 1957/58 - Cotrone in The Giants from the Mountains by Luigi Pirandello - Düsseldorfer Schauspielhaus (Director: Giorgio Strehler )
- 1959/60 - Edgar in the dance of death by August Strindberg - Schauspiel Köln
- 1960/61 - Wallenstein in the Wallenstein trilogy by Schiller - Schauspiel Köln
- 1964/65 - Pozzo in Waiting for Godot by Samuel Beckett - Schiller Theater Berlin
- 1972/73 - Elector in Prince Friedrich von Homburg by Heinrich von Kleist - Schiller Theater Berlin
- 1972/73 - Krapp in The Last Volume by Samuel Beckett - Theater am Goetheplatz in Bremen (Director: Klaus Michael Grüber )
- 1973/74 - Caribaldi in The Power of Habit by Thomas Bernhard - Salzburg Festival
- 1976/77 - Minetti in Minetti by Thomas Bernhard - Württembergisches Staatstheater Stuttgart
- 1977/78 - Prospero in The Tempest by Shakespeare - Schiller Theater Berlin
- 1979/80 - Judge Walter - Kleist's broken jug - Schiller-Theater Berlin
- 1980/81 - Weltverbesserer - The world improver by Thomas Bernhard - Schauspielhaus Bochum
- 1981/82 - Faust in Faust by Goethe - Freie Volksbühne Berlin (Director: Klaus Michael Grüber)
- 1982/83 - First actor in Hamlet by Shakespeare - Schaubühne am Lehniner Platz (Director: Klaus Michael Grüber, with Bruno Ganz as Hamlet)
- 1983/84 - Karl in The Look Is Deceiving by Thomas Bernhard - Schauspielhaus Bochum
- 1984/85 - Lear in King Lear by Shakespeare - Schaubühne am Lehniner Platz
Filmography (selection)
- 1930: The murderer Dimitri Karamasoff
- 1931: Berlin - Alexanderplatz
- 1935: lucky guys
- 1935: My life for Maria Isabell
- 1935: The girl Johanna
- 1935: executioners, women and soldiers
- 1936: The Emperor of California
- 1937: Alarm in Beijing
- 1937: An enemy of the people
- 1938: secret sign LB 17
- 1938: By a thread
- 1938: The immortal heart
- 1939: The woman without a past
- 1939: Robert Koch, the fighter against death
- 1939: The Eternal Spring
- 1940: The Rothschilds
- 1940: Friedrich Schiller - The triumph of a genius
- 1940–44: Tiefland (premiere: 1954)
- 1959: People on the Net
- 1965: It
- 1969: We - two
- 1977: The left-handed woman
- 1987: Francesca
Radio plays (selection)
- 1950: Stefan Andres : 1900 years Cologne - Director: Ludwig Cremer ( NWDR )
- 1959: Fred von Hoerschelmann : Surrender of Siena (Senior Medical Officer) - Director: Kurt Reiss ( NDR )
- 1962: Karin Ewert: Abgang (narrator) - Director: Rolf von Goth ( SFB )
- 1976: Theodor Storm : Carsten Curator (Carsten Carstens) - Director: Siegfried Niemann (SFB)
- 1963: Peter Lotar : All People's Voice (Dr. Nagai) - Director: Otto Kurth ( BR / HR )
- 1976: Thanassis Valtinos : From the life of Andreas Kordopatis (Andreas) - Director: Constantin Chelmis ( RIAS Berlin)
- 1978: Uccio Esposito Torrigiani: The deviation from the norm - Director: Wolfgang Schenck ( SR )
literature
- Primary literature
- Bernhard Minetti: Memories of an Actor. Deutsche Verlags-Anstalt, Stuttgart 1985, ISBN 3-421-06284-6 .
- Secondary literature
- Gwendolyn von Ambesser : The rats enter the sinking ship. Edition AV publishing house, Frankfurt a. M. 2005, ISBN 3-936049-47-5 .
- Gero von Boehm : Bernhard Minetti. 2nd December 1985 . Interview in: Encounters. Images of man from three decades . Collection Rolf Heyne, Munich 2012, ISBN 978-3-89910-443-1 , pp. 95-104.
- Hans-Peter Minetti: Memories. Ullstein Verlag, Berlin 1997, ISBN 3-550-06908-1 .
- Curt Riess : Gustaf Gründgens. Herder Taschenbuch, Freiburg 1988, ISBN 3-451-08546-1 .
- Ingrunwalk: Bernhard Minetti - actor , in CineGraph - Lexicon for German-Language Films, Lg. 31 (1999)
- Klaus Völker : Bernhard Minetti - My existence is my life. 2004.
Web links
- Bernhard Minetti in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Literature by and about Bernhard Minetti in the catalog of the German National Library
- Bernhard Minetti at filmportal.de
- Bernhard Minetti in the Munzinger archive ( beginning of article freely accessible)
- Bernhard Minetti Archive in the Archive of the Academy of Arts, Berlin
- Exhibition in the district museum of Blankenheim
Individual evidence
- ^ Elisabeth Minetti , entry on the website ancestry.com of September 27, 2003 (accessed August 5, 2011)
- ↑ Hans-G. Hilscher, Dietrich Bleihöfer: Bernhard-Minetti-Platz. In: Kiel Street Lexicon. Continued since 2005 by the Office for Building Regulations, Surveying and Geoinformation of the State Capital Kiel, as of February 2017 ( kiel.de ).
personal data | |
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SURNAME | Minetti, Bernhard |
ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Minetti, Bernhard Theodor Henry (full name) |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German actor |
DATE OF BIRTH | January 26, 1905 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Kiel |
DATE OF DEATH | October 12, 1998 |
Place of death | Berlin |