Buddy Elias
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Bernhard Paul "Buddy" Elias [ ˈbʊdi ] (born June 2, 1925 in Frankfurt am Main ; † March 16, 2015 in Basel ) was a Swiss actor and a cousin of Anne Frank .
Life
Buddy Elias came to Basel in 1931 after his father Erich Elias took over the Opekta branch there in 1929 . He completed his acting training at the conservatory . Further studies with Ernst Ginsberg in Zurich followed. From 1947 he was seen as a comedian on Holiday on Ice for more than ten years .
From 1962 Elias also worked at international theaters (Switzerland, Great Britain, France and Germany) and appeared at the Salzburg Festival , among others . Since the mid-1970s, Buddy Elias has been working increasingly for film and television. The list of his appearances in German TV series as a supporting role or guest includes, among many other Drei Damen vom Grill (1979), Die Schwarzwaldklinik , Mit Leib und Seele , Das Traumschiff , Tatort , Bella Block , Wolffs Revier , Alles Atze and St. Angela .
In the cinema, Buddy Elias often played in films that dealt with the Holocaust : Peter Lilienthal's David (1979), Menahem Golan's The Magician of Lublin (1979), Frans Weisz's Charlotte (1981), the story of the painter Charlotte Salomon who was murdered in Auschwitz . Further films: The Magic Mountain (1982), Cassette Love (1982, with Emil Steinberger ), Bronstein's Children (1991, based on Jurek Becker), Mothers Courage (1995).
You could also hear him in radio plays, for example as porter Eugen in a Bibi Blocksberg episode, as Rudi Rundleder in Benjamin Blümchen and in Jan Tenner episode 18 as King Xoracu . He also worked as a voice actor. For example, in the movie Two Out of Control as a bar owner.
Buddy Elias lived in Basel and was married to fellow actor Gerti Elias , née Wiedner. They had two sons, Patrick and Oliver Elias , who also became renowned actors.
Buddy Elias was the cousin and, along with his sons, the last living relative of Anne Frank , who was murdered by the National Socialists in 1945 in the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp . He was President of the Anne Frank Fund based in Basel. Since the death of Anne Frank's father Otto (1980), he managed the author's rights to Anne Frank's diary . The Anne Frank Fund has been awarding the Buddy Elias and Otto Frank Scholarship since 2007. Every year on February 16, Margot Frank's birthday , research in the Anne Frank Archive is funded.
Filmography (selection)
- 1976: Parisian Stories (TV series)
- 1979: David , directed by Peter Lilienthal
- 1981: Like the moon over fire and blood , director: Axel Corti
- 1982: The Magic Mountain (1982) , directed by Hans W. Geissendörfer
- 1983: The dream ship - Morocco
- 1985: Happy Holidays - Vacation stories from Mallorca
- 1986: Pull the plug, the water boils , directed by Ephraim Kishon
- 1987: Bang! You are dead! , Director: Adolf Winkelmann
- 1989–1992: With body and soul (ZDF television series)
- 1990: The Frog Intrigue , directed by Hartmut Griesmayr
- 1991: Bronstein's children , directed by Jerzy Kawalerowicz
- 1992: Happy Journey - Australia
- 1995: Mutters Courage , directed by Michael Verhoeven
- 1998: Total loss , director: Thorsten Näter
- 1999: Tatort - Bienzle and the blind rage
- 2002: Edel & Starck (episode Das Soufflé der Götter )
- 2004: Bella Block (episode Behind the Mirrors ), director: Thorsten Näter
- 2004: What use is love in thoughts , director: Achim von Borries
- 2006: Alles Atze (episode The Return of the Teacher ), directed by Martin Przyborowski
- 2007: crime scene - smoldering fire
- 2009: Hunkeler and the case of Livius , directed by Stefan Jäger, Markus Fischer
- 2014: Monuments Men , directed by George Clooney
Radio plays (selection)
- The adventures of Odysseus . Book Jürgen Knop, directed by Ulli Herzog , 1982.
- Hugo Rendler : Finkbeiner's birthday . Radio-Tatort , SWR 2010.
- Bibi Blocksberg: A bewitched vacation
Awards
- 2012: Plaque of honor of the city of Frankfurt am Main
- 2007: Basler Stern
literature
- Peter Bollag, Two ice clowns conquer the world, Basel, 2014, ISBN 978 3 85616 636 6
- Thomas Blubacher : Buddy Elias . In: Andreas Kotte (Ed.): Theater Lexikon der Schweiz . Volume 1, Chronos, Zurich 2005, ISBN 3-0340-0715-9 , p. 528.
Web links
- Literature by and about Buddy Elias in the catalog of the German National Library
- Literature by and about Buddy Elias in the bibliographic database WorldCat
- Buddy Elias in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- “Memories from the attic” , interview, one day , February 28, 2012
- Obituaries: FAZ , spiegel.de , sueddeutsche.de
- Swiss radio: Letters from the attic: The traces of the Frank family in Basel
Individual evidence
- ↑ On the death of Buddy Elias . annefrank.ch. Archived from the original on April 2, 2015. Retrieved March 18, 2015.
- ↑ Anne Frank's cousin Buddy Elias has died . fr-online.de. Retrieved March 17, 2015.
- ↑ "I would have loved to have skated with her again." A conversation with Buddy Elias, Anne Frank's cousin , Anne Frank Magazine, 2000.
- ↑ Honor plaque on Frankfurt.de
- ↑ Buddy Elias in conversation with Christian Düblin ( Memento from April 2, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) (2008)
personal data | |
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SURNAME | Elias, buddy |
ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Elias, Bernhard |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Swiss actor and comedian |
DATE OF BIRTH | June 2, 1925 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Frankfurt am Main , German Empire |
DATE OF DEATH | March 16, 2015 |
Place of death | Basel , Switzerland |