Buddy Elias

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Buddy Elias at a reading at the Anne Frank Center in Berlin , 2012

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)

Radio plays (selection)

Awards

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ On the death of Buddy Elias . annefrank.ch. Archived from the original on April 2, 2015. Retrieved March 18, 2015.
  2. ↑ Anne Frank's cousin Buddy Elias has died . fr-online.de. Retrieved March 17, 2015.
  3. ↑ "I would have loved to have skated with her again." A conversation with Buddy Elias, Anne Frank's cousin , Anne Frank Magazine, 2000.
  4. ↑ Honor plaque on Frankfurt.de
  5. ↑ Buddy Elias in conversation with Christian Düblin ( Memento from April 2, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) (2008)
personal data
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