Carl Ebert (actor)

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Carl Anton Ebert (born February 20, 1887 in Berlin , † May 14, 1980 in Santa Monica , California ) was a German actor , director and artistic director .

Life

Carl Ebert completed an acting degree with Max Reinhardt . He was then engaged as an actor on various stages and played in numerous film and television productions (see filmography). In 1927 he became the opera director and artistic director at the Staatstheater Darmstadt , before he went to the Deutsche Oper Berlin in 1931 in the same position and held this post until 1933. After the takeover of the Nazis he was from the Nazi cultural community denounced as "music-Bolshevik". Ebert emigrated to Turkey via Switzerland and England, and in 1948 he moved to the USA .

In England, Ebert founded the Glyndebourne Festival together with Fritz Busch and worked there as its director until 1939 and again in the 1950s. In 1939 he moved to Ankara , where he played a leading role in setting up the state conservatory and the state theater. His assistant during this time was the writer Sabahattin Ali .

From 1948 to 1954 Ebert headed the Department of Opera at the University of Southern California in Los Angeles . From 1954 to 1961 he was reappointed as artistic director at the Deutsche Oper Berlin. Following his artistic directorship there, Ebert remained connected to the Deutsche Oper as a director.

In 1955 he became the first president of the German Center of the International Theater Institute .

Carl Ebert was the father of the German-British opera director Peter Ebert (1918–2012). His grandson Alex Ebert is the head of the American band Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros .

See also

Filmography

Awards

literature

  • Thomas Blubacher : Carl Ebert . In: Andreas Kotte (Ed.): Theater Lexikon der Schweiz . Volume 1, Chronos, Zurich 2005, ISBN 3-0340-0715-9 , p. 510 f.
  • Peter Ebert : In this Theater of Man's Life. The Biography of Carl Ebert . Book Guild, Lewes / Sussex UK 1999 , ISBN 1-85776-347-5 .
  • Sabine Hillebrecht (Red.): Haymatloz. Exile in Turkey 1933–1945 (= series of publications by the Active Museum Fascism and Resistance in Berlin eV, Vol. 8, ZDB -ID 2215929-0 ). Active Museum Association, Berlin 2000, pp. 60–61 (exhibition catalog).
  • Ilse Kobán: Waiting for life to come back. On the correspondence between Carls Ebert and Gertie Ebert. In: Sense and Form . Vol. 60/2008, Issue 5, pp. 593-603. (Contains a biography of Carl Ebert)
  • Correspondence 1933–1934, Carl Ebert and Gertie Ebert. (I). and (II.) In: Sinn und Form. Vol. 60/2008, Issue 5 pp. 604-630 and Issue 6 pp. 769-793.
  • Reiner Möckelmann : Ankara waiting room. Ernst Reuter - exile and return to Berlin. Berliner Wissenschafts-Verlag, Berlin 2013, ISBN 978-3-8305-3143-2 , pp. 94-102.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Ernst Klee : The culture lexicon for the Third Reich. Who was what before and after 1945. Fischer, Frankfurt am Main 2007, ISBN 978-3-10-039326-5 , p. 234.
  2. ^ Center for the Federal Republic of Germany of the International Theater Institute on miz.org
  3. ^ Obituary for Peter Ebert on telegraph.co.uk, April 7, 2013
personal data
SURNAME Ebert, Carl
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Ebert, Carl Anton (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German actor, director and artistic director
DATE OF BIRTH February 20, 1887
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH May 14, 1980
Place of death Santa Monica , California