Curt Elwenspoek

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Curt Elwenspoek (born May 28, 1884 in Königsberg , † April 13, 1959 in Tübingen ) was a German director , actor , radio play speaker and writer .

Life

Curt Elwenspoek was the younger of two children of the later mayor of Osteroder Albert Leopold Elwenspoek and his wife Catharina Kahle. In 1908 he received his doctorate in law .

From 1908 onwards he worked as a director and actor in various places. a. in Tilsit (1911) under Francesco Sioli and in Mainz . In 1922 he became director of the Kiel City Theater . Together with Carl Zuckmayer , whom he had engaged, he wanted to bring the comedy Eunuch von Terenz on stage in the spring of 1923 in a version whose character Zuckmayer later described as a “mixture of strength and deliberate provocation”. However, the responsible theater commission canceled the planned premiere after the dress rehearsal and dismissed the artistic director Elwenspoek. The Kieler Zeitung wrote on April 24, 1923 about the incident:

"It follows from this incident that the theater management has failed in a dangerous way and this on top of that at a moment when it is more necessary than ever to keep the population believing that the theater is a cultural asset of Kiel."

After his artistic directorship in Kiel, Elwenspoek worked from 1924 to 1930 as chief dramaturge and director at the Stuttgart State Theater . From 1925 he also worked extensively as a radio play speaker for Süddeutsche Rundfunk AG (SÜRAG).

In addition to his acting activities, Elwenspoek wrote (partly under the pseudonym Christoph Erik Ganter) a number of works on various topics (historical novels, essays, etc.).

After the Second World War, he was also known to radio audiences in south-west Germany as a “bedtime song uncle”. Until 1959 he read his bedtime stories on the children's radio of the Süddeutscher Rundfunk .

He was married a total of four times. His children include the actor Hans Elwenspoek , Barbara Schäfer-Elwenspoek and the translator Monika Elwenspoek .

Works

  • Schinderhannes. The Rhenish rebel . Stuttgart 1925. (Biography of the robber Johannes Bückler known as "Schinderhannes" )
  • Jud Suess Oppenheimer . Stuttgart 1926. (biography of Joseph Süß Oppenheimer )
  • Rinaldo Rinaldini the romantic robber prince. Roman, Stuttgart 1929.
  • Drama and stage. Essay, 1931.
  • A girl without a mother. Roman, 1935.
  • Hellish Krischan. Roman, 1936.
  • The red lotus flowers. Roman, 1941.
  • Panama. Novel about a canal. Stuttgart 1942.
  • Dynamite. Roman, 1949.
  • House postil of the heart. Freiburg 1956.
  • The swallow and the nightingale. Roman, 1959.

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ Curt Elwenspoek, German writer and dramaturge. In: Munzinger Archive GmbH. Retrieved June 13, 2014 .
  2. ^ Gunther Nickel (Ed.): Carl Zuckmayer. Albrecht Joseph. Correspondence: 1922-1972 . Göttingen: Wallstein-Verlag 2007, p. 683 f.
personal data
SURNAME Elwenspoek, Curt
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Ganter, Christoph Erik; Ganter, Christoph Erich; Elwenspoek, Kurt
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German director, actor, radio play speaker and writer
DATE OF BIRTH May 28, 1884
PLACE OF BIRTH Koenigsberg
DATE OF DEATH April 13, 1959
Place of death Tübingen