Curt Elwenspoek
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.
Radio plays (selection)
Author:
- 1959: The music box and the wardrobe. An adventure in the antique shop - Director: Günther Bungert ( original radio play - SWF )
Processing (word):
- 1955: Jo Hanns Rösler : God looks smiling at an old teacher - Director: Arthur Georg Richter (radio play - BR )
Speaker:
- 1925: Justinus Kerner : The Gravedigger of Feldberg (commentary; role: The evil spirit) - Director: Karl Köstlin (broadcast, radio play adaptation) - Süddeutsche Rundfunk AG (SÜRAG)
- 1925: Heinrich Laube : The Karlsschüler. Play in 5 acts (Duke Karl von Württemberg) - Director: Theodor Brandt (broadcast (radio play adaptation) - SÜRAG)
- 1925: Molière : Scapin's picaresque pranks. Comedy in 3 acts (Geront) - Director: Max Heye (broadcast (radio play adaptation ) - SÜRAG)
- 1926: Heinrich von Kleist : The German drama from its creation to the present (13th evening): Penthesilea ( Odysseus ) - Director: Karl Köstlin (broadcast (radio play adaptation) - SÜRAG)
- 1926: William Shakespeare : The most beautiful comedies in world literature: Much Ado About Nothing. Comedy in 5 acts (Leonato, Governor of Messina) - Director: Karl Köstlin (broadcast (radio play adaptation) - SÜRAG)
- 1927: Joseph Arthur de Gobineau : The Renaissance ( Michelangelo ) - Director: Max Heye (broadcast (radio play adaptation) - SÜRAG)
- 1927: Ludwig Uhland : Ernst Duke of Swabia. Tragedy in five acts (Mangold von Verringen, Graf von Schwaben) - Director: Karl Köstlin (broadcast (radio play adaptation) - SÜRAG)
- 1949: André Gide : Bathsheba (chronicler) - Director: Robert Vogel (radio play adaptation - SDR )
- 1949: Walter Erich Schäfer : The State Secretary. Audio report on the trial against Count Giulio Riccardi (1st speaker) - Director: Cläre Schimmel (radio play - SDR)
- 1950: Walter Bauer : The Inextinguishable. A legend from the Far East (narrator) - Director: Cläre Schimmel (original radio play - SDR)
- 1950: Wolfgang Lohmeyer : Law and Justice: Murderers - either way. Based on an idea by Peter-Timm Schaufuß (narrator) - Director: Cläre Schimmel (original radio play - SDR)
- 1950: Günter Rutenborn : Durst (chronicler) - Director: Walter Knaus (radio play adaptation - SDR)
- 1951: Arnold Schwengeler : The Forger (Dr. Bredius) - Director: Paul Land (radio play - SDR)
- 1951: Friedrich Hagen : Escape into adventure. The fate of Jean-Arthur Rimbaud (The Chairman) - Director: Robert Vogel (Original radio play, audio image - SDR)
- 1952: Alfred Prugel : On the heights of mankind. Audio sequence for the 500th birthday of Leonardo da Vinci (Stendhal) - Director: Robert Vogel (audio image - SDR)
- 1952: Detlev Motschmann , Heinz Coubier : The Strike of the Crooks (publisher) - Director: Paul Land (radio play - SDR)
- 1952: Werner-Jörg Lüddecke : All people live in Kirchborn (pastor) - Director: Paul Land (original radio play - SDR)
- 1952: Gerhart Herrmann Mostar : the court withdraws to deliberate (episode: father and son) (chairman) - director: Gerd Fricke (radio play - NWDR Hamburg )
- Participation in six other episodes of this series until 1955
- 1953: Jacques Constant : General Frédéric (The Old Man) - Director: Ludwig Cremer (radio play - SDR)
- 1953: Paul Wanner : Der Schneider von Ulm - Director: Arthur Georg Richter (radio play adaptation, dialect radio play - SWF)
- 1953: Ferenc Molnár : one, two, three (secretary) - director: Peter Ebert (radio play adaptation - SDR)
- 1954: Friedrich Schiller : Criminals from Lost Honor - Director: Arthur Georg Richter (radio play adaptation - SWF)
- 1955: Hans-Dieter Bove : The dachshund with the slouch hat. A crime grotesque (Sir Walter Dandy) - Director: Günther Bungert; Klaus Friedrich (original radio play, detective radio play - SWF)
- 1957: Hans Daiber : Let the master praise the work. A cheerful audio series about Wilhelm Busch (Wilhelm Busch) - Director: Robert Vogel (radio play - SDR)
- 1958: Alfred Prugel: Spirit and Heart of Flanders. An audio series about the poet Charles de Coster (narrator) - Director: Oskar Nitschke (audio image - SDR)
Web links
- Literature by and about Curt Elwenspoek in the catalog of the German National Library
- Elwenspoek, Curt, writer, dramaturge. In: kulturportal-west-ost.eu. Retrieved June 13, 2014 .
Individual evidence
- ^ Curt Elwenspoek, German writer and dramaturge. In: Munzinger Archive GmbH. Retrieved June 13, 2014 .
- ^ Gunther Nickel (Ed.): Carl Zuckmayer. Albrecht Joseph. Correspondence: 1922-1972 . Göttingen: Wallstein-Verlag 2007, p. 683 f.
personal data | |
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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 |