Dieter Borsche
Dieter Albert Eugen Rollomann Borsche (born October 25, 1909 in Hanover , † August 5, 1982 in Nuremberg ) was a German theater and film actor .
Beginnings and stage career
Borsche grew up in a family of artists: his father was the music teacher and conductor Willi Borsche , his mother an oratorio singer . After finishing school at a grammar school , which he left without a degree, he wanted to become a dancer and took dance lessons from Yvonne Georgi and Harald Kreutzberg . From 1930 to 1935 he was engaged as a ballet dancer at the City Opera in Hanover . He also took acting lessons at the Blech drama school and came to Weimar as a young lover . Further stages of his stage career were: 1935 Kiel , 1939 to 1942 Gdansk and 1942 to 1944 Breslau . As a member of the Breslau Theater , Borsche said he played
“Regularly in Auschwitz in front of the SS people . Then, after the theater, filled with around 1,000–2,000 SS spectators, they gave the actors a meal each time. And all colleagues, women and men in the ensemble, were delighted with the hospitality, the charm, the good behavior, the good food and the best French cognac - and raved about it the next day. They couldn't hurt a fly. "
Ernst Klee describes these relationships as follows:
“Even in Auschwitz, sealed off from the outside world, actors, musicians and artists come and go. There must have been hundreds, but only one reported: the actor Dieter Borsche, known to the post-war audience as a performer in Edgar Wallace crime novels, was the director of the Breslau Municipal Theaters in 1943/44. After the war, Borsche told the Nazi documentarist Joseph Wulf that in the winter of 1943 he had 'played in front of the SS guards at the Auschwitz extermination camp' . Wulf recapitulates the conversation: 'The actors were lavishly entertained there, served by prisoners and also saw the prison columns with their own eyes. They were amazed that they only wore the striped convict smocks in winter; But the most important thing is that Dieter Borsche was able to report that he had heard from several SS men that various theater companies very often played for them within the concentration camp . "
Borsche played until 1944 and was then drafted into the Wehrmacht . In the Eifel he was wounded and taken prisoner of war . In the Bavarian Forest , where he met his family again, he worked as a carpenter and toy manufacturer for some time .
In 1946, Bernhard Minetti made sure that Borsche came to the Kiel Theater . From now on he worked again as an actor and was also senior director there from 1947 to 1949 . Borsche had his breakthrough as a theater actor in the 1960s, when he was already a well-known film star. In 1963 he played Pope Pius XII at the Free Volksbühne Berlin . in Rolf Hochhuth's The Deputy , in 1964 the title role in Heinar Kipphardt's In the Case of J. Robert Oppenheimer and in 1965 in The Investigation of Peter Weiss .
Film actor
His film career began in 1935 with Alles weg'n dem Hund, a Weiß Ferdl film, albeit with moderate success. After the Second World War , the breakthrough came with the feature film Night Watch . His role as Imhoff's chaplain marked the turning point in his previously unsuccessful film acting life.
Borsche's great film career began, however, with the premiere of Rudolf Jugert's film It comes one day after Ernst Penzoldt's novella Korporal Mombur on October 17, 1950, through which Borsche and Maria Schell became one of the “film favorites”. Borsche became one of the most popular mimes of the post-war period in Germany and often played in films with, for example, Ruth Leuwerik , Maria Schell or Gisela Uhlen .
In the German cinema of the 1950s, Borsche was the ideal cast for honest, upright personalities such as princes ( Royal Highness ), officers (There is a day coming) or doctors ( Dr. Holl ) . Only in fanfares of love as an unemployed musician who gets a job in a women's band in women's clothes did he lose his role in this regard. In the 1960s, Borsche fought against this role cliché and preferred to play villains like in the Edgar Wallace film The Dead Eyes of London and in the Durbridge six-part The Scarf . He also appeared in the British-German television series Paul Temple on the side of the leading actors Francis Matthews and Ros Drinkwater in the double episode Murder in Munich . At the same time, he pursued his theater career.
In the case of borsche, the first signs of muscle wasting appeared as early as the 1930s . The disease became so acute over the years that he was forced to abstain from film and television roles in the 1970s. He moved his sphere of activity to work as a speaker for radio plays and readings on the radio. But he also appeared on stage in contemporary pieces until the early 1980s, although he was now dependent on a wheelchair . He played successfully in Equus by Peter Shaffer and Duet for a voice by Tom Kempinski .
Borsche was married three times. He married his first wife, the set designer Ursula Poser, for 23 years and had three sons with her, including the cameraman and director Kai Borsche . In 1960 he married a second time; from marriage there is a son. From 1970 until his death he was married to the actress Ulla Willick , with whom he lived in Nuremberg . Borsche was buried in the main cemetery Öjendorf in Hamburg in an anonymous grave on urn field 1.
His written estate is in the archive of the Academy of Arts in Berlin.
Filmography
- 1935: Everything gone to the dog
- 1937: As once in May
- 1938: Prussian love story
- 1939: The Beloved
- 1939: The clever mother-in-law
- 1941: boys
- 1949: Night watch
- 1950: there comes a day
- 1950: The falling star
- 1951: Dr. Holl
- 1951: Sinful Frontier
- 1951: Fanfares of love
- 1952: Father needs a wife
- 1952: heart of the world
- 1952: The great temptation
- 1953: The chaplain of San Lorenzo
- 1953: Do you have to get a divorce right away?
- 1953: Marriage fanfare
- 1953: Your Royal Highness
- 1954: The doctor and the girl (Le guérisseur)
- 1954: Ali Baba ( Ali Baba es les quarante voleurs )
- 1954: Stopover in Paris (Escale à Orly)
- 1955: I was an ugly girl
- 1955: San Salvatore
- 1955: The Barrings
- 1956: If we were all angels
- 1956: red is love
- 1957: Queen Luise
- 1957: At night in the Green Cockatoo
- 1958: Two hearts in May
- 1958: A Time to Love and a Time to Die (A Time to Love and a Time to Die)
- 1958: U 47 - Lieutenant Prien
- 1958: The Defendant (TV movie)
- 1959: O Wilderness (TV movie)
- 1959: Dreyfus Affair (TV movie)
- 1960: a throne for Christine
- 1960: I learned that in Paris
- 1960: Sabine and the 100 men
- 1960: Gaslight (TV movie)
- 1961: The Dead Eyes of London
- 1962: The Neckerchief (six-part television thriller)
- 1962: The happy years of the Thorwalds
- 1962: The Little Foxes (TV movie)
- 1962: The red intoxication
- 1962: I have to go out to the town center
- 1962: A dead man seeks his murderer
- 1962: The lightship
- 1963: Scotland Yard chases Dr. Mabuse
- 1963: The black abbot
- 1963: The executioner of London
- 1964: Doctor Murke's collected silence (TV movie)
- 1964: The Phantom of Soho
- 1964: A gynecologist charges
- 1964: The Schut
- 1964: The Arkansas prospectors
- 1965: The Swedish Virgin
- 1965: Through wild Kurdistan
- 1965: In the realm of the silver lion
- 1966: The Gioconda's Smile (TV movie)
- 1966: Charged under Section 218
- 1966: The Bird Will Not Let Sing (TV Movie)
- 1966: Black Friday (TV movie)
- 1966: Cliff Dexter: Cat and Mouse (TV series)
- 1967: When Ludwig goes into maneuver
- 1968: Lady Hamilton - Between shame and love
- 1968: Berlin Antigone (TV movie)
- 1968: The doctor from St. Pauli
- 1968: The Reformer
- 1970: The pastor of St. Pauli
- 1970: Paul Temple : Murder in Munich (TV crime series) (double episode)
- 1970: On the trail of the perpetrator : puppets don't talk (TV crime series)
- 1970: The Commissioner : Three dead travel to Vienna (TV crime series)
- 1971: The Commissioner: A Mysterious Murder (TV crime series)
- 1971: Prussia above everything ... (TV film)
- 1972: Max Hölz. A German lesson (TV film)
- 1972–1973: Algebra at Eight (TV series)
- 1973: Real Estate (TV movie)
- 1974: The Little Doctor : Too Many Doctors (TV series)
- 1974: The Last Days of Gomorrah (TV movie)
- 1975: The Commissioner: A Border Crossing (TV crime series)
- 1975: The rope around the neck (three-part television film)
- 1977: Count Yoster does the honors - double episode: Idleness is the beginning of all lists / A painter and his wrong picture (TV series)
- 1977: It doesn't always have to be caviar (episode Nachtigall 17 calls ; TV series)
- 1977: Children's Soul (TV film)
- 1977: Special Department K1 : Two to one for SK 1
- 1981: Golden Times - Bitter Times (TV series)
Awards
- 1951 Bambi as the most popular film star of the year
- 1952 Bambi as the most popular film star of the year
- 1974 Gold film tape for many years of outstanding work in German film
- Federal Cross of Merit on Ribbon (January 5, 1979)
synchronization
As a voice actor, Borsche also lent his voice a. a. Gunnar Björnstrand ( Light in Winter ), David Niven ( Lady L ) and Max von Sydow ( The Exorcist ).
Radio play (selection)
- 1969: An unheard of game by Inger Christensen , director: Heinz von Cramer, production: SDR
- 1970: Hello, this is the death of Louis C. Thomas , director: Walter Niklaus , production: SR
- 1972: Everybody's Turn by Bernd Lau Director: Walter Adler and Bernd Lau, Production: SWF
- 1975: Alice in Wonderland , based on Lewis Carroll , adaptation, composition and direction: Heinz von Cramer Production: WDR / HR
- 1976: Another K. by Günter Kunert , director: Hans Rosenhauer , production: NDR
- 1979: Babel 1929 - The adventures of a dream detective (House of a thousand floors) by Jan Weiss , director: Andreas Weber-Schäfer , production: SDR
- 1979: Triptych by Max Frisch , director: Walter Adler , production: DLF / SDR / SFB / WDR
- 1980: The Gates of Paradise by Jerzy Andrzejewski , Director: Hans Ulrich Minke Production: RIAS
literature
- Walther Killy (Ed.): Deutsche Biographische Enzyklopädie , Vol. 2, p. 38
- Rolf Aurich, Susanne Fuhrmann, Pamela Müller (Red.): Dreams of film. Cinema in Hanover 1896–1991. Catalog for the exhibition of the same name at Theater am Aegi from October 6 to November 24, 1991. Society for Film Studies, Hanover 1991, p. 150f.
Web links
- Literature by and about Dieter Borsche in the catalog of the German National Library
- Dieter Borsche in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Dieter Borsche at filmportal.de
- Dieter Borsche at cyranos.ch
- Pictures by Dieter Borsche In: Virtual History
- The gates of paradise: audio play audio for download
- Dieter Borsche archive in the archive of the Academy of Arts, Berlin
- Page about Dieter Borsche at the German Dance Archive Cologne
Individual evidence
- ^ Letter from Erwin Piscator to Maria Ley , undated [March 1960], In: Erwin Piscator: Briefe. Volume 3.3: Federal Republic of Germany, 1960–1966 . Edited by Peter Diezel. B&S Siebenhaar, Berlin 2011, p. 53.
- ↑ see also: Alphabet of Shame. on: Zeit Online. March 6, 2007.
- ^ Alfred Paffenholz: cinema boom, theater crisis and boys' choir . In Sabine Hammer (Ed.): Opera in Hanover. 300 years of change in a city's music theater, ed. from the Lower Saxony Sparkasse Foundation, Hanover: Schlueter, 1990, ISBN 3-87706-298-9 , p. 96
- ^ The grave of Dieter Borsche. In: knerger.de. Klaus Nerger, accessed on September 8, 2019 .
- ↑ Dieter Borsche Archive Inventory overview on the website of the Academy of the Arts in Berlin.
- ↑ Information from the Office of the Federal President
- ↑ An unheard of game on Deutschlandradio
- ↑ Once everyone is on Deutschlandradio
- ↑ Alice in Wonderland on NDR
- ^ Another K. on Deutschlandradio
- ↑ Triptych on Deutschlandradio
- ^ The gates of paradise on Deutschlandradio
personal data | |
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SURNAME | Borsche, Dieter |
ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Borsche, Dieter Albert Eugen Rollomann (full name) |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German actor |
DATE OF BIRTH | October 25, 1909 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Hanover |
DATE OF DEATH | 5th August 1982 |
Place of death | Nuremberg |