Eberhard Cronshagen

Eberhard Cronshagen (born June 25, 1913 in Zehlendorf near Berlin ; † unknown) was a German actor , director , broadcaster , dialogue writer and dubbing director .

Life

After graduating from school, Cronshagen attended the drama school of the German Theater Berlin from 1931 to 1933 . There he made his stage debut in 1933 as "Schweizer" in Schiller's Robbers . Various stage engagements followed in Berlin and Breslau, where Cronshagen also worked as a broadcaster for the Breslau broadcaster from 1935 to 1937 . From 1937 he worked as a speaker and director for the Berlin radio.

In 1943 Cronshagen was called up for military service. After his release from captivity in 1947, he resumed his work as a radio director, this time at RIAS Berlin. In 1950 he shifted his artistic focus to film and from then on directed various documentaries.

In addition, he worked as a dialogue writer and director for the German versions of numerous cinema productions, including a. Documentaries such as Walt Disney's The Desert Lives (USA 1954), feature films such as Colonel von Ryan's Express with Frank Sinatra (USA 1965), Vittorio de Sica's Miracle of Milan (Italy 1954) and the second German synchronization of the Laurel and Hardy comedy Two rode to Texas (USA 1937; DF 1952). Cronshagen's German versions of numerous Disney films, including Mary Poppins (USA 1964), where he worked with Heinrich Riethmüller as the musical dubbing director, became particularly well known . This collaboration lasted until the early 1970s, when Riethmüller increasingly wrote and directed the dubbing alone.

Cronshagen also found an extensive field of activity as a dubbing writer and director of various series that ZDF broadcast between the 1960s and 1980s. The German dialogues of Grisu, the little dragon , Piggy Dick , the Smurfs and several episodes of the Western series Bonanza come from Cronshagen's pen .

Web links

• Literature by and about Eberhard Cronshagen in the catalog of the German National Library