Eberhard Esche

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Eberhard Esche in the radio play studio, photo by the Berlin photographer Werner Bethsold from the 1990s.

Eberhard Esche (born October 25, 1933 in Leipzig ; † May 15, 2006 in Berlin ) was a German actor who was best known for classic roles at the Deutsches Theater Berlin .

Life

Hilmar Thate , Wolfgang Bayer, Cox Habbema and (r.) Eberhard Esche (1971)

Eberhard Esche grew up in Leipzig. He studied at the Leipzig Theater Academy from 1952 to 1955 . After engagements in Meiningen , Erfurt and Karl-Marx-Stadt as well as at the Berliner Ensemble , he came to the Deutsches Theater Berlin in 1961, where he has been involved since then, with an interruption from 1969 to 1971, until 1999, and then as a guest. In addition to his work at the theater, he also gave lecture evenings (including with Heinrich Heine's Germany. Ein Wintermärchen and Goethe's Reineke Fuchs ) and took part in DEFA films .

His interpretation of the poem Der Hase im Rausch by Sergei Michalkow , with which he performed in the congress hall on Alexanderplatz in 1964 at the cultural event Lyrik - Jazz - Prosa with the Jazz Optimists Berlin , was popular in the GDR . The poem targets man's adaptation in public and his simultaneous rebellion in private.

The characteristic timbre of his voice made Esche a sought-after and popular speaker and reciter . Were considered congenial his Heine - interpretations . Esche was close friends with Peter Hacks . The poet dedicated the poem Esche Wall to him . Esche was the bearer of the Eduard von Winterstein Ring of the German Theater. In 1968 he received the GDR Art Prize .

His daughter from his first marriage is the actress Esther Esche . Esche was married to the actress and director Cox Habbema for the second time . Both starred in the fairy tale film How do you marry a king? to see. With the author and director Annette Reber , Esche had a son.

tomb

Ash died on 15 May 2006 at the age of 72 years at a cancer and is on the French cemetery buried in Berlin.

Important theater roles

Filmography (selection)

Radio plays

Sound carrier

  • Jazz - Lyrik - Prosa, 1965 (with Manfred Krug , Annekathrin Bürger , Gerd E. Schäfer , the Jazz Optimists Berlin and others)
  • Eberhard Esche speaks to Heinrich Heine, Germany. Ein Wintermärchen (1981), as cassette and CD, published by the Eulenspiegel label (1997), reading on the occasion of the birthday at the Leipzig Theater (October 25, 2003, see MDR article) and at the Schultheater-Studio Frankfurt / Main (2003 / 2004)
  • For the GDR record company Amiga he speaks on the audio records Das Tierhäuschen the fox and the rabbit in the fairy tale setting Hase & Igel (together with Kurt Böwe as hedgehog)
  • The rabbit in a frenzy (audio book, excerpts)
  • The sorcerer's apprentice , Eberhard Esche, speaks ballads and poems
  • Eberhard Esche speaks Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Reineke Fuchs
  • Eberhard Esche speaks Peter Hacks, Ballads and Poems, 2003
  • Eberhard Esche speaks Peter Hacks, Kinderkurzweil , 2002
  • Goats eat those who make themselves green (audio book, excerpts), 2005
  • This fatherland not my bones (audio book, poems by Peter Hacks), 2006
  • Threat by moonlight by Patrick Hamilton , detective radio play together with Jürgen Hentsch , Otto Sander and Gudrun Ritter , director: Klaus Zippel , 57 min CD, MDR 1992 / ZYX Music 2018, ISBN 978-3-95995-202-6

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literature

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personal data
SURNAME Esche, Eberhard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German actor
DATE OF BIRTH October 25, 1933
PLACE OF BIRTH Leipzig
DATE OF DEATH May 15, 2006
Place of death Berlin