Eberhard Kube

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Eberhard Kube, 1984
Eberhard Kube, 1984
Eberhard Kube as "QB"
Eberhard Kube as "QB"

Eberhard Hermann Wilhelm Kube (born April 19, 1936 in Berlin ) is a German pantomime . He is familiar to the audience as “QB”, a pantomime in a striped shirt with a face painted white. He is considered the "father" of the GDR pantomime and, as a teacher and festival organizer, played a decisive role in ensuring that pantomime was present in the GDR.

Life

Marcel Marceau (left) and Eberhard Kube (right)

Eberhard Kube grew up in Berlin-Friedrichshain as the son of the operator Willi Kube and the shoe seller Margot. As a 4-year-old, evacuated with his younger sister and his mother before the bombing of an estate in rural Silesia , the family returned to the devastated Berlin four years later. His father did not survive the war.

This time had a lasting impact on him. With a strong will and imaginative, thieving energy, Kube fed the family in post-war Berlin , left the FDJ after the popular uprising in 1953 , studied history and physical education in the newly founded GDR and worked as a teacher in East Berlin in 1958 . In 1961 he was banned from working because he criticized the building of the Berlin Wall as inhuman.

A performance by the French Marcel Marceau in Berlin in 1958 changed his life. Kube became the GDR's first professional pantomime in 1962, founded and directed the pantomime studio in Berlin, from which the Prenzlauer Berg pantomime theater emerged . He taught pantomime at the Berlin Drama School , the Babelsberg Film School and the Leipzig Theater School a . a. Leander Haussmann , Henry Hübchen and Michael Gwisdek .

He took part in children's programs, e.g. B. as the magician Sassafraß in the film " The search for the wonderfully colored bird ". Marcel Marceau became a paternal friend as a half-orphan. Kube's breakthrough came in 1969 when the GDR sent him abroad as a cultural figurehead. Whether in India, Egypt or France - everyone understood his silent art. He escaped the state's arbitrariness through over 30 tours and guest performances in front of and behind the Iron Curtain . At home, as the "father" of the GDR pantomime, he made it possible for this art form, which had hardly any tradition in German-speaking countries, to exist.

Eberhard Kube - Metamorphosis to pantomime

He also worked for spoken theater , as a co-director in Zurich and Bonn, as a director in Erfurt and at the Berlin puppet theater. When one of his technicians stayed in the West after a guest performance in 1981, he was no longer allowed to travel to the West either. Kube then initiated and directed the “International Gestural Theater Week” in East Berlin, as an annual cultural event to “bring the West to the East”. Marcel Marceau was the first to say yes.

In 1987 Kube received the GDR Art Prize for his extraordinary services to theater culture and was allowed to travel to the West again. He used a guest appearance in Cologne to finally leave the GDR. At the beginning of November 1989 he returned to take part in the large demonstration on Alexanderplatz . He saw the fall of the Berlin Wall in Moscow.

Kube has three children and now lives with his second wife on an estate in Mecklenburg .

Filmography (selection)

honors and awards

literature

Web links

Commons : Eberhard Kube  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Wolf Biermann: Don't wait for better times !: The autobiography. Propylaen Verlag, 2016, accessed in 2019 (German).
  2. ^ Gerd Dietrich: Cultural history of the GDR. Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2018, accessed in 2019 (German).
  3. ↑ Kube, Eberhard. In: http://archiv.mimecentrum.de/ . Internationales Theaterinstitut / Mime Centrum Berlin, accessed on March 15, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Kube, Eberhard
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Kube, Eberhard Hermann Wilhelm (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German pantomime
DATE OF BIRTH April 19, 1936
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin