Eddy Fischer

This article deals with the theater sculptor Eddy Fischer. For the singer and entertainer, see Eddie Fisher .

Eduard "Eddy" Fischer (born December 16, 1916 in Chiesch , Bohemia ; † August 24, 1992 ) was a German theater and costume sculptor (trained in the GDR / East German federal states: theater sculptor = BRD stage sculptor ).

Life

Eduard Fischer completed an apprenticeship as a saddler , upholsterer , decorator , car painter, coach painter, interior designer and linoleum layer . In 1945 with a new beginning after the Second World War , his first steps were in the Meiningen Theater as a technical assistant. In 1949 he became theater master in Potsdam . In 1950, Helene Weigel brought him to the Berliner Ensemble as a kascheur for a reusable chicken to pluck . This was the beginning of costume sculpture. Until it was closed by Claus Peymann in 2000, the workshop was located next to the rehearsal stage of the Deutsches Theater in Berlin-Mitte.

Theater and costume sculptures for European theaters and opera houses followed. He created theater and costume sculptures for Klaus Noack , Helene Weigel , Caspar Neher , Wolfgang Heinz , Karl von Appen , Heinrich Kilger , Benno Besson , Manfred Wekwerth , Heiner Müller , Peter Zadek , Fritz Bennewitz , Horst Sübers , Ruth Berghaus , Bertolt, among others Brecht , Götz Friedrich , Karl Kneidl , Harry Kupfer , Konrad Wolf and Erich Engel .

His grave is in the Dorotheenstädtischer Friedhof II in Berlin-Mitte.

Awards

• Art Prize of the GDR
• Hero of work
• National Prize of the GDR

Works

• Chicken , from Mother Courage and Her Children by Bertolt Brecht at the Berliner Ensemble
• Dragon from Der Drache by Jewgeni Schwarz at the Deutsches Theater Berlin based on the stage and costume designs by Horst Sördert
• The Cow made of Purple Dust by Sean O'Casey at the Berliner Ensemble at the Deutsche Staatsoper Berlin
• Rosinante from Don Quixote after Miguel de Cervantes at the Komische Oper Berlin
• Centaurs , Earth Spirit , Ur-Faust after Johann Wolfgang Goethe , director, stage and costume design by Horst Sördert

literature

• Werner Ruppelt: Eduard Fischer - costume sculptures for the theater. Henschelverlag Art and Society Berlin, Berlin 1975
• Theater and costume sculptures by Eduard Fischer . Exhibition catalog, Bürgerhaus Ortsverein Grünau e. V., 1991
• Eduard Fischer . In: Announcements and Notes of the Berliner Ensemble , No. 50/1986
• Do you know Fischer? In: new life , youth magazine of the GDR, No. 2/67
• Custom made kites . In: DLZ , 38/92, 3rd September edition, p. 16
• The portrait . In: Information and bulletin of the Brecht Center of the GDR , November 1984, 7th year, p. 16
• Donkey ready for the stage . In: Für Dich , No. 50/1986
• Renate Rätz:  Fischer, Eduard . In: Who was who in the GDR? 5th edition. Volume 1. Ch. Links, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-86153-561-4 .
• A Brecht theater plays on the Schiffbauerdamm . In: Berliner Zeitung , June 15, 2002; Episode with Bertolt Brecht

Web links

• The earth rolls its eyes .
• Eduard Fischer Archive in the Archive of the Academy of Arts, Berlin

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Specialization in theater sculpture ( Memento from September 7, 2009 in the Internet Archive )