Egon Monk
Egon Monk (born May 18, 1927 in Berlin ; † February 28, 2007 in Hamburg ) was a German actor , theater and film director , dramaturge and author .
Live and act
Monk grew up as a working class child in the Berlin district of Wedding and attended the Lessing-Gymnasium in Berlin . From 1943 to 1945 he took part in the Second World War as an air force helper; his duties included operating the 8.8 cm anti-aircraft gun . He then attended drama school from 1945 to 1947 and became a directing student at DEFA .
After various engagements, Monk was a member of the Berliner Ensemble from 1949 to 1953 and, together with Benno Besson , became a young director and assistant to Bertolt Brecht and Berthold Viertel . He left the GDR in 1953 and worked from 1954 to 1959 as a freelance writer and radio play director at RIAS Berlin. In 1957 Monk switched to the radio play department of the NDR , where he was head of the television play department from 1960 to 1968.
In 1968, Monk was briefly entrusted with the management of the Deutsches Schauspielhaus Hamburg after director Oscar Fritz Schuh had left this position. Monk caused a major theatrical scandal in Hamburg by shocking the conservative audience at the Hamburg State Theater with his modern production of Friedrich Schiller's Die Räuber .
His written estate is in the archive of the Academy of Arts in Berlin.
Private life
Monk had been married to his wife Ulla since 1950 and lived in a villa in Mittelweg in Hamburg-Harvestehude until his death on February 28, 2007. The marriage resulted in two sons, Sebastian (* 1954) and Berthold (* 1960). Egon Monk found his final resting place in the Ohlsdorf cemetery in Hamburg.
Awards
- 1960: Radio play award of the war blind for On a molehill by Franz Hiesel (NDR / ORF 1959).
- 1966: Adolf Grimme Prize with silver for one day
- 1966: Golden Camera
- 1966: DAG television award
- 1966: Jakob Kaiser Prize
- 1966 and 1973: TV film award from the German Academy of Performing Arts
- 1967: Adolf Grimme Prize with silver for Freedom Prize
- 1983: Golden gong
- 1983: Gold Award from the International Film and TV Festival of New York
- since 1983 member of the Berlin Academy of the Arts
- 1984: Adolf Grimme Prize with gold for the Oppermann siblings
- since 1987 honorary professor of the Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg
- 1988 German Critics' Prize
Works (selection)
Television / directing
- 1953: The rifles of Mrs. Carrar ( German TV broadcaster DFF, play based on Bertolt Brecht )
- 1958: The money that lies on the street ( North and West German Broadcasting Association (NWRV), based on a radio play by Werner Jörg Lüddecke )
- 1958: The Brothers (NWRV, story " Pierre et Jean " based on Guy de Maupassant )
- 1962: The revolution releases its children (NDR, trilogy based on the report by Wolfgang Leonhard about his time in the Soviet Union of Stalin)
- 1962: The life of Galilei (NDR, play based on Bertolt Brecht)
- 1962: Inquiry (NDR, Societal handling of the time of National Socialism, based on the novel by Christian Geissler )
- 1963: Wassa Schelesnowa (NDR, play based on Maxim Gorki )
- 1963: Cattle for slaughter (NDR, social drama on a night train, based on the novel by Christian Geissler)
- 1963: Walls (NDR, Sender Free Berlin (SFB), Berlin Wall Drama, based on Gunther R. Lys )
- 1963: The rise and fall of the city of Mahagonny (NDR, play based on Bertolt Brecht)
- 1964: Wilhelmsburger Friday (NDR, everyday life for wives and workers in Hamburg)
- 1965: One day - report from a German concentration camp (It is about a fictional day. The plot is mainly based on the personal experiences of the former Sachsenhausen prisoner )
- 1965: The moment of peace (NDR, The End of the War in Berlin. The two other episodes of the film deal with the end of the war in Poland, directed by Tadeusz Konwicki , and the end of the war in France, directed by Georges Franju based on a script by Marguerite Duras )
- 1966: Freedom Prize (NDR, GDR border drama)
- 1968: On Obedience. Scenes from Germany (NDR, play by Claus Hubalek and Egon Monk)
- 1969: Golden Cities ( Hessischer Rundfunk (HR), play based on Arnold Wesker )
- 1969: The Robbers (NDR, play based on Friedrich Schiller )
- 1970: Industrial landscape with retailers (NDR, story of the demise of a Hamburg druggist, which is strongly influenced by the epic theater, leading actor: Horst Tappert )
- 1973: farmers, bigwigs and bombs (NDR, based on the novel of the same name by Hans Fallada )
- 1975: Mrs. Carrar's rifles ( Second German Television (ZDF), play based on Bertolt Brecht)
- 1983: The Oppermann siblings (ZDF, based on the novel of the same name by Lion Feuchtwanger )
- 1988: The Bertinis (ZDF, based on the novel of the same name by Ralph Giordano )
Theater / direction
- 1950: Bertolt Brecht : Mr. Puntila and his servant Matti ( Rostock City Theater )
- 1951: Gerhart Hauptmann : The Beaver Fur and The Red Rooster ( Berliner Ensemble in the Deutsches Theater Berlin )
- 1952: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe : Urfaust (Berliner Ensemble in the Potsdamer Volksbühne in the Landestheater)
- 1953: Bertolt Brecht: Frau Carrar's rifles (Berliner Ensemble in the Deutsches Theater Berlin - Kammerspiele)
Radio / radio play
- 1953: Bertolt Brecht : Frau Carrar's rifles , with Helene Weigel , Ekkehard, Schall , Erwin Geschonneck and others ( GDR radio )
- 1956: Walter Jens : His Majesty Mr. Seiler - Composition: Olaf Bienert , with Emil Surmann , Agnes Windeck , Gerda Harnack, Max Grothusen , Reinhold Bernt , Herbert Weißbach and others ( RIAS Berlin)
- 1957: Josef Martin Bauer : Like sand by the sea , with Werner Bruhns , Tilla Durieux , Peter Mosbacher , Günter Pfitzmann , Otto Braml and others - (RIAS Berlin)
literature
- Wolfgang Bittner , Mark vom Hofe: Working child from Berlin Wedding. Egon Monk . In: I have become a public person. Personalities from film and television . Horlemann Verlag, Bad Honnef 2009, ISBN 978-3-89502-277-7 .
- "One day. Report from a German concentration camp in 1939." In: Sonja M. Schultz (ed.): National Socialism in Film. From the triumph of the will to Inglourious Basterds (= Deep Focus. Vol. 13). Bertz + Fischer Verlag, Berlin 2012 978-3-86505-314-5, pp. 125f.
- Julia Schumacher: Realism as a program. Egon Monk. Model of a work biography (= fade-in - writings on the film. Vol. 18). Schüren Verlag, Marburg 2018, ISBN 978-3-89472-979-0 .
Web links
- Literature by and about Egon Monk in the catalog of the German National Library
- Egon Monk in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Film and TV Museum Hamburg: Egon Monk: Stations of Creativity - About the master of sophisticated television entertainment
- Egon Monk Archive in the Archive of the Academy of Arts, Berlin
- Scientific literature (Open Access) on Egon Monk on mediarep.org
notes
- ↑ Egon Monk Archive Inventory overview on the website of the Academy of the Arts in Berlin.
- ↑ Monika Buschey: Ways to Brecht , Dittrich Verlag
personal data | |
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SURNAME | Monk, Egon |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German actor, director, dramaturge and author |
DATE OF BIRTH | May 18, 1927 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Berlin |
DATE OF DEATH | February 28, 2007 |
Place of death | Hamburg |