Egon Monk

from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Gravestone of Egon Monk. 2011

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

Works (selection)

Television / directing

Theater / direction

Radio / radio play

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

notes

  1. ↑ Egon Monk Archive Inventory overview on the website of the Academy of the Arts in Berlin.
  2. ↑ Monika Buschey: Ways to Brecht , Dittrich Verlag
personal data
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