Ekkehard Schall

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Autograph card from Ekkehard Schall, 1989.
Ekkehard Schall demonstration speech (November 1989)
Ekkehard Schall's grave in the Dorotheenstädtischer Friedhof in Berlin.

Ekkehard Schall (born May 29, 1930 in Magdeburg ; † September 3, 2005 in Berlin ) was a German stage and film actor and director. Schall was considered one of the most prominent Brecht performers in the German language and, alongside Helene Weigel, one of the most influential members of the Berlin ensemble .

Life

Schall already took acting lessons during his school days and appeared on stage for the first time in Magdeburg in 1947. After engagements at the Kleist Theater in Frankfurt (Oder) and at the Neue Bühne in Berlin, Bertolt Brecht brought him to the Berliner Ensemble in 1952. Schall belonged to this theater until 1995, and was its deputy director for 14 years.

In total, Schall embodied more than 60 roles in the Berliner Ensemble. One of the best-known is that of Arturo Ui in Brecht's The Temporary Ascent of Arturo Ui , in which he appeared on stage more than 500 times. His recitation evenings, on which he also designed texts by Brecht, were also particularly popular.

In 1959, Schall was awarded the GDR Art Prize and in 1962 and 1979 the GDR National Prize, 1st class for art and literature. In 1973 he was awarded the Patriotic Order of Merit in silver. In 1985 he received the renowned Obie Award in New York for his Bertolt Brecht evening “An Evening with Ekkehard Schall”, an off-Broadway theater production.

After the fall of the Berlin Wall , Ekkehard Schall withdrew more and more from the Berliner Ensemble. According to his own words, he refused to be used by “ignorant youngsters as a 'quote' from the proletarian heroic age”. He then began to write highly regarded poems on the Brecht estate in Buckow , which were also valued by literary criticism.

He was married to the Brecht daughter Barbara Brecht-Schall and is the father of the actress Johanna Schall and the costume designer Jenny Schall.

Stage roles (selection)

Filmography

Radio plays

Works

literature

Web links

Commons : Ekkehard Schall  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Berliner Zeitung , April 28, 1973, p. 4
  2. ↑ An Evening with Ekkehard Schall in the Internet Off-Broadway Database (English)
personal data
SURNAME Sonic, Ekkehard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German stage and film actor and director
DATE OF BIRTH May 29, 1930
PLACE OF BIRTH Magdeburg
DATE OF DEATH September 3, 2005
Place of death Berlin