Ekkehard Schall
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)
- Ui in The Resistant Rise of Arturo Ui by Bertolt Brecht
- Galileo in the life of Galileo (Brecht)
- Coriolan (Shakespeare, Brecht)
- Azdak in The Caucasian Chalk Circle (Brecht)
- Galloudec on behalf of Heiner Müller
- Gau Dsu in Great Peace by Volker Braun
Filmography
- 1957: Berlin - corner of Schönhauser ...
- 1957: Katzgraben (theater recording)
- 1957: Schlösser und Katen - directed by Kurt Maetzig
- 1957: Mother Courage and her children (theater recording)
- 1958: The story of poor Hassan
- 1958: The Song of the Sailors
- 1959: May punch
- 1960: cloudy water
- 1961: Mother Courage and her children (theater recording)
- 1962: Josef and all his brothers (TV movie)
- 1962: Fetzers Escape (TV opera) - directed by Günter Stahnke
- 1965: Wolf among wolves (TV)
- 1966: End of inquiry (TV)
- 1966: The Days of the Commune (theater recording)
- 1966: The Investigation (theater recording)
- 1968–1970: I - Axel Caesar Springer (TV)
- 1969: The Angel in Sight (TV)
- 1970: From Our Time (Episode 1)
- 1972: Despite all that!
- 1974: Arturo Ui's resilient rise (theater recording)
- 1976: In the dust of the stars - directed by Gottfried Kolditz
- 1979: The Revenge of Captain Mitchell (TV)
- 1983: Wagner - The life and work of Richard Wagner
- 1985: The Unworthy Old Woman (TV movie)
- 1989: Great Peace (theater recording)
- 1993: twilight
Radio plays
- 1953: Bertolt Brecht The rifles of Mrs. Carrar (younger son) - Director: Egon Monk ( Berliner Rundfunk )
- 1963: Bertolt Brecht: Das kleine Mahagonny - Director: Manfred Karge (radio play - Broadcasting of the GDR)
- 1966: Bertolt Brecht: The interrogation of Lukullus (Lukullus) - Director: Kurt Veth ( Broadcasting of the GDR )
- 1968: Ernst Ottwalt : Californian Ballad - Director: Fritz Göhler (Broadcasting of the GDR)
- 1969: Bertolt Brecht: The Ocean Flight - Director: Kurt Veth / Tilo Medek (Broadcasting of the GDR)
- 1971: Bertolt Brecht: Die Tage der Commune (Rigault) - Director: Manfred Wekwerth / Joachim Tenschert (radio play - Litera )
- 1973: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe : History of Götz von Berlichingen with the Iron Hand (Weislingen) - Director: Werner Grunow (radio play - Broadcasting of the GDR)
- 1975: Lothar Kleine : Michael Gaismair or nine sentences from the Holy Scriptures (Gaismair) - Director: Werner Grunow (radio play - Rundfunk der DDR)
- 1976: Wassili Schuschin : Energetic People (Aristarchus) - Director: Wolfgang Schonendorf (radio play - Broadcasting of the GDR)
- 1980: Friedrich Schiller : Maria Stuart (Mortimer) - Director: Werner Grunow (radio play - Broadcasting of the GDR)
- 1998: Volker Braun : The Dust of Brandenburg - Director: Joachim Staritz (radio play - DLF / SFB )
Works
- 2001 My school of theater. Seminars, lectures, demonstrations, discussions. Suhrkamp, ISBN 3-518-13413-2 .
- 2002 Buckower barometer. Poems. Frankfurt Insel, ISBN 3-458-17102-9 .
- 2005 A flaw on me now, as it should be. Emerging images. edited by Janos Stekovics, ISBN 3-89923-076-0 .
- 2006 animal stories. Poems for children. with pictures by Volker Pfüller , ISBN 3-458-17305-6 .
literature
- Vera Tenschert , Ekkehard Schall: Ekkehard Schall. Of great kind. The New Berlin , Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-360-01986-8 .
- Hans-Dieter Schütt : Ekkehard Schall. I've seen it, what more could you want. Last conversations. The New Berlin, ISBN 978-3-360-02190-8 .
- Bernd-Rainer Barth : Schall, Ekkehard . In: Who was who in the GDR? 5th edition. Volume 2. Ch. Links, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-86153-561-4 .
- Of great kind. In: Berliner Zeitung . Obituary.
- Wolf Biermann : Ekkehard Schall's seven fingers. In: ders .: Barbara. Love novels and other predator stories. Berlin 2019, pp. 59–68.
Web links
- Ekkehard Schall in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Literature by and about Ekkehard Schall in the catalog of the German National Library
- Ekkehard Schall, “Last Reading”. Youtube.com
- Ekkehard Schall archive in the archive of the Academy of Arts, Berlin
Individual evidence
- ↑ Berliner Zeitung , April 28, 1973, p. 4
- ↑ An Evening with Ekkehard Schall in the Internet Off-Broadway Database (English)
personal data | |
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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 |