Erich Elstner

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Erich Elstner (born February 25, 1910 - † February 10, 1972 ) was a German actor and director .

Life

Erich Elstner came from Reichenberg (Liberec) in northern Bohemia . Before the Second World War , Elstner was initially engaged as an actor and operetta buffo at the Brno City Theater; later he also worked there as director and senior director of comedy and operetta. He also wrote the libretto for the operetta Barbara by Guido Masanetz, which premiered in Brno in 1941 . During his time in Brno, he discovered and promoted the young, then 16-year-old Brno actor Lutz Jahoda , who later made a career in the GDR as an operetta buffo, actor and entertainer. Elstner gave Jahoda private acting lessons, got him engagements (including at the Brno Kammerspiele) and signed his theater contracts up to the age of majority. Towards the end of the war, Elstner was taken to a Soviet army hospital in Bratislava , where he met Jahoda again. After the Second World War, Elstner and his family were initially accepted together with Jahoda at one of Jahoda's aunt in Vienna; as in Brno, he continued to support Jahoda like a foster son. Then, from around 1947/48, he worked as an actor, singer and director in Berlin . In 1947 he worked at the Metropoltheater in Berlin alongside Sonja Ziemann in one of the leading roles in the world premiere of Friedrich Schröder's operetta Nights in Shanghai . In the early 1950s he went to Baden-Baden , where he worked as a freelancer for Südwestfunk . After the Second World War, he also took on a number of film roles and in the 1950s took part in radio play productions by the SWR (including in some Maigret radio plays).

Elstner was married to the dancer and actress Hilde Engel-Elstner , with whom he had four children. His younger son is the future entertainer and show master Frank Elstner .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Lutz Jahoda : Lutz in luck and what else went wrong . Verlag Das Neue Berlin 2001. Page 92. ISBN 978-3-360-00961-6 . Retrieved March 23, 2017.
  2. ↑ a b c d Frank Elstner . Entry at Munzinger . Retrieved March 21, 2017.
  3. ↑ a b Jahoda, Lutz . Addendum to the lexicon of important Brno Germans. Available online at www.bruenn.eu. Retrieved March 21, 2017.
  4. ↑ a b c d e The show master Frank Elstner: Enthusiastic journalist and presenter . VIP.de from May 13, 2016. Retrieved March 21, 2017.
  5. ↑ a b c d "I knew about the value of my audience" . In: Prager Zeitung of March 9, 2016. Accessed March 21, 2017.
  6. ↑ Frank Elstner: Betting fun: My life, my guests, my shows . Herder publishing house. Freiburg im Breisgau 2012. ISBN 978-3-451-30647-1 . Retrieved March 21, 2017.
personal data
SURNAME Elstner, Erich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German actor and director
DATE OF BIRTH February 25, 1910
DATE OF DEATH February 10, 1972