Erich Bricks

from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Erich Ziegel, 1907
The grave of Erich Ziegel in the Ohlsdorf cemetery in Hamburg

Erich Ziegel (* 26. August 1876 in Schwerin on the Warta , German Empire , † the 30th November 1950 in Munich ) was a German actor , director , director and playwright .

Life

Erich Ziegel began his stage career in 1894, after an apprenticeship as a bookseller, at the age of eighteen as an actor in Meiningen . He later played in Lübeck and Breslau . There he directed a literary summer theater from 1906 to 1909.

In 1911 he founded the Münchner Kammerspiele , which he directed until 1916. From Munich he went to Hamburg as a director at the Thalia Theater . In Hamburg he founded the Hamburger Kammerspiele in 1918 , which he quickly made into one of the most important and important German-speaking theaters of the 1920s.

Under Ziegel's leadership, the Hamburger Kammerspiele were a gathering place for young talents he promoted. Several actors and directors began their careers through him or with him, including Axel von Ambesser , Anneliese Born, Wolf von Beneckendorff , Josef Dahmen , Erich Engel , Rudolf Fernau , Ernst Fritz Fürbringer , Gustaf Gründgens , Wolfgang Heinz , Ruth Hellberg , Werner Hinz , Paul Kemp , Fritz Kortner , Victor de Kowa , Elisabeth Lennartz , Ferdinand Marian , Erika Meingast , Hubert von Meyerinck , Hans Nielsen , Hans Otto , Leo Reuss , Hans Hermann Schaufuss , Albrecht Schönhals , Carl-Heinz Schroth , Ellen Schwanneke , Hans Stiebner and Gusti Wolf .

From 1926 to 1928, Ziegel also headed the Deutsche Schauspielhaus and from 1932 to 1934 the Hamburg Thalia Theater .

In 1934 he tried another new beginning in Vienna for the sake of his Jewish wife, the actress Mirjam Horwitz . Since he couldn't get along with the Austrian mentality, the company failed miserably. Thereupon his former Hamburg star Gustaf Gründgens, who now headed the Prussian State Theater in Berlin , hired him as an actor, director and dramaturge at his house and also took care of the protection of Ziegel's wife.

He was also seen in various films, such as in Moscow - Shanghai in 1936 . After the war, Erich Ziegel rarely appeared in front of the camera. His last engagements in film include The Trial (1948), The Angel with the Trumpet (1948), My Friend Who Can't Say No (1949) and Demonic Love (1951).

He found his final resting place with his wife at the Ohlsdorf cemetery in Hamburg.

In the Hamburg district of Steilshoop , the Erich-Ziegel-Ring is named after him.

Filmography

Radio plays

  • 1949: The Flying Privy Councilor (The Privy Councilor)
  • 1950: Captain Brassbound's conversion (Sir Howard Hallam)
  • 1950: Prince Friedrich von Homburg

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Erich Ziegel at Familiennachforschung.de
  2. ↑ The prevented virgin . Die Weltbühne 19-1 1923. Page 168. (PDF; 41.8 MB)
  3. ^ Margrit Lenk, Jutta Wardetzki: Hans Otto - The Actor, in: Writings on Theater Studies, Volume 4, Henschel, Berlin 1966
personal data
SURNAME Brick, Erich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German actor, director, artistic director and playwright
DATE OF BIRTH August 26, 1876
PLACE OF BIRTH Schwerin an der Warthe , German Empire
DATE OF DEATH November 30, 1950
Place of death Munich