Ernst Dietz (actor)

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Ernst Dietz (* 17th September 1916 in Gommern ; † 18th February 1989 in Bremen ) was a German actor , theater director and - intendant , playwright and radio speaker , television and film actor.

Life

Ernst Dietz received his training as an actor from 1932 to 1934 at the Alten Theater Leipzig , among others from Detlef Sierck and Lina Carstens . He made his stage debut in 1934 in the role of Raoul in the Maiden of Orleans by Friedrich Schiller at the Friedrich Theater in Dessau. Dietz then had short-term engagements at other stages. From 1936 to 1938 he played at the Mönchengladbacher Stadttheater , in the season 1938/39 at the Stadttheater Münster , in the following season at the Staatstheater Braunschweig . In the war year 1942, Dietz made a guest appearance at the Hamburg Thalia Theater . After 1945 he was able to continue his stage career with engagements at theaters in Chemnitz and Dresden, and in the following years Dietz worked at the Württemberg State Theater in Stuttgart , and with Gustav Rudolf Sellner at the Landestheater Darmstadt and at the municipal theaters in Kiel , Essen and Oberhausen . In 1952 he came to the Stadttheater Luzern , of which he was a member until 1957. From the mid-1970s, Dietz gave guest performances at the Hamburg State Opera and the Kammerspiele there , at the Hildesheim City Theater and at the Gandersheim Cathedral Festival .

From the end of the 1940s, Dietz began directing the theater, initially in Kiel and to a large extent in Lucerne. There he staged a number of Shakespeare and Schiller plays, including Die Irre von Chaillot by Jean Giraudoux , The Dirty Hands by Jean-Paul Sartre and the world premiere of Albert Talhoff's There are characters , as well as operas and operettas such as Mozart's Marriage of Figaro , Carmen by Georges Bizet or Jacques Offenbach's Schöne Helena . In the 1970s Dietz worked at the Packhaustheater Bremen .

In addition, during his artistic career, Dietz repeatedly held artistic director positions at various theaters in Germany and Switzerland. From 1953 to 1957 he directed the Lucerne City Theater, from 1957 to 1963 the Oldenburg State Theater and from 1963 to 1972 the Mannheim National Theater . In the 1972/73 season he led the St. Gallen City Theater , and from 1977 to 1981 he was artistic director of the Bremen Packhaus Theater .

From 1965 Ernst Dietz sporadically took on film and television roles, several times in the Tatort series . In the 1970 documentary television film Operation Walküre about the unsuccessful assassination attempt of July 20, 1944 , he played Colonel General Erich Hoepner . In addition, from the late 1940s onwards, Dietz was repeatedly involved in radio productions. His first marriage was to Lotte Leonhardt (soprano). From 1950 to 1957 Dietz was married to the actress Tilli Breidenbach in his second marriage . From 1957 until his death married to Karin Bernauer (actress / child and youth psychotherapist).

Filmography

Radio plays

Stage plays

  • Long-distance connection
  • Exchange excluded? and why not the other way around? (WP at the Packhaus Theater)
  • New wallpapers (premiere at the Packhaustheater)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Thomas Blubacher : Ernst Dietz . In: Andreas Kotte (Ed.): Theater Lexikon der Schweiz . Volume 1, Chronos, Zurich 2005, ISBN 3-0340-0715-9 , pp. 468-569.
personal data
SURNAME Dietz, Ernst
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German actor, theater director and director, playwright and radio play speaker
DATE OF BIRTH September 17, 1916
PLACE OF BIRTH Gommern
DATE OF DEATH February 18, 1989
Place of death Bremen