Ernst Ginsberg

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Ernst Ginsberg (born February 7, 1904 in Berlin , † December 3, 1964 in Zollikon ) was a German actor , radio play speaker , reciter , poet , director and theater director .

Life

Ginsberg was the son of the ophthalmologist Siegmund Ginsberg and his wife Gertrud, née Bernhard. After secondary school, via the Kammerspiele in Hamburg and Munich, to Düsseldorf and in 1928 to Berlin and then in 1932 to Gustav Hartung at the Landestheater Darmstadt . Dismissed there as a Jew, he emigrated in 1933, after another stay in Berlin, working at the Jewish Theater , via Vienna to Switzerland and was engaged at the Zurich Schauspielhaus , which was then directed by the dramaturge Kurt Hirschfeld and the director Ferdinand Rieser . The initially reluctant Rieser gave him contracts that were extended to two weeks until he asserted himself as an actor with convincing appearances. In addition to Molière , he played the following roles, for example: the Jew Siegelmann ( The Races of Ferdinand Bruckner ), Mephisto, Tasso, Franz Moor, Don Carlos, Tartuffe, Hamlet. He was of Jewish origin but was baptized a Catholic in 1935 out of personal conviction.

From 1946 to 1950 he was director with Kurt Horwitz in Basel, in 1944 editor of 17th century poetry, in 1946 of 18th century, in 1951 editor of Else Lasker-Schüler and in 1956 of Berthold Viertel . As a faithful director, Ginsberg was one of Friedrich Dürrenmatt's early patrons .

After his emigration he worked as a member of the Zürcher Schauspielhaus until 1962 and worked simultaneously as an actor and director at the Residenztheater (Munich) from 1952 to 1961 . From 1955 to 1960 he was head of literature production at Deutsche Grammophon , when he founded the record label Literarisches Archiv in 1957 in order to realize his vision of an “acoustic reference library of world literature” .

Literary records (mainly speech records ) were and are still being published there - now on CDs . Famous authors like Thomas Mann and Gottfried Benn were among the speakers of the literary archive from the very beginning . Ginsberg himself also spoke for the series.

He was also very often used as a radio play speaker. So could it, for example in two Paul Temple radio plays do so in 1957 in which the WDR produced miniseries Paul Temple and the case Gilbert (Director: Edward Hermann , with René Deltgen , Annemarie Cordes and Kurt Lieck ) later, and two years in the BR production Paul Temple and the Conrad case (directed by Willy Purucker , with Karl John and Rosemarie Fendel ). Ernst Ginsberg was married to Ruth Charlotte Greiner and Miriam Spoerri . The cause of death was amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS). When he could no longer move or speak, he still dictated poems to his nurse with the help of Morse code with his eyelids. He died in the Neumünster Clinic in Zurich and found his final resting place in the Fluntern cemetery .

Filmography

Radio plays

  • 1953: Carl Zuckmayer : Ulla Winblad or Music and Life of Carl Michael Bellmann (Gustav III. King of Sweden) - Director: Walter Ohm (radio play - BR / RB / SWF )
  • 1954: Leonhard Frank : The cause (public prosecutor) - Director: Walter Ohm (radio play - BR)

Awards

Books

  • Ernst Ginsberg's farewell - memories, theater essays, poems Verlag die Arche, Zurich 1965

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Andrea Weibel: Ernst Ginsberg. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland . September 1, 2005, accessed December 26, 2019 .
  2. ↑ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s Daniel Foppa: Famous and forgotten dead people in Zurich's cemeteries . 1st edition. Limmat Verlag, Zurich 2000, ISBN 3-85791-324-X , p. 44 f., 175 .
  3. ^ A b Robert Savary: Ernst Ginsberg. In: Find a Grave . May 1, 2016, accessed December 26, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Ginsberg, Ernst
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German actor, director and theater director
DATE OF BIRTH February 7, 1904
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH 3rd December 1964
Place of death Zollikon