Ernst Jacobi

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Ernst Jacobi (born July 11, 1933 in Berlin ) is a German theater and film actor as well as audio book and voice actor .

Live and act

Jacobi discovered his passion for acting at an early age and began his artistic career at radio , where he received speaking roles at the RIAS in Berlin-Schöneberg at the age of 14 . After graduating from high school, he completed three years of acting training at the Max-Reinhardt-Schule für Schauspiel in Berlin from 1951 and then studied with Jacques Lecoq at the Stage d'éte sur le mime in Paris and London .

During his acting training Jacobi received his first stage engagement at the Hebbel Theater in Berlin and made his debut in Shakespeare's Die Lustigen Frauen von Windsor , directed by Rudolf Noelte . Other theater stations included the Theater am Kurfürstendamm , the tribune and the Schiller Theater in Berlin as well as Hamburg ( Deutsches Schauspielhaus ) and Munich (Kammerspiele). In 1977 he followed a call to the Vienna Burgtheater , of which he was a member until 1984. From 1987, the Zurich theater became his artistic home for five years.

Jacobi started his television career in the early 1950s with the beginning of the first experimental broadcasts and played leading and supporting roles in plays such as The Happy Days (1953). Ernst Jacobi came to film in the late 1950s and initially appeared with minor roles in films such as Hans Quest's musical comedy Die Große Chance (1957) and Gerd Oswald's crime thriller On the Day of the Rain (1959). In Volker Schlöndorff's Grass adaptation Die Blechtrommel (1979) he played the role of Gauleiter Löbsack alongside David Bennent , Mario Adorf and Berta Drews .

In the 1960s Jacobi concentrated more on his television work and was involved in literary adaptations, including in Rolf Hädrich's East-West story Obituary for Jürgen Trahnke (1962), as well as in films such as Bauern, Bonzen und Bomben (1973) and Heinar Kipphardt's life of the schizophrenic poet Alexander März , in which he took the title role in 1975. In the same year Ernst Jacobi was honored with the "Prix Italia" for his achievement. In 1976 he received the Berlin Art Prize from the Berlin Academy of the Arts for his interpretation of Alexander March . In 1983 Jacobi Jakob Fugger played in the multi-part TV series Vom Loom zur Weltmacht , which tells the story of the Augsburg trading dynasty. From March to November 2011 he played the role of Konstantin von Walden in the ARD telenovela Rote Rosen .

Jacobi can be heard in various audio book and radio play productions, e.g. B. Ken Folletts The Pillars of the Earth , Donna W. Cross ' The Popess or as Lord Sellars in Otherland after Tad Williams . Jacobi was also active as a voice actor. B. Michael Moriarty as Sturmbannführer Erik Dorf in the multi-part TV series Holocaust - The Story of the Weiss Family his voice. He can also be heard in some German versions of Disney films, for example as the title character in Peter Pan (1953). He also spoke to Christopher Lloyd as Doc Brown in Back to the Future . Jacobi was heard as the narrator in the film The White Ribbon - A German Children's Story (2009).

Filmography (selection)

Radio plays

Synchronous rollers (selection)

actor Film / series role
Bobby Driscoll Peter Pan Peter Pan
Christopher Lloyd Back to the Future Dr. Emmett Brown
Ernst Jacobi My name is victor Milos
Farley Granger Cocktail for a corpse (1st synchro in 1963) Phillip Morgan
Herb Kerns There is no return for death Herbie
Jimmy Boyd Who sows the wind Howard
Nick Adams Bed whispers Tony Walters
Michael Moriarty Holocaust - The History of the Weiss Family Erich Dorf

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ German synchronous files. In: www.synchronkartei.de. Retrieved October 5, 2016 .
personal data
SURNAME Jacobi, Ernst
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German theater and film actor
DATE OF BIRTH July 11, 1933
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin