Ernst Karchow

Ernst Günther Karchow (born September 23, 1892 in Berlin ; † October 7, 1953 there ; also occasionally listed as Ernest Karchow ) was a German actor , director , theater director and radio play speaker .

Life

Ernst Karchow was born as the son of the businessman Albert Rudolph Karchow. He completed an apprenticeship at the drama school of the Deutsches Theater in Berlin founded by Max Reinhardt . He played first roles at the Deutsches Theater and at theaters in Vienna . From 1914 to 1918 he took part in the First World War as a soldier . From 1919 he received an engagement at the Städtische Bühnen in Frankfurt . From 1923 he worked at theaters in Berlin ( Lessingtheater , Hebbel-Theater and Volksbühne ), from 1935 also as senior director. After the end of the Second World War , another engagement followed in Frankfurt. With the season 1948/1949 Ernst Karchow became artistic director at the Kammerspiele in Bremen . From 1950 to 1953 he was artistic director at the Freie Volksbühne Berlin .

From 1927 Ernst Karchow worked in various film productions, mostly in supporting roles . Among them was the Nazi propaganda film Traitors from 1936 by Karl Ritter . He also played in historical and entertainment films such as 1935 Lady Windermeres Fächer directed by Heinz Hilpert with Lil Dagover , Walter Rilla and Fritz Odemar , The old and the young king by Hans Steinhoff with Emil Jannings , Werner Hinz and Carola Höhn and in 1937 Fridericus by Johannes Meyer with Otto Fee , Hilde Körber and Käthe Haack . He was also involved in the films Farewell, Christina and Life Goes on , which are considered unfinished films because filming could not be completed before the end of World War II . He played his last role in a feature film in The Night of the Twelve by Hans Schweikart with Ferdinand Marian and Rudolf Fernau , which was premiered as a defector in 1949, as this could only be completed after the end of the Second World War .

He also worked as a speaker in some radio play productions . He also directed a radio play adaptation of the play Die Spieldose by Georg Kaiser .

Ernst Karchow died on October 7, 1953 in Berlin-Wilmersdorf .

Johann Caspar Glenzdorf: Glenzdorf's international film lexicon. Biographical manual for the entire film industry. Volume 2: Hed – Peis. Prominent-Filmverlag, Bad Münder 1961, DNB 451560744 , p. 794.

personal data
SURNAME	Karchow, Ernst
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Karchow, Ernst Günther (full name); Karchow, Ernest
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German actor, director, theater director and radio play speaker
DATE OF BIRTH	September 23, 1892
PLACE OF BIRTH	Berlin
DATE OF DEATH	October 7, 1953
Place of death	Berlin