Ernst Constantine

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Ernst Konstantin (born December 16, 1908 in Odessa , Russian Empire , † May 1969 in Munich , Federal Republic of Germany ) was a German actor , radio play and voice actor .

Live and act

After graduating from high school, Konstantin was trained at a technical university and until 1939 was the general agent for several US companies in the Middle East and in Istanbul . He then switched to acting and worked at the Lessing Theater in Berlin from 1941 to 1944 . Conscripted for military service, Konstantin performed the remainder of the war as an interpreter for Russian at the Wehrmacht High Command . As such, he was captured by the Soviets in 1945 and was interned in the Soviet special camp in Sachsenhausen until 1949 . In 1949, again at large, Ernst Konstantin went to RIAS as a spokesman, but also returned to the stage and performed at various theaters, including Berlin, Frankfurt am Main, Tübingen, Stuttgart and Munich.

Ernst Konstantin also spent his twilight years in the Bavarian capital. In front of the camera, Constantine was initially used several times as a Russian or other Slav; later he played with small roles on television several high-ranking personalities such as doctors, directors and nobles. In the reconstruction around the events of the liberation of Paris in August 1944, “ Paris must burn! ”, In 1965 Konstantin embodied the central role of the Swedish consul general in the French capital, Raoul Nordling , who was also an adversary of the German city commandant Dietrich von Choltitz , who tried to convince the Wehrmacht general to oppose Hitler's order to destroy Paris. A year later he got another leading role, this time as a permanent guest in the television series from the newspaper industry Der Nachtkurier reports… .

In addition, he was also extensively active as a voice actor, for example in the films Citizen Kane , The Foreign Correspondent , Rio Bravo , You should be my lucky star , arsenic and lace , Alice in Wonderland , Treasure Island , Wings of Steel , The Old Man and the Sea and Marrakech .

Filmography

Radio plays

author

  • 1949: Space ship No. 1 (science fiction radio play) - Director: Fränze Roloff

speaker

literature

  • 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. 880.

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personal data
SURNAME Constantine, Ernst
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German actor, radio play and voice actor
DATE OF BIRTH December 16, 1908
PLACE OF BIRTH Odessa , Russian Empire
DATE OF DEATH May 1969
Place of death Munich , Federal Republic of Germany