Ernst Wilhelm Borchert
Ernst Wilhelm Borchert , sometimes just Wilhelm Borchert , (born March 13, 1907 in Rixdorf , † June 1, 1990 in Berlin ) was a German actor , radio play and voice actor .
theatre
After graduating from secondary school, Borchert completed an acting training at the Reicher College for Dramatic Art from 1926 to 1927 . In 1927 he received his first stage engagement at the East Prussian State Theater. He came to Berlin via theater stations in Erfurt , Cologne and Sondershausen , where he first worked at the Volksbühne under Eugen Klöpfer , then at the Deutsches Theater and from 1950 at the state theaters, a. a. played at the Schiller Theater . In 1938 Borchert played the Old Shatterhand , alongside Will Quadflieg as Winnetou , in the play Winnetou, the red gentleman at the Free Volksbühne , directed by Ludwig Körner .
For his artistic merits, Borchert was made a state actor and in 1973 an honorary member of the State Drama Theaters of Berlin. He had also been a member of the Berlin Academy of the Arts since 1976 .
Borchert impressed audiences and critics alike, especially in the classic roles of characters and heroes. He was the first Woyzeck of the post-war period and appeared on stage as Faust several times . In productions by Boleslaw Barlog , Fritz Kortner and Boy Gobert he played a wide range of classic stage roles, mostly driven, fragile characters.
- 1948: Ben Jonson (edited by Stefan Zweig ): Volpone (son) - director: Willi Schmidt ( Deutsches Theater Berlin )
- 1948: William Shakespeare : Measure for Measure (Angelo) - Director: Wolfgang Langhoff (Deutsches Theater Berlin - Kammerspiele)
- 1949: Lion Feuchtwanger : Wahn in Boston (Mathers brother-in-law) - Director: Wolfgang Kühne (Deutsches Theater Berlin - Kammerspiele)
- 1949: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe : Faust I (Faust) - ( Magdeburg Municipal Theaters )
- 1949: Gotthold Ephraim Lessing : Nathan the Wise (Temple Lord) - Director: Gerda Müller (Deutsches Theater Berlin)
- 1949: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: Faust. A tragedy. (Faust) - Director: Wolfgang Langhoff (Deutsches Theater Berlin)
- 1949: Friedrich Wolf : Tai Yang awakens (Leader of the Revolutionaries) - Director: Wolfgang Langhoff (Deutsches Theater Berlin)
Film and radio
As a film actor, Borchert was much less active, although he played in some well-known productions. In the first German post-war film, The Murderers Are Among Us , he played the leading role in 1946 as a disaffected war veteran, directed by Wolfgang Staudte . Hildegard Knef played the main female role . He was also seen in And again 48 (1948), in Sauerbruch - That was my life (1954) alongside Ewald Balser and in 1958 in the internationally successful anti-war film Dogs, Do You Want to Live Forever .
As a radio play speaker, Borchert was heard in numerous productions, mostly as one of the main actors. For example, in 1958, under the direction of Cläre Schimmel , he spoke the Parisian commissioner Maigret in the SDR production Maigret and the terrible children , which Fred von Hoerschelmann edited for the radio based on the novel by Georges Simenon of the same name . Until 1993 Borchert spoke the inscription text of the freedom bell in the town hall of Berlin-Schöneberg every Sunday afternoon on the Berlin radio station RIAS "I promise to resist every attack on freedom ..." (see YouTube under freedom oath)
Filmography (selection)
- 1941: U-boats westward!
- 1943: The eternal sound
- 1946: The murderers are among us
- 1949: Second hand fate
- 1953: The desert is alive (narrative voice)
- 1954: Sauerbruch - That was my life
- 1955: Lord of life and death
- 1960: the ambassador
- 1965: Welcome to Altamont
- 1988: In a Land Before Time (narrative voice)
Synchronous work
In addition to his theater work, Borchert worked extensively as a voice actor between 1945 and 1989 . In doing so, he lent his voice to a variety of actors. These include:
- Eddie Albert ( changing horses on their wedding night )
- Martin Balsam ( woman with a past )
- Julian Beck ( Poltergeist II - The Other Side ) (Reverend Henry Kane)
- Richard Burton (including Cleopatra and The Longest Day )
- Gary Cooper (including alluring temptation )
- Bing Crosby (including seven against Chicago )
- José Ferrer ( The Caine was her destiny )
- Mel Ferrer ( Angel of the Hunted )
- Henry Fonda (German standard voice, including play me the song of death and My name is Nobody )
- John Gielgud (in his Oscar- winning role in Arthur - No Child of Sadness )
- Alec Guinness (German standard voice, including Star Wars and Die Brücke am Kwai )
- Rex Harrison ( A World at Your Feet )
- Charlton Heston (German standard voice, including Ben Hur and The Ten Commandments )
- Trevor Howard ( The Damned Of The Islands )
- Rock Hudson ( Against All Dangers )
- Alan Ladd ( Saskachevan )
- Burt Lancaster (including the Nuremberg judgment )
- James Mason (including Prince Eisenherz )
- Laurence Olivier (German standard voice, including In the shoes of the fisherman and the clash of the titans )
- Peter O'Toole ( The Lion in Winter )
- Ronald Reagan ( Death of a Killer )
- Edward G. Robinson ( The Platinum Gang )
- Max von Sydow ( The Greatest Story of All Time )
- John Wayne ( The Devil Captain )
- Johnny Weissmüller ( Tarzan in danger )
- Orson Welles ( The Roots of Heaven ) and
- Richard Widmark (including the broken lance ).
Radio plays (selection)
- 1948: Arnaud d'Usseau / James Gow : Deep are the roots (Brett Charles) - Director: Hannes Küpper ( Berliner Rundfunk )
- 1949: Reinhold Lindemann: Charles Baudelaire ( RIAS Berlin)
- 1950: Kurt Kusenberg : The tavern for the five wishes (Antonio) - Director: Heinz von Cramer (RIAS Berlin)
- 1950: Jacques Roumain : Lord of the Dew - Director: Hanns Farenburg (Berliner Rundfunk)
- 1952: Rudolf Hagelstange : Ballad of Buried Life - Director: Willi Schmidt ( NWDR )
- 1953: William Shakespeare : Antonius und Cleopatra (Marcus Antonius) - Director: Ludwig Cremer (NWDR)
- 1954: Charles Bertin : Christoph Columbus ( title role ) - Director: Friedrich-Carl Kobbe (RIAS Berlin / BR )
- 1955: Hugo von Hofmannsthal : Everyone. The Game of Dying of the Rich Man (Jedermann) - Director: Hans Bernd Müller ( SFB )
- 1955: Georg Kaiser : Der Silbersee - Composition: Kurt Weill , arrangement (music): Boris Blacher Director: Hans Lietzau (theater recording from the Schlossparktheater Berlin - SFB)
- 1964: Robert Adolf Stemmle : Bagnosträfling 4720 (The Seznec Case) (Guillaume Seznec) - Director: Robert Adolf Stemmle ( SFB )
- 1965: Hans Prescher: The word as a weapon - (RIAS Berlin)
- 1970: Julius Tinzmann : The Piano (Dr. Otto Borkowski, doctor) - Director: Otto Kurth (SFB)
- 1975: Walter Aue : The Silence of Ezra Pound - Director: Jörg Jannings (RIAS Berlin)
- 1976: Theodor Storm : Carsten Curator (narrator) - director: Siegfried Niemann (SFB)
- 2004: Star Wars - A New Hope, Episode 4, The radio play for the movie , Universal, ISBN 978-3-89945-775-9
- 2004: The Empire Strikes Back, Episode 5, The radio play for the movie , Universal, ISBN 978-3-89945-777-3
- 2004: The Return of the Jedi Knights, Episode 6, The radio play about the movie , Universal, ISBN 978-3-89945-779-7
Awards
1976: Berlin Art Prize
Web links
- Literature by and about Ernst Wilhelm Borchert in the catalog of the German National Library
- Ernst Wilhelm Borchert in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Ernst Wilhelm Borchert in the German dubbing index
- Ernst Wilhelm Borchert Archive in the Archive of the Academy of Arts, Berlin
Individual evidence
- ↑ Redaktionsbüro Harenberg: Knaurs Prominentenlexikon 1980. The personal data of celebrities from politics, economy, culture and society . With over 400 photos. Droemer Knaur, Munich / Zurich 1979, ISBN 3-426-07604-7 , Borchert, Wilhelm, p. 52 .
- ↑ Maigret and the terrible children in the ARD radio play database
personal data | |
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SURNAME | Borchert, Ernst Wilhelm |
ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Borchert, Wilhelm |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German actor and voice actor |
DATE OF BIRTH | March 13, 1907 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Berlin - Neukölln |
DATE OF DEATH | June 1, 1990 |
Place of death | Berlin |