Ezard Haussmann

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Ezard Haussmann, third from the left

Ezard Haußmann (born February 10, 1935 in Berlin ; † November 6, 2010 there ) was a German actor .

Life

Grave of Ezard Haußmann in the Evangelical Cemetery Berlin-Friedrichshagen
Inscription on the tomb

Ezard Haussmann's father was UFA actor Erich Haussmann . His mother was the singer, concert soprano and painter Ruth Wenger (1897–1994), daughter of the Swiss writer Lisa Wenger, and from 1924 to 1927 married Hermann Hesse , who called herself Claudia as an artist . Haußmann was raised in a Swiss boarding school with the support of Hermann Hesse since his parents were arrested in France during World War II . Then he began an apprenticeship at the hotel management school in Munich, which did not match his inclinations. Instead took Haußmann the activities at the Landestheater Detmold , where he worked as a prompter, lighting or Statist and began acting self-taught to master. In 1956, his parents moved with him to the GDR . In 1958 Ezard Haußmann was able to do his acting diploma at the Ernst Busch drama school in Berlin .

He initially stood on provincial stages such as Wittenberg , Quedlinburg or Stendal . In 1960 he returned to Berlin and worked at the Deutsches Theater until 1967 . In 1967 he moved to Berlin Volksbühne , where he the Harpagon in, among others, in 265 performances miser of Molière embodied. The Volksbühne was his artistic home for 23 years. His theater career in the GDR was interrupted when Haußmann carried a wreath to the Czech embassy in protest in 1968 after the crackdown on the Prague Spring .

Ezard Haußmann has not only appeared on numerous theater stages (including Burgtheater Vienna, Schauspielhaus Bochum , Schillertheater Berlin, guest in Basel) and successfully played touring theater (e.g. since 2001 "Henrik" in the production of Die Glut by Heribert Sasse based on the book by Sándor Márai , or in 2005 in the South Bavarian Theater Festival the "Alfred Ill" in Friedrich Dürrenmatt's The Visit of the Old Lady , staged by Uwe Niesig ) and the Jedermann at the Berliner Jedermann Festival (1991 to 1993), but also has over 150 Participated in television films (1983 the "Reichsgraf von Brühl" in Saxony's Glory and Prussia's Gloria , 1990 "Carsten Wolf" in the series Adventure Airport and many others). As a voice actor he lent a. a. Bernard Blier (Large Families) and Klaus Kinski in the DEFA version of Kugel do not have his voice signed. He was also successful with readings on texts by Hermann Hesse , Johannes Bobrowski and other writers as well as with poetry evenings on piano music with the Japanese piano virtuoso Fumiko Shiraga, who lives in Germany .

In 2003 he and a few colleagues tried to keep the Berlin Schlosspark Theater as a traditional venue for bourgeois theater and wanted to make himself available as artistic director. This attempt failed due to the external conditions. He is the bearer of the Order of Merit of the State of Berlin (returned, but received again in 1993 by the then Governing Mayor Eberhard Diepgen ) and has been awarded other prizes, including in 1991 the " Golden Curtain " and the "Assignment of Respect" from the Christian Association Publicists.

Haussmann was married to Doris Haussmann and is the father of the director Leander Haussmann .

He died on November 6, 2010 after suffering from cancer for a long time and was buried in the Protestant cemetery in Berlin-Friedrichshagen .

Theater productions

  • 1982–1991: The Miser by Jean Baptiste Molière - as a Harpagon
  • 1991–1993: Everyone from Hugo von Hofmannsthal - as everyone
  • 1993: Don Carlos by Friedrich Schiller - as King Philipp
  • 1994–1995: The Fatherless - as Platonov
  • 1996–1997: The Robbery of the Sabine Women
  • 1998–2000: One long day's journey into the night
  • 2000: John Gabriel Borkmann by Henrik Ibsen - as Borkmann
  • 2001: Jean Baptiste Molière's imaginary patient - as Argan
  • 2001–2002: The Embers by Knut Boeser after Sandor Marai - as Henrik
  • 2003: Dolores based on Stephen King - directed
  • 2003–2004: The Storm by Wiliam Shakespeare - as Prospero
  • 2005: The visit of the old lady by Friedrich Dürrenmatt - as Alfred III
  • 2006: Maria Stuart by Friedrich v. Schiller - as Grand Treasurer Burleigh
  • 2007: Everyone from Hugo von Hofmannsthal - as a devil

Filmography (selection)

Radio plays

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Actor Ezard Haussmann dies of cancer , Focus , November 7, 2010. Retrieved November 7, 2010
personal data
SURNAME Haussmann, Ezard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German actor and the father of the director Leander Haussmann
DATE OF BIRTH February 10, 1935
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH November 6, 2010
Place of death Berlin