Ferdi Schunck

Ferdi Schunck , (actually Franz Ferdinand Schunck , born December 17, 1928 in Menden (Sauerland) ; † May 29, 2005 ibid), was a German lawyer and notary and holder of the Federal Cross of Merit .

Schunck was born as the fourth of five children of Karl Ferdinand and Helene Schunck, née. Hofmann born. In 1961 he married Irene Theresia Albacht with whom he has five children, including the cabaret artist Christoph Schunck .

His commitment was to sport and town twinning. His great passions were literature and theater. Together with Menden's mayor, Volker Fleige , he built the Mendener Schaubühne , the reading stage , which he was responsible for, and the Statt Theater . Theater performances in unusual locations were characteristic of the Schaubühne in the 1980s and 1990s. Examples were the class enemy of Nigel Williams in a factory ruin or Der Kirschgarten by Anton Chekhov in a palm greenhouse with Ferdi Schunck in the role of the landowner's brother.

In 1998, in the garages, workshops and warehouses of the Menden Construction Office, “Everything was Brecht ” was performed, a theater project that Ferdi Schunck and Volker Fleige jointly developed. This production marked the birth of the Am Ziegelbrand Theater , which opened on August 28, 1999, the 250th birthday of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe , with a production of Faust I directed by Volker Fleiges with Ferdi Schunck in the title role of old Faust.

In October 2003 Schunck received the Federal Cross of Merit on ribbon for his great services to the city of Menden. He died on May 29, 2005 of complications from a stroke .

The irony of fate was Schunck's last role in the Am Ziegelbrand Theater. In Chekhov's " Schwanengesang " he played the old actor Svetlovidov, to whom it becomes clear that his life is coming to an end.