Gerd Imbsweiler

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Gerd Imbsweiler (born February 19, 1941 in Offenbach am Main ; † January 12, 2013 in Basel ) was a German actor , theater director and author . He lived in Basel.

Life

Imbsweiler attended elementary school and grammar school in Offenbach, followed by a three-year training as a banker . From 1963 he lived in Zurich . From 1964 to 1966 he completed his acting training at the Zurich Acting Academy , graduating in the summer of 1966. He then took on various small roles at the Schauspielhaus Zurich . In 1967 a three-month tour followed with the Williams play The Cat on the Hot Tin Roof with Sonja Ziemann , Walter Richter , Peter Arens , Elisabeth Lennartz and others, directed by Werner Düggelin .

From the summer of 1968 he was engaged as an actor at the Basel theaters under the direction of Werner Düggelin . In 1974 he and his wife Ruth Oswalt co-founded the Spilkischte Theater , the first year-round professional theater for children in Switzerland. There he worked as an actor, director, author and co-director since 1975. He toured regularly with the theater at home and abroad and gave guest appearances at important festivals. In 1987 he and his wife Ruth Oswalt, directed by Beat Fäh, attracted attention with their version of The Chairs by Eugène Ionesco , with which they also addressed a young audience. This was followed by an intensive collaboration with Beat Fäh and Antonia Brix. With her he developed his first theater solo From the Earlier in 1998 . In 1999, the Spilkischte theater was renamed Vorstadttheater Basel . After 33 years Imbsweiler and Oswalt retired from the suburban theater in 2007 and handed artistic responsibility over to a younger theater couple.

In 2012 Imbsweiler was diagnosed with ALS . The illness forced him to say goodbye to the theater. He died on January 12, 2013 at the age of 71 as a result of the disease.

Awards

  • 1987 Art Prize of the City of Basel.
  • In 1999, together with his wife Ruth Oswalt, he was awarded the Hans Reinhart Ring , the highest theater award in Switzerland
  • 1999 also with his wife and partner prize of the international ASSITEJ, the umbrella organization of theaters for a young audience.

Works

In 1985 Gerd Imbsweiler founded Imbos-Verlag, a small publishing house in which he also published his own works (plays, short stories and poetry).

  • 1986 Sartolo the puppeteer (general cargo publishing house)
  • 1986 EselsSchatten (Imbosverlag)
  • 1986 positive hits with Fritz Hauser, drums MC (Imbosverlag)
  • 1987 Fink or Friday the 13th (general cargo publishing house)
  • 1989 Of pearls and sows (Rowohlt)
  • 1991 Hexenfieber (little Hänschen) co-author (Stückgut Verlag)
  • 1995 positive hits, short stories (Imbosverlag)
  • 1998 From the past, memories (Imbosverlag)
  • 1999 Knigges Erben, co-author (theater play publisher)
  • 2002 Good question - next question, co-author (Theaterstück-Verlag)
  • 2004 Tortoise Dreams, text for a picture book (Bajazzo-Verlag)
  • 2004 TRIO IKS with Kappeler + Studer (Imbosverlag)
  • 2005 You flower, stories to pictures (Imbosverlag)
  • 2009 ZISCH - photographs and texts (Imbos Basel)

Various publications of short stories in newspapers, magazines

Inclusion of poems in anthologies.

Various short stories in various publications as examples.

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ SRF : Basel loses theater man Gerd Imbsweiler , SRF News, January 14, 2013
personal data
SURNAME Imbsweiler, Gerd
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German actor, director and author
DATE OF BIRTH February 19, 1941
PLACE OF BIRTH Offenbach am Main , German Empire
DATE OF DEATH January 12, 2013
Place of death Basel , Switzerland