Helmut Strasbourg
Helmut Straßburger (born January 11, 1930 in Dessau , † June 19, 2010 in Berlin ) was a German director , actor and theater director .
biography
After graduating from high school in 1948, Helmut Straßburger worked as a set designer and stage technician in Dessau. The following year he became an actor at the Anhaltisches Theater in Dessau and was a member of the drama ensemble until 1957. In the same year he was called to the Staatstheater Dresden as an actor and finally to the Volksbühne Berlin in 1963 under the directorship of Benno Besson , where from 1973 he also worked for many years as a senior theater director and director . In his productions he mostly worked with the co-director and dramaturge Ernstgeorg Hering . With Rosenow's Kater Lampe , Helmut Straßburger made his well-known directing debut at the Volksbühne Berlin, his staging of Diderot 's Rameau's nephew with its 296 performances was even one of the most successful Volksbühne productions of all time, with national and international guest performances. The stage set was designed by Otto Nagel's last student who was still alive, the painter and graphic artist Günter Horn .
Quite a few of the pieces, such as Koritke in 1984 , were also adopted by GDR television . In addition, he also often played in cinema and television films. Mostly he played comedic roles, which he often created very cryptic, such as Falstaff in The Funny Wives of Windsor (1981). But leading character roles such as that of Friedrich Engels in Mohr and the Ravens of London (1969) made him famous. In 1979, Strasbourg was awarded the Goethe Prize by the City of Berlin . At the 2nd National Feature Film Festival of the GDR , he and Rolf Ludwig won the award for best supporting actor for his role in Our Short Life . For more than 20 years he taught as a lecturer at the "Ernst Busch" Academy of Dramatic Arts in Berlin ; Corinna Harfouch was one of his students . In 1992 he returned to Dessau with Der Hauptmann von Köpenick , where after the guest production he was acting director at the Anhaltisches Theater from 1992 to 2004. Most recently, the acting director of Samuel Beckett's Waiting for Godot was in his final role as Pozzo .
Strasbourg's rapidly deteriorating health prompted him to give up his theater management in 2004. After several strokes within a few years, he died on June 19, 2010 at the age of 80 in Berlin. He left behind three sons and two daughters from three long-term civil partnerships and marriages. Three of the children are also actors and work in the theater and film industries. The actresses Antje and Margrit Straßburger as well as the musician Frank Straßburger come from the thirty-year marriage with the ballet dancer Erika Straßburger . The author and filmmaker Sebastian Ugowski , who also worked as a singer and actor and who enjoyed international musical success both as a composer and as a music producer under the pseudonym "Gilmano", comes from a longstanding relationship with the theater and film actress Karin Ugowski . Another son comes from the marriage with the actress Astrid Straßburger .
Strasbourg was a member of the LDPD . In March 1977 he was elected a member of the LDPD's central executive committee at the 12th party congress of the LDPD in Weimar .
Strasbourg was buried on July 6, 2010 in the historic cemetery at Bürgerpark in Berlin-Pankow with the sympathy of well-known friends and colleagues such as Hildegard Alex , Ursula Karusseit , Hans Teuscher and Günter Junghans .
Filmography (selection)
- 1956: Thomas Müntzer - A film of German history
- 1958: Emilia Galotti
- 1963: The fairy tale of the golden archer (speaking role)
- 1968: The dispute over Sergeant Grischa (TV film)
- 1969: Moor and the Ravens of London
- 1971: The pictures of the witness Schattmann (TV film)
- 1971: Avant-garde (theater recording)
- 1972: Despite all that!
- 1972: Police call 110: The Dead in the Fliess (TV series)
- 1974: The naked man on the sports field
- 1975: Till Eulenspiegel
- 1976: the blue light
- 1976: Police call 110: Reclaimed roses (TV series)
- 1977: The lighthouse island (speaking role)
- 1977: Chess von Wuthenow (TV movie)
- 1978: The corpse has to be one
- 1978: One size too small ( HFF )
- 1980: Don Juan, Karl-Liebknecht-Strasse 78
- 1980: A certain Agathopulus (speaking role)
- 1981: The funny women of Windsor (TV film) based on The funny women of Windsor (in the role of Falstaff)
- 1981: Rameau's nephew (TV film, co-director)
- 1981: Looking over the Years (TV Movie)
- 1981: Our short life
- 1981: Wilhelm Meister's theatrical broadcast (TV film)
- 1983: One of the hustle and bustle
- 1983: Martin Luther
- 1984: Compulsory publication
- 1984: Koritke (TV movie)
- 1986: Blonde Tango
- 1986: Claire Berolina (TV movie)
- 1987: Angel Eyes (HFF)
- 1987: Rabbit Heart
- 1988: Auguste the Christmas goose (TV movie)
- 1989: The ascent of Chimborazo
- 1996: Tides of Love (TV series)
Theater (actor)
- 1962: William Shakespeare : Troilus and Cressida (Paris) - Director: Hannes Fischer ( Staatstheater Dresden )
- 1964: Robert Planchon after Alexandre Dumas the Elder : The Three Musketeers - Direction: Rudolf Vedral ( Volksbühne Berlin )
- 1964: John Boynton Priestley : The scandalous affair of Mr. Kettle and Mrs. Moon (doctor) - Director: Hans-Joachim Martens (Volksbühne Berlin - Theater on the 3rd floor)
- 1965: Peter Hacks : Moritz Tassow (Dziomba) - Director: Benno Besson (Volksbühne Berlin)
- 1966: Jean Anouilh : Jeanne or the Lark (Inquisitor) - Director: Hans-Joachim Martens (Volksbühne Berlin)
- 1967: Georg Kaiser : Side by Side - Director: Wolf-Dieter Panse (Volksbühne Berlin)
- 1967: Helmut Baierl : Mysterium Buffo - variant for Germany (editor) - director: Wolfgang Pintzka (Volksbühne Berlin)
- 1967: Friedrich Schiller : Kabale und Liebe (President von Walter) - Director: Hans-Joachim Martens (Volksbühne Berlin)
- 1968: William Shakespeare : The Merry Wives of Windsor (Falstaff) - Director: Harald Engelmann / Hans-Joachim Martens / Volkmar Neumann (Volksbühne Berlin)
- 1968: Horst Kleinadam : From Giants and People (Father) - Director: Karl Gassauer (Volksbühne Berlin)
- 1968: Boris Djacenko : But under the skirt the devil (Bogdan) - Director: Fritz Bornemann (Volksbühne Berlin)
- 1969: William Shakespeare : Troilus and Cressida (Thersites) - Director: Hannes Fischer (Volksbühne Berlin)
- 1970: Valentin Katajew : Avantgarde (Müller) - Director: Fritz Marquardt (Volksbühne Berlin)
- 1971: Carlo Gozzi : König Hirsch (Pantalone) - Director: Benno Besson / Brigitte Soubeyran (Volksbühne Berlin)
- 1972: Tirso de Molina : Don Gil from the green pants (Diener Quintana) - Director: Brigitte Soubeyran (Volksbühne Berlin)
- 1974: István Örkény : Katzenspiel (Viktor) - Director: Brigitte Soubeyran (Volksbühne Berlin)
- 1974: Christoph Hein : Schlötel or Whatever - Director: Manfred Karge / Matthias Langhoff (Volksbühne Berlin)
- 1976: Heiner Müller : Die Bauern (innkeeper) - Director: Fritz Marquardt (Volksbühne Berlin)
Theater (direction)
- 1973: Denis Diderot : Rameaus Neffe (Neffe) - Direction with Ernstgeorg Hering ( Volksbühne Berlin - Sternfoyer)
- 1975: Carlo Gozzi : The beautiful green bird - director with Ernstgeorg Hering (Volksbühne Berlin)
- 1977: Armin Stolper (after Michail Bulgakow ): Notes of a Dead (also several roles) - Direction with Ernstgeorg Hering (Volksbühne Berlin - Sternfoyer)
- 1981: Christian Dietrich Grabbe : joke, satire, irony and deeper meaning - Director: with Ernstgeorg Hering ( Theater im Palast )
- 1982: Omar Saavedra Santis : Amapola - Direction with Ernstgeorg Hering (Volksbühne Berlin)
- 1983: Heinrich von Kleist : The Broken Jug - Direction with Ernstgeorg Hering (Volksbühne Berlin)
- 1986: Aristophanes : Die Vögel - Direction with Ernstgeorg Hering (Volksbühne Berlin)
- 1987: Alfred Döblin : Berlin Alexanderplatz - Direction with Ernstgeorg Hering (Volksbühne Berlin)
Radio plays
- 1969: Emmanuel Roblès / Philippe Derrez : men's work - director: Edgar Kaufmann (radio play - radio of the GDR )
- 1969: Claude Prin : Potemkin 68 (member of the strike committee) - Director: Edgar Kaufmann (radio play - Broadcasting of the GDR)
- 1969: Fritz Selbmann : A Long Way - Director: Fritz-Ernst Fechner (radio play (8 parts) - Broadcasting of the GDR)
- 1970: Horst Liepach : The Poet and His Fables (Ludwig IX.) - Director: Christa Kowalski (Rätselörspiel (4 parts) - Broadcasting of the GDR)
- 1971: Werner Jahn : football experts (Mr. Strohbusch) - director: Joachim Gürtner (radio play series: Neumann, ring twice - radio of the GDR)
- 1974: Herbert Fischer : Autofahrt (Max) - Director: Fritz Göhler (radio play - Broadcasting of the GDR)
- 1975: Linda Teßmer : The case of Tina Bergemann (Sauter) - Director: Hannelore Solter (radio play - Broadcasting of the GDR)
- 1983: Lion Feuchtwanger : Success (Ratzenberger) - Director: Werner Grunow (radio play - Broadcasting of the GDR)
- 1984: Annelies Schulz : Schiewas Rache or The Gifts of the Gods (Brahma) - Director: Norbert Speer (children's radio play - Radio of the GDR)
- 1998: Michail Bulgakow : The Master and Margarita - Director: Petra Meyenburg (radio play (30 parts) - MDR )
literature
- Frank-Burkhard Habel , Volker Wachter : Lexicon of the GDR stars. Actors from film and television. Schwarzkopf & Schwarzkopf, Berlin 1999, ISBN 3-89602-304-7 , pp. 371-372.
Web links
- Helmut Straßburger in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Death report ( memento from June 26, 2010 in the Internet Archive )
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b The Long Night of the Live Radio Play. Press release from May 16, 2012 on Lockbuch ( Memento from May 17, 2012 in the Internet Archive )
- ^ Günter Horn
- ↑ Page no longer available , search in web archives:
- ^ From the 12th Congress of the Liberal Democratic Party of Germany . In: Der Morgen , March 5, 1977, p. 4.
personal data | |
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SURNAME | Strasbourg, Helmut |
ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Strassburger, Helmut |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German director, actor and theater director |
DATE OF BIRTH | January 11, 1930 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Dessau |
DATE OF DEATH | June 19, 2010 |
Place of death | Berlin |