Herbert Grünbaum

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Urn niche by Herbert Grünbaum in the columbarium of the Schöneberg III cemetery .

Herbert Grünbaum (Tuvia Grinbaum, born August 27, 1902 in Berlin ; died September 23, 1981 in West Berlin ) was a German actor .

Life

Herbert Grünbaum was a son of the chemist and inventor Albert Grünbaum and Frieda Hendel, the father died in the 1930s, the mother was a victim of the Holocaust . For Herbert Grünbaum it was already clear when he graduated from high school that he would become an actor. At this point in time he already had an engagement for the Munich Kammerspiele with Otto Falckenberg . Here he was on stage with Elisabeth Bergner from 1920 to 1921 . He then came via Halle (1920–1921), where he already played leading roles, from 1925 to 1928 to Erich Ziegel , who was responsible for the Hamburger Kammerspiele and the Deutsche Schauspielhaus Hamburg at that time. From Hamburg his path took him via Berlin to Zurich to the Schauspielhaus . Here he heard the news of the Reichstag fire on the radio at the end of February 1933. Since the Swiss authorities did not want to extend his residence permit, he had to return to Germany in 1934 and played in Berlin under the direction of Fritz Wisten at the Jewish Theater .

In 1939 he went to Palestine via the Netherlands , worked there with amateur actors for several years and then in 1944 was one of the founders of the country's leading theater, the “Theatron Kameri” in Tel Aviv . During one of his trips to Europe in 1953, he met again in Berlin with the artistic director of the Volksbühne, Fritz Wisten, whom he already knew from the Jewish theater on Berlin's Kommandantenstrasse. It was here that Grünbaum realized that as a native German he could only find really satisfactory opportunities to work in Germany, and so he finally returned to Berlin in 1954. Like many of his colleagues, he lived in West Berlin , but worked in East Berlin . After the construction of the Berlin Wall , he moved his sphere of activity to West Berlin. Here he was also appointed state actor.

His urn grave is in the Schöneberg III cemetery .

Filmography

theatre

actor

Director

Radio plays

Synchronized work

Movie year role actor
Frankenstein's revenge 1958 Chairman Charles Lloyd Pack
Flintstones (TV series) 1960-1966 Mr. Slate John Stephenson
The Colossus of Rhodes 1961 Karete Félix Fernández
Summer and smoke 1961 Thomas Jester Hairston
Freud 1962 Jacob David Kossoff
The rule of the game 1939 cook Léon Larive
Who disturbs the nightingale 1962 Judge Taylor Paul Fix
Sherlock Holmes' greatest case 1965 Duke of Shires Barry Jones
The karate killers 1967 Szami Kyushu Philip Ahn
Django - a coffin full of blood 1968 Smitty Fred Coplan
The letter to the Kremlin 1970 Technical Manager Niall MacGinnis
The adventures of Rabbi Jakob 1973 Rabbi Jacob Marcel Dalio
Death bridge meeting point 1976 Herman Kaplan Lee Strasberg

literature

  • Grünbaum, Herbert , in: Joseph Walk (ed.): Short biographies on the history of the Jews 1918–1945 . Munich: Saur, 1988, ISBN 3-598-10477-4 , p. 127
  • Grünbaum, Herbert , in: Werner Röder; Herbert A. Strauss (Ed.): International Biographical Dictionary of Central European Emigrés 1933-1945 . Volume 2.1. Munich: Saur, 1983 ISBN 3-598-10089-2 , p. 427

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Berliner Zeitung of February 23, 1958, p. 3
personal data
SURNAME Grünbaum, Herbert
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Tuvia Grinbaum
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German actor
DATE OF BIRTH August 27, 1902
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH September 23, 1981
Place of death Berlin