Horst Mendelsohn

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Horst Mendelsohn (born February 8, 1930 in Berlin ; † February 12, 2013 in Radebeul ) was a German film and theater actor .

Live and act

Mendelsohn began his time in Radebeul in 1960 at the Landesbühnen Sachsen with the portrayal of Raimond in Schiller's Jungfrau von Orleans , and in 1963 at the latest with Mephisto in Goethe's Urfaust he had won over the audience. Over the years countless roles have been added, including Peachum in Brecht's Threepenny Opera , Oberon in Shakespeare's Midsummer Night 's Dream , Napoleon in War and Peace and class teacher Crey in the Feuerzangenbowle .

Mendelsohn was also active on the Rathen rock stage , which is used by the state theaters . When, in the course of the Karl May renaissance in the GDR in 1984, the piece Der Schatz im Silbersee , an adventure piece adapted by Helmut Menschel based on Karl May , premiered in Rathen , Mendelsohn gave the Gray Eagle. In the Old Surehand , which premiered in Rathen in 1995, Mendelsohn was the narrator. The DEFA film Kurier der Schwarzen Jäger from 1970, in which Mendelsohn played Capitane Bellemonte, was based on a historically documented incident from the time of the Wars of Liberation in 1812/1813, which was successfully performed as a stage play in Rathen for several years. The film was also shot with the ensemble of the State Theaters of Saxony.

During the turn of 1989/1990 , Mendelsohn, together with the later artistic director Christian Schmidt and the then conductor Matthias Liebich, was ready to take on responsibility for running the theater in order to bring it through the difficult times.

He gave his farewell performance in 2000 when, after more than four decades of work as an actor, he played the role of 70 in the premiere of Michael Frayn's comedy Der nackte Wahnsinn (in the original: Noises Off from 1982) two days before his 70th birthday -year-old actor.

The actor, who lives in Radebeul, was honored in 2000 on the occasion of his 70th birthday with the award of the art prize of the major district town of Radebeul for “always putting all his strength and personality into the service of the theater” .

Mendelsohn was married to the actress Hannelore Mendelsohn and had two children. He was the nephew of the German doctor and Royal Prussian Guard officer Julius Schoeps .

Filmography (selection)

  • 1956: Young vegetables
  • 1965: The robber's tale
  • 1970: Courier of the Black Hunters
  • 1970: Customs investigation, part 7: The will

literature

  • Wolfgang Zimmermann: An actor with a soft tone. Horst Mendelsohn celebrated his 80th birthday. In: Preview & Review; Monthly magazine for Radebeul and the surrounding area. Radebeuler Monatshefte eV, March 2010, accessed on August 10, 2012 .
  • Wolfgang Zimmermann: “A rather quiet mime!” In: Preview & Review; Monthly magazine for Radebeul and the surrounding area. Radebeuler Monatshefte eV, April 2013, accessed on April 1, 2013 (with a photo of the actor).

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Rathen rock stage
  2. ↑ Old Surehand (Rathen 1995)
  3. ↑ a b Courier of the Black Hunters (1970)
  4. ↑ Wolfgang Zimmermann: An actor of soft tones. Horst Mendelsohn celebrated his 80th birthday. In: Preview & Review; Monthly magazine for Radebeul and the surrounding area. Radebeuler Monatshefte eV, March 2010, accessed on August 10, 2012 .
  5. ↑ The Robber's Tale, Das (1965)
  6. ↑ Customs investigation (7) - The Testament (1970)
personal data
SURNAME Mendelsohn, Horst
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German theater actor
DATE OF BIRTH February 8, 1930
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH February 12, 2013
Place of death Radebeul