Imo Moszkowicz

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Imo Moszkowicz (born July 27, 1925 in Ahlen , Münsterland ; † January 11, 2011 in Munich ) was a German actor , director and writer .

Life

Stumbling blocks for members of the Moszkowicz family (Klosterstrasse in Ahlen)

Imo Moszkowicz was born in Ahlen as the son of a Russian-Jewish shoemaker who stayed as a prisoner of war in the Münsterland during the First World War. He had six siblings. He received his education at the Jewish school in Ahlen. The father emigrated to Argentina. He was no longer able to bring his family to join him. After the November pogroms in 1938 , the family was expelled from Ahlen and had to move to Essen . His mother, the two sisters, his twin brother and his eldest brother were deported to Izbica on April 21, 1942 . His brother David was deported to Auschwitz in October 1942 because of an unauthorized visit to the cinema and shot there on the ramp. Imo and his brother Hermann were from Dortmund to on 1 March 1943 Auschwitz deported . On the ramp he lost sight of his brother. Imo was deported to the Monowitz concentration camp for forced labor for the Buna works . On January 17, 1945 he marched along on the death march until he was liberated by the Red Army in May 1945 near Liberec (Reichenberg) . He returned to his hometown of Ahlen.

He got his first engagement at the Junge Bühne in Warendorf, the Westphalian Theater in Gütersloh was the next station. After graduating from drama school, Imo Moszkowicz became assistant director to Gustaf Gründgens at the Düsseldorfer Schauspielhaus and Fritz Kortner at the Berlin Schillertheater . He worked as a director and actor in Santiago de Chile at the local Kammerspiele, later at the Habimah in Tel Aviv and - with over 100 productions - at almost all major stages in German-speaking countries, among others. a. at the Zurich Opera House , at the Gärtnerplatz Theater in Munich , at the Frankfurt Opera and at the Graz Opera House. He was also director of the Feuchtwangen cloister games . He has also directed over 200 television films and series. As a visiting professor he taught at the Max Reinhardt Seminar Vienna, at the Mozarteum Salzburg and at the University of Music and Performing Arts Graz .

Imo Moszkowicz was married and had two children. His wife Renate was the daughter of the Styrian NSDAP politician and district captain Armin Dadieu . His son Martin Moszkowicz works as a film producer, his daughter Daniela Dadieu-Ebenbauer lives as a freelance actress and mediator in Vienna and Munich and has two children.

Awards

Filmography as a director (selection)

Books

  • The graying morning. Boer, Munich 1996, ISBN 3-924963-77-0 ; Paperback edition: Droemer Knaur (Knaur-Taschenbuch 6071), Munich 1998, ISBN 3-426-60761-1 ; New edition with a foreword by HW Gummersbach and D. Aschoff (= History and Life of the Jews in Westphalia 6), Lit, Münster 2004, ISBN 3-8258-6754-4 ; Memories. 4th, revised. and exp. New edition, ed. by Iris Nölle-Hornkamp (= publications from the project Jewish writers from Westphalia ), Mentis, Paderborn 2008, ISBN 978-3-89785-430-7 .
  • Magic flute magic. Reflections of a Director , ed. by Iris Nölle-Hornkamp. Mentis, Paderborn 2005, ISBN 3-89785-425-2 ; 2nd edition ibid. 2006, ISBN 3-89785-426-0 .
  • Closing flap. A record of hope and despair. mentis, Paderborn 2007, ISBN 978-3-89785-427-7 .

Sound carrier

  • "I always live in this disproportion ..." . Insights into the life and work of the director and author Imo Moszkowicz. Idea and conception: Iris Nölle-Hornkamp. Design of the reading: Imo Moszkowicz. (Sound evidence on Westphalian literature. 6.) Landschaftsverband Westfalen-Lippe, Münster 2006, ISBN 3-923432-50-X .
  • Pearls of German poetry Schiller / Goethe literary sound hikes <faszination listening>, ISBN 3-939420-06-9 .
  • Over wobbly bridges - memories of Ahlen. Written and read by Imo Moszkowicz, Musical Accents by Marius Ungureanu. Edited by Iris Nölle-Hornkamp. Mentis, Paderborn 2007, ISBN 978-3-89785-428-4 .
  • Heinrich Heine , read by Daniela Dadieu and IM <fascinating hear>, ISBN 978-3939420-10-1 .
  • By Jewish poets and thinkers. Mentis, Paderborn 2007, ISBN 978-3-89785-429-1 .

literature

  • Moszkowicz, Imo , in: Frithjof Trapp , Bärbel Schrader, Dieter Wenk, Ingrid Maaß: Handbook of the German-Language Exile Theater 1933 - 1945. Volume 2. Biographical Lexicon of Theater Artists . Munich: Saur, 1999, ISBN 3-598-11375-7 , p. 684

DVD

  • Life without hate , documentary about Imo Moszkowicz, 55 minutes, Tacker Film , 2008

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ http://www.nq-online.de/index.php?NQID=04f72477c4f96c56bb3424e821530fcd&kat=119&artikel=109652699&red=1&ausgabe=54802
  2. ↑ [1]
personal data
SURNAME Moszkowicz, Imo
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German director, writer and actor
DATE OF BIRTH July 27, 1925
PLACE OF BIRTH Awls
DATE OF DEATH January 11, 2011
Place of death Munich