Ivo Veit

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Ivo Veit (born January 18, 1910 in Höchst am Main , † March 19, 1984 in Berlin ) was a German actor , cabaret artist and radio director .

The early years

Veit had visited in Frankfurt from 1930 to 1932 drama school and even during this time in 1931 his debut in the Goethe -Stück Götz von Berlichingen given. In 1932 he took up his first permanent engagement at the Römerberg Festival. This was followed at short intervals obligations to the Municipal Theater of Rostock and at the Schauspielhaus in Frankfurt.

time of the nationalsocialism

Shortly after the National Socialist seizure of power , Veit Werner Finck's cabaret The Catacombs joined. Soon the entire ensemble of this cabaret was standing, one of the last artistic institutions in the Reich that had not yet unconditionally submitted to the will and control of the new rulers and where, much to the displeasure of the Propaganda Ministry , jokes were still being driven at the expense of the Nazi regime , in the focus of keen observation by the secret state police .

“The skits 'Fragment from the Tailor' and 'Fragment from the Dentist' listed there should bring the barrel to overflowing. A Gestapo dossier of May 6, 1935 stated: “The performances are consistently at a very low level and are almost exclusively politically influenced. They represent pretty much the worst thing about political well poisoning, as it can still be possible in the new state. With every political attack, however hidden it may be, the peculiarly composed audience rages in applause. It is just waiting for the political cue, which is often only a cynical hint. The pacifist influence in the performances, in which everything military is made contemptible, seems particularly dangerous. Nothing has changed in this type of cabaret from before. The people who are mainly embarrassing and inflammatory are Werner Finck, Heinrich Giesen and Ivo Veit "."

- Quoted from Kay Less 2008

As a result, 'The Catacomb' was closed immediately. Veit, who played the tailor in 'Fragment vom Schneider' while Finck gave the customers, was lucky: unlike his colleagues Finck, Giesen, Walter Lieck , Ekkehard Arendt , Günther Lüders and the draftsman and caricaturist Walter Trautschold, older brother of Actress Ilse Trautschold , who was arrested and taken to the Esterwegen concentration camp in Emsland for six weeks on instructions from Goebbels in May 1935 , remained unscathed by Veit despite the massive allegations. From 1937 he was able to find a job at the television station Berlin and was only drafted in 1941. During this time he also made a brief appearance in the anti-Soviet Nazi propaganda film GPU by partisan Karl Ritter . In retrospect , in view of his highly ambivalent behavior at the time of the Hitler dictatorship, he did not see himself as a militant Nazi despiser. After the end of the war, his justification for his involvement with the 'catacomb' was as follows: "The staff at the catacomb were not just any resistance fighters or something like that. We were a collection of people who did not want to participate."

Post-war work for the Berlin radio

After his release from captivity in 1946, Veit returned to radio in the destroyed capital of the Reich, two years later he was signed up by the RIAS . There he worked mainly as a director. The series Mach mit , his first major RIAS production (until 1954), and from 1950 to 1952 the Buchholz family , Berlin stories freely based on Julius Stinde, became known . 1957–1964 he directed the popular family series Pension Spreewitz - Little Stories in Big Berlin . 1964–1979 he concentrated on the radio play series Back then it was - Stories from old Berlin .

Filmography

Radio plays

The ARD radio play archive online lists the following radio play productions by RIAS, which Ivo Veit directed.

  • 1949: Curth Flatow : Almost peacefully
  • 1950–1952: Buchholz family
  • 1957: For two marks fifty luck
  • 1957–1964: Pension Spreewitz
  • 1958: Genoveva - or the good spirit of the house
  • 1964–1978: Various authors: Back then it was - stories from old Berlin (in stories no. 1 - no. 30 with 348 episodes he directed - from a total of 40 stories in 426 episodes)

He was a speaker for the productions listed below.

literature

  • Herbert A. Frenzel , Hans Joachim Moser (ed.): Kürschner's biographical theater manual. Drama, opera, film, radio. Germany, Austria, Switzerland. De Gruyter, Berlin 1956, DNB 010075518 , p. 765 f.
  • Johann Caspar Glenzdorf: Glenzdorf's international film lexicon. Biographical manual for the entire film industry. Volume 3: Peit – Zz. Prominent-Filmverlag, Bad Münder 1961, DNB 451560752 , p. 1784.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ cit. according to Kay Less : Between Stage and Barracks , Berlin 2008, p. 18.
  2. ↑ like 1
  3. ↑ Archive link ( Memento of the original from March 29, 2005 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.dradio.de
  4. ^ "Buchholz family" ** Berlin stories, freely based on Julius Stinde. Retrieved June 28, 2020 .
  5. ^ "Pension Spreewitz ** Small stories in big Berlin" (Produced by RIAS Berlin 150 episodes ** 23 to 29 minutes each). Retrieved June 28, 2020 .
  6. ↑ http://www.damals-wars-geschichten.de/
  7. ↑ Search result in 'Director' for: »Veit, Ivo« ( Memento of the original from August 19, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.ard.de
personal data
SURNAME Veit, Ivo
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German actor, cabaret artist and director
DATE OF BIRTH January 18, 1910
PLACE OF BIRTH High on the Main
DATE OF DEATH March 19, 1984
Place of death Berlin