Joachim Gottschalk

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Memorial at his birthplace in Calau

Joachim Gottschalk (born April 10, 1904 in Calau , † November 6, 1941 in Berlin ) was a German actor.

Life

Joachim Gottschalk, son of a doctor, attended the Friedrich-Wilhelm-Gymnasium in Cottbus and went to sea for four years after graduating from high school in 1924. After he was dismissed, he took acting lessons in Cottbus and Berlin. During an engagement at the Württemberg Volksbühne in Stuttgart , he met his future wife, the actress Meta Wolff . They married on May 3, 1930 in Halberstadt, and their son Michael was born in February 1933.

Grave of the Gottschalk family in the south-west cemetery Stahnsdorf

After the National Socialists came to power , the Reichstheaterkammer (RTK) was founded on August 1, 1933 . Only its members had the right to work in a theater profession in the German Reich. The prerequisite for membership was the “ Aryan certificate ”, so that Jewish actors could not be members of the RTK.

As a result, Gottschalk's Jewish wife was banned from working as an actress , and Joachim Gottschalk was only able to continue his career by keeping his family situation secret. After an engagement in Leipzig , Gottschalk played in Frankfurt am Main from 1934 to 1938 before moving to the Volksbühne in Berlin . His theater successes made him one of the most popular actors in the capital. In 1938 he began his film career at UFA with a leading role alongside Brigitte Horney in Wolfgang Liebeneiner's You and Me . After the war began, the Ministry of Propaganda put pressure on the successful star. Hans Hinkel , special representative for “cultural personalities”, asked Joachim Gottschalk to get a divorce. Since Gottschalk refused, he was no longer cast on Berlin theaters in 1941.

When his family was about to be deported to Theresienstadt - Gottschalk's request to be deported with his family had been refused - Joachim Gottschalk saw no way out and went to their apartment in Berlin with his wife Meta and their son on November 6, 1941 -Grunewald committed suicide . Joseph Goebbels ( Reich Minister for Public Enlightenment and Propaganda ) forbade any obituary. Attending the funeral was forbidden, and the Gestapo photographed the participants. Nevertheless, some colleagues gave the last escort, among them Brigitte Horney , Gustav Knuth , Hans Brausewetter , Werner Hinz , Wolfgang Liebeneiner and Ruth Hellberg .

Aftermath

Memorial plaque for Gottschalk and his family in Berlin-Grunewald

The grave of the Gottschalk family is located in the south-west cemetery Stahnsdorf near Berlin. Since 1999 it has been used as the honor grave of the city of Berlin .

In 1947 Kurt Maetzig remembered Gottschalk's fate with his DEFA film Ehe im Schatten . The script was based on Hans Schweikart's novella It won't be that bad .

In 1957, a bust of the actor designed by the sculptor Knud Knudsen was installed in the foyer of the Schauspiel Frankfurt am Main , which disappeared in the early 1980s and was found again in 2014 in a storage room of the opera. It was handed over to the city's cultural office and placed again in the foyer of the Frankfurt theater.

A bust created by Knudsen as early as 1956 can be seen in the Berlin Volksbühne on Rosa-Luxemburg-Platz in the upper foyer.

In 1948, in Senftenberg , Wiesenstrasse was renamed Joachim-Gottschalk-Strasse to commemorate it . In Berlin-Gropiusstadt , the Joachim-Gottschalk-Weg has been named after him since 1967. The housing association degewo has put a memorial plaque for Gottschalk on the house at Joachim-Gottschalk-Weg 1 . Further memorial plaques are placed on his former houses in Berlin-Grunewald and Frankfurt-Sachsenhausen , David-Stempel-Straße.

Filmography

literature

radio play

  • Hans Schweikart: It won't be that bad - Director: Christine Nagel ( RBB - First broadcast on August 25, 2019)

Web links

Commons : Joachim Gottschalk  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ https://www.dagmarschatz.com/2015/11/05/6-november-1941-der-schauspieler-joachim-gottschalk-und-seine-j%C3%BCdische-ehefrau-begehen-selbstmord/
  2. ↑ a b http://www.fnp.de/lokales/frankfurt/Verschollene-Bueste-sucht-neue-Bleibe;art675,754085  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / www.fnp.de  
  3. ↑ Gottschalk's bust is back in FAZ on February 21, 2014, page 46
  4. ^ Commemoration of the German Clark Gable in FAZ of May 11, 2014, page 35
  5. ↑ https://www.jungewelt.de/artikel/274658.nach-jahren-des-suchens.html
  6. ↑ http://www.gruss-aus-senftenberg.de/jump2.php?t=ht_resources/middle_neues_182.php/
  7. ↑ The story describes the life and death of Meta and Joachim Gottschalk and their child. Schweikart had been friends with the couple. The film scholars Rolf Aurich and Wolfgang Jacobsen have in an epilogue p. 71ff. today's knowledge about it is presented.
  8. ↑ IT'S NOT GET SO BAD. RBB Kultur, August 25, 2019, accessed on May 19, 2020 .
personal data
SURNAME Gottschalk, Joachim
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German actor
DATE OF BIRTH April 10, 1904
PLACE OF BIRTH Calau
DATE OF DEATH November 6, 1941
Place of death Berlin