Joseph Offenbach

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Joseph Offenbach (born December 28, 1904 in Offenbach am Main , † October 15, 1971 in Darmstadt ; actually Joseph Ziegler ) was a German actor and radio play speaker . He owed his stage name to an engagement in 1931 at the Nationaltheater Mannheim ; the director did not want to tolerate a fourth Ziegler in the ensemble , since three actors had already borne this name.

biography

As a trained saddler , Offenbach (then still Ziegler) was initially an amateur actor and received his first stage engagement in Zwickau in 1927 ; then he played in Heidelberg , Mannheim and at the Munich State Theater . During the Second World War, he had supporting roles in some rather trivial films.

After the war he was first on the road with a touring stage , which Fritz Rémond also belonged to. From 1946 he worked at the Deutsches Schauspielhaus in Hamburg (long under Gustaf Gründgens ). In the 1950s he gained greater fame as a film actor , including in Des Teufels General (1955) and Der Hauptmann von Köpenick (1956). In the 1960s he became one of the most popular television actors in Germany as Father Scholz in the television series The Despicable One (with Inge Meysel , 1965–1971) and as artist agent Jacobsen in Salto Mortale (with Gustav Knuth , 1969–1972).

Offenbach was also active as a radio play director. In 1964 he produced the radio play Der Schut based on the novel of the same name by Karl May , in which he himself played the role of Hajji Halef Omar , alongside the young Charles Brauer in the role of Kara Ben Nemsi . As early as 1962 he had spoken the role of the pirate Long John Silver in the radio play Treasure Island . In addition, he was still on stage, including at the Städtische Bühnen in Frankfurt am Main . One of his star roles was Datterich in the dialect of the same name by Ernst Elias Niebergall , with which he first appeared in the Frankfurt theater . This production was recorded by Hessischer Rundfunk in 1963 .

Joseph Offenbach made his last live appearance on German television just 13 days before his death on October 2, 1971 in Bremen. At that time he appeared in the role of a shepherd with the song I'm not going back to Gelsenkirchen in the 21st episode of the Rudi Carrell Show broadcast by ARD .

Joseph Offenbach died on October 15, 1971 at the age of 66 as a result of a heart attack and was buried in the old cemetery in Darmstadt's Bessungen district (grave site: IH 58).

As a voice actor, he lent his voice to Kenneth Connor ( Carry on Sergeant ), Cyril Cusack ( A Bride in Every Street ), David Kossoff (Svengali ) and HB Warner ( Isn't life beautiful? ).

Filmography (selection)

Radio plays (selection)

  • 1947: Traugottchen and Tanzbein (The Inseparable) (after Maxim Gorki ) - Director: Hans Quest
  • 1947: If we want continuation of the radio play "What would be if ..." by Axel Eggebrecht - Director: Ludwig Cremer
  • 1947: Elga (based on Gerhart Hauptmann ) - Director: Hans Quest
  • 1947: Mariechen von Nijmwegen - Director: Theodor Haerten
  • 1947: Der Friede - Director: Hans Deppe
  • 1947: Der Kreidekreis (after Klabund ) - Director: Hans Quest
  • 1947: It can't go on like this - Director: Gottfried Lange
  • 1947: Galileo Galilei (after Bertolt Brecht ) - Director: Ludwig Cremer
  • 1947: The year 1948 does not take place (by Axel Eggebrecht) - Director: Erik Ode
  • 1948: The Bridge of San Luis Rey (after Thornton Wilder ) - Directed by Gustav Burmester
  • 1948: The Carpenter - Director: Erik Ode
  • 1948: Oedipus - Director: Ludwig Cremer
  • 1948: Reineke Fuchs (after Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ) - Director: Ludwig Cremer
  • 1948: Who sows the wind - Director: Erik Ode
  • 1948: Antonius and Cleopatra (based on William Shakespeare ) - Director: Fritz Wendhausen
  • 1948: Leonce and Lena - director. Hans Quest
  • 1948: Bigamy - Directed by Gustav Burmester
  • 1949: Back to Methuselah (based on George Bernard Shaw ) - Director: Günter Rennert
  • 1949: Goethe tells his life ; Part 9: Werther - title role and director: Mathias Wieman
  • 1949: Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde - Director: Gustav Burmester
  • 1949: Whom the hour strikes - Director: Karlheinz Schilling
  • 1949: The Silver Eyes - Director: Gustav Burmester
  • 1949: To Damascus (after August Strindberg ) - Director: Ulrich Erfurth
  • 1949: The Obergrund Christmas Game - Director: Fritz Schröder-Jahn
  • 1950: The Miraculous Beggars - Director: Gustav Burmester
  • 1950: General Frédéric - Director: Kurt Reiss
  • 1950: De Schapschur - Director: Hans Freundt
  • 1950: Gods, Graves and Scholars (4 parts) - Director: Gustav Burmester
  • 1950: The Desolate Virtue - Director: Kurt Reiss
  • 1950: The Clerk in Heaven - Director: Heinrich Ockel
  • 1951: Murder Melody - Director: Otto Kurth
  • 1951: The lady is not for the fire - Director: Heinrich Koch
  • 1951: The Obergrunder Paradiesspiel - Director: Detlof Krüger
  • 1951: Die Glücksritter or Fortuna here to me (based on Joseph von Eichendorff ) - Director: Gustav Burmester
  • 1951: The devil rides on the express train - Director: Fritz Schröder-Jahn
  • 1951: The Life of the Waltz King - Director: Kurt Meister
  • 1951: The door of the Sire de Maletroit (after Robert Louis Stevenson ) - Director: Hans Rosenhauer
  • 1951: Merlette - Director: Kurt Reiss
  • 1951: Strange interrogation - Director: Fritz Schröder-Jahn
  • 1951: Emilia Galotti (based on Gotthold Ephraim Lessing ) - Director: Otto Kurth
  • 1951: History of Gottfriedens von Berlichingen with the Iron Hand (after Johann Wolfgang von Goethe) - Director: Hans Lietzau
  • 1951: Amerigo was silent - Director: Fritz Schröder-Jahn
  • 1952: Pole Poppenspäler (after Theodor Storm ) - Director: Werner Perrey
  • 1952: Der Seelengreifer - Director: Hans Rosenhauer
  • 1952: Carousel for sale (by Herbert Reinecker ) - Director: Helmut Käutner
  • 1952: Gerlach presents the bill (by Herbert Reinecker) - Director: Curt Goetz-Pflug
  • 1952: It won't come back! - Director: Hans Freundt
  • 1952: My niece Susanne - Director: Carl-Heinz Schroth
  • 1952: The big clockwork - Director: Fritz Schröder-Jahn
  • 1952: John Every or How Much is Man Worth? - Director: Kurt Reiss
  • 1952: The tax return (by Josef Martin Bauer ) - Director: Gustav Burmester
  • 1953: Encounter in the Balkan Express - Director: Gert Westphal
  • 1953: The Esperanza Ship (by Fred von Hoerschelmann ) - Director: Otto Kurth
  • 1953: The Bride Show (based on Nikolai Wassiljewitsch Gogol ) - Director: Jöns Andersson
  • 1953: The court withdraws to deliberate ; Episode: The rifle on the cupboard - Director: Gerd Fricke
  • 1953: Sunday school for negro children (The Green Pastures) - Director: Fritz Schröder-Jahn
  • 1953: The court withdraws to deliberate; Episode: Child Abduction - Director: Gerd Fricke
  • 1953: The grass harp (based on Truman Capote ) - director: Fritz Schröder-Jahn
  • 1954: The search for the emperor of the world. Five audio scenes - Director: Detlof Krüger
  • 1954: My wife lives next door - Director: Erik Ode
  • 1954: The year Lazertis (by Günter Eich ) - Director: Fritz Schröder-Jahn
  • 1954: Beautiful Helen's Stepsons - Director: Irmfried Wilimzig
  • 1954: Rip van Winkle (by Max Frisch ) - Director: Gert Westphal
  • 1954: The White Man's Burden - Director: Hans Rosenhauer
  • 1954: The Protocol of Pilatus (by Otto Heinrich Kühner ) - Director: Walter Knaus
  • 1954: The court withdraws to deliberate; Result: Men loyal to poste restante - Director: Gerd Fricke
  • 1954: An Angel Comes to Babylon - Director: Raoul Wolfgang Schnell
  • 1954: Partisans - Director: Hans Lietzau
  • 1954: Hercules and the Augean Stable (by Friedrich Dürrenmatt ) - Director: Gert Westphal
  • 1955: The Friend of Mr. Lowden - Director: Gert Westphal
  • 1955: Marcos Millions (based on Eugene O'Neill ) - Director: Ludwig Cremer
  • 1955: Three ladies in a closet - author and director: Kurt Reiss
  • 1955: The State Secretary and his hobbyhorse - Director: Mathias Neumann
  • 1955: Atoms for Millions (by Werner Baecker ) - Director: Edward Rothe
  • 1955: Facades - Director: Gustav Burmester
  • 1955: Advent 200 km east of Kiev (by Harald Vock ) - Director: Gerlach Fiedler
  • 1956: Die Panne (by Friedrich Dürrenmatt) - Director: Gustav Burmester
  • 1956: The Scooter - Director: Gustav Burmester
  • 1956: On the banks of the Plotinitza - Director: Fritz Schröder-Jahn
  • 1956: Melusine - Director: Ludwig Cremer
  • 1956: Piazza San Gaetano or Miracles and Reality - Director: Fritz Schröder-Jahn
  • 1956: In a garden in Aviano - Director: Gert Westphal
  • 1957: Egmont (after Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ) - Director: Heinz-Günter Stamm
  • 1957: The Wolves - Director: Walter Ohm
  • 1957: The Ballad of Half a Century (by Leopold Ahlsen ) - Director: Heinz-Günter Stamm
  • 1957: Human Comedy (1) - Director: Heinz-Günter Stamm
  • 1957: The Divine Comedy of Dante Alighieri - Hell (2) - Director: Otto Kurth
  • 1957: The Divine Comedy of Dante Alighieri - The Purgatory (1) - Director: Otto Kurth
  • 1957: The Divine Comedy of Dante Alighieri - The Purgatory (2) - Director: Otto Kurth
  • 1957: The Road - Director: Helmut Brennicke
  • 1957: The Old Lady's Visit (based on Friedrich Dürrenmatt) - Director: Walter Ohm
  • 1957: The interrogation of Lukullus (by Bertolt Brecht) - Director: Walter Ohm
  • 1957: Lili Director: Fränze Roloff
  • 1957: Hotel Paradiso - Director: Ulrich Lauterbach
  • 1958: Listen, Kasimir crows - Director: Kurt Reiss
  • 1958: Waved Traces - Director: Gustav Burmester
  • 1958: Festianus, Märtyrer (by Günter Eich ) - Director: Gustav Burmester
  • 1958: The Saline (by Fred von Hoerschelmann) - Director: Fritz Schröder-Jahn
  • 1958: The Fourth Holy Three Kings - Director: Gustav Burmester
  • 1959: The Trial of Joan of Arc in Rouen (based on Anna Seghers ) - Director: Hans Lietzau
  • 1959: espionage; Episode: The Albrechtshof Spy - Director: SO Wagner
  • 1959: The most beautiful in the whole country - Director: Gerlach Fiedler
  • 1959: Alkestis - Director: Kurt Reiss
  • 1959: The Travelers - Director: Gustav Burmester
  • 1959: The hunt for the perpetrator ; Episode: Die Schlinge - Director: SO Wagner
  • 1959: Allow me, my name is Cox ; 3rd season: Murder on luggage ticket 3311 (by Rolf and Alexandra Becker ) - Director: SO Wagner
  • 1959: Surrender of Siena (by Fred von Hoerschelmann) - Director: Kurt Reiss
  • 1959: The hunt for the perpetrator; Episode: Shots in Jagen 45 - Director: SO Wagner
  • 1959: The hunt for the perpetrator; Episode: The Monkey Mask - Director: SO Wagner
  • 1959: Poland - Director: Kurt Reiss
  • 1959: The Robbers of Kardemomme - Director: Kurt Reiss
  • 1959: Peace Treaty (by Herbert Reinecker) - Director: Ludwig Cremer
  • 1960: The Dragon Head - Director: Edward Rothe
  • 1960: adventures of the future; Episode: The Tower of the Winds - Director: SO Wagner
  • 1960: The hunt for the perpetrator; Episode: Panik in Pearson - Director: Gerda von Uslar
  • 1960: Sensitivity - Director: Armas Sten Fühler
  • 1960: Court in Potenza - Director: Gustav Burmester
  • 1961: The hunt for the perpetrator; Episode: The Guitar - Director: SO Wagner
  • 1961: Requiem for a great captain - Director: Joachim Hoene
  • 1961: The game goes on - Director: Gerlach Fiedler
  • 1962: The interrogation of Lukullus - Director: Rudolf Noelte
  • 1962: Treasure Island (based on Robert Louis Stevenson) - Director: Otto Kurth
  • 1962–65: Bei uns deheim (radio play series) - author and director: Robert Stromberger
  • 1963: Das Obdach - Director: Fritz Schröder-Jahn
  • 1963: Der Degenerate - Director: Hans Lietzau
  • 1964: A manor in Ireland - Director: Hans Bernd Müller
  • 1964: The Ice Cream from Cape Sabine - Director: Wolfgang Weyrauch
  • 1964: The office hours - author and director: Paul Pörtner
  • 1965: Orange Blossoms - Director: Gert Westphal
  • 1965: Uprising of the Bicycles - Director: Fritz Schröder-Jahn
  • 1971: Performances during the breakfast break - Director: Wolfram Rosemann

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ knerger.de: The grave of Joseph Offenbach
personal data
SURNAME Offenbach, Joseph
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Ziegler, Joseph (real name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German actor
DATE OF BIRTH December 28, 1904
PLACE OF BIRTH Offenbach am Main
DATE OF DEATH 15th October 1971
Place of death Darmstadt