Karl-Heinz Martell

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Karl-Heinz Martell , also Karlheinz Martell (born March 16, 1928 in Berlin ; † September 9, 2002 in Werfenweng ) was a German actor and radio play speaker .

Life

Karl-Heinz Martell came to acting through a degree in theater studies and philosophy. After working in Hanover, Lübeck and Mannheim, he was on the stage of the Düsseldorfer Schauspielhaus for 15 years . In addition to engagements at the Hamburg Ernst-Deutsch-Theater , Martell had other engagements at the Vienna Burgtheater and the Theater in der Josefstadt . Afterwards he worked mainly at touring theaters, for the first time in 1971 in Siegfried Lenz 's Die Augenbinde , together with his father-in-law Ewald Balser . From 1980 he played regularly in productions of the Euro-Studio Landgraf .

In Dusseldorf Martell was among others in 1961 in the Midsummer Night's Dream by William Shakespeare or in the season 1964/65 as Sigismund in Calderon's Life Is a Dream to see. At the Ernst-Deutsch-Theater he played the title role in Bertolt Brecht's The Halting Rise of Arturo Ui in 1983 . On tours he played Shylock in the Merchant of Venice in 1990 , Michael Kramer in Gerhart Hauptmann 's drama of the same name in 1995 and the title character in Brecht's Life of Galileo in 1996 . Martell also appeared in 1998 in Thornton Wilder's Our Town and 2000 in Love in Madagascar by Peter Turrini with. For his portrayal of Shylock he was awarded the Hersfeld Prize at the Bad Hersfeld Festival in 1989 .

Seldom seen as a television actor, Karl-Heinz Martell, on the other hand, was a busy speaker in radio plays for various radio stations. He could be heard in 1962 in Pedestrian in the Air by Eugène Ionesco and in 1963 in Medea by Euripides , both recordings of productions by the Düsseldorfer Schauspielhaus.

Karl-Heinz Martell, who had an intense artistic friendship with his Polish colleague Henryk Tomaszewski , most recently lived in the Austrian municipality of Werfenweng in Pongau in the Salzburg region . There he died on the morning of September 9, 2002 as a result of falling down stairs at home.

Filmography

  • 1958: why are they against us?
  • 1961: The portrait of Dorian Gray
  • 1967: After release
  • 1967: Incident in Antioch
  • 1977: Farewells
  • 1977: The return of the old man
  • 1977: The pension game
  • 1980: the white city
  • 1981: The passionate
  • 1982: limestone

Radio plays (selection)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Karl-Heinz Martell at filmportal.de
  2. German Stage Yearbook 1998, page 840
  3. a b Christiane Schmidt: Tourneetheater als Künstlerische Heimat , Oberpfalznetz.de from September 13, 2002 ( Memento of the original from September 29, 2015 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. , accessed September 28, 2015 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / m.oberpfalznetz.de
  4. ^ The time of September 15, 1961 , accessed on September 28, 2015
  5. ^ Brigitte Ehrich: Hitler parable with clear warning , Hamburger Abendblatt of January 21, 1983 , accessed on September 29, 2015
  6. Theater archive of the Hofgarten Immenstadt , accessed on September 28, 2015
  7. Death: Actor Karl-Heinz Meyer-Martel died , Wiener Zeitung of September 10, 2002 , accessed on September 28, 2015