Klaus Ponto

Klaus Ponto (* 1927 in Dresden ; † 1985 ) was a German actor and radio play speaker .

Life

Klaus Ponto was the son of the well-known theater and film actor Erich Ponto and also pursued a career in theater. He mostly took on supporting roles in the theater, but in some well-received performances. This included, among other things, the world premiere of Brecht's play Der Aufhaltsame Aufstieg des Arturo Ui in 1958 at the Stuttgart State Theater. He played the nephew in Brecht's play The Good Man of Sezuan , and he also had a stage appearance in a play by Carl Zuckmayer .

In addition, he could also be heard in radio and commercial radio plays for years , including as a runner in an early radio adaptation of the radio station Radio Stuttgart (today Südwestrundfunk (SWR)) from 1948 by Fontanes Unterm Birnbaum , which also did the 2003 and 2006 have been published on CD. In 1958 he acted as a speaker in the radio play Man does not play with love according to Alfred de Musset , which was produced by SWR. In 1950 he had the role of the other and the announcer Daventry in Malmgreen by Walter Erich Schäfer in a radio play production by SDR .

Ponto's son Manoel Ponto (1949–1996), who died early in 1996 and was named after the Manolo Theater in Madrid , was also an actor.

Sound carrier

• Under the pear tree . Radio play based on Theodor Fontane. Production: Radio Stuttgart (today Südwestrundfunk / SWR), production year 1948, speakers: Michael Konstantinow, Herta Stiegler-Schmähl, Klaus Ponto u. a., director: Oskar Nitschke; The audio publishing house, Berlin 2003 (DAV pocket), ISBN 3-89813-282-X . (Literature CD, 2 CDs; original production from 1948);
  and: Der Audio-Verlag, Berlin 2006 (DAV pocket), ISBN 3-89813-577-2 . (Literature CD, 1 CD; original production from 1948)

Radio plays

• 1949: Christian Bock : Johann the Last - Director: Paul Land (radio play - SDR)

Individual evidence

1. ^ Biography of Erich Ponto at the Baden-Württemberg State Archives
2. ↑ "First performance of the 'The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui' ('Der aushaltsame Aufstieg des Arturo Ui') in Germany" ( Memento from June 28, 2009 in the Internet Archive )
3. ↑ Excerpt from: Jan Knopf (Ed.): Brechts Guter Mensch von Sezuan ; Suhrkamp Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 1982, ISBN, p. 215 (accessed on February 7, 2009).
4. ↑ Excerpt from: Barbara Glauert (Ed.): Carl Zuckmayer. The stage work in the mirror of criticism ; S. Fischer Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 1978, p. 289 u. 303 (accessed February 7, 2009).
5. ↑ Catalog excerpt from the Essen City Library - Unterm Birnbaum
6. ↑ Description of the CD from 2006 , with details of the speakers and audio samples, Weltbild-Verlag (accessed February 7, 2009).
7. ↑ Information about the radio play “You don't play with love” , production by SWR from 1958 (accessed on February 7, 2009).
8. ↑ Information about the radio play "Malmgreen" , production of the SDR from 1950 (accessed on February 7, 2009).
9. ↑ “He learned it from grandfather. Erich Ponto's grandson Manoel is now playing in the Altona Theater ” ( Memento of the original from January 12, 2014 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.