Kurt Beck (actor)

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Kurt Beck (born March 10, 1926 in Karlsbad ; † August 1993 in Lake Constance ) was a German actor , theater director and radio play speaker .

Life

Kurt Beck completed his acting training at the Otto Falckenberg School in Munich from 1948 to 1949 . From 1950 he was engaged at the stages of the city of Cologne for seven years , followed by an engagement at the Schauspielhaus Zurich that lasted until 1968 , to which he returned twice in the following years. In the 1969/70 season Beck made guest appearances at the Theater Basel, in the 1970s he was often seen on German theaters, such as the Hamburg Thalia Theater and the Schauspielhaus Düsseldorf . From 1980 to 1988 he played at the Burgtheater in Vienna and also appeared as guest at the Theater in der Josefstadt and at the Berlin Renaissance Theater .

Important and well-known roles were Beck's Sarti in Cologne in the Life of Galilei by Bertolt Brecht , in Zurich the Swiss chas in Mother Courage and Her Children (also Brecht) and the secretary Wurm in Friedrich Schiller's Kabale und Liebe . Beck also played in the world premieres of Max Frisch's drama Andorra and Friedrich Dürrenmatt's play Herkules und der Stall des Augias . Beck was seen in the title role of Georg Büchner's Woyzeck in Basel , in Hamburg in 1970 in The Marriage of Mr Mississippi von Dürrenmatt and in 1972 in Henrik Ibsen's Enemy of the People or Three Sisters by Anton Chekhov .

Kurt Beck also worked as a director and, for example, staged the Swiss premiere of the piece Tango by Sławomir Mrożek in Zurich in 1966 and Harold Pinter's caretaker and In the Thicket of Cities by Bertolt Brecht in Basel .

In 1961 Beck made his début in front of the camera, played in some crime films such as The Nylon Loop and A Coffin from Hong Kong , and from the 1970s onwards occasionally in series such as Der Kommissar , Ein Fall für Männdli or the Tatort . In particular, in the 1950s and 1960s, Beck was also employed extensively as a radio play speaker.

As Alfred Ill in Dürrenmatt's The Visit of the Old Lady , Kurt Beck played his last role in 1993 in a production by the Greve touring theater. In August of the same year he voluntarily passed away in Lake Constance.

Filmography

Radio plays

literature

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d Julia Danielczyk: Kurt Beck . In: Andreas Kotte (Ed.): Theater Lexikon der Schweiz . Volume 1, Chronos, Zurich 2005, ISBN 3-0340-0715-9 , pp. 140 f.
  2. ^ Program booklet of the Thalia Theater, season 1970/71 ( Memento of the original from April 26, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been 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.booklooker.de
  3. ^ Program booklet of the Thalia Theater, 1972
  4. ^ Program booklet of the Thalia Theater, 1971/72 season
personal data
SURNAME Beck, Kurt
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German actor, theater director and radio play speaker
DATE OF BIRTH March 10, 1926
PLACE OF BIRTH Carlsbad
DATE OF DEATH August 1993
Place of death Lake Constance