Kurt Eisenblätter

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Kurt Eisenblätter (born February 3, 1929 in Berlin ; † July 4, 2017 in Berlin) was a German deaf pantomime , actor and director .

Life

With more than sixty years of stage experience, Kurt Eisenblätter is a legend of German deaf theater.

From 1950 to 1959 he was a member of the German Deaf Theater; then he founded and directed the deaf pantomime ensemble in the eastern part of Berlin , with which he received several international prizes and also performed at the World Deaf Congress. In the GDR he was awarded the medal for services to the artistic work of the GDR . Eisenblätter was awarded the Jean G. Deburau Prize in 1981 and the Culture Prize of the German Association of the Deaf in 2008.

He is buried in the cemetery of the Dorotheenstadt and Friedrichswerder communities in Berlin-Mitte.

Movies

  • Seeing instead of hearing, 1181. Broadcast on May 29, 2004, deaf people under Nazi rule , documentation of the BBC broadcast “See Hear”, BR 2008 in co-production with WDR
  • Seeing instead of hearing, 1224. Broadcast on May 7, 2005, on the 60th anniversary of the end of the war , deaf contemporary witnesses from Hamburg and Berlin report on how they experienced the last months of the Second World War , BR 2008 in co-production with WDR
  • Seeing instead of hearing, 1351. Broadcast on January 12, 2008, The Great Old Man of the Deaf Theater, portrait of the actor Kurt Eisenblätter, born in Berlin in 1929, BR 2008 in co-production with WDR
  • Seeing instead of hearing, 1382. Broadcast on August 30, 2008, The Great Old Man of the Deaf Theater, portrait of the actor Kurt Eisenblätter, born in Berlin in 1929, award ceremony in Cologne. 4th German Culture Days of the Deaf, Cologne, August 23, 2008: Awarding of the Culture Prize of the German Association of the Deaf to Kurt Eisenblätter, the "great old man" of the deaf theater, BR 2008 in co-production with WDR
  • Seeing instead of hearing, 1396. Broadcast on December 13, 2008, Topics: Handicapped and single parenting: Dr. Stephania Sabel and her son Ijan, “EVERYONE BELONGS TO”: Augsburg Study Day on hearing impairment, “Golden Crown” for deaf artists from East and West in Leipzig, BR 2008 in co-production with WDR

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Obituary - Kurt Eisenblätter. Retrieved July 8, 2017 .
personal data
SURNAME Eisenblätter, Kurt
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German deaf pantomime and actor
DATE OF BIRTH February 3, 1929
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH 4th July 2017
Place of death Berlin