Manoel Ponto

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Manoel Ponto (* 1949 in Stuttgart ; † January 29, 1996 ) was a German actor and radio play speaker .

Life

Manoel Ponto comes from a family of actors; his grandfather Erich Ponto was well known as a stage and film actor, and his father Klaus Ponto and his mother were actors too . It was named after the Manolo Theater in Madrid , which belonged to his godfather. Ponto went to high school in Stuttgart , but left school before graduation and worked as a waiter in a cousin's jazz bar. He escaped military service due to training at the State Drama School in Stuttgart, which his father provided .

After that, Ponto played early theater roles mainly as a "youthful lover", such as in Saarbrücken . From 1978 he was mainly seen at the Altona Theater in Hamburg (debut as Valère in Molière's The Miser ). He played numerous roles there, including the Lord Goring in Oscar Wilde's An Ideal Husband in 1985 and the "false auditor" in 1991, the Chlestakow in Gogol's The Auditor . In 1994 he appeared in a leading role in Chekhov's The Three Sisters at the Ernst Deutsch Theater in Hamburg .

He also worked at the theater for children in Hamburg-Altona, where he played the fox in Goethe's fable Reineke Fuchs in 1980 . In addition, Ponto has acted as a speaker for numerous commercial radio plays .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b 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 inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. In: Hamburger Abendblatt , February 24, 1979 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.abendblatt.de
  2. ↑ Too solid, not particularly snappy Oscar Wilde's 'An ideal husband' / Premiere in the Altona Theater . ( Memento of the original from January 12, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. In: Hamburger Abendblatt , December 30, 1985 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.abendblatt.de
  3. ^ Premiere in the Altona Theater: 'Der Revisor' by Gogol . ( Memento of the original from January 12, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. In: Hamburger Abendblatt , February 25, 1991 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.abendblatt.de
  4. ^ Ernst Deutsch Theater, Friedrich Schütter, Wolfgang Borchert: program booklet The Three Sisters by Anton Chekhov. Premiere January 19, 1994. 1993/94 season , Conrad Kayser shipyard, Hamburg, 1994
  5. ^ Actor directory of the theater for children (accessed on February 6, 2009).
  6. ↑ The villain lies in office and honor . ( Memento of the original from January 12, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. In: Hamburger Abendblatt , September 5, 1980 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.abendblatt.de
personal data
SURNAME Ponto, Manoel
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German actor and radio play speaker
DATE OF BIRTH 1949
PLACE OF BIRTH Stuttgart
DATE OF DEATH January 29, 1996