Norbert Christian
Ekkehard Schall , Barbara Brecht-Schall , Hans-Joachim Hoffmann , Ruth Berghaus and Norbert Christian at a reception during the "Brecht Week of the GDR 1973"
Norbert Christian (born December 5, 1925 in Berlin ; † December 18, 1976 there ; born Christian Hengst ) was a German actor .
Life
After graduating from high school in 1943, he attended Helene Lackner's drama school for six months and then made his debut at the Greifswald City Theater . From 1949 to 1952 he played at the Rostock Volkstheater , where he also directed. In 1952, through Bertolt Brecht, he joined the Berliner Ensemble , of which he was a member until 1971. Guest performances have taken him to the Volksbühne and the Deutsches Theater .
His stage roles included Franz Moor in Die Räuber , the Wurm in Kabale und Liebe , Babberly in Charley's Aunt , Zwirn in Lumpazivagabundus , Cardinal Inquisitor in The Life of Galileo , Peachum in The Threepenny Opera , Alba in Egmont , Clark in The Resistant Rise of Arturo Ui , Philipp in Don Carlos , Mephisto in Urfaust and the title characters of Captain von Koepenick and Hamlet .
He also worked in numerous film and television productions. Unlike on stage, however, he was a supporting actor here . Norbert Christian died at the age of 51 while filming the multi-part part Farewell to Peace . After his death, Erwin Geschonneck took over the role of Dr. Friedrich Rankl.
Christian was with the actress and author Myriam Sello-Christian , geb. Seligsohn (1917–1970) and most recently married to the actress Erdmute Schmid-Christian . The actor and voice actor Michael Christian (1947-2006) came from the first marriage . Christian was buried in the Friedrichsfelde central cemetery in Berlin-Lichtenberg .
Awards
- Art Prize of the GDR (1961)
- National Prize of the GDR 2nd class for art and literature (1976)
Filmography
- 1953: The invincible
- 1953: Mrs. Carrar's rifles
- 1954: No husbands
- 1955: Once is never
- 1956: Young vegetables
- 1956: The spiked animal : Ham wa nich!
- 1956: The barbed animal: The Coruptica bell
- 1956: Thomas Müntzer - A film of German history
- 1957: Katzgraben (theater recording)
- 1957: The torchbearer
- 1958: Sun seeker
- 1958: Teutonic sword company (spokesman)
- 1958: The Mother (theater recording)
- 1958: Bat squadron
- 1958: The young Englishman
- 1959: Goods for Catalonia
- 1960: Those over 40 today
- 1960: people with wings
- 1960: Seilergasse 8
- 1960: Arrogance comes before the bang
- 1960: One of us
- 1961: The barbed animal: You should have a horse (short film)
- 1961: Conscience in turmoil (TV series)
- 1961: Mother Courage and her children (theater recording)
- 1961: Italian capriccio
- 1962: Fortress on the Rhine (Pevnost na Rýne)
- 1962: In the Pergamon Museum (speaker)
- 1963: Bonner Pitaval: The Heyde-Sawade Affair (TV series)
- 1963: Arnold Zweig (speaker)
- 1964: Follow me, Canailles!
- 1964: Wolf among wolves (multi-part)
- 1965: Without a passport in someone else's bed
- 1965: As long as there is life in me
- 1965: Parole
- 1965: Chronicle of a murder
- 1965: The adventures of Werner Holt
- 1966: The Investigation (theater recording)
- 1967: The frozen lightning
- 1967: The girl on the board
- 1968/87: The Russians arrive
- 1968: Me - Axel Cäsar Springer (TV series)
- 1968: time is happiness
- 1968: The murder that never expires
- 1969: Minna von Barnhelm or The Happy Soldiers
- 1969: The painter with the star
- 1969: The signs of the first
- 1969: The Angel in Sight (TV)
- 1970: Fiete Stein
- 1970: Young Woman from 1914 (TV movie)
- 1970: my zero hour
- 1970: On the way to Lenin
- 1970: Two letters to Pospischiel
- 1970: Because I saw a new earth
- 1970: Unter den Linden - history and stories (TV film)
- 1971: Death in the curve (TV)
- 1971: The Conspirators (multi-part)
- 1971: career
- 1971: Hussars in Berlin
- 1971: Optimistic Tragedy (TV)
- 1972: Janus head
- 1972: Zernik's corpse case
- 1972: Despite all that!
- 1972: Police call 110 - The Dead in the Flow (TV series)
- 1973: The Light of the Black Candle (TV movie)
- 1972: Sun seeker
- 1973: Rotfuchs (TV movie)
- 1973: Under the pear tree
- 1973: The elixirs of the devil
- 1974: Police call 110 - wage robbery (TV series)
- 1974: Still too skinny for love?
- 1974: Our blue roof
- 1975: From my childhood
- 1975: Criminal cases without example: Murder in the Märkisches Viertel (TV series)
- 1975: Lotte in Weimar
- 1975: looping
- 1975: One hour stop
- 1975: Adventure with Blasius
- 1975: That the poor man becomes an enemy to them (Speaker)
- 1976: Cloves in aspic
- 1976: Returning home to a foreign country (multi-part)
- 1976: The murderer
- 1976: Daniel Druskat
- 1977: At Sea (series)
- 1977: Love and the Queen
- 1977: Mom, I'm alive
- 1979: Farewell to Peace (multi-part)
theatre
- 1953: Bertolt Brecht : The rifles of Mrs. Carrar (country chaplain) - Director: Egon Monk ( Berliner Ensemble in the Deutsches Theater Berlin - Kammerspiele)
- 1955: Johannes R. Becher Winter Battle (German Officer) - Director: Bertolt Brecht / Manfred Wekwerth (Berliner Ensemble)
- 1957: Bertolt Brecht: Life of Galilei (Cardinal Inquisitor) - Director: Erich Engel (Berliner Ensemble)
- 1957: Bertolt Brecht: Fear and Misery of the Third Reich - Direction: Lothar Bellag / Käthe Rülicke / Konrad Swinarski / Carl M. Weber / Peter Palitzsch (Berliner Ensemble)
- 1958: Wsewolod Wischnewski : Optimistic Tragedy - Director: Manfred Wekwerth / Peter Palitzsch (Berliner Ensemble)
- 1959: Johannes R. Becher: Winter Battle - Director: Lothar Bellag (Berliner Ensemble)
- 1960: Bertolt Brecht: The Threepenny Opera (Jonathan Peachum) - Director: Erich Engel (Berliner Ensemble)
- 1962: Gerhart Hauptmann : The Beaver Fur (Wehrhahn) - Director: Ernst Kahler (Deutsches Theater Berlin - Kammerspiele)
- 1962: Gerhart Hauptmann: Florian Geyer (Löffelholz) - Director: Wolfgang Heinz ( Volksbühne Berlin )
- 1963: Lope de Vega : Ritter vom Mirakel (Servant Tristan) - Director: Fritz Bennewitz (Volksbühne Berlin)
- 1963: Carl Zuckmayer : The Captain of Köpenick (Wilhelm Voigt) - Director: Hannes Fischer (Volksbühne Berlin)
- 1969: Bertolt Brecht: The Manifesto (Brechtabend No. 5) - Director: Klaus Erforth / Alexander Stillmark (Berliner Ensemble)
- 1969: Helmut Baierl : Johanna von Döbeln (Plant Manager) - Director: Manfred Wekwerth / Helmut Rabe (Berliner Ensemble)
- 1973: George Bernard Shaw : Mrs. Warren's profession (Sir Croft) - Wolfgang Pintzka (Berliner Ensemble)
Radio plays
- 1953: Bertolt Brecht The guns of Mrs. Carrar (priest) - Director: Egon Monk ( Berliner Rundfunk )
- 1954: Friedrich Schiller : Die Räuber (Spiegelberg) - Director: Martin Flörchinger ( Broadcasting of the GDR )
- 1955: Leonhard Frank : The cause (Arthur Seiler) - Director: Martin Flörchinger (Broadcasting of the GDR)
- 1955: Günther Rücker (after: Lion Feuchtwanger ): Widow Capet (St. Just) - Director: Günther Rücker (radio play - Broadcasting of the GDR)
- 1955: Lieselotte Gilles / Gerhard Düngel : The Doctor of the Poor (Dr. Heim) - Director: Willi Porath (radio play - Broadcasting of the GDR)
- 1955: Henrik Ibsen : Nora or A Doll's House (Heirich Günther) - Director: Horst Preusker (radio play - Broadcasting of the GDR)
- 1957: Wolfgang Schreyer : Das Assentat (narrator) - Director: Lothar Dutombé (radio documentary play - Broadcasting of the GDR)
- 1957: AG Petermann : The dogs don't bark anymore (Dr. Rentzow) - Director: Theodor Popp (detective radio play - Broadcasting of the GDR)
- 1958: Gerhard Rentzsch / Karl Wagert : Der Fall van der Lubbe (speaker) - Director: Erich-Alexander Winds (GDR radio)
- 1958: Pavel Kohout : Such a love (Lord without a name) - Director: Erich-Alexander Winds (radio play - Broadcasting of the GDR)
- 1960: Helmut Sakowski : Lost Land? (District Administrator) - Director: Werner Grunow (Radio play - Broadcasting of the GDR)
- 1960: Rolf Schneider : Affären (Altmann) - Director: Werner Stewe (radio play - Broadcasting of the GDR)
- 1961: Clifford Odets : Wo ist Lefty (Fayette) - Director: Fritz-Ernst Fechner (radio play - Broadcasting of the GDR)
- 1961: Rolf Schneider : Trial Richard Waverly (Anderson) - Director: Otto Dierichs (radio play - Rundfunk der DDR)
- 1961: Klaus Glowalla : Consolini murder trial - Director: Fritz-Ernst Fechner (radio play - GDR radio)
- 1965: Peter Weiss : The investigation (judge) - Director: Wolfgang Schonendorf (oratorio in 11 songs - GDR radio)
- 1966: Bertolt Brecht: The interrogation of Lukullus (judge of the dead) - Director: Kurt Veth (Broadcasting of the GDR)
- 1966: Lothar Kleine : Gott auf Hiwa Oa (Christoff) - Director: Wolfgang Brunecker (Biographie - Rundfunk der DDR)
- 1967: Maxim Gorki : Wassa Schelesnowa - Director: Fritz-Ernst Fechner (radio play - Broadcasting of the GDR)
- 1967: Siegfried Pfaff : Regina B. - A day in her life (Otto) - Director: Fritz-Ernst Fechner (radio play - Broadcasting of the GDR)
- 1967: Gerhard Stübe : John Reed. Dramatic Chronicle in three parts (Lenin) - Director: Fritz Göhler (radio play - Rundfunk der DDR)
- 1968: Michail Schatrow : Bolsheviks - Director: Wolf-Dieter Panse (radio play - Broadcasting of the GDR)
- 1968: Willi Bredel : Relatives and acquaintances (8 episodes) - Director: Fritz-Ernst Fechner (Broadcasting of the GDR)
- 1969: Kikuta Kazuo : Die Taube Dankuro (Yoshino) - Director: Horst Liepach (radio play - Broadcasting of the GDR)
- 1969: Emil Koraloff : Perunika - Director: Helmut Molegg (radio play - Broadcasting of the GDR)
- 1970: Hans Pfeiffer : Identification of an Unknown Dead (Lessing) - Director: Horst Liepach (radio play - Rundfunk der DDR)
- 1971: Günter Kunert : With the times a fire (narrator) - Director: Wolfgang Schonendorf (radio play - Broadcasting of the GDR)
- 1971: Bruno Gluchowski : Stahl von der Ruhr (Borjanski) - Director: Helmut Hellstorff (radio play based on "Bloody Steel" (3 parts) - GDR radio)
- 1973: Honoré de Balzac : The marriage contract - Director: Horst Liepach (radio play (3 parts) - Broadcasting of the GDR)
- 1973: Nikolai Ostrowski : Pawels apprenticeship years (narrator) - Director: Andreas Scheinert (radio play - Litera )
- 1974: Ernst Röhl : Minna Plückhahn wants to know (Rabitzke) - Director: Fritz-Ernst Fechner (radio play - Broadcasting of the GDR)
- 1974: Joachim Walther : Randbewohner - Director: Werner Grunow (radio play - Broadcasting of the GDR)
- 2002: Marianne Weil / Stefan Dutt : Legionaries, Guerrillas, Saboteurs - Director: Marianne Weil / Stefan Dutt (A Socialist Complete Radio Play - DLR )
literature
- Hannelore Fischer, Hans-Michael Bock (HFI, HMB): Norbert Christian - actor , in CineGraph - Lexicon for German-Language Films, Volume 6 (1986)
Web links
Commons : Norbert Christian - Collection of images, videos and audio files
- Norbert Christian in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Biography of Norbert Christian ( Memento from March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive )
Individual evidence
- ^ Knerger.de: The grave of Norbert Christian
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Christian, Norbert |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Stallion, Christian (maiden name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German actor |
| DATE OF BIRTH | December 5, 1925 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Berlin |
| DATE OF DEATH | 18th December 1976 |
| Place of death | Berlin |