Paul Lewitt

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Paul Lewitt (born August 30, 1895 in Prague ( Austria-Hungary ), † September 11, 1983 in Weimar ) was a German actor and director .

Life

Paul Lewitt's path as an actor led via Vienna, Linz, to Berlin, where he was a student of Karlheinz Martin . In Berlin he was on stage with Käthe Dorsch , Fritz Kortner and Ernst Deutsch . Hermine Körner brought him to the Dresden Comedy, where he also directed. At the Neues Schauspielhaus in Königsberg (Prussia) with Fritz Jessner , he met his future wife, the actress Charlotte Küter . Both went back to Berlin to the “Junge Volksbühne”. In 1933, Paul Lewitt and his wife were withdrawn from work because Lewitt was a Czech citizen and both were active anti-fascists. They emigrated to Prague and Brno in the Czech Republic . In 1938 Paul Lewitt directed The Rifles of Mrs. Carrar by Bertolt Brecht , with a group of anti-fascist actors and Charlotte Küter in the lead role. The Küter / Lewitt couple had to flee from Prague on foot via Poland and to England. Here both worked at the German emigrant theater.

In December 1945 the couple returned to Germany and helped rebuild the cultural life in Dresden. He became acting director of the Volksbühne Dresden and in 1948 deputy general director of the Dresden State Theater . From November 1, 1952, Paul Lewitt was appointed director of the Berlin Theater of Friendship . From 1953 he devoted himself increasingly to directing in the new medium of television, where he made it to the position of chief director.

He spent his old age together with his wife at the Weimar Marie-Seebach -Stift.

Filmography

Theater (direction)

Theater (actor)

Radio plays

Awards

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Obituaries in Neues Deutschland from September 16, 1983; P. 8.
  2. ↑ Neue Zeit from November 19, 1958; P. 4.
personal data
SURNAME Lewitt, Paul
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German actor and director
DATE OF BIRTH August 30, 1895
PLACE OF BIRTH Prague
DATE OF DEATH September 11, 1983
Place of death Weimar