Peter Ensikat

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Peter Ensikat, 2012

Peter Ensikat (born April 27, 1941 in Finsterwalde ; † March 18, 2013 in Berlin ) was a German writer , screenwriter , actor and cabaret artist .

He was the most played cabaret writer in the 1970s and 1980s.

Life

Peter Ensikat's family came from Berlin. He grew up with two older siblings in Finsterwalde (then Luckau district ) in Lower Lusatia , his father was killed in the Second World War in 1943 near Smolensk . In 1959, Ensikat began studying acting at the Leipzig Theater School . Already during his studies he wrote the first texts for the student cabaret Rat der Spötter , at the suggestion of Peter Sodann , which was banned in autumn 1961. Unlike his colleagues, Ensikat escaped arrest because of a hospital stay. From 1962 to 1965 he played at the theater of the young generation in Dresden . There he wrote his first plays for children's theater, and he also worked for many years as a cabaret writer for the Dresdner Herkuleskeule . From 1969 to the 1980s he was also a member of the group of authors of the Berlin cabaret "Distel" , along with Hans Rascher and Kurt Bartsch, and from 1996 to 2006 he was its artistic director. Ensikat was also a member of the PEN Center Germany .

At the beginning of the 1970s, Ensikat moved to Berlin and worked there as an actor at the Theater of Friendship in East Berlin (today: Theater an der Parkaue ). In the mid-1970s, Wolfgang Schaller and Wolfgang Schaller created the first joint cabaret piece Whom the Hat Fits , which was followed by numerous others that were played on stages throughout the GDR . Ensikat has been working as a freelancer since the mid-1970s. He also wrote for children's television. He was also repeatedly on the television series The Public Prosecutor has seen the word in roles as a little crook. His plays for children's theater and arranged fairy tales by the Brothers Grimm and others from Ensikat's pen have taken him to Mongolia and, at the invitation of the respective host country, to western countries. On the occasion of the World Festival in Berlin in 1973 he got to know a Belgian theater company, which gave rise to several guest performances in Brussels and later in the Federal Republic.

Ensikat was the most performed cabaret author in the GDR in the 1970s and 1980s. In 1985 he received the Lessing Prize of the GDR and in 1988 the GDR National Prize . In 1991 he became a partner and from 1999 to 2006 he was the successor to Gisela Oechelhaeuser as Artistic Director of Distel . Together with Wolfgang Schaller, he was honored with a satire star on the Walk of Fame of the cabaret in Mainz in 2009 . Despite a serious illness that occurred in autumn 2012, Ensikat was active as an author until his death. In 2010 he published his autobiography All My Half-Truths .

Peter Ensikat lived in Berlin-Alt-Hohenschönhausen and was the father of two sons, David and Lukas, and a daughter, Karoline. David Ensikat (* 1968) studied journalism and history in Berlin and works as an editor for Tagesspiegel . Peter Ensikat's brother is the graphic artist Klaus Ensikat .

Peter Ensikat died on March 18, 2013 at the age of 71 in Berlin.

Works

Peter Ensikat at a reading on April 29, 2007 in Dippoldiswalde

Filmography (selection)

as an actor
as a screenwriter

theatre

  • 1966: Heinz Kahlau : The fairy tale of the tram Therese (Igelkopf) - Direction: Hanuš Burger ( Theater of Friendship Berlin)
  • 1966: Hans-Albert Pederzani : The Hunt for the Boot (Jack Büttner) - Director: Kurt Rabe (Theater of Friendship)
  • 1966: Heinz Kahlau: A jug with olives (carpet dealer) - director: Heiner Möbius (theater of friendship)
  • 1967: Michail Swetlow : Spiel vor dem Feind - Director: Horst Hawemann (Theater of Friendship)
  • 1967: Heinz Kahlau: Puss in Boots - Director: Heiner Möbius (Theater of Friendship)
  • 1967: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe : Urfaust (Valentin) - Director: Heiner Möbius (Theater of Friendship)
  • 1968: Hans-Albert Pederzani : Your own head - Director: Heiner Möbius (Theater of Friendship)
  • 1968: Günter Deicke : What you want - Director: Heiner Möbius (Theater of Friendship)
  • 1968: Günther Deicke / Ruth Zechlin : Reineke Fuchs (opera for actors) - Director: Heiner Möbius (theater of friendship)
  • 1968: Vera Lyubimowa : Snowball - Director: Horst Hawemann (Theater of Friendship)
  • 1969: Heinz Czechowski : König Drosselbart - Direction: Horst Hawemann (Theater of Friendship)
  • 1969: Pawel Maljarewski : Das Rübchen - Direction: Peter Ensikat / Horst Hawemann (Theater of Friendship)
  • 1969: Bosko Trifunovic : The fairy tale of the emperor and the shepherd - Director: Horst Hawemann (Theater of Friendship)
  • 1971: Bernd Wagner (After Anatole France ) The shirt of a happy man - Director: Heiner Möbius / Peter Ensikat (Theater of Friendship)
  • 1971: William Shakespeare : The Comedy of Errors - Director: Heiner Möbius (Theater of Friendship)
  • 1971: Friedrich Gerlach : The Lords of the Beach - Director: Horst Hawemann (Theater of Friendship)
  • 1971: Hans-Dieter Schmidt : Tinko - Director: Peter Ensikat (Theater of Friendship)
  • 1974: Mikhail Bulgakov : Don Quixote - Director: Mirjana Erceg (Theater of Friendship)
  • 1974: Eugen Eschner : König Jörg - Director: Konrad Tschiedrich (Theater of Friendship)
  • 1981: Peter Ensikat / Wolfgang Schaller : Citizens protect your facilities - Director: Siegfried Höchst ( Cabaret Obelisk Potsdam)
  • 1985: Peter Ensikat / Bernd Wefelmeyer: What's the point of the whole theater as part of the Volksbühne spectacle with Marianne Wünscher and Hans Teuscher
  • 1987: Peter Ensikat / Bernd Wefelmeyer: Well, it's not art in the context of the Volksbühne spectacle with Marianne Wünscher and Hans Teuscher
  • 1989: Peter Stone: Sugar (Some Like It Hot) based on the film by Billy Wilder and IAL Diamond, music by Jule Styne, German by Peter Ensikat, DSE: March 23, 1989, Metropol-Theater Berlin
  • 1992: Peter Ensikat: Die Bremer Stadtmusikanten - Director: Manuel Schöbel ( caroussel Theater Berlin )

Sound carrier (selection)

  • 1980: Distel - Hurray is planned , LP, Litera 8 65 254
  • 1987: Peter Ensikat / Wolfgang Schaller: The Hercules Club - Citizens, Protect Your Systems , LP, Litera 8 65 400
  • 1987: Peter Ensikat: What is the whole theater doing , musical direction: Bernd Wefelmeyer, performance recording at the Volksbühne Berlin, September 1986, record cover: Klaus Ensikat, LP, Litera 8 65 406
  • 2009: Laugh and let laugh - 100 percent humor guarantee with Mathias Wedel, Peter Ensikat, Matthias Biskupek and others, CD, ISBN 9783359011200
  • 2013: Dieter Hildebrandt / Peter Ensikat: How did we laugh , 207 min., 3 CDs, Random House Audio, ISBN 9783837121155

literature

Web links

Commons : Peter Ensikat  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Dieter Hildebrandt , Peter Ensikat: How did we laugh. Views of two clowns. Edited by Franziska Günther and Thomas Grimm, edited by David Ensikat. Construction Verlag, Berlin 2013, ISBN 978-3-351-02760-5 , blurb.
personal data
SURNAME Ensikat, Peter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German writer, screenwriter and cabaret artist
DATE OF BIRTH April 27, 1941
PLACE OF BIRTH Finsterwalde , Brandenburg Province, Prussia, German Empire
DATE OF DEATH March 18, 2013
Place of death Berlin , Germany