Richard Eivenack

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Richard Eivenack , born in Richard Freudenfeld (born July 7, 1870 at the Roonsdorf manor in West Prussia , Prussia ; † April 23, 1953 in Berlin , Germany ), was a German actor in the stage and film industry.

Live and act

Richard Freudenfeld, who was born and raised on a West Prussian manor, decided at the beginning of the 1890s to go to the theater, took the stage name Eivenack and made his debut in Hanau in 1893. This was followed by engagements in Vienna ( Raimund Theater ) , Halle, Bremen and Dresden ( resident theater there ). On these stages, Eivenack played the entire range of roles in some very different pieces: He embodied Willy Janikow in Sudermann 's Sodom's End , the pastor of Kirchfeld in the Anzengruber folk play of the same name, the bell founder Heinrich in Hauptmann's The Sunken Bell , the violet eater in the eponymous von- Moser-Schwank, Prince Nechludow in Tolstoy's Resurrection and Richard von Völkerlingk in Sudermanns Long Live Life and Straßl-Toni in the Rosegger play On the Day of Judgment . The artist also worked as an acting teacher at an early age.

Eivenack also began directing in the first decade of the 20th century; initially at theaters in the German provinces such as Bromberg (in Eivenack's homeland West Prussia) and Hanover, after the First World War as a senior theater director in Berlin (at the small theater). In the German capital, Richard Eivenack was also in front of the camera at the same time (with the beginning of the Weimar Republic ), but his excursions to film always featured (even during the Second World War , where he embodied a farmer in the colored film swan Das Bad auf der Tenne in 1942, for example ) only guest performance. In the last decades of his life, Eivenack hardly ever got a permanent engagement, in the last Reich German theater season in 1943/44 he had to be content with a job in the choir of the Prussian State Theater under the direction of Gustaf Gründgens . After all, Eivenack was accepted into the ensemble of the German Theater immediately after the war ended in 1945 . Here he was "highly respected in smaller tasks", as it was called in an obituary in the 1954 German Stage Yearbook. Richard Eivenack died after a long illness at the age of 82 in Berlin.

Filmography

literature

  • Heinrich Hagemann (Ed.): Specialized lexicon of the German stage members . Pallas and Hagemanns Bühnen-Verlag, Berlin 1906, p. 29.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Deutsches Bühnen-Jahrbuch 1954, obituary p. 87

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personal data
SURNAME Eivenack, Richard
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Freudenfeld, Richard (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German stage and film actor
DATE OF BIRTH July 7, 1870
PLACE OF BIRTH Roonsdorf Manor, West Prussia , Prussia
DATE OF DEATH April 23, 1953
Place of death Berlin , Germany