Ruth Oswalt
Ruth Oswalt (born January 7, 1946 in Zurich ) is a Swiss actress .
Life
Ruth Oswalt is the granddaughter of Wilhelm Ernst Oswalt , the last owner of the publishing house Rütten & Loening , which was located in Frankfurt am Main before the Aryanization . His only son who was not sent to the concentration camps , Heinrich Oswalt, had gone to study in Switzerland before the Second World War and had started a family there.
After graduating from high school, Oswalt first attended a teachers' college and worked briefly as a primary school teacher . From 1969 she took acting training at the Acting Academy with subsequent internship at various Basel theaters. In 1974 she and her husband Gerd Imbsweiler co-founded the Spilkischte Theater , the first year-round professional theater for children in Switzerland.
Since then Oswalt has been working as an actress and co-author at the Spilkischte Theater. She regularly goes on tours with the theater at home and abroad and gives guest performances at festivals. In 1987 she and her husband Gerd Imbsweiler, directed by Beat Fäh, attracted attention with their version of “Die Stühle” by Eugène Ionesco , with which they also addressed a young audience. Until 1996 there was intensive collaboration with Beat Fäh, followed by eight works with the director Antonia Brix . With the play Hänschen klein (Hexenfieber), she completed a tour of several weeks through the new federal states in Germany in 1992.
Oswalt's play Struwwelväter , which tells the story of the Oswalt family, premiered in November 2011 in the Schpilkischte.
Awards
- 1987 Art Prize of the City of Basel.
- 1999 Hans Reinhart-Ring
- Prize of the International ASSITEJ, the umbrella organization of theaters for a young audience.
literature
- Jean Grädel: Ruth Oswalt . In: Andreas Kotte (Ed.): Theater Lexikon der Schweiz . Volume 2, Chronos, Zurich 2005, ISBN 3-0340-0715-9 , p. 1361 f.
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Individual evidence
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Oswalt, Ruth |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Swiss actress |
| DATE OF BIRTH | January 7, 1946 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Zurich |