Ewald Balser
Ewald Balser ( born October 5, 1898 in Elberfeld (now Wuppertal to ), † 17 April 1978 ) was a German actor.
Life
He was the youngest of eleven children of the mason William Balser and his wife Mathilde, born Lohe. Balser originally learned the profession of a goldsmith at the Elberfeld Arts School and was from 1916 until his injury in 1917 veterans.
After the war he worked in his learned profession, but also took acting lessons alongside and took minor roles in the United theaters of Elberfeld- Barmen. So Balser debuted in 1919 at the Stadttheater Elberfeld as ODOARDO in Emilia Galotti. In 1923 he was engaged by the Basel Stadttheater. But in the following year he moved to Düsseldorf's city theater, where he made his debut in the title role of Faust. Louise Dumont was his game in Bertolt Brecht's Man is so impressed that she took him to the Düsseldorf Schauspielhaus. In addition, he graduated from guest appearances at the Deutsches Theater in Berlin and at the Volksbühne Berlin, Cologne, Darmstadt and Heidelberg. 1921 to 1928 he worked at the Munich Chamber games, starting in 1928 at the Vienna Burgtheater, where he played hero roles especially. Guest performances have taken him to the Salzburg Festival. In 1933 he moved to Berlin, where he belonged to the ensemble of folk stage and from 1935 of the Deutsches Theater.
Career
In 1935 he made his first film, Jana, the girl from the Bohemian Forest. He found his field of activity mainly as a serious figure in film dramas, where he represented doctors, priests, bishops, artists and other figures. Increasingly, he made a name for himself in roles of significant historical figures such as Rembrandt van Rijn Rembrandt ( 1942), Ferdinand Sauerbruch of Sauerbruch - This was my Life ( 1954) or Beethoven Eroica (1949) and again in The House of Three Girls (1958).
The reopening of the Burgtheater after the Second World War, he played the role of Franz Grillparzer Primislaus Ottokar in King Ottokar's Fortune and End. From the 1960s he focused again mainly on the theater. In 1963 he became an honorary member of the Burgtheater.
Balsers first wife was the actress Vera Balser -Eberle. From 1950 he was married to Ernestine Bauer, the mother of his daughter Evelyn. He broke of 1976 during a performance and died in April 1978 from cancer. His honorary devoted grave is located on the Neustift Cemetery (Group E, row 1, number 1). In 1982 in Vienna Liesing ( 23rd district ) was the Ewald Balser alley named after him.