Boy Gobert

Boy Christian Klée Gobert ( born June 5, 1925 in Hamburg, † 30 May 1986 as Vienna ) was a German -Austrian stage actor, film actor and theater director.

Life

Boy Gobert was the son of the Hamburg Senator for Culture Ascan Klée Gobert. He came after a few theater roles, including in his drama teacher Helmuth Gmelin at the theater in the Room, 1954 for the film, where he was determined primarily on the role of trade dandy snobs and bon vivants. " In over 50 films in a kidney-shaped table time Gobert juxte then nasally, blase, through the land of smiles", wrote The mirror in the obituary of Gobert 1986.

Gobert was succeeding Kurt Raeck 1969 artistic director of the Hamburg Thalia Theater, which he directed until 1980. There, he managed to expand his own spectrum of roles and develop. Among well-known directors, he played roles in the world literature, including Shakespeare's Richard III. , Coriolanus and Goethe's Faust, but also modern classics such as Arthur Schnitzler's Anatol and Carl Sternheim snob. Addition, he worked both as a director and as a performer of his time to the contemporary Anglo-Saxon theater with authors such as Harold Pinter and Trevor Griffith. A special interest he developed as a director and director for the " upscale boulevard", with its motto " Optimum art and Checkout. " Was.

In 1980, he became General Director of the State Theatre Theatres in Berlin. After a success with Hans Fallada Review by Everyone dies alone (directed by Peter Zadek ) no more, he managed to meet the high expectations placed on him as a successor to Hans Lietzaus. Gobert's contract for the season 1984/85 also was not renewed. Even his final production of Schiller's Wallenstein with Gobert even in the title role (director Klaus Emmerich, dramaturgical cooperation Heiner Müller) was panned so Hellmuth Karasek wrote: " Quite a bankruptcy, a third-class funeral. [ ... ] Miss A farewell, wasted, messed up. If something tragic may have on those evenings size would then Gobert's rude awakening from the Gründgens dream. "

In the season 1986/87 Gobert should take over the directorship of the Vienna Theater in der Josefstadt. He was already in rehearsals for Edward Albee's Who 's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? next to Ingrid Andree, but died of heart failure earlier at his home in Vienna - Neustift am Walde. His honorary devoted grave is in the cemetery Neustift (Group 22, Series 6, No. 1 ) in Vienna Dobling.

Honors and Awards

Since 1960, Gobert was a member of the Vienna Burgtheater. By the Austrian Federal President, he received the title of a chamber actor. In 1961, Gobert was awarded the German Critics Prize. In 1973, the members of the Hamburg Volksbühne awarded him the honorary prize silver mask. In 1977 he received for his services the Silver Journal of the playwright Union and in 1980 was winner of the Golden Camera as narrator and performer in The Good Doctor.

With the awarded since 1981 Boy Gobert Prize for young actresses at the Hamburg stage, awarded by the Körber Foundation and endowed with 10,000 euros, Gobert is honored posthumously.

Filmography