Ernst Jacobi
Ernst Jacobi ( born July 11, 1933 in Berlin ) is a German theater and film actor as well as audio books and voice actor.
Life (early years)
Born in Berlin, Ernst Jacobi discovered early his passion for acting and began his artistic career in radio, where he received a 14 -year-old speaking roles at RIAS in Berlin- Schöneberg. After high school he graduated from in 1951 a three-year acting training at the renowned Max Reinhardt School of Acting in Berlin and studied with Jacques Lecoq at the "Stage d' éte sur le mime " in Paris and London. His original career plans to start a horticultural studies, he had discarded.
During his acting training Jacobi has already received his first stage engagement at the Hebbel Theater in Berlin and made her debut in Shakespeare's The Merry Wives of Windsor, directed by Rudolf Noelte. Other stage stations were among others in Berlin, the Theater am Kurfürstendamm, the Tribune and the Schiller Theater and other major German -language stages, for example in Frankfurt, Cologne, Hamburg (Deutsches Schauspielhaus ) and Munich ( Chamber games). In 1977 he was appointed professor at the famous Burgtheater in Vienna, where he remained until 1984, in 1987 was the Schauspielhaus in Zurich for five years, his artistic home. Many classical and modern figures gave Ernst Jacobi over the years an impressive stage presence.
Career as a film and television actor
Jacobi began his television career in the early 1950s with the beginning of the first experimental broadcasts and played ( live! ) major and minor roles in such plays as The Happy Days ( 1953). To the film came Ernst Jacobi end of the 50s and came first with small parts in movies such as Hans quests musical comedy The Great Chance ( 1957) and Gerd Oswald's Crime On the day when the rain came (1959 ) in appearance. In sustainable memory the figure of the Gauleiter Löbsack in Volker Schlöndorff's Oscar - winning adaptation remains Grass The Tin Drum (1979 ) on the side of David Bennents, Mario Adorf and Berta Drews.
In the 1960s, he focused more on his television work and took part in sophisticated literary adaptations, such as 1962 in Rolf Hädrichs East-West history obituary Jürgen Trahnke, followed by further ambitious television films and series. Television audiences he is best known for productions such as farmers, big shots and bombs (1973 ), or 1975 with the title role in the life of the schizophrenic poet Alexander March of Heinar Kipphardt. For his performance Ernst Jacobi was honored in the same year with the " prix italia ". In 1976 he was awarded for his interpretation of Alexander March by the Berlin Academy of Arts Berlin Art Prize - together with Peter Watkins, who accepted the award for his acclaimed three-hour portrait of the expressionist painter Edvard Munch. In 1983, he played Jakob Fugger, the rich in the TV miniseries From the loom to a world power, which tells the story of the Augsburg merchant dynasty.
In addition, the character actor in several audio books and radio plays to hear, such as Ken Follett - The Pillars of the Earth, Donna W.Cross - Pope Joan, or as Mr. Sellars in Otherland by Tad Williams. Also known as voice actors Jacobi worked, so he gave, for example, Michael Moriarty as Sturmbannführer Erik village in the TV miniseries Holocaust - The history of the White family his voice. He can also be heard in some German versions of Walt Disney films, such as the title character in Peter Pan ( 1953). He also spoke Christopher Lloyd as Doc Brown in the first part of Back to the Future, before the figure was incorporated in the further consequences of the trilogy as well as the following animated series of Lutz Mackensy. Recently, Jacobi is in the film The White Ribbon - to hear a German children's story (2009) as a storyteller. Since 11 March 2011 to November 2011 he plays the role of Constantine of Walden in the ARD telenovela Red Roses.