Pinkas Braun

Pinkas Braun (born 7 January 1923 in Zurich, † June 24, 2008 in Munich) was a Swiss actor, theater director, radio speaker and translator and spokesman of audio books.

Career

Brown grew up as the child of Jewish immigrants living in Switzerland, and broke with 16 years a businessman from teaching to become an actor. He received his acting training at the Schauspielhaus Zurich ( Stage Studio), where he was engaged from 1948 to 1956. The craft of directing he learned in parallel as an assistant to Bert Brecht, in Zurich brought the world premiere of his play Puntila and his Man Matti on stage in 1948. Brown went on many tours, which was launched by him " boy troupe of the theater ". He then played at theaters in Austria, Germany and Israel.

Brown was a frequent film and television actor, mostly as a shady character. In the cinema, he has become known primarily for his roles in the Edgar Wallace films and their epigones. In 1966, he was the villain in the Perry Rhodan movie Perry Rhodan - SOS from outer space. When the adventurous travel journalist Jörg Preda Pinkas Braun should write on his visits exotic countries actually about them as such, but is always involved in a variety of criminal cases and personally takes care of their education. The consequences were for 25 minutes. The first 13 went from 1966 in all regional eve programs, partly under the titles " Jörg Preda ", " Move with Jörg Preda " and " Jörg Preda travels around the world." After twelve years of absence, two new scales created with a total of 26 other sequences that were called now "Joerg Preda reported ". Brown appeared in more than 120 television dramas and series on, including The Mysteries of Paris (1980 ), Nowhere is Poenichen (1980 ), in the episode Sugar Sugar the television series Black-Red- Gold ( 1987), in two episodes of the crime - series Derrick, and in a series of Edel & Starck ( 2003). His distinctive voice made ​​him a sought-after speaker for audio books and radio plays. There remain particularly his roles as William of Baskerville in The Name of the Rose and when Charles Barron unforgotten in the three question marks on viagogo. Also in one of the famous Paul Temple radio plays by Francis Durbridge he sang in a larger role, namely in 1959 in Paul Temple and the Spencer. His last role was played by Brown in 2003 as a result message from the grave of the series Adelheid and her killer alongside Evelyn Hamann.

He also translated plays into German. From 1959 until the 1980 's, he was exclusive translator of the works of Edward Albee, the playwright so he as the presence helped the German-speaking breakthrough. The translations published by S. Fischer Verlag; with the daughter of the publisher, he was temporarily married.

Brown had two children from two marriages. From a relationship with Karin Kernke daughter Judith comes. Both are or were working as actresses. With his partner Ingrid Resch whom he shared a diverse and years of artistic collaboration in radio plays, poetry readings, on stage and in front of the camera. He died after a long illness and was buried in the cemetery of the Liberal Jewish community in Munich.

Filmography

Movies

TV

Awards

• 2001: nominated for the Swiss Film Prize for best actor in comedy