Ekkehard Schall was a German stage and screen actor/director.

He was one of the best profiled actors of Brecht's

Bertolt Brecht

Bertolt Brecht was a German poet, playwright, and theatre director.An influential theatre practitioner of the 20th century, Brecht made equally significant contributions to dramaturgy and theatrical production, the latter particularly through the seismic impact of the tours undertaken by the...

 works and together with Helene Weigel

Helene Weigel

Helene Weigel was a distinguished German actress. She was the second wife of Bertolt Brecht, and together they had a son Stefan Brecht and daughter Barbara Brecht-Schall .The daughter of a Jewish lawyer, she became a Communist Party member from 1930 and Artistic Director of the...

 a member of the Berliner Ensemble

Berliner Ensemble

The Berliner Ensemble is a German theatre company established by playwright Bertolt Brecht and his wife, Helene Weigel in January 1949 in East Berlin...

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Life

Schall's first engagement was in 1947 in Magdeburg. After engagements in Frankfurt (Oder)

Frankfurt (Oder)

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 (Stadttheater Frankfurt (Oder)) and on the Neuen Bühne in Berlin, Bertolt Brecht engaged him 1952 for the Berliner Ensemble. Schall played here till 1995, for 14 years as intendant.

He played more than 60 roles, for example the Ui in Brecht's Der aufhaltsame Aufstieg des Arturo Ui more than 500 times.

Schall was honored in 1959 with the Kunstpreis der DDR, in 1962 and 1979 with the Nationalpreis der DDR.

He was married to Brecht's daughter Barbara Brecht-Schall and is the father of actress Johanna Schall

Johanna Schall

Johanna Schall is a German actress. She appeared in 23 films and television shows between 1976 and 2003. She starred in Apple Trees, which was screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 1992 Cannes Film Festival. She is the daughter of actor Ekkehard Schall.-External links:...

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Some Roles

• Ui in Der aufhaltsame Aufstieg des Arturo Ui (Brecht)
• Galilei in Leben des Galilei (Brecht)
• Coriolan (Shakespeare)
• Azdak in Der kaukasische Kreidekreis (Brecht)
• Galloudec in Der Auftrag von Heiner Müller
  Heiner Müller
  Heiner Müller was a German dramatist, poet, writer, essayist and theatre director. Described as "the theatre's greatest living poet" since Samuel Beckett, Müller is arguably the most important German dramatist of the 20th century after Bertolt Brecht...
  
  

Filmography

• Die unwürdige Greisin (1985)
• Wagner (1983)
• Die Rache des Kapitäns Mitchell (1979)
• Coriolan (1978)
• Der Kaukasische Kreidezirkel (1976)
• Im Staub der Sterne (1976)
• Spur des Falken (1976)
• Aus unserer Zeit (1970)
• Ich - Axel Cäsar Springer (1970)
• Meine besten Freunde (1966)
• Wolf unter Wölfen (1965)
• I Sequestrati di Altona
  The Condemned of Altona (film)
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  (1962)
• Der Traum des Hauptmann Loy (1961)
• Mutter Courage und ihre Kinder (1961)
• Les Arrivistes (1960)
• The Punch Bowl
  The Punch Bowl (1959 film)
  Maibowle is an East German musical comedy film, released in 1959. It was directed by Günter Reisch.-Plot:...
  
  (1959)
• Geschichte vom armen Hassan (1958)
• Das Lied der Matrosen (1958)
• Berlin – Ecke Schönhauser…
  Berlin – Ecke Schönhauser…
  Berlin, Schoenhauser Corner is an East German crime film directed by Gerhard Klein. It was released in 1957.-Plot summary:...
  
  (1957)
• Schlösser und Katen
  Schlösser und Katen
  Schlösser und Katen is an East German black-and-white film, directed by Kurt Maetzig. It was released in 1957.-Part 1: Hunchback Anton:...
  
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• Mutter Courage und ihre Kinder (1955)
• Die Gewehre der Frau Carrar (1953)

Works

• 2001 Meine Schule des Theaters. Seminare, Vorlesungen, Demonstrationen, Diskursionen. Suhrkamp, ISBN 3-518-13413-2
• 2002 Buckower Barometer. Gedichte. Frankfurt Insel, ISBN 3-458-17102-9

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