German actor (1933?2022)
Ernst Jacobi
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Born
| Ernst Gerhard Ludwig Jacobi-Scherbening
(
1933-07-11
)
11 July 1933
Berlin, Germany
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Died
| 23 June 2022
(2022-06-23)
(aged 88)
Vienna, Austria
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Occupation
| Actor
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Years active
| 1957?2017
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Ernst Gerhard Ludwig Jacobi-Scherbening
, professionally called
Ernst Jacobi
(
[??nst
?jaːk?biː]
; 11 July 1933 ? 23 June 2022), was a German actor. He was known for serious character roles,
[1]
especially in the 1979 film
The Tin Drum
(
Die Blechtrommel
), as Hans in
Germany, Pale Mother
(1980), as
Adolf Hitler
in
Hamsun
(1996), and as the narrator in
The White Ribbon
(2009). He appeared in over 200 television productions and worked at the
Burgtheater
in Vienna from 1977 to 1987, and at the
Schauspielhaus Zurich
from 1987 to 1992. In 1975 he won the
Berliner Kunstpreis
for his portrayal of Alexander Marz in the television film
Das Leben des schizophrenen Dichters Alexander Marz
.
Early life and education
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Ernst Gerhard Ludwig Jacobi-Scherbening
[2]
was born in Berlin
[3]
on 11 July 1933.
[2]
His father was an academic and his mother worked for the
Reichsluftfahrtministerium
. His parents divorced shortly after his birth, and he lived with his mother and a step-sister (born 1930). In 1939, his mother moved to Norway, and he lived with his father's sister in a Protestant pastor's household where he was raised rigidly.
[2]
[4]
He was a member of the Jungvolk of the
Hitlerjugend
. He met his mother and sister only after World War II in Berlin. At age 15, he joined the children's choir of the
RIAS
.
[2]
After completing school with the
Abitur
in 1951, he trained to be an actor at the
Max-Reinhardt-Schule
[
de
]
Berlin until 1953. In the 1960s, he studied at the Stage d'ete sur le mime in Paris and London with
Jacques Lecoq
.
[4]
[5]
Career
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Theatre
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Jacobi began his theatre career in Berlin, engaged at the
Hebbel-Theater
from 1951.
[5]
He moved to the
Theater am Kurfurstendamm
[
de
]
, the
Tribune
[
de
]
[5]
and the
Schillertheater
in Berlin. He then played at the
Deutsches Schauspielhaus
in Hamburg,
[5]
and the
Munchner Kammerspiele
.
[6]
He worked at the
Burgtheater
in Vienna from 1977 to 1987, and at the
Schauspielhaus Zurich
from 1987 to 1992.
[4]
[5]
Film
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In 1957, Jacobi had a small role in the
Hans Quest
romantic comedy film
The Big Chance
(
Die große Chance
), opposite
Walter Giller
,
Gardy Granass
and
Michael Cramer
.
[7]
In 1959 he appeared in
Gerd Oswald
's
The Day the Rains Came
(
Am Tag als der Regen kam
), a crime film featuring
Mario Adorf
,
Gert Frobe
and
Christian Wolff
in the main roles.
[8]
In 1966 he had a minor role in
Ulrich Schamoni
's
Es
, a film about a real estate agent and an architectural draughtswoman and a concealed pregnancy and abortion.
[9]
[10]
Critically acclaimed, it was selected as West Germany's
official submission
to the
38th Academy Awards
for
Best Foreign Language Film
,
[11]
and was entered into the
1966 Cannes Film Festival
.
[12]
In 1979, Jacobi played the role of Gauleiter Lobsack alongside
David Bennent
, Mario Adorf and
Berta Drews
in
Volker Schlondorff
's black comedy war drama
The Tin Drum
(
Die Blechtrommel
) (1979).
[13]
The film was lauded by the critics, winning the
Palme d'Or
at the
1979 Cannes Film Festival
, and the
Best Foreign Language Film
at the
1980 Academy Awards
.
[14]
The following year, Jacobi had a lead role playing Hans opposite
Eva Mattes
(as Lene) in the
Helma Sanders-Brahms
-directed drama film
Germany Pale Mother
, set in Nazi Germany. Critically acclaimed, the film won the Grand Prix at the
Creteil International Women's Film Festival
and was nominated for the Golden Berlin Bear at the
30th Berlin International Film Festival
. In 2014 it was restored by the
British Film Institute
, who hailed it as a "feminist classic", writing that the "nuanced counterbalancing of Hans' and Lene's war experiences recalls the feminist commitment to exploring the distortion wrought by fascism as much on male as female psyches and bodies" and a "restored sequence charting Lene's sympathetic encounter with Soviet soldiers underlines Sanders-Brahms' political rooting in a West German feminism that was in turn indebted to the post-1968 student left."
[15]
In 1995, Jacobi appeared in
Leidulv Risan
's
Pakten
, a Norwegian crime comedy which starred
Robert Mitchum
and
Cliff Robertson
in the lead roles.
[16]
The following year, he portrayed
Adolf Hitler
in another Scandinavian production,
Hamsun
, a biopic about the Norwegian author
Knut Hamsun
. The author Charles P. Mitchell wrote in his book about portrayals of the leader in film that Jacobi "makes an excellent first impression in the role, dressed in a simple military uniform".
[17]
Television and voice work
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Jacobi played more than 200 roles on television,
[18]
including crime series such as
Derrick
and
Tatort
. He had his last role in
Polizeiruf 110
in 2017.
[1]
In 1965 he appeared in
Hans Lietzau
's
Die Chinesische Mauer
(
The Great Wall of China
), a television film which was produced by
Sudwestfunk
.
[19]
In 1975, Jacobi was awarded the
Berliner Kunstpreis
for his portrayal of Alexander Marz in the television film
Das Leben des schizophrenen Dichters Alexander Marz
.
[6]
Since the 1950s, Jacobi also worked as a voice actor for film synchronisations and audio books.
[20]
One of his early assignments was the German voice of
Peter Pan
in the
1953 Disney film of the same name
, later he also voiced
Christopher Lloyd
as Doc Brown in the
Back to the Future
films.
[20]
In 2009 he narrated
Michael Haneke
's critically acclaimed
The White Ribbon
(
Das weiße Band
), a
black-and-white
drama film which darkly depicts life in a northern German village just before
World War I
. Jacobi narrates from the perspective of the main character, a teacher at a local school, as an old man many years after the events of the film.
[21]
Personal life
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Jacobi lived in Munich and spent his last years in seclusion.
[1]
He died in Vienna on 23 June 2022, at the age of 88.
[2]
[22]
Films
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Source:
[23]
- The Big Chance
(1957), as Tommy Reichmann
- The Day the Rains Came
(1959), as Fritz
[6]
- Nachruf auf Jurgen Trahnke
(1962, TV film), as Jurgen Trahnke
- The Chinese Wall
[
de
]
(1965, TV film), as The Mute Son
- Es
(1966), as Bookseller
- Count Oederland
(1968, TV film), as The Murderer
- Bauern, Bonzen und Bomben
[
de
]
(1973, TV miniseries), as Tredup
- The Last Days of Gomorrah
(1974, TV film), as Plutonius
- Tadelloser & Wolff
(1975, TV film), as The Narrator
- Derrick
? Season 2, Episode 6: "Paddenberg" (1975, TV), as Gottfried Ehring
- Das Leben des schizophrenen Dichters Alexander Marz
(1975, TV film), as Alexander Marz
[6]
- The Tin Drum
(1979), as Lobsack
[22]
- The Murderer
[
de
]
(1979), as Frans
- The Great Runaway
[
de
]
(1979, TV miniseries), as Mr. Daubmann
- Germany, Pale Mother
(1980), as Hans
- Frau Jenny Treibel
(1982, TV film), as Professor Willibald Schmidt
- Vom Webstuhl zur Weltmacht
(1983, TV miniseries), as
Jakob Fugger
[6]
- Eine geschlossene Gesellschaft
[
de
]
(1987, TV film), as Bernhard Hurfeld
- Success
(1991), as Dr. Siegbert Geier
- Pakten
(1995), as Leonard Haas
- Roula
[
de
]
(1995), as Sievers
- Hamsun
(1996), as
Adolf Hitler
[6]
- The White Ribbon
(2009), as the narrator
References
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a
b
c
"Ernst Jacobi: "Tatort"-Schauspieler ist tot"
.
Der Spiegel
(in German). 23 June 2022
. Retrieved
24 June
2022
.
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a
b
c
d
e
"Ernst Jacobi / deutscher Schauspieler"
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munzinger.de
(in German). 17 February 2018
. Retrieved
28 June
2022
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"Schauspieler Ernst Jacobi gestorben"
.
rbb24
(in German). 23 June 2022
. Retrieved
24 June
2022
.
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a
b
c
"Mehr als 200 Fernsehrollen: Schauspieler Ernst Jacobi gestorben"
.
FAZ.NET
(in German). 23 June 2022
. Retrieved
28 June
2022
.
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a
b
c
d
e
Zimmer, Susanne (15 July 2013).
"Theater- und Filmschauspieler: Jacobi, Ernst"
.
BR.de
(in German).
BR
. Retrieved
24 June
2022
.
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a
b
c
d
e
f
Gottler, Fritz (23 June 2022).
"Ernst Jacobi ist tot"
.
Suddeutsche.de
(in German)
. Retrieved
24 June
2022
.
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Rasmussen, Bjørn (1968).
Filmens hvem-vad-hvor: Udenlanske film 1950?1967
(in Danish). Politiken. p. 876.
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Benjamin Haase, Manfred Haase (2021).
Chronik des deutschsprachigen Films
(in German). Lit. p. 270.
ISBN
978-3-643-15005-9
.
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Prinzler, Hans Helmut (2016).
Chronik des deutschen Films 1895?1994
(in German). J.B. Metzler. p. 254.
ISBN
978-3-476-03585-1
.
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"Es"
(in German). Moviepilot.de
. Retrieved
30 June
2022
.
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H. G. Pflaum.
"On the history of the German candidates for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film"
. German Films. Archived from
the original
on 13 August 2007
. Retrieved
30 June
2022
.
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"Festival de Cannes: It"
.
festival-cannes.com
. Retrieved
30 June
2022
.
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"Ernst Jacobi gestorben"
(in German). ZDF. 23 June 2022
. Retrieved
25 June
2022
.
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Moeller, Hans Bernhard; Lellis, George L. (2012).
Volker Schlondorff's Cinema ? Adaptation, Politics, and the "Movie-Appropriate"
. Southern Illinois University Press. p. 2.
ISBN
978-0-8093-8939-1
.
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Carter, Erica.
"Germany Pale Mother: a rediscovered classic of New German Cinema"
.
British Film Institute
. Retrieved
30 June
2022
.
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"Pakten ? The Sunset Boys"
(in Danish). Scope.dk
. Retrieved
30 June
2022
.
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Mitchell, Charles P. (2015).
The Hitler Filmography
. McFarland. pp. 81?83.
ISBN
9781476609843
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"Schauspieler Ernst Jacobi mit 88 Jahren gestorben"
.
tagesschau.de
(in German). 23 June 2022
. Retrieved
24 June
2022
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"Die chinesische Mauer"
(in German). Filmportal.de
. Retrieved
30 June
2022
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a
b
"Synchronsprecher ? Ernst Jacobi"
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Deutsche Synchronkartei
(in German). 29 June 2022
. Retrieved
29 June
2022
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Roger Ebert's Movie yearbook 2013
. Andrews McMeel Publishing. 2013. p. 666.
ISBN
978-1-4494-2311-7
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a
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"Schauspieler Ernst Jacobi gestorben"
.
Die Zeit
(in German)
. Retrieved
24 June
2022
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"Ernst Jacobi Vita"
Archived
29 June 2022 at the
Wayback Machine
(PDF), mr-management.de
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