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Ernst Jacobi
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Ernst Gerhard Ludwig Jacobi-Scherbening, professionally called Ernst Jacobi (ɛʁnst ˈjaːkɔbiː; 11 July 1933 – 23 June 2022), was a German actor. He was known for serious character roles, 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 Zürich from 1987 to 1992. In 1975 he won the Berliner Kunstpreis for his portrayal of Alexander März in the television film Das Leben des schizophrenen Dichters Alexander März.
Ernst Gerhard Ludwig Jacobi-Scherbening was born in Berlin on 11 July 1933. 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. 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. After completing school with the Abitur in 1951, he trained to be an actor at the Max-Reinhardt-Schule Berlin until 1953. In the 1960s, he studied at the Stage d'été sur le mime in Paris and London with Jacques Lecoq.
Jacobi began his theatre career in Berlin, engaged at the Hebbel-Theater from 1951. He moved to the Theater am Kurfürstendamm, the Tribüne and the Schillertheater in Berlin. He then played at the Deutsches Schauspielhaus in Hamburg, and the Münchner Kammerspiele. He worked at the Burgtheater in Vienna from 1977 to 1987, and at the Schauspielhaus Zürich from 1987 to 1992.
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.
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