Egon Monk (18 May 1927 – 28 February 2007) was a German actor, director and author.

Biography

Monk was born in

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and grew up in Berlin-Wedding. He served in the German Air Force in

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(1943–1945). After the war he became an actor. Later he worked for

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(1954–1959) and for the

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. He died in

Hamburg Hamburg (, ; nds, label=Hamburg German, Low Saxon, Hamborg ), officially the Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg (german: Freie und Hansestadt Hamburg; nds, label=Low Saxon, Friee un Hansestadt Hamborg),. is the List of cities in Germany by popul ...

, Germany. In 2019, a two-part German-Austrian-Czech fictional film was produced as a biopic and docudrama for television from 2019. It deals with the life and work of the playwright and poet

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and features 'Egon Monk' portrayed by

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. The film was shot based on the script by Heinrich Breloer and directed by him. The premiere took place at the 2019

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Awards and honors

Monk won three Teleplay Awards at the Baden-Baden TV Film Festival (1966, 1973, 1989) and one German Critics Association Award (1988).Egon Monk - Awards
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Filmography

Television director

* '' Die Gewehre der Frau Carrar'' (1953) — (based on '' Señora Carrar's Rifles'') * ''Das Geld, das auf der Straße liegt'' (1958) — (based on a play by ) * ''Die Brüder'' (1958) — (based on ''

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'') * ' (1962) — (based on ''

Life of Galileo ''Life of Galileo'' (), also known as ''Galileo'', is a play by the 20th century German dramatist Bertolt Brecht and collaborator Margarete Steffin with incidental music by Hanns Eisler. The play was written in 1938 and received its first theat ...

'') * ''Anfrage'' (1962) — (based on a novel by ) * ''Schlachtvieh'' (1963) — (screenplay by ) * ''Wassa Schelesnowa'' (1963) — (based on '' Vassa Zheleznova'') * ''Mauern'' (1963) — (screenplay by ) * ''Wilhelmsburger Freitag'' (1964) — (screenplay by ) * ' (1965) — (based on a memoir by ) * ''The Moment of Peace'' (1965, TV anthology film, co-directors:

Georges Franju Georges Franju (; 12 April 1912 – 5 November 1987) was a French filmmaker. He was born in Fougères, Ille-et-Vilaine. Biography Early life Before working in French cinema, Franju held several different jobs. These included working for an i ...

Tadeusz Konwicki Tadeusz Konwicki (22 June 1926 – 7 January 2015) was a Polish writer and film director, as well as a member of the Polish Language Council. Life Konwicki was born in 1926 as the only son of Jadwiga Kieżun and Michał Konwicki in Nowa Wilejka, ...

) * ''Preis der Freiheit'' (1966) — (screenplay by ) * ''Über den Gehorsam. Szenen aus Deutschland, wo die Unterwerfung des eigenen Willens unter einen fremden als Tugend gilt'' (1968) * ''Goldene Städte'' (1969) — (based on ''Their Very Own and Golden City'' by

Arnold Wesker Sir Arnold Wesker (24 May 1932 – 12 April 2016) was an English dramatist. He was the author of 50 plays, four volumes of short stories, two volumes of essays, much journalism and a book on the subject, a children's book, some poetry, and ot ...

) * ''Die Räuber'' (1969) — (based on ''

The Robbers ''The Robbers'' (', ) is the first drama by German playwright Friedrich Schiller. The play was published in 1781 and premiered on 13 January 1782 in Mannheim, Germany, and was inspired by Leisewitz' earlier play '' Julius of Taranto''. It was ...

'') * ''Industrielandschaft mit Einzelhändlern'' (1970) * ' (1973, TV miniseries) — (based on a novel by

Hans Fallada Hans Fallada (; born Rudolf Wilhelm Friedrich Ditzen; 21 July 18935 February 1947) was a German writer of the first half of the 20th century. Some of his better known novels include '' Little Man, What Now?'' (1932) and ''Every Man Dies Alone'' ...

) * ''Die Gewehre der Frau Carrar'' (1975) — (based on '' Señora Carrar's Rifles'') * ' (1983, TV film) — (based on ''

The Oppermanns ''The Oppermanns'' (german: Die Geschwister Oppermann) is a 1933 novel by Lion Feuchtwanger. It is the second novel in his ''Wartesaal'' ("The Waiting Room") trilogy, which tells about the rise of Nazism in Germany; the first part of the trilogy i ...

'') * '' Die Bertinis'' (1988, TV miniseries) — (based on a novel by

Ralph Giordano Ralph Giordano (23 March 1923 – 10 December 2014) was a German writer and publicist. Life and career Giordano was born to a Sicilian father and a German Jewish mother in Hamburg. He attended the Gelehrtenschule des Johanneums from 1933 to 1 ...

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