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

Biography

Monk was born in Berlin, Germany and grew up in Berlin-Wedding. He served in the German Air Force in World War II (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, 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 Berlinale.

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 '' Pierre et Jean'') * ' (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, Tadeusz Konwicki) * ''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) * ''Die Räuber'' (1969) — (based on '' The Robbers'') * ''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 ''Die Bertinis'' is a novel by Ralph Giordano published in 1982. The book tells the story of a German-Italian family from the late 19th century until the end of the Second World War. It is heavily autobiographical, focusing largely on the life ...

'' (1988, TV miniseries) — (based on a novel by Ralph Giordano)

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German male television actors German television directors 1927 births 2007 deaths Luftwaffe personnel of World War II German male writers {{germany-actor-stub