Yaak Karsunke
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Yaak Karsunke (4 June 1934 – 13 May 2025) was a German author and actor.
Life and career
Born on 4 June 1934 in Berlin as son of an engineer and a procurer of a publishing house, Karsunke grew up in the borough of Pankow. In 1949, his family moved to Friedenau in West Berlin, where he passed the Abitur in 1953 and studied jurisprudence for three semesters. From 1955 to 1957, he studied drama at the Max-Reinhardt-Schule, today known as the Ernst Busch Academy of Dramatic Arts.
In 1964, Karsunke moved to Munich, where he became involved with the Script error: No such module "Lang"., becoming a spokesman for the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament in 1968. Along with other leftist authors, he founded the literary review Script error: No such module "Lang"., for which he served as editor-in-chief from 1965 until August 1968, when he resigned as a protest against the Soviet repression of the Prague Spring. Script error: No such module "Unsubst".
In the early 1970s, Karsunke befriended Rainer Werner Fassbinder, appearing in his films Love Is Colder Than Death (1969), Gods of the Plague (1970), and Berlin Alexanderplatz (1980). From 1976 to 1979, he served as Fassbinder's technical adviser at the German Film and Television Academy Berlin. From 1981 to 1999, he taught creative writing at the Berlin University of the Arts.
Karsunke has also worked extensively as a lyricist. Since the late-1960s, he has written many plays and radio dramas. In 1989, he published a crime novel, Toter Mann, for which he won the Script error: No such module "Lang". in 1990.[1]
Karsunke died on 13 May 2025, at the age of 90.[2]
Works
- Script error: No such module "Lang"., Berlin 1967
- Script error: No such module "Lang"., Berlin 1969
- Script error: No such module "Lang"., Weinheim [u.a.] 1970 (with Dietlind Blech)
- Script error: No such module "Lang"., Munich 1972 (with Riki Hachfeld)
- Script error: No such module "Lang"., Script error: No such module "Lang". 1973 (with Peter Janssens)
- Script error: No such module "Lang"., Berlin 1973
- Script error: No such module "Lang"., Script error: No such module "Lang". 1975 (with Peter Janssens)
- Script error: No such module "Lang"., Berlin 1979
- Script error: No such module "Lang"., Script error: No such module "Lang". 1979 (with Wilhelm Dieter Siebert)
- Script error: No such module "Lang"., Berlin 1982
- Script error: No such module "Lang"., Script error: No such module "Lang". 1982
- Script error: No such module "Lang"., Berlin 1984 (with Arwed D. Gorella)
- Script error: No such module "Lang"., Script error: No such module "Lang". 1986
- Script error: No such module "Lang"., Berlin 1989
- Script error: No such module "Lang"., Berlin 1992
- Script error: No such module "Lang"., Munich 2004
In translation
- Arnold Wesker: Script error: No such module "Lang"., Script error: No such module "Lang". 1970 (with Ingrid Karsunke)
References
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- ↑ Death notice Yaak Karsunke. trauer.tagesspiegel.de, 17 May 2025 (in German). Retrieved 17 May 2025.
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External links
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- 1934 births
- 2025 deaths
- German male film actors
- Male actors from Berlin
- 20th-century German male actors
- German-language poets
- German male poets
- German lyricists
- 20th-century German dramatists and playwrights
- German male dramatists and playwrights
- 20th-century German male writers
- Writers from Berlin
- Ernst Busch Academy of Dramatic Arts alumni
- Academic staff of the Berlin University of the Arts