Metadata: Estate of Egon Karter
Collection
- Country:
- Switzerland
- Holding institution:
- Archives of Contemporary History at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich
- Holding institution (official language):
- Archiv für Zeitgeschichte der ETH Zürich
- Postal address:
- Hirschengraben 62, CH-8092 Zurich
- Phone number:
- +41 44 632 40 03
- Web address:
- https://www.afz.ethz.ch/
- Email:
- afz@history.gess.ethz.ch
- Reference number:
- NL Egon Karter
- Title:
- Estate of Egon Karter
- Title (official language):
- Nachlass Egon Karter
- Creator/accumulator:
- Karter, Egon
- Date(s):
- 1931/2001
- Language:
- German
- Dutch; Flemish
- Extent:
- 0.25 shelf metres
- Type of material:
- Textual material
- Physical condition:
- good
- Scope and content:
- In addition to a large number of photographs, the collection also includes identity cards, theatre brochures, audio documents and speeches.
- Archival history:
- Following the death of Egon Karter in 2006, his widow, Charlotte Karter-Sender, handed over part of his estate to the director of the Jewish Museum Basel, Katia Guth-Dreyfus. In 2007, the material was transferred to the AfZ through the mediation of Guth-Dreyfus. Charlotte Karter-Sender, who died in 2008, submitted personal material about herself in a follow-up delivery in 2007.
- Administrative/biographical history:
- Egon Karter, actor, theatre director and publisher, was born in Ostrava (now in Czechia) on 18 October 1911 and died in Basel on 7 November 2006. He was the son of Josef and Helene Karter. From 1936 to 1938 he was married to Joke Senstius (their son Jérôme was born in 1937), and from 1950 to Charlotte Sender, a singer and actor. From 1928, Karter had various engagements at theatres and travelling theatres, later at the Vienna Volksoper and in 1935 he had a supporting role in the feature film "The Secret of the Moonlight Sonata" (Kurt Gerron). After that he had engagements at the Corso Theatre Zurich and at the Stadttheater Basel, and in 1940 he founded the theatre group "Klaver Vier" in the Hague, Netherlands. In 1942, Karter fled to Switzerland and was interned in Witzwil, Raron and Kloten. From 1943 to 1945, he earned a work permit through engagement at the Stadttheater Biel-Solothurn. In 1946, Karter became head of the theatre department at the Kurt-Reiss-Verlag Basel and in 1950, he founded the Komödie Basel, which he managed until the merger with the Stadttheater in 1968. From 1973 to 1988, he managed the Reiss-Verlag.
- Access points: locations:
- Switzerland
- Subject terms:
- Personal records
- Theatre
- Finding aids:
- An online finding aid is available.
- Links to finding aids:
- http://onlinearchives.ethz.ch/
- Yerusha Network member:
- Jewish Museum Hohenems
- Author of the description:
- Severin Holzknecht; Jewish Museum of Hohenems; 2020