--- name: "Ernst Jacobi" canonical: "https://film.one/person/ernst-jacobi" fi1m_id: "ernst-jacobi" imdb_id: "nm0414272" tmdb_id: 26498 wikidata_id: "Q72768" roles: ["Actor"] born: "11 July 1933" died: "23 June 2022" reviewed_on_fi1m: 2 average_fi1m_score: 82 average_as: "actor" average_over: 2 updated: "2026-09-26T00:36:59.169985+00:00" licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL." --- # Ernst Jacobi ## Identity Ernst Jacobi - **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/ernst-jacobi - **Type:** Person - **Fi1m ID:** ernst-jacobi - **IMDb ID:** nm0414272 - **TMDB ID:** 26498 - **Wikidata ID:** Q72768 - **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ernst_Jacobi, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q72768, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0414272/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/26498 Actor. Born 11 July 1933 in Berlin, Germany. Died 23 June 2022. ## Details - **Work:** Actor - **Born:** 11 July 1933, Berlin, Germany - **Died:** 23 June 2022 - **Active:** 1979–2009 - **Berlin International Film Festival:** 1 Berlin prize (1 won) - **Average Fi1m score:** 82, as actor, over 2 titles - **Fi1m score by decade:** 1970s 78 (1), 2000s 86 (1) - **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ernst_Jacobi, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q72768, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0414272/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/26498 ## Fi1m on Ernst Jacobi > Ernst Jacobi was well suited to difficult men and figures of authority, but we value the reflective quality of his voice most. In *The White Ribbon*, he makes an older man's recollection worth attending to. In *The White Ribbon* (2009), Ernst Jacobi supplies a voice for a man whose younger self we watch on screen. Christian Friedel plays the schoolteacher with a gentleness that helps us stay with Michael Haneke's harsh village mystery; Jacobi gives us the older man's recollection. His narration brings reflection and distance. We value that quiet contribution, though the affection we feel for the teacher owes much to Friedel. The casting keeps the act of remembering separate from the younger man's immediate experience. Jacobi's early film roles date from 1957; wider notice came with character parts in the late 1970s and 1980s. He played the Gauleiter Löbsack in Volker Schlöndorff's *The Tin Drum* (1979), then Hans opposite Eva Mattes in Helma Sanders-Brahms's *Germany, Pale Mother* (1980). The latter gave him a leading role in a drama about the effects of Nazism and war on personal lives. Jan Troell later cast him as Adolf Hitler in *Hamsun* (1996). Those parts fit his reputation for serious, psychologically complicated characters, and for convincing figures of authority. The recollection in *The White Ribbon* includes tenderness as well as cruelty. We were moved by the younger teacher's awkward courtship of Eva, played by Leonie Benesch, because their effort to be kind felt startling after so much adult severity. Haneke allows that affection to occupy the same film as cruelty, and the older voice holds both within one recollection. Christian Berger's black-and-white photography makes the long scrutiny worth enduring, although the severity can become repetitive. Jacobi's regular work as a narrator and dubbing actor gives us another way into a career so often associated with difficult or broken men. That reputation can encourage us to listen for severity when the useful quality is reflection. We recommend *The White Ribbon* with the warning that Haneke offers little relief, however welcome the courtship is. Then try *Germany, Pale Mother* to see what Jacobi does with a leading role. ## Biography Ernst Jacobi was a German actor. Born in Berlin on 11 July 1933, he died in Vienna on 23 June 2022. He appeared in theatre, film and television from the 1950s until 2017, and provided voice work including dubbing. After completing his Abitur he trained as an actor at the Max-Reinhardt-Schule in Berlin and studied mime in Paris and London. He worked at the Burgtheater in Vienna from 1977 to 1987 and at the Schauspielhaus Zürich from 1987 to 1992. Jacobi is known for his role as Löbsack in *The Tin Drum* (1979) and as the narrator, the School Teacher as an Old Man (voice), in *The White Ribbon* (2009). He appeared in more than 200 television productions, including episodes of *Derrick* and *Scene of the Crime*, and received the Berliner Kunstpreis in 1975. *Sources: en.wikipedia.org, imdb.com.* ## On Fi1m (2) - *The White Ribbon* (2009), Fi1m 86, as The School Teacher as an Old Man (voice) — [page](https://film.one/film/the-white-ribbon.md) - *The Tin Drum* (1979), Fi1m 78, as Löbsack — [page](https://film.one/film/the-tin-drum.md) ## Complete filmography (109) Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page. - *Schächer* (2018), Actor - *Twilight Eternal* (2017), as Magnus Dutt - *Masserberg* (2010), as Professor Heinrich - *The White Ribbon* (2009), as The School Teacher as an Old Man (voice) — Fi1m 86, [page](https://film.one/film/the-white-ribbon.md) - *Geld.Macht.Liebe* (2009), series, as Friedrich Blessmann - *Dr. Hope* (2009), as Richter - *Mein alter Freund Fritz* (2007), as Prof. Hinkel - *Im Chaos der Gefühle* (2007), as Arzt - *Papa und Mama* (2006), as Prof. Hampe - *Mörder in Weiß - Der Tod lauert im OP* (2005), as Prof. Winkler - *Neue Freunde, neues Glück* (2005), as Rupert Neumann - *Familie Sonnenfeld* (2005), series, as Martin - *The Tree of Life* (2005), as (voice) - *My Magical Friend Sams* (2003), as Principal Watermann - *Hannas Baby* (2002), as Prof. Graefe - *Ein Mann gibt nicht auf* (2000), Actor - *Tödliche Schatten* (1999), Actor - *Hamsun* (1996), as Adolf Hitler - *Das Siegel des Todes* (1996), as Marcus Noah - *Sperling* (1996), series, as Lichblau - *Zerrissene Herzen* (1996), as Kramer - *Girl friends – Freundschaft mit Herz* (1995), series, as Dr. Ahlbaum - *Die Grube* (1995), as Friedrich W. Liebe - *Roula* (1995), as Sievers - *The Sunset Boys* (1995), as Leonard Haas - *Tödliches Geld* (1995), as Monsignore Francis Belmont - *Der Nachlaß* (1994), Actor - *Von Frau zu Frau: Die Sammlerin* (1994), as Dr. Nesselhoff - *Faust* (1994), series, as Weishaupt - *Einmal Macht und zurück - Engholms Fall* (1994), Actor - *Imperfect Crimes* (1993), as Professor Andrea Negrini - *My Name is Victor* (1993), as Milos - *Morlock* (1993), series, as Drebkod - *Tote Briefe* (1991), Actor - *Success* (1991), as Dr. Siegbert Geier - *Café Meineid* (1990), series, as Pfarrer Zock - *Bastard* (1989), series, as Vandenberg - *Peter Strohm* (1989), series, Actor - *Wie du mir..* (1989), as Richard Richardson - *Lenin: The Train* (1988), Actor - *Anwalt Abel* (1988), series, as Feicht - *Ede und das Kind* (1988), as Gottfreid Jahnke - *Eine geschlossene Gesellschaft* (1987), as Bernhard Hürfeld - *Vom Webstuhl zur Weltmacht* (1983), series, as Fugger der Reiche - *Frau Jenny Treibel* (1982), as Professor Willibald Schmidt - *Krimistunde* (1982), series, Actor - *Sommergäste* (1981), as Salimov Jakov Petrovic - *Germany Pale Mother* (1980), as Hans - *Der Mörder* (1979), as Frans - *The Great Runaway* (1979), series, Actor - *The Tin Drum* (1979), as Löbsack — Fi1m 78, [page](https://film.one/film/the-tin-drum.md) - *Vor Sonnenaufgang* (1979), as Loth - *SOKO München* (1978), series, as Victor Schreiber - *Die Geburtstagsfeier* (1978), as Goldberg - *The Old Fox* (1977), series, as Friedrich Wallberg, Harry Wolgast, Herbert Walser - *Sonntagsgeschichten* (1976), as Guest - *Der Hofmeister* (1976), as Läuffer - *Das Leben des schizophrenen Dichters Alexander März* (1975), as Alexander März - *Die Gewehre der Frau Carrar* (1975), as Padre - *Derrick* (1974), series, as Dr. Soest, Dr. Lothar Lippert, Sasse Senior, Gottfried Ehring, Johann von Landinius - *Der zerbrochene Krug* (1974), as Schreiber Licht - *Playhouse* (1974), series, as Adolf Hitler - *The Last Days of Gomorrah* (1974), as Plutonius - *Farmers, Politics and Bombs* (1973), series, as Max Tredup - *Der Angestellte* (1972), as Klaus Thieme - *Einfach sterben* (1971), as Wagnière - *Polizeiruf 110* (1971), series, as Claus Grübner - *Der Kirschgarten* (1970), as Trofimow - *Scene of the Crime* (1970), series, as Horst Pflüger, Krischke, Ulrich Wilpert - *Der Tod des Deputierten Jean Jaurès* (1970), as Restaurierer Raoul Villain - *Abseits* (1970), as Edmund Geuge - *Die Räuber* (1969), as Franz - *Goldene Städte* (1969), as Andrew Cobham - *Graf Öderland* (1968), as Der Mörder - *Affäre Dreyfuss* (1968), series, as Oberstleutnant von Schwartzkoppen - *Zeit der halben Herzen* (1968), as Karl - *Mathilde Möhring* (1968), as Hugo Grossmann - *Der Teufel und der liebe Gott* (1967), as Heinrich - *Abschied vier Uhr früh* (1967), as John Jo Mulligan - *Jegor Bulytschow und andere* (1966), as Tjatin - *Thérèse Raquin* (1966), as Camille Raquin - *Der Mitbürger* (1966), as Lenneweit - *Kubinke* (1966), as Emil Kubinke - *Die chinesische Mauer* (1965), as Mute Son - *One Day: A Report from a German Concentration Camp 1939* (1965), as Pfarrer - *Michael Kramer* (1965), as Arnold Kramer - *Das große Ohr* (1965), as Robert Blaise - *Skorpione* (1964), as Herr Geisler - *Campingplatz* (1964), as Frank - *Karl Sand* (1964), as Asmis - *Die Nacht am See* (1963), Actor - *Mauern* (1963), as Hans Nast - *Schlachtvieh* (1963), as Hartmann, Pfarrer - *Kapitän Karagöz* (1963), as Kostas - *Nachruf auf Jürgen Trahnke* (1962), as Jürgen Trahnke - *Meine beste Freundin* (1962), as Rudd Kendall - *Im sechsten Stock* (1961), as Jojo - *Heute gehn wir bummeln* (1961), Actor - *Black Gravel* (1961), as Kriminalbeamter - *Die Dame ist nicht fürs Feuer* (1960), as Richard - *Das Fenster zum Flur* (1960), as Herbert Wiesner - *Der Prozeß Mary Dugan* (1960), as James Madison - *The Day the Rains Came* (1959), as Fritz - *Neues aus dem sechsten Stock* (1959), as Jojo - *Die Bürger von Calais* (1958), as Jacques de Wissant - *The Big Chance* (1957), as Tommy Reichmann - *The Casino Affair* (1957), as Schauspielschüler - *Möwen über Sorrent* (1956), as Sims - *Of und der Mond* (1956), Actor ## Gallery - ![Ernst Jacobi](https://film.one/media/person/100286/gallery-ce27bd37a5f6.jpg) Ernst Jacobi — DFF Deutsches Filminstitut & Filmmuseum, CC BY 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/0a/Ernst_Jacobi_Deutsches_Filminstitut_%26_Filmmuseum.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail_unscaled) - ![Schauspieler Ernst Jacobi](https://film.one/media/person/100286/gallery-61a6bdc2bfd4.jpg) Schauspieler Ernst Jacobi — Stuart Mentiply, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f0/Ernst_Jacobi_by_Stuart_Mentiply.jpg/1280px-Ernst_Jacobi_by_Stuart_Mentiply.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail) ## Awards ### Berlin International Film Festival — 1 won - 1976: Berliner Kunstpreis (won) *From Wikidata, which records wins more completely than nominations.* --- © Fi1m Ltd. 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