Ernest Gébler
Ernest Gébler (31 December 1914[1] – 26 January 1998), sometimes credited as Ernie Gebler, was an Irish writer of Czech origin. He was a member of Aosdána.[2]
Early and personal life
Gébler was born in Dublin, one of five children of Adolf (or Adolphe) Gébler, a shopkeeper and musician of Czech Jewish origin who had married a Dublin theatre usherette.[3][4] The family moved to Wolverhampton in 1925.[1][3] In 1930 Adolf got a job with a Dublin light opera company and Ernest followed the rest of the family there in 1931.[3] Ernest worked backstage in the Gate Theatre in the 1930s.[2] He was first married to Leatrice Gilbert, daughter of the actors John Gilbert and Leatrice Joy, whom he met on a trip to Hollywood. The couple moved to Ireland, got married and had a son John Karl (called Karl by Ernest but John by his mother). They were divorced in 1952,[3] and mother and baby returned to America. In Dublin in 1952 Gébler met future novelist Edna O'Brien, then working in a pharmacist's shop.[5] After opposition from O'Brien's family, they moved to England, married in 1954, and had two sons, Karl (later Carlo) and Sasha, who became respectively a writer and an architect.[5] O'Brien's literary career eclipsed Gébler's after her debut novel The Country Girls in 1960. The couple separated in 1964 and divorced in 1968,[6] with O'Brien eventually getting sole custody of the children.[4] Both O'Brien and Carlo Gébler later wrote about Ernest's cruelty to the family. Gébler returned to Dublin in 1970, and died there in 1998 of a bronchial infection, after several years with Alzheimer's disease.[3]
Works
Title | Type | Year | Notes | Refs |
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He Had My Heart Scalded | novel | 1946[n 1] | [2][7] | |
The Voyage of the Mayflower | novel | 1950 | Historical novel based on the 1620 Mayflower voyage. Sold five million copies. Filmed in 1952 as Plymouth Adventure starring Spencer Tracy | [2][9] |
She Sits Smiling | play | 1954 | Premièred at the Pike Theatre | [2][10] |
A Week in the Country | novel | 1957 | [2][11] | |
The Love Investigator | novel | 1960 | [2][12] | |
Eileen O'Roon | play | [2] | ||
Why Aren't You Famous? | teleplay | 1966 | For the BBC. Adapted from his play Eileen O'Roon. A German version was broadcast in 1969. | [2][13][14] |
Where Will I find what will Change my Life? | teleplay | 1966 | [2][15][16] | |
Call Me Daddy | teleplay | 1967 | "Armchair Theatre" episode on ABC broadcast 8 April 1967. Edited by Terence Feely and directed by Alvin Rakoff. Won the 1968 International Emmy for Entertainment. Expanded into his novel Shall I Eat You Now?. A German version was broadcast in 1970. Staged at the Project Arts Centre in 1975. | [2][17][18][19][20][21][22] |
The Old Man and the Girl | novel | 1968 | [2][23] | |
A Little Milk of Human Kindness | teleplay | 1968 | For London Weekend Television | [2][24] |
Women Can be Monsters | teleplay | 1968 | "The Wednesday Play" on BBC One, 27 November 1968. Produced by Thames Television | [2][25][26] |
Shall I Eat You Now? | novel | 1969 | Based on his teleplay Call Me Daddy. Released in the USA as Hoffman, and filmed in 1970 also as Hoffman. | [2][18][27] |
Hoffman | screenplay | 1970 | Based on his novel Shall I Eat You Now? | [2] |
A Cry for Help | play | 1975 | Premièred at the Peacock Theatre, Dublin | [2][28] |
The Spaniards in Galway | play | [2] |
References
Footnotes
Sources
- Gebler, Carlo (2013-05-02). Father And I: A Memoir. Little, Brown Book Group. ISBN 9781405529341. Retrieved 7 August 2015.
- Kersnowski, Alice Hughes (2013-12-02). "Chronology". Conversations with Edna O'Brien. Univ. Press of Mississippi. pp. xvii–xviii. ISBN 9781617038730. Retrieved 7 August 2015.
- O'Brien, Edna (2012-09-24). Country Girl: A memoir. Faber & Faber. ISBN 9780571270941. Retrieved 7 August 2015.
- Woods, Michelle (2006). "Ernest Gebler and Edna O'Brien". In Laing, Kathryn; Mooney, Sinéad; O'Connor, Maureen. Edna O'Brien: New Critical Perspectives. Peter Lang. pp. 54–67. ISBN 9781904505204. Retrieved 7 August 2015.
Citations
- 1 2 Gebler 2013 p.21
- 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 "Ernest Gébler(1915-1998)". Former members. Aosdána. Retrieved 7 August 2015.
- 1 2 3 4 5 6 Donnelly, Rachel (3 February 1998). "Ernest Gebler: an emotional Dubliner". The Irish Times. Retrieved 7 August 2015.
- 1 2 MacLeish, William H. (2 December 2001). "The Tyrant (review of Father & I: A Memoir by Carlo Gébler)". The New York Times.
- 1 2 Kersnowski p.xvii
- ↑ Woods 2006, p.55
- 1 2 OCLC 559611125
- ↑ Gebler 2013 p.24
- ↑ OCLC 290861
- ↑ "She Sits Smiling". Playography Ireland. Irish Theatre Institute. Retrieved 7 August 2015.
- ↑ OCLC 1658836
- ↑ OCLC 1015215
- ↑ "Why Aren't You Famous? (1966)". British Film Institute. Retrieved 7 August 2015.
- ↑ "Warum bist du nicht berühmt? (TV Movie 1969)". Internet Movie Database. Retrieved 7 August 2015.
- ↑ "Recent Television". Spotlight (118, part 2): 1931. 1966.
- ↑ "Where Shall I Find What Will Change My Life (1966)". British Film Institute. Retrieved 7 August 2015.
- ↑ White, Leonard (2003). Armchair Theatre: The Lost Years. Kelly Publications. pp. 19–20, 191–192, 212–214, 275. ISBN 9781903053188. Retrieved 7 August 2015.
- 1 2 Woods 2006, p.61
- ↑ "Early Television". Alvin Rakoff. Retrieved 7 August 2015.
- ↑ O’Mahony, Andy (21 April 1975). "Call Me Daddy at the Project". Over the Barricades. RTÉ Television. Retrieved 7 August 2015.
- ↑ "Call Me Daddy (1967)". British Film Institute. Retrieved 7 August 2015.
- ↑ "Zum Diktat, Miss Smith (TV Movie 1970)". Internet Movie Database. Retrieved 7 August 2015.
- ↑ OCLC 438268
- ↑ "A Little Milk of Human Kindness (1968)". British Film Institute. Retrieved 7 August 2015.
- ↑ The Stage Year Book. Carson & Comerford Ltd. 1969. p. 124.
- ↑ "Women Can Be Monsters (1968)". British Film Institute. Retrieved 7 August 2015.
- ↑ OCLC 37694
- ↑ "Cry For Help". Playography Ireland. Irish Theatre Institute. Retrieved 7 August 2015.
Further readings
- Carlo Gébler: **The projectionist : the story of Ernest Gébler, Stillorgan, County Dublin, Republic of Ireland : New Island Books, 2015, ISBN 978-1-84840-457-1