Aurel Nowotny

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Aurel Nowotny , real name Aurel Novotny (born July 18, 1881 in Sisak , Austria-Hungary , today Croatia ; † November 17, 1947 in Vienna , Austria ), was an Austrian actor in the stage and film industry, a theater director and dramaturge and a sound engineer with Film, radio- employee in the development of the Austrian radio and finally also trade unionist .

Live and act

The farmer's son had worked as an actor since the beginning of the 20th century and came to Vienna for the first time with a traveling stage in 1903 and made his debut in Gustav Freytag's comedy Die Journalisten at the Burgtheater there . He was active on central stages in the three most important German-speaking countries in Europe: in the first decade at Zurich's Stadttheater under the direction of Alfred Reucker , in the second decade, before and during the First World War , at Berlin's New People's Theater under the artistic direction of Adolf Edgar Licho , and in the third decade, right after the First World War at the beginning of the 1920s, at Vienna's Deutsches Volkstheater under the direction of Alfred Bernau . Other theater stations were Berlin's Residenztheater, the City Theater of Wiener Neustadt and Vienna's Raimundtheater. Nowotny also worked at the Theater in der Josefstadt under Max Reinhardt . As director of Robert Musil's Der Knecht , he was certified in Vienna in October 1924 as having “too soft a hand for this tough task”.

At this time Nowotny, who had returned to Austria during the First World War, had already appeared in several films (including the title role in Franz Hofer's Der Eremit ), both from Berlin and Vienna. After the war, Nowotny began to work as an acting teacher, one of his students was Rolf Wanka . In later years, Nowotny rarely took on permanent theater engagements, and he hardly appeared in front of the camera anymore. Only at the beginning of the sound film era in Germany, in the early 1930s, a few cinematic activities can be identified, for example as a sound engineer for the sound version of Henrik Galeen's The Student of Prague , as well as at Stürmisch the night and dancers wanted for South America , where Nowotny got the sound editing. As an employee of Radio Verkehrs AG (RAVAG), from 1930 he concentrated on the production of radio plays.

Nowotny's last theater activities took place in Vienna during the Second World War : until 1942 he served as dramaturge, director and actor at the Kammerspiele (theater in Rotenturmstraße) led by Hanns Schott-Schöbingers , of which he had been director exactly ten years earlier . In the two following seasons (1942–1944) up to the closure of all imperial German theaters ordered by Joseph Goebbels , Nowotny is evidenced in the same position at the Vienna Citizens' Theater under Robert Valberg's direction . At times he was also forced to work as a laborer in the German armaments industry. After the end of the Second World War, Aurel Nowotny did his last (1947) as president of the resurrected Austrian theater union for the restoration of Austrian workers' rights in the theater.

Nowotny, who died on November 17, 1947, was buried four days later in the Döbling cemetery.

Filmography (as an actor)

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Nowotny on books.google.de

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personal data
SURNAME Nowotny, Aurel
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Novotny, Aurel (real name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian actor, director, acting teacher and dramaturge
DATE OF BIRTH July 18, 1881
PLACE OF BIRTH Sisak , Austria-Hungary
DATE OF DEATH November 17, 1947
Place of death Vienna