Hans Moser

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Hans Moser, 1942

Hans Moser (born August 6, 1880 in Vienna ; † June 19, 1964 there ) was an Austrian folk actor . His real name was Johann Julier . Jean Julier or Jean Juliet are often incorrectly mentioned as official names.

Life

Memorial plaque in Vienna

Johann Julier was the third of four children of French-born Hungarian Franz Julier (1838–1898), an academic sculptor , and his wife Serafina (1852–1912), who ran a dairy shop on Vienna's Naschmarkt . He grew up in Vienna- Margareten . A commemorative plaque has been placed on the following building, Rechts Wienzeile 93–95, where the Hotel Ananas is located today. Even as a child, Moser dreamed of the stage, but his parents were against an acting career. According to her wishes, the future actor began an apprenticeship as an accountant in a leather goods store.

Hans Moser in 1902

The young Johann Julier received speaking lessons from the court actor Josef Moser , whose family name he adopted as his stage name. Then he went on touring theaters across the country. In 1897 he had his first engagement at the Reichenberg City Theater in Bohemia . The apparent breakthrough followed in 1903 when he was appointed to the prestigious Theater in der Josefstadt , which was then headed by Josef Jarno . He failed, however, because his appearance and height of 1.57 m made him unsuitable for the lover roles appropriate to his age. Therefore, in 1907 he went again with touring theaters through the countries of Austria-Hungary ; from 1910 he had smaller revue , cabaret and theater engagements in Vienna. On August 5, 1911, he married Blanka (later: Blanca) Hirschler (1890–1974), who came from a Jewish family. In 1913 their daughter Margarete was born. This year he had his first successes in solo roles as a comedian in the basement stage "Max and Moritz" in St. Annahof (Vienna) .

Bust in the Hans-Moser-Park in the Viennese district Hietzing

During the First World War he served on the Isonzo front with the German masters and used jokes to distract his comrades so admirably from the cruel everyday life of the war that from now on he saw his future in the comic field. After the war he had regular appearances in the Viennese cabarets “ Budapester Orpheum ”, “Reklame”, “Hell”, “ Leopoldi-Wiesenthal ” and in Heinrich Eisenbach's “Intimate Theater”. In 1922 Fritz Löhner-Beda wrote the solo one-act play " I am the caretaker of the Siebenerhaus " for him . In 1923 Robert Stolz finally noticed him and engaged him for a revue at the Ronachertheater . Two years later, Max Reinhardt brought the actor back to the Theater in der Josefstadt, where he played in plays by Nestroy , Schnitzler and Horváth . In 1925 the first article about Moser's work appeared in the Neue Freie Presse , where he was described as the youngest and last Viennese Hanswurst .

Hans Moser as a "clerk"
(around 1924)

He quickly became Reinhardt's favorite actor and accompanied him on his US tour in 1927/28, where he could be seen in " Midsummer Night's Dream " on New York's Broadway, among other places . In Vienna he was soon only called “Der Moser” - just like the popular actor and comedian Alexander Girardi once referred to as “Der Girardi” . Moser became a very busy actor and comedian on the Viennese stages. There he played mumbling, rumbling, grumbling (Viennese peculiarity of gossiping and whining) and with circular movements strange types, mostly servants or other petty bourgeois such as grocers , tailors and servants , but also circus characters. In 1922 he took on the role of a notary in “Clothes Make People” , followed by smaller roles in silent films. He also achieved great fame with his role as a “mute” servant in “The Family Without Morals” . But it was only in the sound film that he was able to develop his full originality, as he had already shown in the theater. He got his first role in a sound film in 1930 as a supporting actor in "Money on the Street" .

Hans Moser often portrayed people in his films who undergo major changes in the course of the plot. In Das Gäßchen zum Paradies he plays a dog catcher who becomes a dog lover, in Anton, the last one a limitless admirer of the nobility who mutates into the advocate of the little man, in Das Ferienkind a disgruntled pensioner who once made his own daughter because of the choice had rejected her husband and became a loving grandfather through his grandson, and in Der Herr Kanzleirat an old misogynist who fell for a young woman in his later days.

Hans Moser's villa in Vienna-Hietzing, Auhofstrasse 76–78, entrance Hügelgasse 2, today the embassy of the Republic of Azerbaijan, with a memorial plaque.
Honorary grave at the Vienna Central Cemetery (32C-27)

During the National Socialist era , Moser refused to agree to a divorce from his Jewish wife. In 1939 she had to emigrate to Hungary , Moser's daughter, who was already married, emigrated to Argentina. It was only because of his popularity that Moser was able to continue working as a film actor in German films despite his marriage. After the Second World War , the couple lived together again in the villa in Vienna-Hietzing, Auhofstrasse 76-78.

After the end of the war, Moser was engaged, among other things, at the Vienna Burgtheater , where he received the highest praise from critics and audiences, especially for his embodiment of Weiring in Arthur Schnitzler's Liebelei .

In 1961, Moser played once again the magical king in Ödön von Horváth's Tales from the Vienna Woods for an Austrian TV version , which he had embodied in 1931 at the premiere in Berlin . In 1964, Hans Moser died of lung cancer . Moser was buried in Vienna's central cemetery, mourners were Franz Jonas , Paul Hörbiger , Paula Wessely with daughter Christiane Hörbiger . In 1974 his wife Blanca was also buried in the central cemetery.

Moser's frequent film partners were Theo Lingen and Paul Hörbiger , with whom he was also friends.

Moser was also a popular singer of Viennese songs . The best known is probably the phylloxera . His distinctive mumbling voice is still used today by voice imitators in cabaret and for advertising purposes. The contemporary press sometimes spoke of "Nuschel-Moser".

Contrary to popular belief, the expression “mosern” or “rummosern” is not derived from Hans Moser, but from the Yiddish or Red Welsch synonymous “mossern”. In the Viennese dialect, the expression "moan" is rarely used, here it means "grumble" instead.

Inheritance dispute between mother and daughter

Their daughter Margarete emigrated to Argentina after she married the Romanian businessman Martin Hasdeu in 1935 . In July 1948, Hans Moser traveled to South America to see his daughter, where he also gave a guest performance at the German-speaking theater in Buenos Aires . The daughter asked her parents for an advance on her inheritance in order to build a living in Buenos Aires. Her mother never forgave her. When Margarete adopted an Argentine boy after the death of her child in 1963, the conflict deepened. In 1971 her mother disinherited her. After her mother's death in 1974, Margarete went to court against the disinheritance. Only after 15 years of court hearings did she receive the compulsory portion of her father's inheritance of 12 million schillings , but died six months later. Blanca Moser bequeathed most of the assets to the "Hans and Blanca Moser Foundation".

Filmography (selection)

Silent films

  • 1918: the baby
  • 1923: Hoffmann's stories
  • 1924: The city without Jews
  • 1924: Ssanin
  • 1925: The Toys of Paris
  • 1926: The Feldherrnhügel
  • 1926: Schützenliesel
  • 1927: The family without morals
  • 1927: Madame makes an affair
  • 1928: lace panties and cobbler's bad luck
  • 1928: The Lampelgasse

Sound films

Discographic notes

  • Servus Wien (with Paul Hörbiger, 1964, last published recording with Hans Moser)

Awards and honors

Monument to Hans Moser in Gumpoldskirchen

literature

Film about Moser

  • Hans Moser in private. FRG, 1961. 15 min., Director: Jacques Renard. ARD A visit from Peter Frankenfeld to Hans Moser. First broadcast July 6, 1961.
  • That was Hans Moser - memories of a great comedian. Documentary, FRG / Austria, 1969, 60 min., Director: Helmut Dimko. Broadcast by ZDF / ORF on the 5th anniversary of death. First broadcast: July 26, 1969 (ZDF)
  • Hans Moser , Series: Stars that passed , first broadcast: May 2, 1977 (WDR)
  • Subject: Hans Moser , Series: All or nothing , First broadcast: January 28, 1986 (ARD)
  • The eternal servant - a portrait of Hans Moser. Documentary, Austria, 50, 2010, p 50 Min, written and directed. Wolfgang Liemberger , production: Thalia film, ORF , 3sat , Row: zeit.geschichte , first broadcast: August 21, 2010 at ORF III , Summary of ORF , Video on YouTube , December 18, 2017, accessed on March 4, 2018. Among others, with Senta Berger , Christoph Waltz , Otto Schenk , Waltraut Haas , Karl Merkatz , Lotte Michner (Hans Moser's niece).

Web links

Commons : Hans Moser  - album with pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Julier Franz. Photos of the grave of Hans Moser's father at the Vienna Central Cemetery. In: viennatouristguide.at. Retrieved November 26, 2018 .
  2. ↑ Rudolf Simm: Reichenberg - a short portrait. In : reichenberg.de , November 20, 2009, accessed on January 28, 2018.
  3. ↑ Who were Hans and Blanca Moser? (No longer available online.) In: Hans and Blanca Moser Foundation / Medical University of Vienna . Archived from the original on August 2, 2015 ; accessed on July 24, 2017 .
  4. ↑ From Birth to Death: Historic Addresses in Vienna. In: stadtbekannt.at. August 8, 2018, accessed September 22, 2019 .
  5. ↑ Funeral of the actor Hans Moser at the Vienna Central Cemetery, funeral procession comes out of the church, the coffin is carried over a staircase, behind it the procession of mourners, on the sides numerous wreaths of flowers and funeral guests. Black and white photo by Fritz Kern, October 24, 1964. In: bildarchivaustria.at. Austrian National Library, accessed on September 16, 2019 .
  6. ^ Hugo Portisch, Georg Markus: Between us said: encounters with contemporary witnesses . Amalthea Signum, 2014, ISBN 978-3-902998-58-3 , pp. 66 .
  7. ^ Hugo Portisch, Georg Markus: The beloved father, the hated mother: Hans Moser's family tragedy. In: Between us said: encounters with contemporary witnesses. Amalthea Signum, Vienna 2014, ISBN 978-3-902998-58-3 , p. 66 ( limited preview in Google book search)
  8. ↑ Georg Markus : Only the audience is to blame , Amalthea Signum, Vienna 2014, ISBN 978-3-902998-48-4 , p. 156 ( limited preview in Google book search)
personal data
SURNAME Moser, Hans
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Julier, Johann (real name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian folk actor
DATE OF BIRTH August 6, 1880
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna
DATE OF DEATH June 19, 1964
Place of death Vienna