Hermann Thimig

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Hermann Thimig, 1918
Auguste Pünkösdy and Hermann Thimig in Ludwig Anzengruber's double suicide , staged by Max Reinhardt

Hermann Thimig (born October 3, 1890 in Vienna ; † July 7, 1982 ibid) was an Austrian theater and film actor and director .

Life

Hermann Thimig comes from a well-known family of actors. His father, Hugo Thimig , was an actor , director and director of the Vienna Burgtheater . His siblings Helene Thimig and Hans Thimig , with whom he worked several times in the theater and in films, were also actors.

Thimig was already involved in amateur play groups and private performances during his school days in elementary school and grammar school in Vienna as well as in various educational homes (from 1906 to 1908 he attended the free school community in Wickersdorf in the Thuringian Forest ). After completing his military service as a one-year volunteer in Vienna, he made his debut in December 1910 at the Meiningen Court Theater , where his engagement was interrupted in 1914 by the outbreak of the First World War.

When Thimig was declared unfit for the front because of severe furunculosis in 1915 , he used his home leave to give guest performances at the royal theater in Berlin , where he initially played at the Volksbühne .

A change to the Max Reinhardt Ensemble at the Deutsches Theater brought Thimig's breakthrough in 1916. In the same year he made his debut in the film Die Gräfin Heyers and was a film partner of Ossi Oswalda and Henny Porten . In 1918 he led the first time at the Theater of the West Berlin Director . He appeared in three films by Ernst Lubitsch , including in 1921 as a shy bandit in Die Bergkatze .

With the sound film Thimig turned away from the theater and was mainly involved in film operettas and comedies . Only in the mid-1930s did he return to the theater in Vienna, where he mainly took on roles for older men. He also played this in film until the post-war period. After the "Anschluss" of Austria , he was appointed state actor in 1938 . In the final phase of the Second World War , Adolf Hitler included him in the God-gifted list of the most important artists in August 1944 , which also freed him from military service on the home front .

In 1965 he became an honorary member of the Burgtheater and in 1969 he received the gold film ribbon for many years of outstanding work in German film. In 1981 he received the Ring of Honor of the City of Vienna .

From his first marriage to the actress Hanna Thimig-Wisser (1894–1989), daughter of the Eutinian fairy tale professor Wilhelm Wisser (1843–1935), there was a daughter (Christine Pilchowski née Thimig, 1923–2015), who performed on stage until 1945 was standing. From his second marriage to the actress Vilma Degischer (1911–1992) there are two daughters. The daughter Johanna Thimig (1943–2014) worked like her parents in the acting profession.

Hermann Thimig rests in an honorary grave in the Sieveringer Friedhof (section 2, group 13, number 76) in Vienna. His wife Vilma Thimig-Degischer was buried in the same grave ten years later.

Filmography

Radio plays

Grave site in the Sieveringen cemetery

literature

  • Elisabeth Pospischill: Hermann Thimig. An actor biography . Dissertation. University of Vienna, Vienna 1950.

Web links

Commons : Hermann Thimig  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Student directory of the Free School Community in Wickersdorf. In: Archives of the German Youth Movement , Ludwigstein Castle , Witzenhausen , Hesse.
  2. ^ Otto Wladika: Art and Culture. The current portrait: Hermann Thimig . In: Arbeiter-Zeitung . Vienna October 2, 1960, p. 14 ( Arbeiter-zeitung.at - the open online archive - digitized).
  3. ^ A b Ernst Klee : The cultural lexicon for the Third Reich. Who was what before and after 1945. S. Fischer, Frankfurt am Main 2007, ISBN 978-3-10-039326-5 , p. 611.
  4. ↑ knerger.de: The grave of Hermann Thimig
personal data
SURNAME Thimig, Hermann
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian actor
DATE OF BIRTH October 3, 1890
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna
DATE OF DEATH July 7, 1982
Place of death Vienna