Wolfgang Gasser

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Wolfgang Gasser (born May 31, 1927 in Wolfsberg ; † May 20, 2007 in Vienna ) was an Austrian actor and voice actor , chamber actor and honorary member of the Burgtheater .

Life

Wolfgang Gasser's father was SS-Obersturmführer Paul Gasser (1904–1941). Paul Gasser was a friend and personal advisor to Odilo Globocnik . When Paul Gasser no longer wanted to support the decisions in Globocnik's Jewish policy, the friendship between the two ended. Nevertheless, after Gasser's death, Globocnik took over the guardianship of Gasser's two underage children.

Gasser dropped out of high school and joined the German armed forces at the age of 17 . He came into American captivity and was only able to return to Austria after the end of World War II . In 1945 he worked as an interpreter in a British military hospital .

He began his acting training at the Carinthian State Conservatory and later moved to Vienna. He had his first stage role at the age of 28 at the Stadttheater Baden . At first he appeared in operettas and cellar theaters. In 1959 he became a member of the Burgtheater ensemble , where he made his debut in Wallenstein's camp . He remained loyal to this theater until his retirement in 1997 and appeared in over 150 roles; his best-known role was that of Professor Schuster in Thomas Bernhard's Heldenplatz , for which he received the Kainz Medal in 1990 . The piece stayed on the program for ten years and saw 120 performances. Until recently, Wolfgang Gasser continued to act as a guest actor at the castle. B. as Doctor Guggenheim in Elisabeth II. By Thomas Bernhard and - in his last role - as Ottokar von Horneck in King Ottokar's Glück und Ende . Over time, Gasser worked at the Burgtheater and the Akademietheater with numerous important directors, including Dieter Dorn ( To celebrate the day by David Storey, Akademietheater 1972), Luca Ronconi ( The Birds of Aristophanes , Burgtheater 1975), Claus Peymann (Professor Schuster in his highly acclaimed production of Bernhard's Heldenplatz , Burgtheater 1988), Jürgen Flimm (Altenwyl in Der Schwierige by Hugo von Hofmannsthal , Burgtheater 1991), Andrea Breth (Don Raimond von Taxis in Don Carlos von Friedrich Schiller , Burgtheater 2004) and Martin Kušej ( König Ottokars Glück und Ende , Burgtheater 2006).

In addition to the Burgtheater, Gasser worked at the Salzburg Festival (in 1961 he played the good fellows in Hugo von Hofmannsthal's Jedermann , directed by Gottfried Reinhardt ; in 1991 in Flimm's production of Der Schwierige , which later moved to the Burgtheater, analogous to Kušej's König Ottokar production from 2006) , in Melk and In Forchtenstein , and worked as a speaker for television and radio. Gasser was also used as a voice actor, for example in Luc Bondy's film adaptation of Arthur Schnitzler's Das weite Land in 1986 , where he lent Michel Piccoli his voice.

He also appeared in numerous feature films and television productions. In 1965 he starred under the direction of Edwin Zbonek in the Franz Theodor Csokor film adaptation November 3, 1918 , 1973 in Peter Patzak's film Situation , 1975 in Gerd Oswald's Simmel film adaptation Bis zur bitter Neige . Also in 1975 Gasser made a guest appearance in the crime series Der Kommissar and in 1977 in Der Alte . Gasser starred in Lemminge in 1979, directed by Michael Haneke . In 1980 Gasser worked on the television series Ringstrasse Palace . In 1982 you saw Gasser in The Village on the Border (directed by Fritz Lehner ). In 1993 he appeared in The Scandalous Women (directed by Xaver Schwarzenberger ), in 1998 under Jacques Deray in his Stefan Zweig adaptation Clarissa .

His honorary grave is on the Grinzinger Friedhof (group 21, row 9, number 17) in Vienna.

Wolfgang Gasser grave

Filmography (selection)

Radio plays

Awards

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Johannes Sachslehner : Two million ham'ma done - Odilo Globocnik - Hitler's manager of death, styria premium 2015
  2. ↑ Hedwig Abraham (Red.): Gasser Wolfgang . In: viennatouristguide.at , accessed on March 19, 2014.
personal data
SURNAME Gasser, Wolfgang
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian actor
DATE OF BIRTH May 31, 1927
PLACE OF BIRTH Wolfsberg , Carinthia
DATE OF DEATH May 20, 2007
Place of death Vienna