Albin Skoda

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Albin Skoda (born September 29, 1909 in Vienna ; † September 22, 1961 there ; born Albin Michael Johann Skoda ) was an Austrian film and theater actor and voice actor .

Life

The son of a coffee house owner appeared in front of the audience in his father's café and in 1918 received a contract for children's roles at the Burgtheater , where he made his debut in Der Biberpelz . His uncle Carl Skoda (1884–1918) was also an actor. From 1913 until his death in 1918 he was also an actor at the Hofburg. He attended the Academy for Performing Arts in Vienna and was trained there by Alexander Moissi , among others .

From 1924 to 1928 he worked as a student at the Volkstheater , where he made his debut in 1924 as Ferdinand in Kabale und Liebe . In 1928/29 he played in Sankt Pölten , 1929 to 1931 in Aussig , 1931 to 1933 in Hamburg at the Thalia Theater , 1933 in the New Playhouse in Königsberg , 1933/34 at the State Theater in Munich and from 1934 to 1945 at the Deutsches Theater in Berlin under Heinz Hilpert . From 1938 he could also be seen at the Theater in der Josefstadt in Vienna.

Fontana said in his book about Skoda: He traced the word like the hunter to a noble, shy game. The chamber actor Albin Skoda played roles in classical and modern world literature in the important Burgtheater in Vienna from 1946 and was an honorary member there until his death.

Skoda's great recitation evenings The Famous Voice in Vienna, on which he mainly spoke the great German ballads and works by Weinträger and Ginzkey , had sensational success with both critics and audiences . He was also featured on phonograph records .

Albin Skoda died shortly before his 52nd birthday of a stroke in Vienna.

tomb

Skoda was buried in a grave of honor in the Vienna Central Cemetery (group 32 C, number 23). Ten years after his death, in 1971, his wife, Margarethe Skoda, founded the Albin-Skoda-Ring for the best speaker in the German-speaking area.

In 1987 he was included in the naming of Skodagasse in Vienna- Josefstadt (8th district) ; the street was originally named in 1881 after the physician Josef von Škoda .

Filmography

Works

  • Albin Skoda speaks to Josef Weinträger. Preiser, Vienna 1983, DNB 830761861 .

literature

  • O. Odehnal: Albin Skoda. Presentation of his artistic development from the perspective of his make-up image. Dissertation . Vienna 1982.
  • Josef Mayerhöfer (Ed.): Albin Skoda: Actor - Speaker - Collector, 1909–1961. Austrian National Library, Vienna 1973.
  • Oskar Maurus Fontana : Albin Skoda: Genius between light and shadow. German, Vienna 1962

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personal data
SURNAME Skoda, Albin
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian film and theater actor and voice actor
DATE OF BIRTH September 29, 1909
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna
DATE OF DEATH September 22, 1961
Place of death Vienna