Alfred Neugebauer (actor)

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Alfred Neugebauer (born December 27, 1888 in Vienna ; † September 14, 1957 there ) was an Austrian theater and film actor and acting teacher.

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The young Neugebauer was a successful graduate of the Vienna Schottengymnasium . During the First World War , Neugebauer was taken prisoner by Russia as an officer. At the age of 38, Alfred Neugebauer came to the Theater in der Josefstadt in 1926 , who is known to have worked under Max Reinhardt until 1938 , where he played numerous character and supporting roles until 1946 . From 1930 he was discovered as an actor for the sound film. But even here he was seen more as a supporting actor, but very often. In 1946 Neugebauer came to the Burgtheater and stayed there until his death.

In addition, Alfred Neugebauer worked from 1933 to 1953 as a professor at the Max Reinhardt Seminar . After the war he worked as a professor at the Academy for Music and Performing Arts in Vienna from 1947 . Until his death in 1957, Alfred Neugebauer also worked for the Austrian broadcasting company. His final resting place is at Hietzinger Friedhof Gr. 69 Row 4 No. 19. In 1960, Neugebauerweg in Vienna- Döbling (19th district) was named after him.

Friedrich Torberg described Neugebauer as follows:

"Alfred Neugebauer, already on stage an apparition of inimitable peculiarity (he once described himself in a coquettish understatement as the most important 'kiss-the-hand' teller in German theater), was completely a lonely original as a storyteller, it was before especially through his incredible mastery of all dialects, accents and tones that existed in the area of ​​the former Habsburg monarchy. "

Filmography

Alfred Neugebauer's grave

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ Friedrich Torberg: The heirs of Aunt Jolesch. Unabridged paperback edition, Deutscher Taschenbuch Verlag, Munich 1981, ISBN 3-423-01644-2 , pp. 88f