Anton Showerk

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Anton "Toni" showerk (born June 11, 1925 in Vienna ; †  June 10, 1985 between Perchtoldsdorf and Mödling ) was an Austrian actor .

biography

Toni Duschk received his training at Vienna's Reinhardt Seminar and began his stage career shortly after the end of the Second World War at the Theater in der Scala . On this politically left-oriented stage, he often appeared in contemporary, socially critical plays such as Der Bockerer (premiered on October 2, 1948), a "tragic farce", as it is called in the subtitle, about a troublemaker and anti-Nazi butcher in Austria at the time of annexation .

In the following period (1950s) showerk also appeared at other Austrian ( Vereinigte Bühnen Graz , Theater für Vorarlberg in Bregenz ) and Swiss venues ( Stadttheater Bern ) and came to Berlin in 1954 for a few plays , to the German theater there and at the Kammerspiele to occur. Mostly he received episode roles. A little later showerk returned to Austria and played among other things at the Landestheater Linz , where he was offered a rare leading role with the title role in Giraudoux 's comedy Der Apollo von Bellac in autumn 1956. Later he was also seen at German theaters (e.g. Munster Municipal Theaters , Deutsches Schauspielhaus Hamburg ). However, even until the end, Duschk remained predominantly associated with the Viennese theater (e.g. “Theater of the Young in Renaissance Theater”).

From the early 1960s showerk worked regularly in (mostly Austrian) television productions. These were mostly adaptations of literary models, including Chekhov's Die Möwe , Goethe's Egmont and Joseph Roth's Radetzkymarsch . At the side of his Viennese colleagues Fritz Eckhardt and Fritz Muliar , Toni Duschk was seen several times in television series at the beginning of the 1970s, such as Chief Inspector Marek , Wenn der Vater mit der Sohne and Die Abenteuer des Brave Soldier Schwejk . Duschk also worked as a speaker ( Böll readings) and in radio plays and was also considered a proven art connoisseur and collector.

His death was as tragic as it was mysterious. Showerk died one day before his 60th birthday: while rehearsing a Hamlet performance in which he was supposed to play Osric, showerk fell into the four-meter-deep moat on the afternoon of June 10, 1985, with the textbook in hand Hunger tower of the performance location, Perchtoldsdorf Castle near Vienna. It was not until some time later that colleagues who were looking for him to rehearse found him lying lifeless there. The badly injured shower died on the way to Mödling hospital .

Toni Duschk's wife Helgauchek (1925–1986), also an actress, survived him by less than a year.

Filmography

(Television unless otherwise stated)

  • 1962: The Bockerer
  • 1963: Lieutenant Gustl
  • 1963: The seagull
  • 1964: career
  • 1964: Radetzky March
  • 1965: the day after

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personal data
SURNAME Showerk, Anton
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Showerk, Toni (nickname)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian actor
DATE OF BIRTH June 11, 1925
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna
DATE OF DEATH June 10, 1985
Place of death near Perchtoldsdorf