Anton Edthofer

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Anton Edthofer around 1918
Anton Edthofer's grave

Anton Franz Edthofer (born September 18, 1883 in Vienna ; † February 21, 1971 there ) was an Austrian actor .

Live and act

He made his debut in 1904 at the Intimate Theater in Munich, after which he performed at the Linz City Theater . In 1906 he moved to the Raimund Theater in Vienna , three years later to the Volkstheater , of which he remained a member of the ensemble until 1920. In the early 1920s he first played at the Staatliches Schauspielhaus , later at the Deutsches Theater under Max Reinhardt . From 1923 he alternated on the stage in Berlin and Vienna, from 1929 he belonged to the ensemble of the Theater in der Josefstadt , which would remain his artistic home until his death. At first he succeeded in the field of youthful bon vivant and with comic roles, later he established himself as a character actor and appeared in both classical pieces and modern dramas - and a. by Hauptmann , Gorki , Wedekind or Shaw .

He was in front of the camera for the first time as early as 1912, in a small role in the large-scale Viennese production The Unknown (1912) by Luise Kolm . In 1918 he played Osvald in Otto Kreisler's Ibsen film adaptation of The Ghosts . As in the theater, Edthofer also embodied a broad spectrum of roles in silent films, he worked with renowned directors - such as Otto Rippert , Fritz Lang , Friedrich Wilhelm Murnau , Karl Grune and Robert Wiene - and played in melodramas, crime novels and adventure films.

Important roles in the Theater in der Josefstadt were Malvolio in Shakespeare's What You Want , King Philip II in Schiller's Don Karlos , Der Schwierige von Hofmannsthal , Professor Henry Higgins in Pygmalion , Pastor Manders in Ghosts or Willy Loman in Arthur Millers Death of a salesman . One of his most lasting interpretations was the baron in Maxim Gorki's night asylum .

From 1919 to 1924 he was married to the Austrian theater actress Margarete von Bukovics for the second time . In 1937 he had a violent affair with Helene Thimig , who was then married to Max Reinhardt and who stayed in the United States after the annexation of Austria . After their return to Austria, the two married at the end of July 1948. His wife outlived him by three years.

Edthofer's grave is in the southwest cemetery in group W, No. 1.

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Filmography (selection)

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ List of all decorations awarded by the Federal President for services to the Republic of Austria from 1952 (PDF; 6.9 MB)
personal data
SURNAME Edthofer, Anton
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Edthofer, Anton Franz (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian actor
DATE OF BIRTH September 18, 1883
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna
DATE OF DEATH February 21, 1971
Place of death Vienna