Bruno Thost

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Bruno Thost (born April 23, 1936 in Erfurt ; † August 28, 2019 in Lahr / Black Forest ) was a German actor , theater director and artistic director .

Life

education

Thost grew up in Thuringia , Berlin , Saxony and Baden-Württemberg . He spent a large part of his childhood in Seelbach , where his father got a job at the local weather station. He graduated from the Scheffel-Gymnasium in Lahr . In the 1950s, Thost initially studied mechanical engineering for six semesters in Stuttgart , but then switched to acting from 1961. Thost completed his acting training at the State University of Music in Stuttgart. In 1963 he passed the final exam there.

theatre

Thost came to the Stuttgart State Theater as an apprentice . There he took on smaller speaking roles, was also active as stage manager , assistant director and sang in the extra choir of the Stuttgart State Opera , including in Rienzi and Carmina Burana . At the theater of the old town in Stuttgart he made his first own production in the early 1960s, the farce Earlier relationships with Gerhard Dorfer ; there he also appeared as Skip in the musical Prairie-Saloon by Lotar Olias . In 1963 he switched to the comedy at the Marquardt in Stuttgart, where he was employed as an assistant director and actor; with Gunther Philipp he played there together in the stage success Die Kaktusblüte .

He then had further engagements in Germany at the Schauspiel Cuxhaven , the Kleine Komödie in Hamburg (including as pimp Hippolyte in Irma la Douce ; partners: Evi Kent , Claus Wilcke ), at the Hamburger Kammerspiele , at the Ernst-Deutsch-Theater and in Düsseldorf .

Since 1970 he has also played at the Burgtheater Vienna . He was a permanent member of the ensemble there until his retirement in August 2001. In Austria he had engagements at various Viennese theaters, including the Theater der Jugend , the Raimundtheater , the Volksoper Vienna and the Theater in der Josefstadt . Thost continued to perform as an operetta and musical actor in Austria, including at the Vienna Chamber Opera (as Prince Ypsheim-Gindelbach in the operetta Wiener Blut ), at the Theater an der Wien ( Paganini , The Three Musketeers by Ralph Benatzky ) and at the City Theater Baden near Vienna (Don Quixote in The Man of La Mancha , Giesecke manufacturer in the operetta Im Weißen Rößl ). He had guest engagements at the Stadttheater Klagenfurt and the Stadttheater St. Pölten .

In 1970 Thost played the villain Grinley in Der Ölprinz at the Karl May Festival in Bad Segeberg . In 1973 and 1974 he worked with Harry Hornisch at the Salzburg Festival as Count of Wiltshire in the production The Game of the Mighty II , an adaptation of William Shakespeare's drama Heinrich VI. by director Giorgio Strehler . From 1982 to 1984 he played a minor role there as a servant in Otto Schenk's production of Der Zerrissene .

In 2004 he founded the “Seelbacher Freilichtspiele” in Schuttertal , which he was director until 2015. In 2009 he performed Cyrano de Bergerac there, and in 2010 Faust (2010), in which he played Mephisto. Other important roles Thost played at the “Seelbacher Freilichtspiele” were Polonius in Hamlet (2012), the craftsman Zettel in A Midsummer Night's Dream (2016) and the Elector Friedrich in Luther (2017). In 2019 he was supposed to play King Alonso in Shakespeare's late work The Tempest , but had to undergo an intestinal operation before rehearsals began .

Movie and TV

Since the 1960s, Thost has worked in numerous, including international, feature films and television productions . In the 1970s he often worked with directors of the New German Film , who hired him for concise supporting roles . He shot with Hans-Jürgen Syberberg (keeper of the minutes in Karl May ), Hans W. Geißendörfer (“The short-sighted” in Die Wildente ) and several times with Volker Schlöndorff . Under his direction, Thost played Chopin in Der Fangschuß , Private Lankes in Die Blechtrommel and 1984 the awkward loser Saniette in Eine Liebe von Swann .

In 1978 he played a small role as Kapo Melnick in the US miniseries Holocaust - The Story of the White Family . In 1993 he took on a small role as court official in the international co-production The Three Musketeers . In the ORF cult series Kaisermühlen Blues, he worked as a ship's captain in two episodes.

Private

Thost was married and the father of two daughters. His daughter Katja Thost-Hauser (* 1972), who works as an actress, director and author, took over the artistic directorship and directing work at the "Seelbacher Freilichtspiele" from her father in 2015. Bruno Thost died on the morning of August 28, 2019 at an old age 83 years in the Lahr hospital (Ortenau Klinikum Lahr-Ettenheim).

Filmography (selection)

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Actor Bruno Thost died. In: ORF.at . August 28, 2019. Retrieved August 28, 2019 .
  2. ↑ Seelbacher Festspiele_ Honorary Director Bruno Thost is dead . Baden Online from August 29, 2019.
  3. ^ Piet Hein Honig, Hanns-Georg Rodek : 100001. The show business encyclopedia of the 20th century. Showbiz-Data-Verlag, Villingen-Schwenningen 1992, ISBN 3-929009-01-5 , page 941.
  4. ↑ a b c d e f g h i Seelbach - Mourning for Bruno Thost . In: Lahrer Zeitung from August 29, 2019.
  5. ↑ a b c Seelbach community mourns Bruno Thost . bathe online from August 29, 2019.
  6. ↑ a b c Susanne Gilg: The stage is his home . In: Badische Zeitung of April 23, 2016. Retrieved on August 30, 2019.
  7. ↑ Bruno Thost Archive of the Salzburg Festival (with search function)
  8. ↑ 2010 year "Faust" is performed at the Seelbacher Freilichtspiele . In: Badische Zeitung of September 21, 2009.
  9. ↑ HOLOCAUST. THE STORY OF THE FAMILY WEISS ( Memento from January 19, 2012 in the Internet Archive )
personal data
SURNAME Thost, Bruno
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German actor, theater director and artistic director
DATE OF BIRTH April 23, 1936
PLACE OF BIRTH Erfurt
DATE OF DEATH August 28, 2019
Place of death Lahr / Black Forest