Eduard Koeck

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Eduard Koeck (born February 26, 1882 in Innsbruck , Tyrol ; † November 3, 1961 in Natters , Tyrol) was an Austrian actor and theater director .

Life

The son of a captain of the Pustertaler Landesschützen attended the University of Innsbruck and in 1902 co-founded the Exl stage . Until their dissolution in 1956 he was their senior director. For a long time Köck remained almost completely tied to this theater and impressed particularly in plays by Karl Schönherr and Ludwig Anzengruber .

His breakthrough as a film actor came as the worried father of Luis Trenker in his unconventional homeland film The Prodigal Son (1934). He tells of a Tyrolean who emigrates to find happiness in New York . However, after a while, plagued by homesickness, he returns.

From then on, the gnarled, gaunt actor was seen in numerous homeland films . His domain was the portrayal of old, lonely men with a dark past. In Die Geierwally (1940) he was Heidemarie Hatheyer's tyrannical father as the fender builder , and as Der perjury builder (1941) he shone in the title role. During National Socialism in Austria , he also starred in some of the relevant propaganda films such as Liebe ist Zollfrei (1940), Heimkehr (1941) and Vienna 1910 (1942).

In his first post-war film Defiant Hearts (1946), for which he had also contributed the script, he played the stubborn peasant patriarch Grutz at the side of several other members of the Exl stage.

Filmography

literature

  • Eckehart Schmidl: The dream of the popular theater. The history of the Exl stage (1902–1956). Haymon, Innsbruck / Vienna 2013.

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personal data
SURNAME Koeck, Eduard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian actor
DATE OF BIRTH February 26, 1882
PLACE OF BIRTH Innsbruck , Tyrol, Austria
DATE OF DEATH 3rd November 1961
Place of death Natters , Tyrol, Austria