Erwin Faber

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Erwin Faber

Erwin Faber (born July 21, 1891 in Innsbruck , Austria ; † May 4, 1989 in Munich , Germany ) was an Austrian actor .

Life

Erwin Faber got his first engagement in 1916 at the Münchner Kammerspiele . In 1921 he moved to the State Theater. There he was seen as Hamlet (1922) and the devil in jokes, satire, irony and deeper meaning .

In 1922 he met Bertolt Brecht know and assumed important roles in world premieres of early Brecht plays: In 1922, he played at the Kammerspiele Kragler in Drums in the Night , 1923 at the State Theater George Garga in Jungle of Cities and 1924 at the Kammerspiele the title role in life Edward II of England .

In 1924 he went to Berlin and played at the State Theater there and at the Reinhardt Theaters , often working with director Jürgen Fehling . At the Salzburg Festival in 1928 he appeared under Reinhardt's direction as the devil in Jedermann .

Faber played his first film role in 1923 in the film Mysteries of a Hairdressing Salon , which was made under the direction of Bertolt Brecht, Erich Engel and Karl Valentin . In the 1920s and 1930s, he was cast in other films, including the film M .

In 1934 he got an engagement at the Schauspielhaus Düsseldorf . Roles here were Philipp in Don Carlos , the title role in Peer Gynt , Weislingen in Götz von Berlichingen , Marinelli in Emilia Galotti , Malvolio in Was ihr wollt , Rappelkopf in Der Alpenkönig und der Menschenfeind and Kottwitz in Prince Friedrich von Homburg .

At the first Salzburg Festival after the war in 1945 he staged The Gate and Death and Liebelei . In the following years he worked several times as a director at the festival. In 1952 he returned to Munich, initially to the Kammerspiele.

Faber has been part of the ensemble of the Bavarian State Theater since 1953 . Among other things, he was seen as Fir's servant in Rudolf Noelte's production of Der Kirschgarten in 1970 and as the first actor in Hamlet in 1985 . In 1988 he was on stage for the last time in Munich as a waiter in a private company .

As a film actor, Faber reappeared in the 1950s. His last known role dates from the 1970s.

As a radio speaker he joined in 1959, for example, in the only Paul Temple radio play of the Bayerischer Rundfunk , namely Paul Temple and the Conrad Case on or in various radio plays to Dickie Dick Dickens and , my name is Cox .

Erwin Faber was married to the actress Grethe Jacobson since 1922, from this marriage comes a daughter, the journalist Monika Faber (born December 6, 1926).

He rests in the Munich forest cemetery , next to his wife.

Filmography (selection)

Radio plays (selection)

Awards

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Schwabinger Art Prize on München.de (accessed on August 5, 2011)
personal data
SURNAME Faber, Erwin
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian actor
DATE OF BIRTH July 21, 1891
PLACE OF BIRTH Innsbruck , Austria
DATE OF DEATH May 4th 1989
Place of death Munich , Bavaria , Germany