Ferdinand Maierhofer

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Ferdinand Maierhofer , also Ferdinand Mayerhofer and Ferdinand Meierhofer (born April 9, 1881 in Graz , Austria-Hungary , † June 6, 1960 in Vienna , Austria ) was an Austrian chamber actor and film actor.

Life

Maierhofer had received training as a bookbinder and then took acting lessons from Julius Grevenberg. At the age of 17, the journeyman bookbinder first came to the stage at the theater of the Catholic Journeyman's Association in his native Graz. In 1899 Maierhofer took up his first permanent engagement. Via the provincial stations of Steyr , Leitmeritz , Aussig , Laibach and Franzensbad , he came to Vienna in 1907, where Ferdinand Maierhofer joined the ensemble of the theater in der Josefstadt . In 1913 he returned to Graz, in 1918 Maierhofer returned to Vienna to take up an engagement at the Carltheater . In the following year, he moved  to the Burgtheater , succeeding Alexander Girardi , who died in April of the same year , where he worked as a character comedian until 1960. The folk actor achieved great success mainly in Nestroy and Shakespeare roles. For example, he was the note in A Midsummer Night's Dream , the Habakkuk in The Alpine King and the Misanthrope , the Knieriem in The Evil Spirit Lumpazivagabundus and the village judge Adam in The Broken Jug . Maierhofer was also successful in serious plays such as Agnes Bernauer and Nathan the Wise .

Maierhofer was given one of the first film roles in the 1924 film Die Stadt ohne Juden (based on Hugo Bettauer's bestseller novel by Hans Karl Breslauer ) alongside Hans Moser . From 1931 he was seen in numerous German and Austrian productions. From 1940 Ferdinand Maierhofer also did dubbing work in the film studio. His grave is on the Grinzinger Friedhof in Vienna (Group 4, No. 33).

Awards, honors, prizes

Filmography

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Forty years of acting as a castle actor . In: Arbeiter-Zeitung . Vienna September 8, 1959, p. 6 , top center ( berufer-zeitung.at - the open online archive - digitized).
  2. ^ F. W. (d. I. Fritz Walden ): The death of the people actor . In: Arbeiter-Zeitung . Vienna June 8, 1960, p. 6 , top center ( berufer-zeitung.at - the open online archive - digitized).
  3. ↑ Hedwig Abraham: Meierhofer Ferdinand . In: viennatouristguide.at , accessed on June 14, 2012.
  4. ↑ City of Vienna (Ed.): Vienna 1956: Reports from April 1956 (…) April 14, 1956 (…) . In: wien.gv.at , accessed on June 14, 2012.

Remarks

  1. ↑ Lehmann's General Housing Gazette in 1942 led the actor under Mayerhofer . - See: Mayerhofer - Mayr . In: Directory of names , p. 755, center left.
personal data
SURNAME Maierhofer, Ferdinand
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Mayerhofer, Ferdinand; Meierhofer, Ferdinand
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian chamber actor and film actor
DATE OF BIRTH April 9, 1881
PLACE OF BIRTH Graz , Austria-Hungary
DATE OF DEATH June 6, 1960
Place of death Vienna , Austria