Ferdinand Onno

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Ferdinand Onno (born October 19, 1881 in Chernivtsi , Galicia , born Ferdinand Onowotschek , † August 18, 1969 in Vienna ) was an Austrian actor . His son was the botanist Max Onno (1903-1970).

Career in the theater

Born in Galicia, he attended the University of Vienna in the late 1890s and later received private acting lessons in Berlin . He continued his education at the Reicher University for Dramatic Art in the German capital. At the turn of the century, Onno received his first engagements at small theaters in the German provinces ( Köthen , Schweidnitz , Kiel and Neisse - first demonstrable permanent engagement there in 1901) before he first came to the Burgtheater in Vienna in 1902 .

In the following year he returned to Berlin to take up an engagement there. In June 1903 Max Reinhardt brought him to his stage for the first time, where he stayed until May 1906 and took on supporting roles in Shakespeare plays and other stage classics. Onno was seen as Fortinbras in Hamlet (1903), as a Syrian captain in Salome (1904), as Orest in Elektra (1904), as Fenton in The Merry Wives of Windsor (1904), as Gustav von Prandau in Farewell to the Regiment (1905 ), as Hascher in Sanna (1905), as Demetrius or Lysander in A Midsummer Night's Dream (1905 or 1906), as Ferdinand in Kabale und Liebe (1906), as Lorenzo in The Merchant of Venice (1906) and as Philipp in Der Count of Charolais (1906).

On March 22, 1922, Onno played the world premiere of Hans Kaltneker's drama The Sacrifice of the Prince at the Deutsches Volkstheater Vienna (director: Hans Brahm).

Onno then worked for four years at the German State Theater in Prague . During this time Ferdinand Onno, who until then mostly had to be content with small roles, grew into the field of young lovers. The famous colleague Josef Kainz then brought Onno back to the German Volkstheater in Vienna in 1910 . His intense, vibrantly emotionally strong interpretations of young people from those early years often raptured the critics. Onno remained loyal to the Austrian capital until the end of his life, after 20 years of being a member of the Volkstheater ensemble, Onno moved again to the Burgtheater in 1930, to which he would belong for over a quarter of a century until his retirement.

He quickly grew into the character subject, mostly playing people in power and high-ranking personalities in classical pieces. Onno played Davison in Maria Stuart , the Duke of Gloucester in King Lear , King Edward IV in Richard III. and the emperor in Götz von Berlichingen .

Activity in film

Onno was seen several times in film in the first five years after the end of the First World War. There he took on a double role in Rudolf Stiassny's production The Rebel , embodied the Marquis de Valois in The Young Medardus and the poet Ana in The Queen of Slaves.

Filmography

  • 1919: The rebel
  • 1919: the fool of his heart
  • 1920: The woman in white
  • 1920: Spiritual death
  • 1921: Olga Frohgemuth
  • 1921/22: Ludwig II.
  • 1922: The man who forgot to laugh
  • 1922: The right to death
  • 1923: The voice of conscience
  • 1923: The young Medardus
  • 1924: The slave queen

literature

  • Vienna Burgtheater . Approx. 90 full-page portrait sketches Franz Höbling, Lili Marberg, Hans Marr, Raoul Aslan, Alma Seidler, Werner Krauss, Ferdinand Onno, Maria Eis, Hermann Thimig, Nora Gregor. Vienna 1935.

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ Weather and Life, Journal for Applied Meteorology. 22, No. 9-10, 1970, p. 177.
personal data
SURNAME Onno, Ferdinand
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Onowotschek, Ferdinand
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian actor
DATE OF BIRTH October 19, 1881
PLACE OF BIRTH Chernivtsi
DATE OF DEATH 18th August 1969
Place of death Vienna