Franz Essel

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Franz Essel (born January 31, 1909 in Vienna ; † October 1973 ) was an Austrian film and theater actor , theater director , director and radio play speaker .

Life

Education and theater

Essel was born as Franz Ernst Essel . He attended high school in his native Vienna; received private acting lessons from the castle actor and director Josef Danegger (1865–1933). He made his debut as a theater actor in 1930 at the Landestheater Neustrelitz as the youthful hero Ferdinand in Kabale und Liebe . Before the Second World War he had theater engagements at the Landestheater Neustrelitz (from 1930), in Berlin , at the Stadttheater Königsberg (as an opera director), in Vienna and at the Stadttheater Teplitz-Schönau .

After the Second World War, he worked in Germany and Austria as a theater director and theater actor. He staged in Villach (1947), Stuttgart (from 1950) and Schwäbisch Hall (1954) , among others . In July 1949, as part of the theater initiative of the Upper Styrian Cultural Association, he directed a production of Jedermann in the Salzburg Festival version at an open-air performance in front of the parish church of St. Xaver in Leoben . Attila Hörbiger was the star guest of these performances, Essel took on the role of Mammon .

In Stuttgart he worked as an actor and director at the comedy in Marquardt . His post-war stage roles there included the title role in Volpone , Malvolio in Was ihr wollt , the chief Wehrhahn in Der Biberpelz and Count Barrenkrona in a colportage by Georg Kaiser , all roles 1950–1955. As a director, he staged the theater plays The Glass Menagerie and The Stone Angel by Tennessee Williams , as well as The Hot Heart by John Patrick , The Bride to Petersburg by Nikolai Gogol , Ninotschka by Melchior Lengyel and The Apollo by Bellac by Jean at the Comedy in Marquardt Giraudoux .

With Aglaja Schmid and Leopold Rudolf he played the role of the North German Baron Neuhoff in Hugo von Hofmannsthal's comedy Der Schwierige in 1954 at the Vienna Theater in der Josefstadt . In 1954 he also appeared at the Theater in der Josefstadt as Count Kattwald in the comedy Woe to the one who lies! on.

Essel had been a member of the German Stage Members' Cooperative since 1930 .

Film and radio play

Essel also starred in several films and television plays in the 1950s and 1960s. He was mainly used in concise supporting roles. Directed by Alfred Weidenmann , he played the role of Beckmann in his feature film Canaris as a partner of OE Hasse and the public prosecutor in the crime film Alibi with the young Hardy Krüger in the leading role. In 1955 he took on the role of reception manager Pichler in Harald Braun's remake of the silent film classic The Last Man by Friedrich Wilhelm Murnau , at the side of Hans Albers . In 1957 he played the title role as the mighty, huge mountain spirit Rübezahl in the fairy tale film Rübezahl - Lord of the Mountains (1957).

Essel also worked as a speaker and director in several radio plays in the 1950s , for example The Next Please (NWDR 1953, as an author and director) and Alexander von Athen (NWDR 1955). In the radio play Eduard and Caroline (1954/1955) based on the tabloid comedy by Félicien Marceau , he played the role of uncle Claude Beauchamps. His partners in this radio play, conceived as a musical comedy, were Erik Schumann , Margot Hielscher , Willi Reichmann and Paul Hoffmann . He also appeared in a smaller role in 1954/1955 in the radio play The great renunciation based on the play by Reinhold Schneider (director: Wilhelm Semmelroth ; music: Winfried Zillig ; partners including Paul Bildt and Rolf Henniger ). In June 1954, Essel was heard in the radio play Sarajewo by Erwin Wickert on Norddeutscher Rundfunk ; one of his partners was Olga von Togni .

Filmography

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Deutsches Bühnen-Jahrbuch , Volume 73, p. 180
  2. ↑ Radio play 1954-1955: a documentation page 480
  3. ↑ Deutsches Bühnen-Jahrbuch Volume 62, 1954, pp. 306, 413
  4. ↑ Obersteirischer Kulturbund 1947–1992: Contributions to an anniversary edited by Matthias Wieland, p. 7/8 (excerpts (text excerpt 1) at Google Books
  5. ↑ Obersteirischer Kulturbund 1947–1992: Contributions to an anniversary edited by Matthias Wieland, p. 7/8 (excerpts (text excerpt 2) at Google Books
  6. ↑ Neues Forum , Volume 1, 1954, p. 19
  7. ^ Deutsches Bühnen-Jahrbuch Volume 73, 1965, p. 557
personal data
SURNAME Essel, Franz
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian film and theater actor, theater director, director and radio play speaker
DATE OF BIRTH January 31, 1909
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna
DATE OF DEATH October 1973