Franz Kutschera (actor)

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Franz Kutschera ; actually Franz Kucera (born March 25, 1909 in Vienna , Austria-Hungary , † October 27, 1991 in Munich , Bavaria ) was an Austrian actor and director .

Life

Franz Kutschera completed his acting training with Theodor Danegger in Vienna. His first stage positions were in Breslau in 1928 with Paul Barnay and in 1930 at the Darmstädter Landestheater under Carl Ebert . Engagements at the Raimund Theater in Vienna and at the Tyrolean State Theater in Innsbruck followed. Paul Smolny called him to Leipzig in 1938; In 1947 he went to Wolfgang Langhoff at the German Theater in Berlin. In 1948 he moved to Fritz Wisten's ensemble , which played in the Theater am Schiffbauerdamm until 1953 and then - when Bertolt Brecht and his Berlin ensemble moved there - moved to the rebuilt Volksbühne on Rosa-Luxemburg-Platz . After the construction of the Berlin Wall in August 1961 , Franz Kutschera , who lived in West Berlin , left the Volksbühne in East Berlin in protest .

In classics, comedies and his beloved Nestroy roles , the thoroughbred comedian and character actor has significantly shaped the repertoire of this theater for thirteen years as an actor and director. He was also a lecturer at the drama school, made lecture tours with Hašek's The Adventures of the Good Soldier Schwejk , produced literary records and appeared in several DEFA films.

He climbed the peak of his career as a “heavy hero” at the Städtische Bühnen in Frankfurt am Main, where he began in 1962 as Ill in Dürrenmatt's The Visit of the Old Lady with Grete Mosheim in the title role. Against fierce political resistance, the Brecht student and director Harry Buckwitz tried to get the "playwright" Brecht through on West German stages. In the Saint Joan of the Stockyards Kutschera the Pierpont Mauler played, a role for which he later in a production of Hersfeld Festival the " Great Hersfeldpreis " received. In addition to his stage work, he was involved in many radio play productions and television plays.

His third career stage took him from 1972 to 1982 to the Bavarian State Theater in Munich. There he played Michael Kramer , Madame Pernell in Ingmar Bergman's Tartuffe production and Bergman's Molière production of Dom Juan , which premiered at the Salzburg Festival in 1983 and was recorded for television.

His grave is in the Munich forest cemetery .

Awards

Filmography (selection)

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  • 1958: Witches of Paris
  • 1962: Temple of Satan
  • 1962: Tevya and his daughters
  • 1963: Under the pear tree
  • 1963: The jug
  • 1963: Turandot
  • 1963: In the J. Robert Oppenheimer case
  • 1964: Thomas More
  • 1965: Brooklyn Ballad
  • 1965: Daring Game (TV series, two episodes)
  • 1966: mansion
  • 1966: The good man of Sezuan
  • 1967: Josephine
  • 1968: The month of the falling leaves
  • 1968: Bel Ami
  • 1969: Call me Alex
  • 1970: Tour (TV series, 4 episodes)
  • 1972: the inheritance
  • 1973: Josef Lang , kuk executioner
  • 1974: Convicted in 1910
  • 1975: Everyone's Christmas tree
  • 1983: Dom Juan
  • 1984: Interest on Fame
  • 1984: A Case for Two - The Chemistry of Murder
  • 1985: ... I decided to become a politician

Theater (selection)

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  • 1952: 30 pieces of silver (Theater am Schiffbauerdamm)
  • 1952: Aschenbrödel (Theater am Schiffbauerdamm)
  • 1953: Nikolai Gogol : The Marriage (also Podkoljessin) (Theater am Schiffbauerdamm)
  • 1954: The Taming of the Shrew (Volksbühne Berlin)
  • 1958: The Talisman (Volksbühne Berlin)
  • 1959: Harald Hauser : In the Heavenly Garden (Volksbühne Berlin)
  • 1960: The cozy commissioner (Volksbühne Berlin - theater on the third floor)

Radio plays (selection)

Records / CDs

  • Jaroslav Hašek: The adventures of the good soldier Schwejk
  • Egon Erwin Kisch : Marketplace of Sensations
  • Romain Rolland : Master Breugnon
  • Bertolt Brecht: The Threepenny Opera
  • Robin Hood's adventurous stories : role of Prince John in the radio play series by Maritim

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personal data
SURNAME Kutschera, Franz
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Kucera, Franz
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian actor and director
DATE OF BIRTH March 25, 1909
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna , Austria-Hungary
DATE OF DEATH October 27, 1991
Place of death Munich , Bavaria, Germany