Franz Marischka
Franz Marischka (born July 2, 1918 in Unterach am Attersee , Upper Austria , † February 18, 2009 in Munich ) was an Austrian director , film actor and screenwriter . He was nicknamed Zwetschi in artist and journalist circles .
Life
Franz Marischka's father was the operetta star Hubert Marischka , his mother, who died shortly after his birth, his wife Lizzy, the daughter of Victor Léon , a famous librettist . His uncle was the later Sissi director Ernst Marischka and his godfather was the most successful composer at the time, Franz Lehár .
He grew up with his siblings Lisl and Viktor with his grandparents Léon in their villa in Hietzing , attended the Theresianum and graduated from the Rainer-Gymnasium .
Marischka quit his service as a cadet in the Austrian army early on and began training as an actor at the Max Reinhardt Seminar in Vienna in 1938 . Since his mother was Jewish and he was considered a “ half-Jew ”, he had to leave the Reinhardt seminar on March 12, 1938 after the “Anschluss” of Austria “for racial reasons”.
He emigrated to England on April 20, 1939, where he gained his first experience as an actor at the Cabaret Laterndl . In 1940 he was sent to an internment camp on the Isle of Man , from which he was released when he volunteered for the Engineer Corps . He became a sergeant, and finally he received training as an interrogator in the Intelligence Corps under the name "Francis Marsh".
Until 1946 he interrogated SS members and concentration camp guards in Norway . He became a British citizen and was only given his original name again upon express request. In the same year he returned to Vienna.
Career
actor
In Vienna he soon appeared in the theater, e.g. B. 1948 in the operetta Gute recovery . In the early 1950s he also appeared in a number of films, but his work as an actor was not very successful. So he switched to scriptwriting and directing.
Screenwriter and director
At first he lived in Rome and from the beginning of the 1950s in Munich. Marischka wrote over a hundred screenplays and directed nearly thirty feature films and as many television plays and television series. He also staged plays and operetta shows.
At the beginning of his directorial work in the 1960s, he mainly made revue films and comedies such as Schlagerparade 1960 (1960), So loves and kisses in Tyrol (1961) and Allotria in Zell am See (1963). In the 70s and 80s he swam with the sex wave and shot erotic comedies such as Let it jinch, Kumpel (1972) and another five parts with a similar title, Liebesgrüße aus der Lederhose (1973), Drei Lederhosen in St. Tropez (1980) and Sunshine Reggae in Ibiza (1983) . After that he mainly wrote scripts for film and television. He also successfully staged an operetta-style ice revue. Sometimes he also worked under the pseudonym “François Petit” (his colleague Franz Antel used the pseudonym “François Legrand”).
family
Franz Marischka was in a relationship with the actress Marianne Wischmann for a long time and also engaged. In 1958 Marischka married Inge Viktoria, with whom he had a son (* 1959), but soon afterwards they divorced. The show assistant Alexandra Drewes / Alexandra Marischka from the show Der goldene Schuß was his second wife from June 10, 1968 until the divorce in July 1976. The actor and director Georg Marischka , known from numerous television series, was his half-brother.
Franz Marischka lived in Munich until his death and was often seen at events with award ceremonies and honors for deserving actors. After a short, serious illness, he died on the night of February 18, 2009 in the palliative ward of the Schwabing hospital . He was buried in an honorary grave at Hietzingen cemetery .
Filmography
presentation
- 1951: Voices of Spring
- 1951: The cheerful farmer
- 1952: Adventure in Vienna
- 1952: Bang and Fall as an impostor
- 1952: You are the rose from Lake Wörthersee
- 1955: Oh - these "dear" relatives
- 1980: car napping
- 1987: Hatschipuh
- 1990: player
Feature films
Written and directed by
- 1959: Mikosch in the secret service
- 1960: The Green Spider's Mystery
- 1960: hit parade 1960
- 1961: Schlager parade 1961
- 1961: My sweetheart wants to go sailing with me on Sunday
- 1961: This is how people love and kiss in Tyrol
- 1962: As great as it was back then
- 1963: Allotria in Zell am See
- 1968: Three cheers to the paramedic Neumann
- 1969: The man with the golden brush
- 1970: varieties of physical love
- 1970: St. Pauli Nachrichten - Topic No. 1
- 1972: Don't itch, buddy
- 1972: Don't itch, buddy Part 2 - The Bull Monastery
- 1973: Greetings from the Lederhose
- 1973: The Shock Castle - When the chastity belt rattles at night
- 1974: Don't itch, buddy 3rd part - Maloche, beer and bed
- 1974: Greetings from the Lederhose 2nd part: Two buddies on the mountain pasture
- 1975: The buddy does not let the itch
- 1975: Champagne from the Knobelbecher
- 1978: Two Danish women in lederhosen
- 1979: To the lively girls' inn
- 1980: Three Lederhosen in St. Tropez
- 1980: The quack and his permanent daughters
- 1981: Let it go, buddy
- 1982: a fat dog
- 1983: The incredible adventures of Guru Jacob
- 1983: The crazy beach hotel
- 1983: Sunshine Reggae in Ibiza
Screenplay (selection)
- 1953: The daughter of the company
- 1954: Viktoria and her hussar
- 1955: Let the sun shine again
- 1956: Christel from the post office
- 1957: Almenrausch and Edelweiss
- 1957: high up on the mountain
- 1958: The Scapegoat from Spatzenhausen
- 1958: Mikosch, the pride of the company
- 1958: The magic of clothing
- 1959: a summer you will never forget
- 1959: My darling, come with me to the blue sea
- 1959: mandolins and moonlight
- 1960: Red lantern terminus
- 1960: Agatha, stop killing!
- 1962: As great as it was back then
- 1966: The legacy of the Inca
- 1973: love in three dimensions
- 1987: Hatschipuh
Television: script and direction
Series
- Traveling with Music, 13 episodes
- John Klings Adventures , 13 episodes
- Hauptstraße Glück, 13 episodes
- 13 chairs, 13 episodes
- Mark Twain's Adventure, 13 episodes
- Percy Stuart , 13 episodes (books only)
- Alpine rush and powder snow , 8 episodes (books only)
TV games (selection)
- The little miracle
- Marriage in installments
- The Penguin
Autobiography
- Always smile. Stories and anecdotes from theater and film. Amalthea, Vienna 2001, ISBN 978-3-85002-442-6 .
Web links
- Literature by and about Franz Marischka in the catalog of the German National Library
- Franz Marischka in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Franz Marischka at filmportal.de
- Greetings from the Lederhose - Obituary from Hanns-Georg Rodek in the world , February 20, 2009
Individual evidence
- ↑ cf. Director Franz Marischka died in Munich ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. at ORF, February 18, 2009 (accessed on February 18, 2009)
- ^ Franz Marischka grave site , Vienna, Hietzinger Friedhof, Group 12, No. 71.
personal data | |
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SURNAME | Marischka, Franz |
ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Marischka, Franz Zwetschi (nickname); Petit, François; Marsh, Francis |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Austrian director, film actor and screenwriter |
DATE OF BIRTH | July 2, 1918 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Unterach am Attersee |
DATE OF DEATH | February 18, 2009 |
Place of death | Munich |