Franz Marischka

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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

Feature films

Written and directed by

Screenplay (selection)

Television: script and direction

Series

TV games (selection)

  • The little miracle
  • Marriage in installments
  • The Penguin

Autobiography

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ 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)@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / news.orf.at  
  2. ^ Franz Marischka grave site , Vienna, Hietzinger Friedhof, Group 12, No. 71.
personal data
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