Franz Mosthav

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Franz Mosthav (born June 13, 1916 in Oedheim ; † July 19, 2000 in Munich ; born Franz Alfons Mosthaf ) was a German actor , theater director and theater director .

He attended Elisabeth Huch's drama school in 1937/38 and the State Drama School in Munich in 1938/39 . As a guest student , he studied at the same time for four semesters at the University of Munich .

Mosthav began his theater career in 1939 at the Bavarian State Theater , of which he was a member until 1943. He also worked there as an assistant director. In 1943 he moved to the Klagenfurt City Theater , where he worked until the theater was closed in 1944.

He began the post-war period in 1945 at the Graz City Theaters , at the same time as the director of the Steyrische Kulturwerk. From 1946 to 1949 he was on stage at the Nationaltheater Mannheim . In 1949 he founded the Unterländer Volksbühne in Bruchsal , which has been called the Badische Landesbühne since 1954 . Until 1964 he was the director.

Mosthav played in Mannheim and Bruchsal mainly in the classics by William Shakespeare , Friedrich Schiller , Johann Wolfgang von Goethe , Friedrich Hebbel , Molière and Gerhart Hauptmann , but also as Klapproth in Pension Schöller . He regularly led it himself directed .

Guest performances as an actor have taken him to the Bad Hersfeld Festival , the Schlosstheater Celle and the Münchner Kammerspiele, among others . He has appeared in several films and many television productions. He became particularly well-known as gangster Alfred Frost through the popular three-part film The Gentlemen Ask To Cashier .

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SURNAME Mosthav, Franz
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Mosthaf, Franz Alfons (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German actor, theater director and theater director
DATE OF BIRTH June 13, 1916
PLACE OF BIRTH Oedheim
DATE OF DEATH July 19, 2000
Place of death Munich