Friedrich von Thun

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Friedrich von Thun (2012)

Friedrich von Thun (born June 30, 1942 in Kwassitz , Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia , today Kvasice, Czech Republic ; born Friedrich Ernst Peter Paul Maria Thun-Hohenstein, Count von Thun and Hohenstein from the princely family in terms of noble history ) is an Austrian actor .

Life

Friedrich was born in 1942 as the youngest of four sons and fourth of five children of Ernst Thun-Hohenstein (1905–1985; born as Count von Thun and Hohenstein ) and his wife Marie Therese (* 1911 as Freiin Wiedersperger von Wiedersperg ). After the Second World War , the expropriation and expulsion and a stay in a Czechoslovak camp, the family - his parents, the three-year-old Friedrich and the three brothers Jaroslav (* 1935), Johann (1936–1993) and Franz (* 1939) - moved in 1945 from Moravia to Austria. His sister Elisabeth was born in Litschau in Lower Austria in 1949. In Seckau in Styria he attended the Abbey High School. As a schoolboy he played in a theater group and discovered his enthusiasm for the theater.

After graduating from high school in 1960, Thun studied German and theater studies in Munich - his von is presented as an artist name due to the dissolution of the nobility in Austria in 1919, as in Czechoslovakia in 1918 - and took private acting lessons. In 1962 he auditioned for Axel von Ambesser . He gave him his first little film roles. Friedrich von Thun played in Kohlhiesel's Daughters and Marry Me, Cherie . He cast the role of cousin Franz in the film Die fromme Helene (1965) directed by Ambesser . Ambesser got von Thun an engagement at the renowned Münchner Kammerspiele , where he made his debut under Ambesser's direction in Gewitter am See by Wolfgang Christlieb. In the meantime, Friedrich von Thun has worked in over 100 television and cinema productions. Usually he embodies jovial characters, who often cover up their intrigues and crooked deals with their affability. He also made a number of documentaries for the TV station ORF .

In 1970 he married Gabriele Bleyler (* 1941 in Fürstenfeld ). There were two children from this marriage, Katharina Gioia (* 1974) and Max (* 1977), who is also an actor. In 1999 Friedrich von Thun married Gabriele «Gaby» geb. Schniewind (1952-2018). In 2009 he announced the separation from her.

Duchess Sophie von Hohenberg, née Countess Chotek , who was shot in Sarajevo in 1914 together with her husband Franz Ferdinand of Austria-Este , heir to the throne of Austria-Hungary , was a sister of his paternal grandmother Marie, Countess of Thun and Hohenstein, née Countess Chotek ( 1863-1935). His sister-in-law Maria-Elisabeth Thun and Hohenstein-Countess Fugger von Kirchberg und zu Weißenhorn (* 1948), who has been married to his eldest brother since 1969, is the last living name-bearer of the former counts of the Fugger von Kirchberg and Weißenhorn family, the first line of the famous Augsburg banking family, and current chairwoman of the Princely and Countess Fugger Family Senior Council.

Filmography

cinemamovies

Television films

TV series and series

Awards

literature

  • Susanne Beyer, Nikolaus von Festenberg: A count to cuddle. In: Der Spiegel, 6/2000, p. 218ff.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c See: "Law No. 61 of December 10, 1918 (Abolition of the Nobility, Repeal of Family Fideikommisse, amended by Laws No. 243/1920 and 179/1924)." Comment on § 106 Constitution of the Czechoslovak Republic of 29 February 1920 (Collection of Laws No. 121/1920), online at Verfassungen.net. See also Mikulas v. Práznovszky: On the history of the Hungarian nobility in the Slovak Republic  ( 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. : "... and the use of nobility titles and predicates as part of the name was prohibited ..."@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / ovdhorst.com  
  2. ↑ Interview with Friedrich von Thun ( Memento of the original from September 14, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , Plan International Deutschland eV, accessed on December 25, 2010 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.plan-deutschland.de
  3. ^ Ehe-Aus after ten years In: Bunte.de, July 29, 2009. Retrieved on December 25, 2010.
personal data
SURNAME Thun, Friedrich von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Thun, Friedrich Ernst Peter Paul Maria von (all names); Thun-Hohenstein, Friedrich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian actor and theater scholar
DATE OF BIRTH June 30, 1942
PLACE OF BIRTH Kwassitz , Moravia , today the Czech Republic