Fritz Muliar

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Fritz Muliar (left) as Chief Inspector Gruber during the shooting of the episode “Das goldene Pflaster” of the TV series “ Der Kommissar ” (Vienna, approx. 1974)

Fritz Muliar , born in Friedrich Ludwig Stand (born December 12, 1919 in Vienna ; † May 4, 2009 in Vienna-Alsergrund ), was an Austrian actor , cabaret artist and director .

family

Muliar was born out of wedlock and grew up in Vienna-Neubau . His birth father Maximilian Wechselbaum was a Tyrolean kuk officer who had no contact with his son and who later joined the National Socialists . Muliar's mother Leopoldine Stand, who worked as a secretary at the Oesterreichische Kontrollbank , was close to the Social Democrats . In 1924 she met the Russian-Jewish jeweler Mischa Muliar and married him. Muliar's grandparents were strictly Catholic and German nationalism .

After his first marriage to Gretl Doering (1923–1997) had failed shortly before, Muliar married Franziska Kalmar (* 1930), Austria's first television announcer , in 1955 . With her he had the sons Alexander (* 1957) and Martin (* 1959). His son Hans (* 1946) from his first marriage to Gretl Doering died in 1990. Muliar's grandson, Markus , published the book So that we understand each other! in which he transcribed his grandfather's diaries and letters from World War II.

Muliar was a member of the theater in der Josefstadt and celebrated his 70th stage anniversary in 2006. He lived with his wife in Groß-Enzersdorf near the Lobau near Vienna.

Muliar was an active social democrat and regularly supported the SPÖ's election campaigns . He was an avowed Freemason and belonged to a Viennese Masonic lodge . Fritz Muliar was also a member of the non-party and non-religious Austrian Scout Association .

Career

Fritz Muliar finished school at the age of 16 and began studying acting at the New Vienna Conservatory . His first cabaret appearances took place in 1937 in Stella Kadmon's cabaret “Der liebe Augustin”, later also in “ Simpl ”, where, however, after Austria's annexation to the German Reich in 1938, he was only allowed to play harmless opera parodies and peasant cocks. He also worked as a salesman for baby cosmetics to earn money for a living (including his mother) after the stepfather fled the Nazis to the USA in March 1938.

In April 1940 Muliar was drafted into the Wehrmacht . In 1942 he was in solitary confinement for seven months because of disrupting military strength and working to restore a free Austria . He was even sentenced to death . The sentence was converted into a five-year prison sentence, which was suspended in a punishment unit on the Eastern Front for so-called “ front probation ” . He experienced the end of the war as a British prisoner of war .

In 1946 he started as a speaker at Radio Klagenfurt for the Alpenland broadcasting group , where he met his future wife Gretl Doering. Doering brought their four-year-old son Heinz into the marriage, from whom son Hans emerged shortly after the wedding. Muliar worked as an actor and director in Graz for "The Hedgehog - the small time theater". He switched to the Styrian State Theater , where he could even have accepted an offer as theater director.

Honorary grave of Fritz Muliar in the Vienna Central Cemetery (Group 33G, No. 42)

Instead, he returned to the Raimund Theater in Vienna in 1949 , where he appeared as an operetta buffo with greats such as Johannes Heesters and Marika Rökk , but at times also worked as an emcee in the Moulin Rouge nightclub . From 1952 to 1965 he played in Simpl at the side of Karl Farkas and Ernst Waldbrunn , but over time also on all the major stages in Vienna, in the Theater in der Josefstadt , in the Volkstheater , from the mid-1970s also at the Vienna Burgtheater , from 1994 again in the "Josefstadt". In the summer breaks he appeared regularly at the Salzburg Festival .

Muliar stood in front of the camera for the first time in 1940, in the film Herz ohne Heimat with his then partner Friedl Hoffmann and Curd Jürgens, who was still rather unknown at the time .

After the war, he starred in more than 100 television films and series. In addition, he devoted himself to recitation in many lecture evenings. With numerous record, radio and stage programs on Jewish jokes , he also established himself as an extremely popular interpreter of Jewish jokes in the German-speaking world.

Muliar was considered a popular actor . He was especially good at depicting people who speak Yiddish or criticize .

On Sunday, May 3, 2009, the 89-year-old stood on the Josefstadt stage for the last time as Baron von Ciccio in Peter Turrini's play Die Wirtin after Carlo Goldoni . He died the following Monday night after collapsing in his apartment and being taken to the Vienna General Hospital . On May 12, 2009 Fritz Muliar was buried in a grave of honor in the Vienna Central Cemetery (Group 33G, No. 42).

In 2016, Muliarplatz in Vienna- Liesing (23rd district) was named after him.

Quotes

“I'm an actor of the little man - a Jewish banker, that's still inside, I don't necessarily have to play Othello. Den Lear - only in a musical version. "

"There's also something like superstition: I haven't met anyone who has returned their 13th month's salary."

Roles (selection)

Publications

Printing units

  • So I don't forget to tell you. Yiddish stories and Lozelachs. Matari, Hamburg 1967. New edition: Der Apfel, Vienna 2004, ISBN 978-3-85450-162-6 .
  • Strictly indiscreet! Recorded by Eva Bakos . With 13 drawings by Rudolf Angerer. Zsolnay, Vienna / Hamburg 1969.
  • Yiddish jokes and stories. Fontana, Hamburg 1973, DNB 577896652 .
  • The best of my collection of Jewish jokes and anecdotes. 2nd Edition. Heyne, Munich 1974, ISBN 3-453-00387-X .
  • If you ask me … . Recorded by Trude Marzik . Zsolnay, Vienna 1972; Most recently new edition Zsolnay, Vienna 1990, ISBN 3-552-02430-1 .
  • The trip to Tripstrill and back. Afterword by György Sebestyén . Verlag Mundus, Vienna 1978, ISBN 3-85190-102-9 .
  • Austria wherever you look. Athenaeum, Königstein im Taunus 1983.
  • Love letters to Austria. Ueberreuter, Vienna 1986, ISBN 3-8000-3232-5 .
  • Epilogue to William Novak and Moshe Waldoks: The great book of Jewish humor. Athenaeum, Königstein im Taunus 1982.
  • To Federal President Kurt Waldheim. In: Milo Dor (ed.): The corpse in the cellar. Documents of resistance to Dr. Kurt Waldheim. Picus, Vienna 1988, ISBN 3-85452-205-3 , p. 133 ff.
  • From A to Z. The unspeakable pronounced. Zsolnay, Vienna 1989, ISBN 3-552-04140-0 .
  • This is my coffee. The coffee book for connoisseurs. Pichler, Vienna 1994, ISBN 3-85431-101-X .
  • Bottom line: Before it's too late again. 3. Edition. Kremayr & Scheriau, Vienna 1996, ISBN 3-218-00626-0 .
  • That still has to be said! Kremayr & Scheriau, Vienna 1999, ISBN 3-218-00665-1 .
  • Was it really that bad? Memories. A Confession series (Volume 4). Edition Va Bene, Vienna 1994, ISBN 3-85167-027-2 .
  • A vacation with friends? Edition Va Bene, Vienna 2002, ISBN 3-85167-134-1 .
  • Obediently report that yes! My life adventures. Styria, Graz 2003, ISBN 3-222-13129-5 .
  • I think of Austria. A balance sheet. Autobiography, recorded by Helmuth A. Niederle , Residenz, St. Pölten, Salzburg 2009, ISBN 978-3-7017-3142-8 .

Sound carrier

  • The Jewish joke. Performed by Fritz Muliar, Preiser 1959.
  • Cabaret from Vienna No. 31. Bonkes and Chalosches as told by Fritz Muliar, Preiser 1960.
  • Fritz Muliar tells Jewish jokes. Preiser undated
  • So that I don't forget to tell you! Jewish jokes. 2nd episode. Preiser undated
  • Fritz Muliar tells Jewish jokes for the 3rd time. no year
  • Fritz Muliar tells jokes, of course Jewish ones. no year
  • New Jewish jokes and stories. Live recording. Philips 1968.
  • Yiddish jokes and stories. Fontana 1973.
  • ... not only the Jidden laugh. Live recording, Fontana o. J.
  • Fritz Muliar reads Alfred Polgar - Egon Friedell - Alexander Roda Roda . Preiser CD PR90011, 1999.
  • The letters of Menachem Mendel. From Sholem Alejchem . Preiser CD PR90384, 1999.
  • Siberia. From Felix Mitterer . Audio book. Preiser CD PR90538, 2002.
  • Fritz Muliar and Michael Dangl : Visiting Mr. Green. By Jeff Baron. Preiser CD PR90561, 2003.
  • Fritz Muliar tells stories about Roda Roda. Preiser CD PR90752, 2007.
  • Forgotten. Read and sung by Ulrike Beimpold and Martin Muliar. Ed .: Markus Muliar. Mono Verlag , Vienna, 2013- ISBN 978-3-902727-16-9 .

Awards (excerpt)

Filmography

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Fritz Muliar died: Farewell. In: The hurricane . May 4, 2009, accessed December 12, 2019 .
  2. ↑ Searching for the deceased: In: friedhoefewien.at. Retrieved December 12, 2019 .
  3. ↑ Kurier (daily newspaper) A year full of memories from January 3, 2015, accessed on May 18, 2020
  4. ^ Actor Fritz Muliar has passed away. ORF , May 4, 2009, archived from the original on May 9, 2009 ; Retrieved October 17, 2013 .
  5. ↑ Gernot Zimmermann: Turrinis "The Landlady" in Josefstadt. In: Ö1 lunch journal. January 28, 2009, archived from the original on May 10, 2009 ; accessed on December 12, 2019 .
  6. ↑ Fritz Muliar buried in the grave of honor. In: Small newspaper . May 12, 2009. Retrieved December 12, 2019 .
  7. ↑ Federal Chancellor : Question response: written parliamentary question regarding medals and decorations to former domestic and foreign members of the government and other personalities. (pdf, 6.6 MB) April 23, 2012, p. 1483 , accessed on December 12, 2019 (list of all decorations awarded by the Federal President for services to the Republic of Austria from 1952).
personal data
SURNAME Muliar, Fritz
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Stand, Friedrich Ludwig (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian chamber actor and director
DATE OF BIRTH December 12, 1919
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna
DATE OF DEATH May 4, 2009
Place of death Vienna