Fritz Schediwy

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Fritz Schediwy (born February 24, 1943 in Prague ; † May 23, 2011 in Berlin ) was a German actor and theater director .

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Fritz Schediwy received his acting training at the Otto Falckenberg School in Munich . He started his first theater engagement in 1969 at the Theater Bremen under artistic director Kurt Hübner , where he stayed until 1972. Here he played the title role in Don Carlos , Ferdinand in Der Sturm , Malvolio in Was ihr wollt , Prince Philipp in Gombrowicz ' Yvonne, Princess of Burgundy and Johann in Fassbinder's Bremer Freiheit .

In 1972 he made his film debut in the television adaptation of Bremer Freiheit by Rainer Werner Fassbinder . Under Fassbinder he also played in his novel Berlin Alexanderplatz . Peter Zadek brought him to the Schauspielhaus Bochum in 1973, to which he was a member until 1978. There he played the nephew in García Lorcas Dona Rosita stays single , Aurelian in Calderón's The Great Zenobia , Nero in Racine's Britannicus , the tempter in Strindberg's The Unexpected Dream , Edmund in King Lear , Assessor Brack in Hedda Gabler and Duke von Este in Hugo / Büchner's Lucretia Borgia .

From 1978 to 1980 Schediwy was engaged at the Düsseldorfer Schauspielhaus . Here he embodied Admetus in Roberto Ciulli's Euripides productions Alcestis and The Cyclops . In 1980/81, he went to the co-determination theater at the Schauspiel Frankfurt . In productions by Wilfried Minks he played Debuisson in Heiner Müller's The Commission and the title role in Shakespeare's Richard III. Under the direction of BK Tragelehn he was seen as Orgon in Tartuffe (with Sepp Bierbichler as Tartuffe) and as Valmont in the world premiere of Heiner Müller's Quartet (1982, with Libgart Schwarz ). Schediwy made his debut as a director in Frankfurt with Emilia Galotti (with Peter Kremer and Paulus Manker ). In 1983 he then directed Oscar Wilde's “ Salome ” ( Oscar Wilde collage Salome or Auf dem Dach der Welt ) with Sven-Eric Bechtolf and Christoph Bantzer at the Schauspielhaus Zurich .

He went to the Schauspielhaus Zürich in 1982, where he was part of the ensemble until 1985. Roles there included Merlin in Tankred Dorst's Merlin or Das wüsten Land (with Matthias Habich ), Mesa in Paul Claudels Mittagswende , Napoleon in the world premiere of Friedrich Dürrenmatt's Achterloo (1983), Marinelli in Emilia Galotti and Achill in Penthesilea .

At the Schauspielhaus Bochum he played as a guest during the artistic direction of Claus Peymann in 1985/1986 as Valerio in Leonce and Lena and as John in the German premiere of Lars Noréns Nachtwache (1986). Peymann engaged him in 1986 after he moved to the Burgtheater in Vienna . Roles there included Theseus and Oberon in A Midsummer Night's Dream and Stephano in The Storm .

From the 1991/1992 season until the end of the 1994/1995 season he was part of Roberto Ciulli's ensemble at the Theater an der Ruhr . Here he took on the title roles in King Oedipus (1991), Uncle Vanya (1992) and Macbeth (1993). Schediwy then played again at the Burgtheater, including as the black in the world premiere of Dorst's Die Schattenlinie (1995) and Mackie Messer in Die Dreigroschenoper (1996, directed by Paulus Manker ) as well as at the Wiener Festwochen Hans Frank in Joschua Sobol's dramatization of Niklas Frank's Der Father - Ein Abrechnung (1995, Theater an der Wien ). At the Deutsches Theater Berlin he played the people in Peter Handke's Preparations for Immortality (1997) and at the Düsseldorf Schauspielhaus Heinrich Heine in the world premiere of Dorst 's Harrys Kopf (1997).

Schediwy worked with numerous high-ranking representatives of the German-speaking directing theater, u. a. with Roberto Ciulli , Jürgen Gosch , Klaus Michael Grüber and Werner Schroeter . He also appeared in some of Werner Schroeter's films and played the leading role in Paulus Manker's film debut Schmutz (1985). Since 2005 he has been a member of the Zurich Schauspielhaus ensemble .

Schediwy died on May 23, 2011 in the Virchow Clinic, after having had a heart attack shortly before during a reading in the Berlin Schiller Theater.

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  1. ↑ http://www.tagesspiegel.de/kultur/schauspieler-fritz-schediwy-bei-lesung-auf-der-buehne-gestorben/4212204.html
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SURNAME Schediwy, Fritz
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German actor and theater director
DATE OF BIRTH February 24, 1943
PLACE OF BIRTH Prague
DATE OF DEATH May 23, 2011
Place of death Berlin