Fritz Schmiedel

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Fritz Schmiedel (born March 26, 1906 in Vienna , † autumn 1979 in Innsbruck ) was an Austrian actor and theater director .

Life

Fritz Schmiedel received private acting lessons from the castle actor Hermann Wawra and made his debut in 1925 at the city theater in Teplitz-Schönau . Performances at theaters in Vienna and Breslau followed until the end of World War II . After that he had engagements at the Schauspielhaus in Zurich and the National Theater in Mannheim . From 1955 Fritz Schmiedel exercised in addition to his activity as an actor also the position of senior director at the Deutsches Theater in Göttingen . There you could him as Hechingen in the comedy The Difficult by Hugo von Hofmannsthal and the Fool in Shakespeare's comedy Twelfth see. He also staged Friedrich Schiller's Maria Stuart and Doña Rosita remains unmarried by Federico García Lorca in Göttingen . In 1956 he moved to the State Theater in Hanover and in 1960 to the Thalia Theater in Hamburg .

Fritz Schmiedel also worked in film and television productions . These included the French productions Die Nervensäge (Les casse-pieds) and The Silence of the Sea (Le silence de la mer) in 1948 and 1949 and the two-part literary film adaptation of Buddenbrooks by Alfred Weidenmann with Werner Hinz , Hanns Lothar and Liselotte Pulver in 1959 . For his portrayal of Anton Klee in the 1959 film The Man Who Sells himself by Josef von Báky with Hildegard Knef , Hansjörg Felmy and Antje Weisgerber , he was awarded the Federal Film Prize for the best male supporting role . From the 1960s he was also active as an actor in numerous television series such as Das Kriminalmuseum , Die Fifth Kolonne , Der Kommissar , The Strange Methods of Franz Josef Wanninger , The Courier of the Empress , When the Father with the Son and Derrick . In 1967, he played Mr. Shelby in ZDF 's three-part TV series The Death Runs Afterwards . He also worked occasionally as a radio play speaker .

Fritz Schmiedel died in Innsbruck and was buried on November 12, 1979 in the Pötzleinsdorf cemetery in his hometown of Vienna.

Filmography (selection)

literature

  • Johann Caspar Glenzdorf: Glenzdorf's international film lexicon. Biographical manual for the entire film industry. Volume 3: Peit – Zz. Prominent-Filmverlag, Bad Münder 1961, DNB 451560752 , p. 1518.
  • Herbert A. Frenzel , Hans Joachim Moser (ed.): Kürschner's biographical theater manual. Drama, opera, film, radio. Germany, Austria, Switzerland. De Gruyter, Berlin 1956, DNB 010075518 , p. 654.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Erika Müller: The man who sold himself . In: Die Zeit , No. 12/1959
  2. ↑ Death runs after ; on Die Krimihomepage online; accessed on August 8, 2016
  3. ↑ Entry on Fritz Schmiedel on HÖRDAT online; accessed on August 8, 2016
  4. ^ Friedrich Schmiedel in the search for the deceased at friedhoefewien.at
personal data
SURNAME Schmiedel, Fritz
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian actor and theater director
DATE OF BIRTH March 26, 1906
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna
DATE OF DEATH 1979
Place of death innsbruck