Günther Tabor

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Günther Tabor (born August 30, 1925 in Langenwang ; † October 26, 2002 in Berlin ) was an Austrian actor and director .

Life

Günther Tabor

After his military service as a pilot and subsequent Soviet imprisonment after the end of the war, the son from a merchant family completed his studies in acting parallel to studying philosophy and psychology. He first worked as a cabaret artist and author, among others for the Viennese cabaret "Der Spiegel". From 1946 to 1950 he was employed as an actor and assistant director at the Deutsches Volkstheater, Vienna , under Paul Barnay . Here he played his first major roles as a romantic teenage hero. It followed z. B. the Tasso in Lucerne, the Romeo in Baden-Baden, then Richard III in Frankfurt. and again in Vienna (Theater in der Josefstadt) among others the roles of Wurm, Franz Moor, Antipholus and Zawisch. He subsequently made guest appearances in Hanover, Nuremberg and Frankfurt as Clavigo, Carlos and Lenin.

Erwin Piscator signed him to Essen in 1959 , where he switched to character as Orin in "Mourning must carry Elektra" under Piscator's direction, and in 1960 played Christopher Columbus under the direction of Jean-Louis Barrault . Tabor moved to Berlin with Piscator and gave the world premiere of Rolf Hochhuth's “ Der Stellvertreter ” in 1963 under Piscator's direction to Father Ricardo. B. the Saint Just on the occasion of the opening of the new building of the Free Volksbühne .

In addition to acting, Tabor also worked as a director at an early age. From Shakespeare and Goethe to Brecht, Horvath, Nestroy, Schnitzler and contemporary authors, he staged around a hundred plays at home and abroad, many of which he also edited. From 1980 to 1985 he took over the acting direction of the Kieler Bühnen and showed there, among other things, the renewed topicality of the "deputy" in a text version of his own, and also successfully attended the world premiere of Hochhuth's " Judith ".

Günther Tabor was last seen in 1995 in the Berlin Renaissance Theater.

Since the late 1940s, Tabor regularly took on roles in film and television productions. He played, for example, in the Edgar Wallace crime thriller The Man with the Glass Eye , the comedy Car-napping - ordered - stolen - delivered and in the street sweeper The gentlemen ask for cash for the mail robbery of August 8, 1963 in Great Britain. He also played guest roles in many television series such as Liebling Kreuzberg , Derrick and Der Alte . In addition, he worked extensively for radio play productions.

Günther Tabor was married to the actress Christine Prober . The couple has three sons.

Filmography (selection)

Radio plays (selection)

literature

  • Who's Who in the Arts and Literature , Vol. 2: Applied Arts and Music , Karl Strute and Theodor Doelken (Eds.), 3rd edition, Zurich: red series 1983, p. 663.
  • 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. 734.

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