Gandolf Buschbeck

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Gandolf Franz Buschbeck (born June 4, 1926 in Vienna ; † March 7, 2011 there ) was an Austrian actor in the stage and film industry, a set designer , theater director and at times director of the Salzburg State Theater .

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The early years as an actor

Before the end of the Second World War, Gandolf Buschbeck came to the stage through his father, the dramaturge and theater director Erhard Buschbeck , and began in 1944 as a member of the theater in der Josefstadt . Here he stayed for five years. In 1949 he was brought to the Burgtheater that his father had brought with him and stayed there for the next few years. In these early years, Gandolf Buschbeck was seen with small roles in various entertainment films. In the second half of the 1950s and early 1960s, he concentrated on participating in cinematic implementations of classic theater plays ( Götz von Berlichingen, Maria Stuart, Liliom, Das weite Land ).

Director, stage design, artistic director

At the grandstand and the small theater in the Konzerthaus, both in Vienna, Gandolf Buschbeck has also been a director and set designer since October 1953 and February 1954, respectively. At the end of the 1950s he took part as an assistant director at the Bad Hersfeld Festival, and in 1960 he temporarily returned to the Burgtheater as assistant director. Buschbeck's productions - classical spoken as well as musical theater - include, among others, The Dance in the Broken Sky, The Wounded Angel, The Uninhabited Island, Fair of Feelings, We Got Away Again, The Queens of France, The Tomb of the Unknown Soldier, Friends , The Threepenny Opera, The Fearful, Eurydice, The False Prima Donna, Angélique, The Compliments, The Two Pedagogues, La Contessina, Mirandolina, Iphigenia on Tauris, The Alpine King and the Misanthrope, Tosca, The Merry Widow, La Bohème, Hoffmann's Tales, What you want, Who is afraid of Virginia Woolf ?, The Tsarevich, Hotel Comedie, Stories from the Vienna Woods, Locandiera, Carmen, Beckett, Ariadne on Naxos, Max for Maß, Maria Stuart, Don Carlos, Electra has to carry mourning and Three Sisters .

Buschbeck also created the stage sets for various of these productions, which were also created to a considerable extent at the Vienna Chamber Opera and the Salzburg State Theater, of which he was director from 1967 to 1974. With the end of his directorship in Salzburg, Buschbeck's directorial output also decreased. From 1974 to 1982 Gandolf Buschbeck was Deputy Director of Karl Dönch at the Volksoper. In 1982 he set up a new production of Shakespeare's Much Ado About Nothing as part of the Melker Summer Games, and in 1985 he directed Die Gigerln von Wien at the Simmering show center . A year later, a new production of Polenblut at the Vienna Volksoper followed. Gandolf Buschbeck completed his career in 1987 with a new production of Shakespeare's The Taming of the Shrew at the Melker Summer Games. Three of his theatrical productions found their way onto television ( Der Furchtsame [1959], The False Prima donna [1961] and Fiesko, the Salamikramer [1967]), in 1964 he directed Othello, the Mohr in Vienna , based on Shakespeare's Othello . In later years Buschbeck was a member of the management of the Volksoper and led guest directors abroad, for example in Mainz.

Filmography

As an actor:

literature

  • Glenzdorfs Internationales Film-Lexikon, first volume, Bad Münder 1960, p. 221

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ exact life dates according to friedhoefewien.at
  2. ↑ Gandolf Buschbeck on theadok.at

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personal data
SURNAME Buschbeck, Gandolf
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Buschbeck, Gandolf Franz (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian stage and film actor as well as stage director and artistic director
DATE OF BIRTH June 4, 1926
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna
DATE OF DEATH March 7, 2011
Place of death Vienna