Georg Marischka

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Georg Marischka, 1953

Georg Marischka (born June 29, 1922 in Vienna , † August 9, 1999 in Munich ) was an Austrian director , actor and screenwriter for film and television.

Life

He was the son of the actor, singer, director and screenwriter Hubert Marischka and his second wife, the costume designer Lilian "Lilly" Karczag, daughter of the theater director Wilhelm Karczag . His half-brother Franz Marischka and his uncle Ernst Marischka also worked in film.

Since his mother was only considered to be a “ half-Jew ” and he was therefore only a “quarter Jew”, he was less affected by the Nuremberg laws after the “ Anschluss ” than his brother Franz, who was classified as a “half-Jew”. From 1943 until the end of the war he was imprisoned by the Gestapo for “publicly disparaging national interests” . Believed to be dead by his father, Marischka turned up in a French prison camp in Chartres after the end of the war .

Career

Director

His first work in film was assistant director for Willi Forst's 1942 film Wiener Blut . His second assistant director did not follow until 1949, this time on Gustav Ucicky's Der Seelenbräu . In 1950 he worked for the first time on a script for the then scandalous film The Sinner by Willi Forst. He made his debut as a director in 1951 with the film Der fidele Bauer . An early career highlight came from working with OW Fischer on the films Hanussen , Peter Voss - the hero of the day and Everything goes better with raspberry spirit .

In the 1960s, however, his career almost came to a standstill. During the wave of Karl May films of this time, Marischka, who was considered a Karl May expert, was able to work on some scripts, but was not given a directing assignment. When he did not succeed in winning the producer Artur Brauner , he and his brother Franz produced The Legacy of the Inka himself and took over the direction. The elaborate project, however, turned out to be a failure.

actor

He then returned to film as a heavyweight actor in the early 1970s. In German and international productions he often played hard-hearted, tough business people or high figures from business, police and justice.

In the 1990s he was present in two continuous series roles: In Der Bergdoktor as Xaver Zirngiebel and as mayor and sawmill owner Franz (later Georg ) Walzinger in Forsthaus Falkenau . He also had several guest appearances in various TV series such as Ein Schloß am Wörthersee , SOKO 5113 , Jörg Preda reports (with Pinkas Braun ), Paul Temple (with Francis Matthews and Ros Drinkwater ) and others

As a character actor, he was seen in a supporting role in A pale blue woman's font by Axel Corti (based on the novella by Franz Werfel ), where he played a sneaky-lying official of the Vienna Ministry of Education.

family

Marischka had three children: The marriage with Ingeborg Schöner had two daughters - radio presenter Juliette Marischka and actress Nicole Marischka . Daughter Carolin comes from the relationship with actress Evelin Bey , who also worked as an actress until the mid-1990s.

Georg Marischka's grave is in the north cemetery in Munich (grave no. 115-U-18).

Filmography

movie theater

Assistant director

Director

Actor (selection)

Screenwriter

watch TV

Director (selection)

Actor (selection)

Screenwriter (selection)

  • 1972: Plonk

literature

  • Franz Zwetschi Marischka: Always smile. Stories and anecdotes from theater and film. Amalthea, Vienna 2001, ISBN 978-3-85002-442-6 .
  • Kay Less : Between the stage and the barracks. Lexicon of persecuted theater, film and music artists from 1933 to 1945 . With a foreword by Paul Spiegel . Metropol, Berlin 2008, ISBN 978-3-938690-10-9 , p. 237.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ knerger.de: The grave of Georg Marischka
personal data
SURNAME Marischka, Georg
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian director, actor and screenwriter
DATE OF BIRTH June 29, 1922
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna
DATE OF DEATH August 9, 1999
Place of death Munich