Gerhard Brössner

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Gerhard Brössner (* 1940 in Timișoara , Kingdom of Romania ) is an Austrian actor who, with his family, belonged to the Romanian German minority in his native country .

Life

Brössner's theatrical breakthrough came in 1957 at the Deutsches Staatstheater Timisoara , where he appeared in 27 roles from 1957 to 1962. His favorite roles included the role of Andrej in Rosow's "Glück auf den Weg", Kosinsky in Schiller's " Die Räuber " and that of Figaro in Beaumarchai's " Figaro's Wedding ". He also played the role of Mr Sperling in Kotzebue's " Die deutschen Kleinstädter ", in Shakespeare's " Othello ", in the comedy "Story of a Young Marriage" by Jewgenij Schwarz , the role of Mack in Remarque's drama "The Last Station" at the German State Theater Timişoara , in Brecht's “Puntilla and his servant Matti” or “ Mother Courage and her children ”.

Brössner studied drama at the University in Bucharest and moved to Austria with his parents in 1964. The first engagements in small Viennese theaters soon followed. After a three-year engagement at the Stadttheater Baden , he was brought to Linz in 1968 by the then acting director and later artistic director Alfred Stögmüller , where he worked as an actor at the Linz State Theater for 36 years .

Since then, Brössner has remained loyal to Linz and has resisted numerous attempts to poach him (quotation from the laudation by Governor Josef Pühringer ). In addition to his work as an actor, he also took over the management of the youth theater department of the Linz State Theater for 20 years. He has been there since the beginning of the LIVA theater summer in Tillysburg Castle, of which he was artistic director from 1998 to 2004, as well as repeatedly in plays in the rose garden on Pöstlingberg in Linz together with Christiane Rücker and Klaus von Pervulesko in “Die Nacht in der Rue de L'Amour ”, in the double role Chandebise / Poche in“ The Flea in the Ear ”by Georges Feydeau a . a.

The actor played around 200 roles both serious and serene. He has played his star role, the one-act monologue in Patrick Süskind's Der Kontrabass , over 120 times, partly in the Kammerspiele of the Linz State Theater, partly in the Ursulinenhof Theater.

Brössner is still active in the context of special engagements. He inspired his audience a. a. as Weinberl in Johann Nestroy's “ He wants to make a joke ”, as Mr. Lips in “ Der Zerrissene ”, Valentin in “ Der Verschwender ” by Ferdinand Raimund , John Gabriel Borkmann in the play of the same name by Henrik Ibsen , Clausen in “Before Sunset” by Gerhart Hauptmann, Dario Fos "Johann vom Po discovers America" ​​a. v. a. At the TLT in Innsbruck he played Count Wallenstein in Fritz von Herzmanosky's "Prince Hamlet, the Easter Bunny or Sellawie" in the 2011/12 season. In 2013 he played the speaking role of Wagner at the Welsh National Opera in Cardiff (UK) in the opera "Wagner Dream" by Jonathan Harvey at the side of Karin Giegerich . Brössner played the role of Manfred Klapsch in the play “RESET - Alles auf Anfang!” By Roman Frankl and Michael Niavarani at the Berndorf Festival (Lower Austria) in 2013, and in Franz Molnár's “Game in the Castle” in 2015 at the Summer Games at Sitzenberg Castle (Lower Austria) ". In the 2016/17 season at the Musiktheater Linz, the role of Kaiser in the "White Horse Inn" by R. Benatzky.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Landeskorrespondenz: Medieninfo In: Land Oberösterreich , Landeskorrespondenz No. 126 of June 2, 2005
  2. ^ Horst Fassel: The German State Theater Timisoara (1953-2003). From national identity bearer to experimental theater. Berlin 2011, ISBN 978-3-643-11413-6
  3. ^ Wagner Dream - Review. Wales Millennium Center, Cardiff. In: The Guardian, June 8, 2013, in English
personal data
SURNAME Brössner, Gerhard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian actor
DATE OF BIRTH 1940
PLACE OF BIRTH Timișoara , Kingdom of Romania