Gerhard Dorfer

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Gerhard Dorfer (born November 23, 1939 in Vienna ) is an Austrian actor who, along with Josef Lang kuk executioner, also found attention as a playwright .

Life

Initially trained as a civil engineer , after graduating from high school in 1959 , he trained as an actor alongside his job at the Vienna Preiner Conservatory. Dorfer has been married since 1962. He has four children.

actor

theatre

In the year of his marriage, Dorfer also received his first permanent engagement as an actor at the Theater der Altstadt in Stuttgart . Many calls, e.g. For example, the ETA Hoffmann Theater in Bamberg , the Städtische Bühnen Frankfurt , the Zurich Theater am Neumarkt as well as the theater there and the Theater in der Josefstadt followed. Engagements at Volkstheater and the regional or city theaters of Salzburg , Bregenz , St. Gallen , St. Pölten and Baden near Vienna also show Dorfer's rise to become a much sought-after actor.

Movie and TV

Film and television also offered Dorfer numerous tasks. After first appearances in movies in the 1970s, Dorfer was mainly seen in television films and series from the 1980s. His portrayal of Hofrat Putner in the crime scene of the ORF became a long-runner : between 1982 and 1996 he worked in this role in more than twenty episodes after he had already investigated for the series in 1978 as a radio patrol officer at the side of the legendary Fritz Eckhardt .

playwright

With his fellow actor Anton Zettel , Dorfer dramatized the life of the well-known Viennese executioner Josef Lang as a satirical one-person play with the title Josef Lang kuk executioner as early as the early 1970s . The story of an honorable citizen's life and work between the slaughterhouse and the central cemetery of the formerly imperial and royal capital Vienna from old sources truthfully retold by Gerhard Dorfer and Anton Zettel, the subtitle of the play, was published on April 15, 1971 at the Theater am Neumarkt in First performed in Zurich. Gerhard Dorfer played Josef Lang and Peter Schweiger directed. In the same year there was the Austrian premiere in Graz with Fritz Holzer in the title role, directed by Heinz Dieter Clausen and co-author Anton Zettel. The Viennese premiere took place on October 13, 1972 in the basement theater of the Theater in der Josefstadt with Felix Dvorak in the lead role under the direction of Peter Lodynski . The production was recorded on Austrian television and first broadcast on FS2 on April 4, 1973. ZDF simultaneously produced the piece as a television play with Georg Corten in the title role and Lotte Ledl, Franz Kutschera and Edd Stavjanik in other roles; the television game was first broadcast in Germany on May 9, 1973. Radio Wien recorded a radio version of the piece under the direction of Hans Krendlesberger with Helmut Qualtinger ; it was released on CD by Spray Records. Today the monodrama has the rank of a popular classic in popular theater.

Later Dorfer worked on Vrat mi to pyzamo (1977; German Give me back the pajamas), the Prague author Vlastimil Venclik for Der Krankenkontrollor, with less success .

In 1981 the Theater für Vorarlberg brought Dorfer's play "Tolerance is Just a Transition" to the highly acclaimed and successful premiere in the Bregenz Kornmarkttheater . The director of the theater, Bruno Felix, staged this commissioned work himself for the 200th anniversary of Emperor Joseph II's patent of tolerance.

Filmography (selection)

All Right (1966)

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personal data
SURNAME Dorfer, Gerhard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian actor and playwright
DATE OF BIRTH November 23, 1939
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna