Guido Wieland

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Guido Wieland during a radio recording (1954)

Guido Wieland (born November 18, 1906 in Vienna ; † March 10, 1993 ibid) was an Austrian theater and film actor , director and operetta buffo .

actor

Guido Wieland began an apprenticeship at a bank, but gave it up in favor of the acting profession. He took acting lessons from Rudolf Beer and returned to Vienna after years of traveling that took him to the USA, but also performed at German theaters in Bohemia and Moravia . He played in musical comedies and operettas at the Theater an der Wien and at the Wiener Kammerspiele (1929–1931). Then he worked at theaters in what is now the Czech Republic and Switzerland until 1938 .

About his life in World War II has been noted on resumes, he was at that time no commitment was. In Lehmann's Vienna address book he was entered as an actor from 1932 to the last year of publication, 1942, with the address 4. , Paniglgasse 19. According to an obituary on the website of the New Germany , according to the self-term socialist daily newspaper , he was banned from appearing during the Nazi era .

From 1945 onwards he was seen in diverse and very different roles at Viennese theaters:

He also appeared in many, mostly entertaining, films from the 1950s to 1970s, and from 1958 until his death in television films on serious subjects. He stepped z. B. in the television plays Like a tear in the ocean after Manès Sperber , The story of the 1002nd Nights by Joseph Roth and Here I am, my father after Friedrich Torberg and in Axel Corti's film The Jägerstätter case about an Austrian conscientious objector during the Nazi era on.

Serial actor

1952-1960 he was in the popular radio family , who carried the family name Floriani , the quirky family member Uncle Guido . Even later, he often appeared in roles in which he kept his first name.

Guido Wieland appeared in the following television series:

Filmography (selection)

Honor, commemoration

His final resting place is in the local cemetery of Deutsch Wagram in Lower Austria , a few kilometers northeast of Vienna.

In 2013 the Volkstheater Wien brought radio family episodes written by Ingeborg Bachmann to the stage; Uncle Guido , played by Günter Tolar , played a prominent role in it.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Obituary for Wieland from March 12, 1993
  2. ^ Image of the Wieland tombstone on the private website of Klaus Nerger, Wiesbaden
  3. ^ Bernhard Doppler: Post-war problems in Viennese language , website Deutschlandradio Kultur , text from March 6, 2013
  4. ↑ The production on the Volkstheater's website, premiere March 6, 2013 ( Memento from July 8, 2013 in the Internet Archive )

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personal data
SURNAME Wieland, Guido
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian chamber and film actor, director and operetta buffo
DATE OF BIRTH November 18, 1906
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna
DATE OF DEATH March 10, 1993
Place of death Vienna