Hanns Obonya

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Hanns Obonya , also Hans Obonya , (born January 16, 1922 in Vienna , Austria ; † May 27, 1978 ibid) was an Austrian actor .

Life

Obonya came into contact with theater and film as a teenager . In the 1930s, for example, he played piccolos, liftboys and cabin boys in German and Austrian entertainment films.

In the early 1950s Obonya was engaged at the Graz Schauspielhaus . There he was seen in 1951 in the title role of the drama Kain by Anton Wildgans . He also played in the musical folk piece Die Gigerln von Wien with the music of Alexander Steinbrecher .

In 1956 he took part in the Wiener Festwochen premiere of the play Ulla Winblad or the music and life of Carl Michael Bellman by Carl Zuckmayer in the Vienna Volkstheater .

Later Hanns Obonya also became a permanent member of the ensemble at the Vienna Burgtheater . There he played a wide repertoire , which included plays by William Shakespeare , the German-speaking authors of the Classical and Romantic periods , folk plays by Ferdinand Raimund and Johann Nestroy , but also plays from modern times and contemporary theater. For example, in 1964 he played the Patriarch of Jerusalem in Gotthold Ephraim Lessing's play Nathan the Wise at the castle . In 1963 he appeared in the academy theater as detective inspector Richard Voss in the play The Physicists by Friedrich Dürrenmatt . Obonya received positive reviews for his portrayal of Tupper in Johann Nestroy's posse The Insignificant . Obonya was also convincing in smaller roles and formed intense character portraits in these, for example in 1978 in one of his last appearances on the stage of the Burgtheater as Prague citizen Prokop in A Brotherly Dispute in Habsburg by Franz Grillparzer .

From the 1960s Obonya appeared regularly at the Salzburg Festival . In 1961 he played the Bustorius in the romantic fairy tale The farmer a millionaire by Ferdinand Raimund . In 1964 he took over the Altmeyer in Faust from Johann Wolfgang von Goethe . For several years he played in every one of Hugo von Hofmannsthal the role of the poor neighbors .

In the 1960s he was seen several times on Austrian and German television in literary adaptations, in theater recordings or in television adaptations of plays. In 1963 he played the role of Iwan Schamrajew in a television production of the play The Seagull by Anton Chekhov . In 1968 he was seen in a television version edited by Hans Thimig for the ORF as Paddy McDowd in the play Fast a Poet by Eugene O'Neill . In the television series The Adventures of the Good Soldier Schwejk , Obonya played Colonel Schröder at the side of Fritz Muliar in the early 1970s, directed by Wolfgang Liebeneiner . Obonya had his last television role in 1977 as an officer in the television drama Alpensaga by Peter Turrini .

Hanns Obonya was several times as a speaker at radio plays of the Austrian Broadcasting Corporation operates, including in 1960 in a co-production of the NDR and the ORF of Friedrich Schiller's trilogy Wallenstein and shortly before his death in 1978 as Szabuniewicz in Me and the Colonel by Franz Werfel. In addition, he regularly took on pointed speaking roles in operetta productions of the Austrian radio, for example in Die Landstreicher by Carl Michael Ziehrer .

Hanns Obonya was part of one of the most famous Austrian families of actors . He was married to the chamber actress Elisabeth Orth until his death in 1978 . His in-laws were Attila Hörbiger and Paula Wessely . His son Cornelius Obonya also became an actor.

Filmography (selection)

See also

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ About Cain. The playwright Anton Wildgans Heinz Gerstinger Homepage Anton-Wildgans-Gesellschaft
  2. ↑ Ulla Winblad or Music and Life of Carl Michael Bellman Homepage Fischer Theater Verlage
  3. ↑ The farmer als millionaire  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Homepage Salzburg Festival Archive 1961@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / salzburgerfestspiele.at  
  4. ↑ Faust  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Homepage Salzburg Festival Archive 1964@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.salzburgerfestspiele.at  
  5. ↑ Die Möwe database entry at www.film.at
  6. ↑ Almost a poet database entry at www.film.at
  7. ↑ Wallenstein (PDF; 522 kB) Edition Mnemosyne
  8. ↑ Jakobowsky and the Colonel Entry in the audio play database
personal data
SURNAME Obonya, Hanns
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Obonya Hans; Obonya Johannes
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian actor
DATE OF BIRTH January 16, 1922
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna
DATE OF DEATH May 27, 1978
Place of death Vienna