Hans Falár

Hans Falár , actually: Johann Maria Falar (born June 1, 1944 in Vienna ; † August 13, 2002 in Dresden ) was an Austrian actor and theater director .

Live and act

Falár began as an apprentice at the Vienna State Opera , where he was hired as a dancer ; At the same time, he staged theater projects at various Viennese cellar theaters and at independent stages. In 1967 he founded the Theater der Gegenwart ( Königseggasse  10, Vienna-Mariahilf ) together with Herbert-Franz Traub (* 1940 ). As part of the Wiener Festwochen 1969, Falár staged the world premiere of the tragedy Judas Ischariot by Fred Wiesen (ie Hans-Frieder Willmann ; 1922-2017) at the Nestroy Theater ( Josefsgasse  12, Vienna-Josefstadt ) .

Falár then went to Germany , where he got his first engagement at the Stuttgart theater in the old town. This was followed by an engagement at the Städtische Bühnen Freiburg . In the early 1970s he came to the Nationaltheater Mannheim , where he stayed until the early 1980s. Falár's first own productions also took place in Mannheim , including The Chairs . There he appeared in several productions under the direction of Jürgen Bosse . He later worked with Bosse at other theaters. Under Bosse, he took on, among other things, the fool in Random Death of an Anarchist by Dario Fo (1978), Walter Fessel in Parricide by Arnolt Bronnen (1979) and Georges Garga in In the Thicket of Cities by Bertolt Brecht (1982, Burgtheater Vienna ). On May 23, 1983, the speech piece he wrote, The icy rainbow, premiered in the VT studio of the Wiener Konzerthaus (1981-87).

In the early 1980s he moved permanently to the Theater Bremen , where he appeared in various productions by Günter Krämer . There he played Countess Geschwitz (!) In Lulu , Mephisto in both parts of Goethe's Faust and the title role in the drama Richard III. by William Shakespeare . Falár also created his own productions in Bremen : Accidental Death of an Anarchist (1985/86), Endspiel and, in the 1989/90 season, Spring Awakening .

In May 1980 he made a guest appearance in Berlin with the play Patermord alongside Gabriela Badura , Werner Sentek and Heinz Schubert at the Berlin Theatertreffen . In 1981 he made a guest appearance at the Stuttgart State Theater , as Henrik Höfgen in the Mephisto production by Ariane Mnouchkine and Hansgünther Heyme . In the 1986/87 season he appeared as Mr. Peachum in Brecht / Weill's Die Dreigroschenoper at the Berlin Theater des Westens .

At the Schauspiel Bonn he was a member of the ensemble under the directorship of Peter Eschberg and then moved with Eschberg to the Schauspielhaus Frankfurt . Important roles during this period were: Roy Cohn in Tony Kushner's play Angels in America (1993/94), Malvolio in What You Want (1996), General Harras in The Devil's General (1997) and the gang boss Nick Valenti in Woody Allen's comedy Bullets over Broadway (1998). Own directorial work in Frankfurt am Main was: Is not paid by Dario Fo (1994), Der Feind von Julien Green (1995), Die Heimkehr von Harold Pinter (1996) and Der Geizige (1996). Until the end of the 1995/96 season, Falár was in the ensemble of the Frankfurt Schauspielhaus. Since the 1996/97 season he has been director of the Heidelberg dance theater. There he staged various dance theater projects, including orgy based on Pier Paolo Pasolini and Stoned or The Strange Smile of Fear (1999) based on motifs by Edward Bond . In drama, he staged the Shakespeare comedy A Midsummer Night's Dream (1998) at the Heidelberg Theater .

Falár was most recently a member of the Dresden State Theater since August 2001 . There he played the title role in the premiere of Lessing's Nathan the Wise in September 2001, directed by Holk Freytag ; Falár also realized his own productions in Dresden , including the world premiere of the farce Der tote Kick by Kristof Magnusson .

Falár also worked as an acting teacher. His students include the theater actor Rocco Hauf and today's puppeteer and director Gerd J. Pohl .

Falár also worked as a television actor. In the 1998 Tatort episode Rosen für Nadja , he played the role of transvestite Harriett Dimanche . He also acted in the film Hinzelmeier director Gernot Eigler and Peter Kern -Werk Have I only your love with. He also played under the direction of Axel Corti alongside Armin Mueller-Stahl in Wohin und zurück (God no longer believes in us) .

As a part-time job, Falár was active as a painter and graphic artist, for example illustrating the program booklet for the Bonn production Das Kurz Leben der Schneewolken , in which he played the leading role alongside Udo Kier .

Hans Falár was buried for rest on January 27, 2005 in the Neustift cemetery (grave site 13/1/2).

literature

• C. Bernd Sucher (Ed.): Theater Lexikon . Authors, directors, actors, dramaturges, stage designers, critics. By Christine Dössel and Marietta Piekenbrock with the assistance of Jean-Claude Kuner and C. Bernd Sucher. Deutscher Taschenbuch-Verlag, Munich 2nd edition 1999, ISBN 3-423-03322-3 , pp. 172/173.
• Manfred Brauneck , Wolfgang Beck (Ed.): Theater Lexikon 2. Actors and directors, stage managers, dramaturges and stage designers. With the participation of Werner Schulze-Reimpell . rowohlts enzyklopädie in Rowohlt Taschenbuch Verlag, Reinbek bei Hamburg 2007. S. 191. ISBN 978-3-499-55650-0

Web links

• Hans Falar in the Internet Movie Database (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} Search for the dead , in: friedhoefewien.at , accessed on May 2, 2019.
2. ↑ Herbert Traub (person involved), Hans Falár (person involved): Theater der Gegenwart… Opening performance March 2, 1967… Tennesse Williams Suddenly last summer… Pictorial representation (1-sheet poster). Ferdinand Berger & Sons, Vienna 1967. - Image online .
3. ↑ Hans-Frieder Willmann: Nestroy-Theater… brings the world premiere of… Judas Ischariot from June 5th to 7th… on the occasion of the Wiener Festwochen . Pictorial representation (1-sheet poster). Sn, sl 1969. - Image online .
4. ↑ The icy rainbow . In: Brigitte Marschall (Red.): Theadok.at . Institute for Theater, Film and Media Studies, December 22, 2017, accessed on April 30, 2019.
5. ↑ Jack Recknitz . Years are taken from the curriculum vitae of the actor Jack Recknitz.
6. ↑ Hans Joachim Reichhardt: Ten Years of Theater in Berlin, p. 514 (excerpts from Google Books)
7. ^ Curriculum Vitae of the actor Hauf
8. ↑ Axel Corti www.deutsches-filmhaus.de
9. ↑ Deutsche Kinemathek - Fernseharchiv ( Memento of the original from July 13, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.