Hans Gaugler

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Hans Gaugler (born February 25, 1913 in St. Niklaus ; † June 10, 1997 in Ueberstorf ) was a Swiss actor and theater director .

Life

theatre

Hans Gaugler received his artistic training in Bern and Berlin . He then began his theater career in the German Reich during the reign of the National Socialists . His first engagement took him to the Landesbühne in Glogau in Silesia in 1939 . Up to 1945 he was engaged in Eisenach , Düsseldorf , in the 1943/1944 season also in Berlin at the Deutsches Theater under the direction of Heinz Hilperts and in Vienna at the Theater in der Josefstadt . After the end of the war, Gaugler returned to his Swiss homeland, where he initially (1946) found work as a speaker for dialect radio plays at Radio Bern.

Numerous stage engagements followed, initially taking Gaugler to Chur , Lucerne and the Schauspielhaus Zürich , where he appeared in the 1948 world premiere of Bertolt Brecht's Die Antigone des Sophokles . He was then seen at venues in Bern and St. Gallen before he joined the Berliner Ensemble Brechts in 1949 . In 1951 Gaugler returned to the Zurich Schauspielhaus as a guest and stayed there for two years.

In later years he worked both as an actor and as a director in the Bern studio theater. In these roles, he was involved in classic and modern pieces from the pen of Jean Cocteau , Henrik Ibsen , Sacha Guitry , Georg Kaiser , Jean Paul Sartre and William Shakespeare . Gaugler was able to implement his experiences with Brecht even after his death, for example in the years 1957 to 1959, when he staged Brecht's mother Courage and her children in his role as senior director at the Städtische Bühnen Heidelberg , and from 1959 to 1961 as senior director at the Landestheater Württemberg -Hohenzollern in Tübingen , where he directed Der gute Mensch von Sezuan . Guest productions led Gaugler a. a. to Heidelberg , Hildesheim , Klagenfurt , Tübingen and Cologne theaters.

Movie

After his return to Switzerland in 1946, Leopold Lindtberg brought Gaugler in front of the camera for the first time with a supporting role in the institutional thriller Matto rules . In 1954 Gaugler returned to the cinema, but not in front of the camera. Rather, Franz Schnyder engaged the returnees from Switzerland as assistant director for his three follow-up productions, Uli der Knecht , Heidi and Peter and Uli the tenant . The year 1957 marked Gaugler's return to the film camera, but his film roles remained relatively small throughout. In later years he also appeared in several television films.

Teaching and private

Hans Gaugler worked from 1965 to 1990 as a drama teacher at the Conservatory for Music and Theater in Bern. His son Christoph Gaugler is also an actor.

Filmography

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Biography at cyranos.ch , accessed on June 2, 2017.
personal data
SURNAME Gaugler, Hans
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss actor and theater director
DATE OF BIRTH February 25, 1913
PLACE OF BIRTH St. Niklaus , Switzerland
DATE OF DEATH June 10, 1997
Place of death Ueberstorf , Switzerland