Hans Jaray

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Hans Jaray (1940)
Hans Jaray's grave

Hans Jaray (born June 24, 1906 in Vienna ; † January 6, 1990 there ) was an Austrian actor , director and author .

Life

Hans Jaray (1940)

Hans Jaray was born the son of an architect . His parents divorced during his childhood, so that the future actor grew up partly in the care of his godly Jewish grandmother in Gmunden . During the First World War he attended the Friedberg Institute boarding school in Dresden and later the Theresianum in his hometown, where his talent for acting was first discovered. Against the resistance of his father, but with the support of mother and stepmother Lili Marberg , Jaray successfully applied to the Academy for Music and Performing Arts . In his year there were u. a. Paula Wessely , Käthe Gold , Karl Paryla , Albin Skoda and Siegfried Breuer .

At the side of Paula Wessely Jaray played theater again and again until the end of his life. Both were privately in a relationship, but the relationship ended after Jaray's affair with Marlene Dietrich . Nevertheless, they remained on friendly terms, Jaray acted as best man at Wessely's wedding with Attila Hörbiger . Karl Paryla also became a friend for life and chose Jaray to be the godfather of his son Michael .

Jaray played his first leading role as a student at the side of Albert Bassermann in Traumulus by Arno Holz and Oskar Jeschke at the Vienna Volkstheater . His first permanent engagement took him to the Neue Wiener Bühne , then from 1925 to 1930 to the Vienna Volkstheater, where he played roles in the classical repertoire, from Hamlet to Medardus .

In 1930 Max Reinhardt brought him to the Theater in der Josefstadt , where he worked until 1938. Jaray also wrote a number of plays himself, his first comedy Is Geraldine an Angel? was performed under the pseudonym Hans Honneg with Jaray and Wessely in the leading roles as a Christmas premiere in Josefstadt . Through his portrayal of Franz Schubert in the Willi Forst film Leise plead my songs (1933), Hans Jaray also became one of the most famous film actors in Germany and Austria.

After Austria was annexed to Nazi Germany , he had to emigrate as a Jew with his then partner Lili Darvas to the USA via Zurich and Paris and worked at theaters in Hollywood and New York until 1948 . In 1942 he was one of the co-founders of the troupe "The Players from Abroad", which consisted mainly of fled actors. His novel, published in the USA in 1948 under the title One Day Missing , was published in German in 1949 as Es ist ein Seite . His life story, What I could hardly have dreamed of, written shortly before death ... was only published in 1990 posthumously.

In 1948 Jaray returned to Vienna. He first appeared at the Volkstheater and from 1951 at the Theater in der Josefstadt, where he later also directed. In addition to his theater work, where he mainly appeared in tabloids , Jaray also took part in film productions again. From 1954 to 1964 he taught at the Max Reinhardt Seminar , of which he was briefly director in 1960.

Hans Jaray last lived in Vienna 3, Reisnerstrasse 21; his honorary grave is in the Hietzinger Friedhof (group 13, no. 46).

Awards

Works

  • A fine gentleman. Comedy in three acts. [As not for sale. Stage manuscript reproduced.] Eirich, Vienna 1932 ( title recording of the University Library Vienna [UBW]).
  • Is Geraldine an Angel? Comedy in three acts. [Reproduced as not for sale Ms.] Eirich, Vienna 1933 ( UBW ).
  • Christiano between heaven and hell. Acting in six pictures. [Ms. - (Text typewriter autograph)] Eirich, Vienna 1933 ( title recording of the Austrian National Library [ÖNB]).
  • Blue clouds. Comedy in six pictures. Ms. Marton, Vienna, Berlin, London 1936 ( ÖNB ).
  • Ping-pong. Comedy in three acts. [As stage ms. multiply - (typewriter autograph)] Eirich, Vienna 1935 ( UBW ).
  • Love marriage. Comedy. 1937.
  • One page is missing. Novel. Zsolnay, Vienna 1948, ISBN 3-7766-1141-3 (Original title: One Page missing. New York 1948) ( ÖNB ).
  • What I could hardly dream of ... A life story. Edited by Michaela Jaray. With 40 photos and lists of theater performances, productions, stage adaptations and film roles. Amalthea, Vienna / Munich 1990, ISBN 3-85002-301-X .

Filmography (selection)

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Awards. [Photo]. In: Arbeiter-Zeitung . July 14, 1976, p. 10, left center ( berufer-zeitung.at [accessed January 7, 2019]).
personal data
SURNAME Jaray, Hans
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian actor, director and author
DATE OF BIRTH June 24, 1906
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna
DATE OF DEATH January 6, 1990
Place of death Vienna