Hans Unterkircher
Hans Unterkircher (born August 22, 1894 in Graz , † May 27, 1971 in Vienna ) was an Austrian actor and film director .
Live and act
Unterkircher received his training at the Vienna Conservatory . He began his acting career in 1910 as an apprentice in Graz. In 1911 he went to Aussig , in 1913 he came to the German Theater in Berlin .
Under the direction of Max Reinhardt , he played here in 1913 as Otto in Spring Awakening , Schüler in Faust , Hofmann in Faust II , Alexander Farnese in Don Karlos and Butkewitsch in The Living Corpse after Lew Tolstoy . In 1914 he embodied the sheikh's son in Max Reinhardt's Sumurun and the court cavalier in Prince Friedrich von Homburg .
On Reinhardt's recommendation, shortly after the outbreak of World War I, in 1914, he embarked for New York with FW Murnau and Conrad Veidt and found a place to play at the Irving Place Theater . Carl Laemmle , founder of Universal Studios , brought him to Hollywood in 1916 and gave him important roles in several silent films. After the declaration of war on Germany, the Irving Place Theater was closed and Maurice Schwartz took it over as a Yiddish theater, where Hans Unterkircher from Graz played in Yiddish.
Against Laemmle's wishes, Unterkircher decided to return to Europe after the end of the war in 1920. In Berlin he returned to the stage and appeared in Erik Charell's revues . From the end of 1921 he was also taken into account by German film. He played his undoubtedly most important role in the classic The Last Man as the arrogant boss of a porter ( Emil Jannings ), whom he demoted to the toilet attendant.
In 1925 he went to Vienna and appeared in Karl Farkas ' By Candlelight and in the 1930s at the Theater in der Josefstadt , and in Munich at the Münchner Kammerspiele . From 1940 he was seen under Walter Bruno Iltz in the Vienna Volkstheater . After the war he was still seen in film roles, where he now portrayed dignified, elderly men such as counts, generals, court marshals and directors. He had his star role in Austrian films in Max Neufeld's masterpiece The Line (1927) in which he portrayed an unscrupulous seducer as Reviedent Friedrich. Most recently he was at the Vienna Volksoper .
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Hans Unterkircher's honorary grave is in the Grinzing cemetery (group 2, number 17).
Filmography (selection)
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literature
- Kay Less : Between the stage and the barracks. Lexicon of persecuted theater, film and music artists from 1933 to 1945 . With a foreword by Paul Spiegel . Metropol, Berlin 2008, ISBN 978-3-938690-10-9 , p. 356.
Web links
- Hans Unterkircher in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Biography with photo
Individual evidence
- ↑ knerger.de: The grave of Hans Unterkircher
| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Unterkircher, Hans |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Austrian actor |
| DATE OF BIRTH | August 22, 1894 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Graz |
| DATE OF DEATH | May 27, 1971 |
| Place of death | Vienna |