Hans Ziegler (actor)

Hans Ziegler

Hans Ziegler (born May 9, 1879 in Karlsruhe , † December 24, 1961 in Vienna ; occasionally also known as Karl Ziegler ) was a German - Austrian actor , director and theater director .

Life

From 1896 to 1898, Hans Ziegler received acting lessons from Fritz Herz at the court theater in Karlsruhe. He made his debut in 1898 in Bad Neuenahr as a wedding travelers in the musical comedy The White Horse Inn by Ralph Benatzky . His first stage positions were in Koblenz , Meißen , Essen and at the Deutsches Theater in London, and from 1904 to 1907 he was a member of the ensemble of the Schauspielhaus in Frankfurt am Main . This was followed by engagements at the Schauspielhaus in Düsseldorf (1907/1908 season), at the New Theater in Berlin (1908/1909 season) and from 1910 at various stages in Vienna. From 1913 to 1917 he was engaged at the Deutsches Volkstheater . After the end of the First World War he became director, senior stage director and actor at the Volksbühne (later renamed the Renaissance stage ). For the 1922/1923 season, Hans Ziegler moved to Zurich as a director and from 1927 to 1934 he was director and actor at the German-speaking city theater in Bielitz . After the Second World War he became a member of the ensemble at the Theater in der Josefstadt , where he embodied the mayor in Peter Ustinov's The Love of the Four Colonels and the Caesar in Molnár's The Swan .

Hans Ziegler also worked in several film and television productions . Among them were the 1925 silent film A Waltz by Strauss by Max Neufeld with Eugen Neufeld and Fred Louis Lerch and 1948 Der Engel mit der Trosaune by Karl Hartl with Paula Wessely , Helene Thimig and Hedwig Bleibtreu . In this film he appeared under the name Karl Ziegler . He gained greater attention with the role of Hofrat Dr. Seeburger in two films of the Sissi trilogy Sissi - The Young Empress from 1956 and Sissi - Fateful Years of an Empress from 1957. He was also seen in a television adaptation of the Austrian Broadcasting Corporation of Paolo Levi's The Pinedus Case . Erik Frey , Günther Haenel and Fritz Muliar played in the direction of Theodor Grädler .

Johann Caspar Glenzdorf: Glenzdorf's international film lexicon. Biographical manual for the entire film industry. Volume 3: Peit – Zz. Prominent-Filmverlag, Bad Münder 1961, DNB 451560752 , p. 1940.
Herbert A. Frenzel , Hans Joachim Moser (ed.): Kürschner's biographical theater manual. Drama, opera, film, radio. Germany, Austria, Switzerland. De Gruyter, Berlin 1956, DNB 010075518 , pp. 834-835.
Wilhelm Kosch , Ingrid Bigler-Marschall: German Theater Lexicon. Biographical and bibliographical manual. Volume 7, 38./39. Delivery: Zedler - Zysset. de Gruyter, Berlin et al. 2011, ISBN 978-3-908255-52-9 , p. 3775.

^ Film image with Romy Schneider on Süddeutsche Zeitung online; Retrieved January 24, 2013
↑ The Pinedus case on The Crime Homepage; Retrieved January 24, 2013

personal data
SURNAME	Ziegler, Hans
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Ziegler, Karl (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German-Austrian actor, director and theater director
DATE OF BIRTH	May 9, 1879
PLACE OF BIRTH	Karlsruhe
DATE OF DEATH	December 24, 1961
Place of death	Vienna