Harald Benesch

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Harald Wilhelm Benesch (born December 8, 1921 in Vienna ; † January 1994 ) was an Austrian theater and film director and actor .

Act

Benesch was a drama student during the Second World War. In 1946 he staged the Austrian premiere of the play Rechenmaschine (E. Rice) at the Salzburg Theater Die Tribüne . From 1949/50 he was employed as a dramaturge at the Neues Theater in der Scala . At Figaro's wedding , he also acted as Karl Paryla's assistant and accompanied the troupe during their guest performances. His first and only role as a film actor was in Anatole Litvak's war drama Decision Before Dawn (1951).

From the 1950s onwards, Benesch worked as a theater director on various stages in Austria and Germany. a. at the Landestheater Innsbruck , where in 1959 Woe to him who lies! directed by Franz Grillparzer . Other directorial work were Lessing's Minna von Barnhelm (1955/56), Othello, der Mohr von Venezia (1958) and Egmont: A Tragedy by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe . In 1963 the Landestheater Linz played Mother Courage and her children under the direction of Benesch, which was controversial in view of the Viennese Brecht boycott . “The historical theater event also proved to be a great success with the public.” In 1965 he staged Der Barbar (set by Wilfried Minks ) for the city ​​of Cologne ; in the small house of the Württemberg State Theater in Stuttgart 1969 Nestroys Posse The two night walkers .

From the early 1960s, Benesch also made television films with actors such as Hanne Hiob ( Captain Karagöz ), Albert Lieven ( dynamite ), Friedrich Siemers ( side by side ) and Vera Chekhowa ( Leocadia ). His directorial work also included the Shakespeare adaptation The Two Gentlemen from Verona , with Leopold Biberti , Jürgen Kloth and Carola Regnier . He continued to work as a theater director (mostly in the Federal Republic of Germany) until the end of the 1970s. Benesch was buried on January 21, 1994 in the urn grove of the fire hall in Vienna-Simmering .

Filmography

  • 1963: Captain Karagöz
  • 1963: The class essay (screenplay: Erwin Wickert )
  • 1964: The apartment
  • 1964: Leocadia
  • 1964: Side by side (after Georg Kaiser )
  • 1965: family reunion
  • 1965: who cries for ituckenack?
  • 1966: The two gentlemen from Verona
  • 1969: dynamite

Radio plays (selection)

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Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Harald Wilhelm Benesch in the search for the deceased at friedhoefewien.at
  2. ↑ a b Theater heute, Volume 20. Friedrich Berlin Verlagsgesellschaft., 1979
  3. ^ Letters to Bertolt Brecht in exile (1933–1949) , edited by Hermann Haarmann and Christoph Hesse. De Gruyter, 2014
  4. ↑ Carmen-Renate Köper: An unholy experiment: The New Theater in the Scala: (1948-1956) . Löcker, 1995
  5. ↑ Cf. Syn Reflexiv: Thinking history . Issue 2/2011
  6. ↑ Austria series, volumes 233-235. Bergland Verlag, 1964, p. 148
  7. ↑ Othello, the Moor of Venice . Harald Benesch, William Shakespeare, Richard Flatter. Landesbühne, 1958
  8. ↑ Kurt Palm : From Boycott to Recognition. Brecht and Austria. Löcker, Vienna / Munich 1983, ISBN 3-85409-064-1 .
  9. ^ Promenade 39: the Landestheater Linz 1803–2003, ed. by Michael Klügl, Landestheater Linz. Residence, 2003
  10. ↑ Theater of Time, Volume 20 . Henschel, 1965, see also Ulrike Maack: Wilfried Minks, stage builder . Suhrkamp, ​​2011 p. 263
  11. ↑ Baden-Württemberg, Volumes 1–12. Baden-Württemberg Publishing House, 1969
personal data
SURNAME Benesch, Harald
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Benesch, Harald Wilhelm (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian actor and director
DATE OF BIRTH December 8, 1921
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna
DATE OF DEATH January 1994