Heinrich Schnitzler
Heinrich Schnitzler (Henry in American exile, born August 9, 1902 in Hinterbrühl , Lower Austria, † July 12, 1982 in Vienna ) was an Austrian actor and director .
Life
Heinrich Schnitzler was the child of Arthur Schnitzler and Olga Gussmann. His parents married the year after he was born. In 1909 he had a sister, Lili. He grew up in Vienna. After taking acting lessons with Franz Herterich , he made his debut at the Raimund Theater in Vienna in 1921 . He also studied philosophy, art history and literary history at the University of Vienna .
His later contracts took him to Berlin from 1923 to 1932. In 1932 he returned to the German Volkstheater in Vienna, where he also worked as a director and dramaturge. After Austria's annexation in 1938, he emigrated to the United States, where he directed on Broadway and taught acting, directing and theater history at the University of California until 1956 .
In 1957 he returned to Austria and staged at the Josefstädter Theater ; there he was vice director from 1959. In 1963 he received the Kainz Medal . He has worked as a guest director on several European stages. He was the administrator of his father's works and re-published the collected works with the correspondence with Hugo von Hofmannsthal and Rainer Maria Rilke (see Arthur Schnitzler Archive ).
In his first marriage he was married to Ruth Albu since October 29, 1930. In his second marriage to Lilly Strakosch von Feldringen (Vienna 1911 - Vienna 2009) he had two sons, the filmmaker and director Peter Schnitzler, who lives in the USA, and the violinist and conservationist Michael Schnitzler .
His estate has been in the Austrian Theater Museum since 2009 . Books from his possession that can be assigned to the theater include shelf numbers 362.001–393.128 of the sub-collection, which is kept in the Theater Museum, and can be found in the catalog of the Austrian National Library .
literature
in order of appearance
- Reinhard Urbach : Heinrich Schnitzler - 75 years. Modern Austrian Literature, Vol. 10, No. 3/4, Arthur Schnitzler special issue (1977), pp. 1–18.
- Jutta Jacobi: The Schnitzlers. A family story. Residence, St. Pölten / Salzburg / Vienna 2014, ISBN 978-3-7017-3279-1 .
- Hermann Bahr, Arthur Schnitzler: Correspondence, records, documents 1891–1931. Edited by Kurt Ifkovits, Martin Anton Müller. Göttingen: Wallstein 2018, ISBN 978-3-8353-3228-7 ( publisher presentation ) Letters from Heinrich Schnitzler to Anna Bahr-Mildenburg as well as from her to him and from his father to him.
- Johanna Mertinz: Exodus of Talents. Heinrich Schnitzler and the German People's Theater Vienna 1938–1945 . Mandelbaum Verlag, Vienna 2019, ISBN 978-3-85476-831-9 .
Web links
- Literature by and about Heinrich Schnitzler in the catalog of the German National Library
- Directory of correspondence on the Theater Museum website
- Entry on Heinrich Schnitzler in the Austria Forum (in the AEIOU Austria Lexicon )
- Honor for Dorothea Neff, Heinrich Schnitzler and Josef Meinrad - Mayor Jonas presented the Josef Kainz Medal Vienna in retrospect - October 1963
- Code name "Tiarks" , Die Presse on saving Arthur Schnitzler's estate
- Radio interview with Heinrich Schnitzler in the Ö1 series Selbstportrait - fellow human beings talk about their lives and about their work from 1980.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Press release of the Austrian Theater Museum on July 24th, 2009 ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Schnitzler, Heinrich |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Schnitzler, Henry (nickname) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Austrian actor and director |
| DATE OF BIRTH | August 9, 1902 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Hinterbrühl , Lower Austria |
| DATE OF DEATH | July 12, 1982 |
| Place of death | Vienna , Austria |