Heinz Leo Fischer

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Heinz Leo Fischer , also Heinz-Leo Fischer , (born November 19, 1902 in Vienna , † November 4, 1977 in Munich ) was an Austrian theater actor , film actor , director , radio play speaker and voice actor .

Life

Education and theater

Fischer grew up in modest circumstances in Vienna. After finishing secondary school he worked as an extra at the Vienna Volkstheater in order to earn some money . In 1921 he received his first engagement at the Vienna Academy Theater , without ever having completed an acting course . Another engagement at the Wiener Kammerspiele followed in the 1927/1928 season . In Vienna he met the actor and later director Paul Verhoeven , with whom he had a lifelong friendship. In 1928 he moved to the Albert Theater in Dresden , which Hermine Körner had directed as artistic director since 1923 , where he met Paul Verhoeven again. Fischer made his successful debut there as Mortimer in Maria Stuart . Fischer stayed in Dresden until 1931 and mainly played the role of “youthful lover” at the Albert Theater. This was followed by short stage engagements at the Schauspielhaus Leipzig and in Berlin . In the season 1936/1937 Fischer played again in Vienna, then he went to the Deutsches Theater Brno . He was a director at the United German Theater in Brno ; there he was a co-founder of a democratically organized actor group.

Fischer joined the resistance against the National Socialist policy of harmonization in the Sudetenland ; he went underground and continued his resistance activity in Prague . He was arrested in 1941 and then sent to several concentration camps . After the liberation from the concentration camp, Fischer, seriously ill and in need of care, initially lived again in Prague; there he met his future wife Lydia. After the end of the Second World War , at the end of 1945 / beginning of 1946 he wrote to his friend Paul Verhoeven, who had been director of the Bavarian State Theater since September 1945 . The letter consisted only of the words: "Dear Paul, I'm alive." Verhoeven wrote back: "Come immediately!"

Member of the Bavarian State Theater

Fischer officially became a member of the Bavarian State Theater in 1946; Until his death in 1977 he belonged to this ensemble for over 30 years without interruption. His first role was in the summer of 1946 the title role in Molnár's play Liliom in the Theater am Brunnenhof, the alternative location of the Bavarian State Theater. Fischer had taken over this role from Curd Jürgens within 48 hours . Fischer played a broad repertoire at the Bayerisches Staatsschauspiel, ranging from German-language classics of theater literature (Shakespeare, Goethe, Schiller, Kleist) to turn-of-the-century and modern theater to the tabloid . Above all, Fischer was a “concise episode actor”.

His roles at the Bayerisches Staatsschauspiel included: Theramen in Phädra (premiere: October 1946; Theater am Brunnenhof), Sir John Fletcher in the play Liebe im Idle by Terence Rattigan (premiere; German premiere: April 1947, Theater im Brunnenhof), Advokat in Ein Traumspiel (premiere: December 1947, Theater am Brunnenhof), the uniform tailor Adolph Wormser in Der Hauptmann von Köpenick (premiere: May 1948, Theater am Brunnenhof), Kent in König Lear (premiere: September 1948, Theater am Brunnenhof), Judge Walter in Der zerbrochne Krug (Premiere: October 1948, Theater am Brunnenhof), Jaques in As You Like It (Premiere: July 1949, Theater am Brunnenhof), Gluthammer in Der Zerrissene (Premiere: December 1949, Theater am Brunnenhof) and Dr. . Bayliss in the play All My Sons by Arthur Miller (premiere; first performance: October 1950).

In the early years of the Bavarian State Theater , Fischer occasionally directed the play An old German Christmas play by Max Mell (premiere: December 1946, Theater am Brunnenhof) and the play Der Soldat Tanaka by Georg Kaiser (premiere: June 1947, Theater at the Brunnenhof).

From the 1950s onwards, Fischer could be seen at the Residenztheater in Munich in the following roles, among others: Zimmermann in Egmont (premiere: June 1951), Lindström in Kolportage by Georg Kaiser (premiere: April 1953), Rammler in The Soldiers (premiere: September 1953 ), Marullus in Julius Caesar (premiere: March 1955), Mayor Rehbein in Die Lokalbahn by Ludwig Thoma (premiere: July 1955), Menelaus in Troilus and Cressida (premiere: October 1955), Lundqvist in Easter by August Strindberg (premiere: April 1957), Kostylew in Nachtasyl (premiere; first performance: December 1957), Lorenz in Der Bauer als Millionär (premiere: January 1958), Mercier / Simon in Dantons Tod (premiere: July 1959), Leuthold in Wilhelm Tell (premiere: April 196 ), Busiris in The Trojan War Does Not Happen (Premiere June 1960), Dr. Hauser in Moral by Ludwig Thoma (premiere: November 1960; again the same role in December 1968 in a new production), Kaiser in Das Käthchen von Heilbronn (premiere: September 1961), Herr von Kauz in Das Mädl aus der Vorstadt (premiere: January 1963 ), Jacques Casanova in Camino Real by Tennessee Williams (premiere; first performance: March 1963), Paul Petkoff in Helden (premiere: September 1964), Ingnatij, Ilyich Schpigelskij in A Month in the Country After Turgenev (premiere: April 1966), Sankt Adlibitum / Don Mendez Leal in The Silk Shoe by Paul Claudel (premiere: April 1966), Herr von Sotenville in George Dandin von Molière (premiere: September 1968), Cassagne in Monsieur Chasse! by Georges Feydeau (premiere: July 1969), Baptista in The Taming of the Shrew (premiere: July 1971, with Christine Ostermayer and Klaus Maria Brandauer as partners), porter Rosenstock in Das weite Land (premiere: January 1974) and Graf von Pembroke in König Johann (premiere: November 1974).

He had a great success in the season 1974/1975. He played the actor who gave speech and gesture lessons to the character of Ui (alias Adolf Hitler ) in Brecht's play Der Aufhaltsame Aufstieg des Arturo Ui ; the premiere took place in April 1974. His last premiere role was in the season 1976/1977 in November 1976 the role of juror No. 11 in the play The Twelve Jurors by Reginald Rose / Horst Budjuhn. Fischer played this role until shortly before his death.

In 1955 he was a guest at the Münchner Kammerspiele . He played Colonel Janick in the premiere of The Dark Is Light Enough by Christopher Fry .

Movie and TV

Fischer made his first experiences with the then new medium of film in the early 1920s in Austria, where he took part in several silent films . However, filmmaking always played a subordinate role in Fischer's career compared to his work as a theater actor. In the film comedy Kohlhiesels Töchter (1930), he played Toni, the hairdresser, alongside Henny Porten (in the double role). Fischer took on numerous film roles since the late 1940s. In the West German post-war cinema, he was, in memorable supporting roles, mainly in home movies , music films , comedies and shallow comedies used. His films included: The Mittenwald Violin Maker (1950; as Serventa), The Guilt of Dr. Homma (1951; as District Judge Dr. Holder), Music by Night (1953; as Manager Miller), Mannequins for Rio (1954), The Pauker (1958; as Dr. Rössler), The Beautiful Adventure (1959, as a hotel guest Pinatel) and Wälsungenblut (1964/1965; as a servant Wendelin).

From the 1960s onwards I also did some work for television . The staging of Shakespeare's The Taming of the Shrew at the Bavarian State Theater in 1971 was also recorded for television by the Bavarian Radio .

Speaking activities

Fischer took part in numerous radio plays and radio productions. He was best known as gangster boss Jim Cooper in the radio crime series Dickie Dick Dickens . In 1959 Fischer worked for Bayerischer Rundfunk in the episode Death on Baggage Ticket 3311 from the radio crime series Permit, my name is Cox ; he spoke the role of the devious villain Selim Gossera. In 1963 he took on one of the speaking roles in the Cox episode Die kleine Hexe , also with Bayerischer Rundfunk .

He also took part in several operetta recordings for Bavarian Radio in speaking roles, such as the theater director in Das Veilchen von Montmartre (1953) and as a comic servant Penicek in Countess Mariza (1958).

Fischer also worked as a voice actor . He lent his voice to Albert Bassermann in The Unfinished (USA 1941; dubbed version 1950), Akim Tamiroff in Whom the Hour Strikes (USA 1943; dubbed version 1950), William Eythe in The Song of Bernadette (USA 1943; dubbed version 1948) and Cyril Shaps in The Odessa Files (USA 1974; Dubbed Version 1974).

death

Fischer died unexpectedly at the beginning of November 1977 shortly before his 75th birthday in Munich. His grave is in the Perlacher Forst cemetery , Stadelheimer Strasse 24, in Munich.

Honors

Filmography

literature

  • 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 , p. 171.
  • Bernd C. Sucher (Ed.): Henschel Theater Lexicon . Henschel publishing house. Berlin 2010. Page 214/215. ISBN 978-3-89487-617-3
  • Association of Friends of the Bavarian State Theater (ed.): ... then they played again. The Bavarian State Theater 1946–1986 . Texts: Monika Faber. Documentation: Loni Weizert. Pages 91, 132/133; 179-231 (documentation). Munich 1986. ISBN 3-765-42059-X

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Bernd C. Sucher (Ed.): Henschel Theaterlexikon . Henschel publishing house. Berlin 2010. Page 214. ISBN 978-3-89487-617-3
  2. ^ Heinz Leo Fischer short biography at the Random House publishing group ; Retrieved November 17, 2013
  3. ↑ Heinz Leo Fischer ( Memento of the original from September 24, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Entries in the Synchrondatenbank.de; Retrieved November 17, 2013 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.synchrondatenbank.de
  4. ↑ Grave - Heinz Leo Fischer ( Memento of the original from December 3, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. ; Munich cemetery administration; Retrieved November 17, 2013  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / friedhof.stadt-muenchen.net
personal data
SURNAME Fischer, Heinz Leo
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Fischer, Heinz-Leo
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian actor, director, radio play speaker and voice actor
DATE OF BIRTH November 19, 1902
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna
DATE OF DEATH 4th November 1977
Place of death Munich