Heinz Petters

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Portrait of Heinz Petters by the painter Reinhard Trinkler (Volkstheater Vienna, 2012)

Heinz Petters (born July 9, 1932 in Graz ; † February 6, 2018 ) was an Austrian theater, film and television actor .

Life

Petters took ballet and acting lessons early in Graz, where he also got his first engagement as a dancer. Later he was also given roles as an operetta buffo and as an actor. Engagements at various state theaters followed. In 1960 he went to Karl Farkas in Vienna at the Simpl cabaret , followed by the cellar theater “Die Tribüne” in Café Landtmann and the Luisenburg Festival in Wunsiedel (1964, He wants to have a joke by Johann Nestroy, director: Gustav Manker) .

In 1964 Petters was engaged by Gustav Manker at the Vienna Volkstheater , where he played until a few years before his death. There he became the most important protagonist in Manker's Nestroy productions and played the fog in love stories and marriage matters (1964), Heinrich Pfiff in The Banishment from the Enchanted Realm or Thirty Years from the Life of a Rag (1966), the servant Johann in To Even Earth and first floor (1968), Kasimir Dachl in Heimliches Geld, heimliche Liebe (1972), Anselm in Against Folly There Are No Means (1973), Arthur in Umsonst! (1974, Kainz Medal ), Weinberl in He wants to make a joke (1976), Wendelin Pfriem in Höllenangst (1977), Viktor in Das Gewürzkrämerkleeblatt (1977), Hausknecht Muffles in earlier conditions (1979) and Willibald in Die schlimmen Buben at school (1979). After Hans Putz , Fritz Muliar , Hugo Gottschlich and Kurt Sowinetz, it heralded a new era of Nestroy performances in Vienna and at the Volkstheater. In addition, he also played in pieces from the Altwiener Volkstheater by Ferdinand Raimund , such as Valentin in Der Verschwender , Florian Waschblau in Der Diamant des Geisterkönigs , Mercury in Der Barometermacher auf der Zauberinsel and the Swabian magician Ajaxerle in Der Bauer als Millionär .

The press wrote about Petters' Nestroy style: “More such achievements and Josef Meinrad no longer needs to worry about the passing on of the Iffland Ring .” (Love stories and marriage matters ), “He doesn't catch the audience's sympathy, he plays the common guy regardless of loss of charm ”( Express , on the ground floor and first floor ) and“ Petters uses his role for a tour de force in which he breathlessly exhausts all possibilities ” (in vain).

Other successes of Petters at the Volkstheater were the kitchen boy Leon in Franz Grillparzer's Weh dem, der Lies (1967, with Dolores Schmidinger ), Antoine in the world premiere of Wolfgang Bauers Change (1969, directed by Bernd Fischerauer ), Ernst in Ödön from Horváth's Die Unbekannte from the Seine (1970, with Kitty Speiser and Hilde Sochor ), Fiscur in Ferenc Molnár's Liliom (1971, with Hans Putz ), actor Dögelmann in the world premiere of Arthur Schnitzler's Zug der Schatten (1971, directed by Gustav Manker ), Poldi Grehlinger in Arthur Schnitzler's Freiwild (1974), Funny Person in Johann Wolfgang Goethe's Faust I (1975) and Max Billitzer in Hermann Bahr's Wienerinnen (1977, with Herwig Seeböck ). He also appeared in film and television roles. He was considered one of the most popular actors in Austria.

In 2012, on the occasion of his 80th birthday, a portrait of Heinz Petters by the painter Reinhard Trinkler was taken into the actor's gallery of the Vienna Volkstheater and presented there.

Petters was married and has a son and a daughter. The daughter Eva Petters was a ballet soloist at the Vienna State Opera .

Awards (excerpt)

Filmography

theatre

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Actor Heinz Petters dead. At: ORF.at. February 20, 2018, accessed February 20, 2018.
  2. ^ Paulus Manker: The theater man Gustav Manker. Search for clues. Amalthea, Vienna 2010, ISBN 978-3-85002-738-0 .
  3. ↑ Homage to Heinz Petters. Retrieved February 21, 2018 .
  4. ^ Actor Heinz Petters turns 85. At: ORF.at. July 9, 2017. Retrieved July 9, 2017.
personal data
SURNAME Petters, Heinz
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian actor
DATE OF BIRTH July 9, 1932
PLACE OF BIRTH Graz
DATE OF DEATH February 6, 2018