Heinz Petters
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)
- 1966: Golden City Hall Man
- 1968/69: Karl Skraup Prize
- 1976: Golden City Hall Man
- 1983: Nestroy-Ring of the City of Vienna
- 1983: Silver Medal of Honor for Services to the Republic of Austria
- 1989: Chamber actor
- 2004: Austrian Cross of Honor for Science and Art, 1st class
Filmography
- 1956: Holiday at the Wörthersee
- 1966: Air Cross Southeast - alarm over Wels
- 1968: The Merchant of Venice (TV movie)
- 1968: Chief Inspector Marek (TV series, one episode)
- 1971: The Adventures of the Good Soldier Schwejk, (TV series, six episodes)
- 1975: The island of the blessed
- 1975–1979: A real Viennese does not go under
- 1977: Tatort - The Forgotten Murder
- 1978: Kassbach
- 1979: Small gifts
- 1980: Ringstrasse Palace (TV series)
- 1983: The forest farmer's boy - Christmas in the forest home
- 1983: Waldheimat (TV series, episode 1)
- 1985: Towards the sun
- 1987–1989: Heiteres District Court (TV series)
- 1990: The Piefke saga
- 1992: duet
- 1992: The twin sisters from Tyrol (TV movie)
- 1993: My friend, the Lipizzaner
- 1993: Almenrausch and Powder Snow (TV series)
- 1994: Inspector Rex (Würstelmann)
- 1995: an almost perfect fling
- 1995: My grandpa is the best
- 1996: Old Love - New Luck (TV movie)
- 1996: The Bockerer II - Austria is free
- 1996–1998: Tohuwabohu (TV series, 26 episodes)
- 1996–1997: An ideal candidate (TV miniseries)
- 1997: A heart becomes young again
- 1997: an almost perfect divorce
- 1999: an almost perfect wedding
- 2000–2008: Trautmann
- 2000: The Bockerer III - The Andau Bridge
- 2000: tough
- 2001: Inspector Rex (angler)
- 2001: Two under one roof (TV movie)
- 2003: The Bockerer IV - Prague Spring
theatre
- Hermann Bahr - The Concert (Dr. Jura)
- Hermann Bahr - The Concert (Pollinger)
- Wolfgang Bauer - Change (Antoine)
- Thomas Bernhard - The Theater Maker (Landlord)
- Bertolt Brecht - Schweyk in the Second World War (Schwejk)
- Elias Canetti - Comedy of Vanity (Franzl Nada)
- Friedrich Dürrenmatt - Romulus the Great (Romulus)
- Georges Feydeau - The Flea in the Ear (Chandebise)
- Dario Fo - There is no payment (Hans)
- Franzobel - Mayerling ( Johann Loschek )
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe - Faust (Funny Person)
- Gorin - Kaddish (Tevye, the milkman)
- Griffith - Comedian (Eddie Waters)
- Franz Grillparzer - Woe to him who lies! (Leon)
- Franz Grillparzer - King Ottokar's Luck and End (Ottokar von Hornek)
- Jaroslav Hašek - Schwejk (Schwejk)
- Ödön von Horváth - The Unknown from the Seine (Ernst)
- Gert Jonke - Presence of Memory (Schleifer)
- Gotthold Ephraim Lessing - Nathan the Wise (Patriarch)
- Jakov Lind - Ergo (Würz)
- Claude Magnier - Oscar, a misunderstanding in three acts (Pierre Barnier)
- Ferenc Molnár - Liliom (Fiscur)
- Johann Nestroy - love stories and marriage matters (Nebel)
- Johann Nestroy - On the ground floor and first floor (Servant Johann)
- Johann Nestroy - Fear of Hell (Wendelin Pfriem)
- Johann Nestroy - Freedom in Krähwinkel (Ultra)
- Johann Nestroy - Former circumstances (house servant Muffl)
- Johann Nestroy - The Bad Boys at School (Willibald)
- Johann Nestroy - He wants to have a joke (Weinberl)
- Johann Nestroy - The House of Temperaments (Barber Schlankel)
- Johann Nestroy - Unexpected (Herr von Ledig)
- Johann Nestroy - Lumpazivagabundus (Schuster Knieriem)
- Ferdinand Raimund - The Diamond of the Ghost King (Florian Waschblau)
- Ferdinand Raimund - The farmer as a millionaire (Ajaxerle)
- Friedrich Schiller - Cabal and Love (valet)
- Franz and Paul von Schönthan - The Rape of the Sabine Women (Striese)
- William Shakespeare - A Midsummer Night's Dream (note)
- William Shakespeare - What You Will (Fool)
- Neil Simon - Brooklyn Memoir (Jack Jerome)
- Joshua Sobol - Ghetto (Whitehead)
- Botho Strauss - Big and Small (The Old One)
- Marlene Streeruwitz - New York. New York (Chrobath)
Web links
- Heinz Petters in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Short biography on the Volkstheater website. ( Memento from May 19, 2014 in the Internet Archive ).
- Heinz Petters in the Vienna History Wiki of the City of Vienna
- Entry on Heinz Petters in the Austria forum
- Obituary for Heinz Petters by Paulus Manker https://kurier.at/kultur/paulus-manker-nachruf-auf-heinz-petters/311.875.084
Individual evidence
- ^ Actor Heinz Petters dead. At: ORF.at. February 20, 2018, accessed February 20, 2018.
- ^ Paulus Manker: The theater man Gustav Manker. Search for clues. Amalthea, Vienna 2010, ISBN 978-3-85002-738-0 .
- ↑ Homage to Heinz Petters. Retrieved February 21, 2018 .
- ^ Actor Heinz Petters turns 85. At: ORF.at. July 9, 2017. Retrieved July 9, 2017.
personal data | |
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SURNAME | Petters, Heinz |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Austrian actor |
DATE OF BIRTH | July 9, 1932 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Graz |
DATE OF DEATH | February 6, 2018 |