Helmut Förnbacher

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Helmut Förnbacher (born January 26, 1936 in Basel ) is a Swiss actor , director , screenwriter and theater director.

Förnbacher attended a commercial school, which he graduated with a diploma. Before he made his theater debut in 1955 , he took lessons at the Max Reinhardt Seminar in Vienna. However, he left drama school prematurely because he started his engagements at the Comedy Basel and the Schauspielhaus Zürich . At the age of 23 he directed Sartre's Die Ehrbare Dirne at the Comedy Basel for the first time.

Förnbacher made his film debut in 1958 with a leading role in SOS - Gletscherpilot (directed by Victor Vicas). He assumed his most important film role in 1966 in Peter Schamoni's honeymoon for foxes as a journalist disgusted by social grievances. In 1968 he wrote, directed and produced the gangster film Freckles , but subsequently worked mainly for television and theater. He was the leading actor in the television series Frei nach Mark Twain and Rabe, Mushroom & thirteen chairs . In later years he became increasingly active as a television director and staged, among other things, several Tatort episodes.

Förnbacher has worked as an actor and director on many stages in German-speaking countries and in 1974 took over the management of the «Vis à vis» theater in Basel and in 1975 the management of the studio for music and theater and the opera studio of the Basel Music Academy .

Since 1980 he has directed his own theater group, the "Helmut Förnbacher Theater Company", which resides at Basel Badischer Bahnhof . He has been married to actress Kristina Nel since 1975 .

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SURNAME Förnbacher, Helmut
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss actor
DATE OF BIRTH January 26, 1936
PLACE OF BIRTH Basel