Helmuth Lohner
Helmuth Lohner, also Helmut Lohner, (born April 24, 1933 in Vienna ; † June 23, 2015 there ) was an Austrian actor and theater director . From 1990 to 1994 he played Jedermann at the Salzburg Festival and was director of the theater in der Josefstadt from 1997 to 2006 .
education and profession
Helmuth Lohner first completed an apprenticeship as a chemigrapher in the cliché establishment Angerer & Göschl in the 16th district of Vienna Ottakring and then took private acting lessons. He made his theater debut in 1952 at the Stadttheater Baden . Then he also acted as an operetta buffo at the Klagenfurt City Theater . From 1953 to 1963 he was engaged at the Theater in der Josefstadt . Then a career began that led him to the top of German-speaking theater: at the Münchner Kammerspiele he was Ferdinand in Fritz Kortner's historical staging of Schiller's Kabale und Liebe (with Christiane Hörbiger as Luise, Hans-Jürgen Syberberg created a rehearsal documentary) and the Alfred in Horváth's Tales from the Vienna Woods (director: Otto Schenk ). At the Zurich Schauspielhaus he played alongside Wolfgang Reichmann as Iago in Othello , at the Düsseldorfer Schauspielhaus (director: Karl-Heinz Stroux ) he played Hamlet , Richard III. and Mephisto . In 1967 he made his debut as St. Just in Dantons Tod at the Burgtheater (director: Otto Schenk). From then on he was a constant guest there and at the Salzburg Festival . In 1988 he was voted actor of the year by the magazine Theater heute for two Schnitzler roles : as Herr von Sala ( Der einsame Weg , Salzburg, director: Thomas Langhoff ) and as Hofreiter ( Das weite Land , Zurich, director: Hans Hollmann ). In Salzburg he performed under Otto Schenk a. a. in Nestroy's Talisman and Shakespeare's What You Will on. He was seen there in changing roles as death, as the devil and as Jedermann in Hofmannsthal's Jedermann . Lohner made his film debut in 1955 in the film Hotel Adlon by Josef von Báky . From 1963 he worked repeatedly in television. His most important TV role was probably that of Carl Joseph Trotta in the Radetzkymarsch film adaptation by Michael Kehlmann in 1965.
He directed the films Mein Opa ist der Beste and Mein Opa und die 13 Stühle (with Otto Schenk and Tobias Moretti ) for the first time on television in the 1990s.
In the early phase of his career, Lohner also made a name for himself as a singer of couplets and moritats , for example by Frank Wedekind (for example "I slaughtered my aunt, Ilse").
Between 1997 and 2003 he was director of the theater in der Josefstadt. In 2003 he was replaced by Hans Gratzer , who, however, was dismissed after a year of crisis. Thereupon Lohner returned as director until 2006. Until shortly before his death he played the artistically and physically demanding role of Valmont in Heiner Müller's quartet at Josefstadt . His last theatrical work was the direction of the old people's home tragedy Already Sunday again by Bob Larbey at the Wiener Kammerspiele . The premiere of his last television work, the crime drama The Village of silence , he did not live longer.
A frequent artistic collaboration linked Lohner with the actor and director Otto Schenk, with whom he was also a private friend.
Private
Helmuth Lohner was a descendant of Heinrich Lohner, the founder of the Wiener Lohner-Werke .
Lohner married the German actress Susanne Cramer twice , and their daughter Konstanze (pedagogue in Germany) emerged from the marriage. From 1962 to 1976 or 1977 Lohner was married to the German actress Karin Baal , with whom he had the daughter Therese Lohner , who works as an actress in Vienna. Afterwards he was married to the Austrian journalist Ricarda Reinisch-Zielinski until 1994 . After many years of living together without a marriage certificate, he was married to Elisabeth Gürtler-Mauthner , who ran the Vienna Hotel Sacher , from 2011 until his death .
Helmuth Lohner was always committed to social issues. The Brecht evenings of 1970 at the Aschaffenburg Terre des hommes week , which he contested without a fee, may serve as an example .
Lohner, who grew up in Ottakring, had his say in the ORF documentary Mein Ottakring (2012).
He had suffered from stomach cancer since 2012, died on June 23, 2015 and was buried quietly and in close family circles in the Grinzinger Friedhof, Department MA No. 66 in Vienna.
Awards
The artist received numerous awards, including:
- 1980 Kainz Medal
- 1988 Johann Nestroy Ring
- 1991 Gold Medal of Honor of the Federal Capital Vienna
- 1992 chamber actor
- 2001 Nestroy nomination for Best Actor
- 2003 honorary member of the Theater in der Josefstadt
- 2004 Austrian Cross of Honor for Science and Art, 1st class
- 2006 Gold Medal for Services to the State of Vienna
Artistic work
Operetta direction
- Jacques Offenbach : The beautiful Helena (1994), Zurich Opera House (conductor Nikolaus Harnoncourt , set design Paolo Piva , costumes Jean-Charles de Castelbajac )
- Franz Lehár : The Merry Widow (1997)
- Johann Strauss : One Night in Venice (1999), Mörbisch Lake Festival
- The Csárdás Princess (2002)
- Jacques Offenbach : La Périchole (2004), Graz Opera House
- Franz Lehár: The Count of Luxembourg (2008)
- Franz von Suppé : Boccaccio (2002), Wiener Volksoper
- Johann Strauss (son): Die Fledermaus (2012), Mörbisch Lake Festival
Opera direction
- The Magic Flute by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart , Wiener Volksoper 2005 (conductor Leopold Hager )
- L'elisir d'amore by Gaetano Donizetti , Cologne Opera House 2004 (conductor Enrico Dovico)
Important theater roles
- Junker Andreas von Bleichenwang in What you want Salzburg Festival 1972 (directed by Otto Schenk)
- Hofreiter in The Wide Land by Arthur Schnitzler , Burgtheater 1978 (directed by Otto Schenk)
- Jaques in " As You Like It " by Shakespeare Salzburg Festival 1980 (directed by Otto Schenk)
- Stephan von Sala in The Lonely Way by Arthur Schnitzler, Salzburg Festival 1987 (Director: Thomas Langhoff )
- Leo Schöller in Pension Schöller , Kammerspiele des Theater in der Josefstadt 1994 (Director: Heinz Marecek )
- Title role in the world premiere of Ein Jedermann at the Theater in der Josefstadt , 1991
- Title role in Jedermann at the Salzburg Festival , 1990–1994
- Al Lewis in Sonny Boys by Neil Simon , Kammerspiele des Theater in der Josefstadt (with Otto Schenk), 1999
- Count Almaviva in Figaro gets a divorce from Odon von Horváth (directed by Luc Bondy at the Theater in der Josefstadt, 1999)
- Leading roles in many Nestroy plays (including Der Talisman , Kampl , Der Zerrissene , Mein Freund, The Bad Boys in School )
- As Johnson in Halpern and Johnson at the Theater in der Josefstadt (with Otto Schenk), 2008
- Henrik in the German-language premiere of Die Glut by Sándor Márai , (stage adaptation: Christopher Hampton ), Schauspielhaus Graz , director: Ingo Berk , 2009
- Title role in John Gabriel Borkman at the Theater in der Josefstadt and at the Schauspielhaus Graz , director: Elmar Goerden , 2012
- Viscount Valmont in quartet (Heiner Müller) at the Theater in der Josefstadt , partner Elisabeth Trissenaar , director: Hans Neuenfels , 2014
Songs
- Helmut Lohner sings Wedekind : I slaughtered my aunt
Comic
The main character drawn by Titus Feuerfuchs in the graphic novel Der Talisman by Reinhard Trinkler based on Johann Nestroy, published in 2015 by Edition Steinbauer , is modeled on Helmuth Lohner and pays homage to his interpretation of the role on the theater stage.
Filmography (selection)
- 1955: Hotel Adlon
- 1955: Vacation on word of honor
- 1956: Salzburg stories
- 1957: ruler without a crown
- 1957: widower with five daughters
- 1958: The inn in the Spessart
- 1958: The Dreimäderlhaus
- 1958: The semi-delicate
- 1959: The beautiful liar
- 1959: The Winter Sleeper (TV movie)
- 1959: Marili
- 1960: Mrs. Warren's trade
- 1960: My husband, the economic miracle
- 1960: Pension Schöller
- 1960: I always want to be yours
- 1961: You have to be blonde on Capri
- 1961: The last chapter
- 1961: Man in the shadows
- 1961: on the 6th floor
- 1962: ... and the robbers pop forever
- 1964: the seventh victim
- 1965: Radetzky March
- 1967: The Crime Museum - The Postage Stamp (TV series)
- 1967: The timpani
- 1968: Babeck
- 1968: Hannibal Brooks
- 1971: Liliom
- 1973: Reigen
- 1974: Derrick - Johanna (TV series)
- 1975: The Commissioner - A Playboy Blesses the Temporal (TV series)
- 1976: For a trivial reason (TV film)
- 1978: The Old Man - Cold in Summer (TV series)
- 1981: Tarabas (TV movie)
- 1981: The Living Corpse (TV movie)
- 1982: Shalom Pharaoh (cartoon)
- 1984: The Old One - The End of the Song
- 1984: Game in the Castle (TV game)
- 1985: The Endless Escape (TV series)
- 1987: The Elegant Dog (TV series)
- 1989: Sugar - A really sweet disaster
- 1990: Stauffenberg - conspiracy against Hitler
- 1994: The Glacier Clan (TV series)
- 1999: Figaro gets divorced
- 2005: Kampl (TV film based on Johann Nestroy)
- 2013: Harms
- 2015: The Village of Silence (TV movie)
Radio plays (selection)
- 1985: Arthur Schnitzler , Adele Sandrock : You with body and soul - you dog! (Arthur Schnitzler) - Adaptation and direction: Friedhelm Ortmann (radio play adaptation - ORF / WDR )
literature
- Julia Danielczyk: Helmuth Lohner . In: Andreas Kotte (Ed.): Theater Lexikon der Schweiz . Volume 2, Chronos, Zurich 2005, ISBN 3-0340-0715-9 , p. 1125 f.
- Eva Maria Klinger : Never there. Helmut Lohner: The biography. Amalthea-Verlag, Vienna 2015, ISBN 978-3-99050-022-4 .
Web links
- Literature by and about Helmuth Lohner in the catalog of the German National Library
- Helmuth Lohner in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Helmuth Lohner at filmportal.de
- Biography with pictures on Steffi-Line.de
- Entry on Helmuth Lohner in the Austria Forum (in the AEIOU Austria Lexicon )
- Archive recordings with Helmuth Lohner in the online archive of the Austrian Media Center (theater recordings , radio reports)
Individual evidence
- ^ Actor Helmuth Lohner died. In: The Standard . June 23, 2015, accessed June 23, 2015 .
- ↑ Andreas Fasel: A completely different life . In: THE WORLD . May 17, 2003 ( welt.de [accessed May 6, 2020]).
- ^ Ingo Löchel: Susanne Cramer (1936–1969). At: zauberspiegel-online.de.
- ↑ See Walter Koschatzky : Fascination Art: Memories of an Art Historian. Böhlau, Vienna 2001, ISBN 3-205-99396-9 , p. 202: "... Helmut Lohner and his wife at the time Ricarda (Reinisch) ..."
- ↑ Secret marriage: Gürtler married Lohner. In: oe24.at . December 23, 2011, accessed December 23, 2011.
- ↑ Enter Qualtinger and Lohner. In: Kurier (daily newspaper) . March 28, 2015.
personal data | |
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SURNAME | Lohner, Helmuth |
ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Lohner, Helmut |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Austrian actor and director |
DATE OF BIRTH | April 24, 1933 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Vienna , Austria |
DATE OF DEATH | 23rd June 2015 |
Place of death | Vienna , Austria |