Helmuth Lohner

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Helmuth Lohner (2015)

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

Wages as Everyman (with Sunnyi Melles as woo), Salzburg Festival 1990

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).

Burial place of Helmuth Lohner

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:

Artistic work

Operetta direction

Opera direction

Important theater roles

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)

Radio plays (selection)

literature

Web links

Commons : Helmuth Lohner  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Actor Helmuth Lohner died. In: The Standard . June 23, 2015, accessed June 23, 2015 .
  2. ↑ Andreas Fasel: A completely different life . In: THE WORLD . May 17, 2003 ( welt.de [accessed May 6, 2020]).
  3. ^ Ingo Löchel: Susanne Cramer (1936–1969). At: zauberspiegel-online.de.
  4. ↑ 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) ..."
  5. ↑ Secret marriage: Gürtler married Lohner. In: oe24.at . December 23, 2011, accessed December 23, 2011.
  6. ↑ Enter Qualtinger and Lohner. In: Kurier (daily newspaper) . March 28, 2015.
personal data
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