Herbert Wochinz

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Grave site at Sankt Martin cemetery, Villach

Herbert Wochinz (born November 15, 1925 in Villach ; † October 16, 2012 in Klagenfurt ) was an Austrian director and theater director .

Life, career

Wochinz attended grammar school in Villach and studied acting at the Max Reinhardt Seminar in Vienna from 1946 to 1949 . Wochinz played his first roles in the student theater "Studio der Hochschulen" in 1949/50. In 1955 he went to Paris , the then European “theater capital” and a center of the avant-garde . There he attended the pantomime School of Etienne Decroux and had partially resistant contacts with, among others Marcel Marceau , Samuel Beckett , Eugene Ionesco , Jean Cocteau or Jean Genet . From 1956 he worked as an actor and director in Vienna ( Theater der Courage ), where he founded the Theater am Fleischmarkt in 1958 . Here he mainly dedicated himself to first performances of pieces by the French avant-garde and worked with actors such as Klaus Kinski , Bibiana Zeller and Georg Bucher as well as set designers such as Wolfgang Hutter , Josef Mikl and Wander Bertoni .

In 1961 he founded the Komödienspiele Porcia in Spittal an der Drau , which he directed until 1990. Here he presented comedies from world literature in purist productions , often in translations by HC Artmann , whose black comedy No Pepper for Cermak he scheduled in the opening season. From 1968 to 1992 he was the director of the Klagenfurt City Theater , which he made into a “theater for all Carinthians” with a varied program between classic and modern. The most prominent actors and singers he hired included Mirjana Irosch, Helga Papouschek, Felix Dvorak, Harald Serafin, and others. a.

In 1991 he handed over the management of the Komödienspiele Porcia to Tamás Ferkay . In 1992 he handed over the management of the Klagenfurt City Theater to Dietmar Pflegerl and largely withdrew from cultural life.

Works

  • Alfred de Musset, Herbert Wochinz (stage editing), Hans Carl Artmann (translator): The bet. (Il ne faut jurer de rien) . Universal Edition, Volume 60066. Universal Edition Schauspiel, Vienna 1972.
  • Molière , Herbert Wochinz (stage editing), Hans Carl Artmann (translator): Doctor against his will . (Le Médecin malgré-lui) . Universal Edition, Volume 60074. Universal Edition Schauspiel, Vienna 1972.
  • Ludwig Holberg , Herbert Wochinz (stage editing), Hans Carl Artmann (translator): Henrik and Pernilla (Henrik og Pernilla) . Universal Edition, Volume 60062. Universal Edition Schauspiel, Vienna 1972.
  • Molière , Herbert Wochinz (stage editing), Hans Carl Artmann (transl.): The pranks of Scapin . (Les Fourberies de Scapin) . Universal Edition, Volume 60075. Universal Edition Schauspiel, Vienna 1973.
  • Pierre Carlet Chamblet de Marivaux , Herbert Wochinz (stage editing), Hans Carl Artmann (translator): Love and chance . (Le jeu de l'amour et du hasard) . Universal Edition, Volume UE 60085. Universal Edition Schauspiel, Vienna 1973.
  • Pierre Augustin Caron de Beaumarchais , Herbert Wochinz (stage editing), Hans Carl Artmann (translator): The great day. (La folle Journee ou Le Mariage de Figaro) . Universal Edition, Volume 60080. Universal Edition Schauspiel, Vienna 1973.
  • Eugène Labiche , Herbert Wochinz ( arrangement ), Hans Carl Artmann (translation): Celimar. Comedy. TV broadcast, March 7, 1993 . 1 video cassette (VHS, 85 min, sp, mono, color). ORF, s. l. 1993.
  • Hans Carl Artmann, Herbert Wochinz (addressee), Alois Brandstetter (ed.): I need a winter coat etz. Letters to Herbert Wochinz . Jung und Jung, Salzburg / Vienna 2005, ISBN 3-902144-92-0 .
  • Herbert Wochinz: From the final to the theater of joy. Photos by Franz Hubmann u. a. Text by Alois Brandstetter. Verlag Kremayr & Scheriau, Vienna 1994.

Awards

literature

  • Carl Nicolai Wochinz: Ensemble Porcia-Komödienspiele in Spittal / Drau. 1961 - 1980. Interim résumé . Dissertation. University of Vienna, Vienna 1982.
  • Günter Schmidauer: A life for comedy. Herbert Wochinz and the easy laugh of Porcia 1961–2000; Carinthia University Press, Klagenfurt 2000.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d Austrian National Library. Collections. Literature archive. Herbert Wochinz ( Memento of the original from December 18, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . In: onb.ac.at ; Retrieved October 16, 2012  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.onb.ac.at
  2. ↑ City of Klagenfurt : Winner of the ring of honor of the state capital Klagenfurt am Wörthersee ( Memento of the original from November 20, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. ; Retrieved October 16, 2012 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.klagenfurt.at
  3. ^ Province of Carinthia : A great festival for Herbert Wochinz ; Retrieved October 16, 2012
  4. ↑ Culture. Wochinz now honorary member of the city theater . With portrait photo. In: kaernten.orf.at , May 28, 2008; Retrieved November 6, 2010.
personal data
SURNAME Wochinz, Herbert
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian theater director and director
DATE OF BIRTH November 15, 1925
PLACE OF BIRTH Villach
DATE OF DEATH October 16, 2012
Place of death Klagenfurt