Herwig Seeböck

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Herwig Seeböck (born December 7, 1939 in Vienna ; † February 28, 2011 there ) was an Austrian actor , director and cabaret artist .

Life

Seeböck originally studied painting at the Academy of Applied Arts . To finance his studies, he took on extra roles at the Burgtheater . Influenced by this activity, he soon turned to acting and took private lessons from Albin Skoda . Since his acting training at the Burgtheater did not bring him any major roles, he founded his own theater in the early 1960s: the Burgspiele am Leopoldsberg, which existed until 1964. Gerhard Bronner then brought him to the New Theater am Kärntnertor as a cabaret artist .

At the age of 25 years Seeböck wanted an inn in Grinzing for a wine tavern with a friend for two kitchen maids upstairs fensterln . The two were mistaken for burglars and caught by the police. The files said that Seeböck had taken on a boxing position, "out of self-defense", as he protested. The police saw it differently, however, and Seeböck was sentenced to four and a half months in prison for resisting state power . Out of this experience, the Great Hafenelegie (from harbors, colloquially for prison and elegy for lamentation poem) arose with character studies, criminal tips and everyday philosophies, his most famous piece. It was premiered in 1965 in the Neues Theater am Kärntnertor under Kurt Sobotka and played for two years. Seeböck played the piece about 3,000 times in total.

Grave of the Seeböck family in the Grinzing cemetery

This was followed by engagements in Basel, Freiburg im Breisgau, from 1967 to 1969 in Graz, from 1970 to 1973 and from 1977 to 1979 at the Vienna Volkstheater and between 1973 and 1976 at the Burgtheater. From 1981 Seeböck worked as a freelance actor. He also gave acting classes at the Reinhardt Seminar, among others . His private students included Roland Düringer , Alfred Dorfer , Josef Hader , Werner Sobotka , Werner Brix , Florian Scheuba , Christoph Fälbl , Reinhard Nowak , Gery Seidl , Wolfgang Pissecker , Andrea Händler and Monica Weinzettl . He also directed, wrote numerous pieces for cabaret, played cabaret himself, painted and translated.

Herwig Seeböck was married to the actress Erika Mottl , with whom he founded the “Seeböck Ensemble” in addition to numerous other in-house productions (Karl Valentin evenings, etc.). In the Sieveringen summer theater, which Herwig Seeböck founded in 1984, he and this ensemble performed numerous Shakespeare pieces he translated into Viennese for fifteen years. Erika Mottl's and Herwig Seeböck's son Jakob Seeböck also became an actor, daughter Ida Seeböck works for film and television, but also as a writer. In March 2013 her first book, a biography of her father Herwig Seeböck with the title It will be an apprenticeship for them, was published by Czernin Verlag in Vienna .

Seeböck had already withdrawn from acting a few years before his death.

“I was so wild until fifty that it hurts me today. My wild life is now taking revenge. "

- 2010

Herwig Seeböck died on February 28, 2011 at the age of 71. He was adopted with great sympathy in the Simmering fire hall . The urn burial in the family grave on the Grinzing cemetery , which was subsequently dedicated to honor (group 1B, number 55), took place in the immediate family circle.

Works

  • The great port strategy, 1966 (monologue)
  • Household or The Sand Hares, 1966
  • Dispatcher Smafts, 1968 (monologue)
  • The suicide, 1970 (one act)
  • For me they are free, 1970 (play)
  • Zenz, the "Tschusch", 1971 ( crime scene - suspected murder )
  • Singles 1979 (play for Karl Merkatz and Götz Kauffmann, Salzburg, youth scene)
  • Kottan: Episode 16 Smokey and Baby and Bear , 1983
  • Waldheimat (TV series) 1 episode, 1983
  • Reads Karl Valentin, 1984 (reading - with wife Erika Mottl )
  • Quer through, 1985 (cabaret)
  • Summanochdsdraam in Sievering, 1985 (summer theater in Sieveringer Steinbruch)
  • Qualverwandationen, 1988 (cabaret program - dialogue with Andrea Händler )
  • Excursions - seizures - failures, 1989 (cabaret program)
  • The Seeböck Book, 1991
  • Mother's Day (film, 1992)
  • Roll over Rilke, 1993 (cabaret program - dialogue with Roland Düringer )
  • Getting sick is not difficult, 1994 (cabaret program)
  • Hinterholz 8 , 1998 (film - with Roland Düringer )

Radio plays

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b "Häfenliterat" Herwig Seeböck passed away. At: wien.orf.at. March 1, 2011.
  2. ^ Heinz Janisch: Actor and director Herwig Seeböck dead. At: oe1.orf.at. March 1, 2011.
  3. ↑ Christoph Hirschmann: Summer theater with a difference. In: Arbeiter-Zeitung . July 11, 1985, p. 13.
personal data
SURNAME Seeböck, Herwig
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian actor, director and cabaret artist
DATE OF BIRTH December 7, 1939
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna
DATE OF DEATH February 28, 2011
Place of death Vienna