Hilde Sochor

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Hilde Sochor (born February 5, 1924 in Vienna ; † May 31, 2017 there ) was an Austrian actress . She worked at the Vienna Volkstheater for over 60 years and was most recently the doyenne of the house.

Life

Hilde Sochor grew up with her younger sister with the divorced mother and grandmother in Vienna Breitensee "in a female household". Because she did not trust herself to be an actor at first, she studied journalism after graduating from high school in Wenzgasse in 1942 , then also theater studies to become a cultural critic. At the same time, however, she also took acting lessons at the Prayner Conservatory with Leopold Rudolf and Wolfgang Heinz . She financed her training as a puppet theater player at various schools.

She gained her first experience as an actress at the "Studio of the Universities", a student stage in which Helmut Qualtinger and Karlheinz Böhm also took part. On the initiative of Friedrich Langer , who was then responsible in the Ministry of Education, a kind of experimental stage, a forerunner of cellar theaters and alternative theater groups, was built in the building of the Austrian student union in Vienna's Kolingasse. Hilde Sochor played Gretchen and Lieschen in Urfaust and already then Frau Pollinger in Hermann Bahr's Das Konzert . Also Odon von Horvath's The Unknown from the Seine experienced there its actual premiere.

In 1948 she did her doctorate at the University of Vienna (dissertation topic: "The Influence of Film on the Organization of Time in Modern Drama") and also passed the acting examination. In October of the same year she made her debut at the Wiener Kammerspiele as a parlor maid in the world premiere of Alexander Lernet-Holenias Parforce and shortly afterwards, at the beginning of 1949, received her first role at the Wiener Volkstheater in Ludwig Anzengruber's The Pastor of Kirchfeld with Hans Jaray, who has just returned from emigration . In 1953 she played in Düsseldorf under the direction of Gustaf Gründgens with Fritz Kortner in Ferdinand Raimund's Der Alpenkönig und der Menschenfeind, but returned to Vienna, only to belong to the Volkstheater from then on.

In 1956 she married the director, set designer and theater manager Gustav Manker (1913–1988), under whose direction she played 73 roles, including many important roles in her career, and played a key role in shaping the legendary Nestroy ensemble of the Volkstheater. She has three children with him: the actress Katharina Scholz-Manker (* 1956), the actor and director Paulus Manker (* 1958) and the doctor Magdalena Manker (* 1967). Sochor's great-grandfather was the town architect Ludwig Zatzka , her great-great-uncle the painter Hans Zatzka .

Hilde Sochor is buried next to her husband Gustav Manker in the Weidlinger Friedhof in Klosterneuburg .

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In 60 years, Hilde Sochor has appeared on the stage in over three hundred roles: she played in plays by Bertolt Brecht (Yvette in Mother Courage and her children in the performance that broke the Brecht boycott in Vienna in 1962 , Grusche in The Caucasian Chalk Circle 1964, Smuggling ceremony in Mr. Puntila and his servant Matti 1987 with Karl Paryla under Angelika Hurwicz , the house owner in The Good Person of Sezuan ); Ferdinand Bruckner ( criminal 1963); Gerhart Hauptmann (Mrs. John in Die Ratten 1967); Henrik Ibsen ( Rosmersholm 1967); Blanche in Tennessee Williams Glass Menagerie ; Karl Schönherr (Mrs. Suitner); Frank Wedekind (Klara Hühnerwadel in music, Countess in The Marquis of Keith ); G. B. Shaws Vivie and Ms. Warren in Ms. Warren's Trades 1952 and 1978 and The Millionaire; Ödön von Horváth (The Unknown from the Seine); Rolf Hochhuth (The Midwife); but also classic roles such as the wet nurse in Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare or Marthe Schwerdtlein in Goethe's Faust I and in 1971 Marthe Rull in Kleist's Der zerbrochne Krug with Helmut Qualtinger . Alongside Karl Merkatz , she was Frau Bockerer's 1980 rediscovery of the play at the Volkstheater and later also in Berlin. At the Salzburg Festival in 1992 she was directed by Andrzej Wajda in Wesele .

No actress in the Viennese theater has played in so many Austrian folk plays in her life as Hilde Sochor. She was seen in over fifty roles in plays by Johann Nestroy , Ferdinand Raimund and Ludwig Anzengruber , mostly directed by Gustav Manker , to whose famous Nestroy ensemble she belonged for decades: Agnes and Isabella in Das Haus der Temperamente (1953 and 1965, respectively ), Salerl in On Floor and First Floor (1967), Flora Baumscher in Der Talisman with Helmut Qualtinger (1969), Madame Zichori in Gewürzkrämerkleeblatt (1972), Fräulein Blumenblatt in He wants to make a joke , Madame Schleier in Der Zerrissene ( 1974), Pepi Amsel in Former Relationships (1979); in Raimund's Der Alpenkönig und der Menschenfeind she played Lieschen with Fritz Kortner under the direction of Gustaf Gründgens in 1952 , later Rosa and the Holzweiberl in Der Verschwender (1962 and 1990), Mariandl in Der Diamant des Geisterkönigs (1958), Satisfaction and Old Age in The Farmer as Millionaire (1973 with Karl Paryla and 2000); in Anzengruber's Der Pfarrer von Kirchfeld (1949, debut at the Volkstheater ), Die Kreuzelschreiber (1958), Der G'wissenswurm (1958), Der Fleck auf der Ehr (1960), Brave Leut 'vom Grund (1964), Die Trutzige (1966) ) and the Schalandter in The Fourth Commandment (1973). Hilde Sochor doesn't want the term “Volkstheater” to be too narrow, because: “Shakespeare is also popular theater, he wrote for the people, and so does Brecht.”

In Yehoshua Sobol's Weininger Night in 1988, Sochor stood on the stage of the Volkstheater together with her son Paulus Manker (who also directed and later filmed the play); before that she played with her daughter Katharina Bertolt Brecht's mother Courage and her children .

Roles in old age included Dr. Mathilde von Zahnd in Friedrich Dürrenmatt's Die Physiker , Maria in Peter Turrini's Josef and Maria, Anna in Kerstin Spechts Amiwiesen, Fräulein Tesmann in Ibsen's Hedda Gabler (director: Walter Schmidinger ) and the grandmother in Ödön von Horváth's stories from the Vienna Woods under Michael Gruner . The German-language premiere of Grace & Glorie by Tom Ziegler and Late Region by Lida Winiewicz was also a great success . In 2006 she gave the room lessor Miss Schneider under the direction of Michael Schottenberg with great success in Cabaret and in 2007 the solo evening I am a child of the city, because “the Viennese soul is an art object that can only live on the theater stage”.

In 1998 she played with Felix Dvorak and under his direction in Berndorf the grandmother in Hein R. Unger's Zwölfeläuten and in 2006 there she also played Klara Rebner in Dvorak's folk play Eine fein Familie.

As the high point of her age, Hilde Sochor could be seen in the Vienna Rabenhof Theater , as the murderess Elfriede Blauensteiner in Austria's greatest entertainer and in the Werner Schwab program, Seele burns! (with Christoph Grissemann and Dirk Stermann ). Sochor said in an interview about her late love for Schwab: “The more I dealt with him, the more he fascinated me. And now he's really grown dear to my heart. Because of his linguistic virtuosity, but also because of his life story. In his biography it sends cold shivers down your spine. "

Directorial activity

Hilde Sochor has also directed, for example in Johann Nestroy's Das Haus der Temperamente , 1990, Bruno Franks Sturm im Wasserglas , 1992, Kerstin Spechts Lila, 1993, and Eugène Labiches Der Florentinerhut, 1995.

Until 1993 she directed the acting school of the Volkstheater, which she co-founded. Her students include Ursula Strauss , Elisabeth Lanz , Gerold Rudle , Herbert Steinböck and Christian Dolezal .

Film and TV

In addition to the theater, Hilde Sochor has also repeatedly worked for television and film since his beginnings. She was one of the first to be a member of the legendary Leitner family program . TV series - from Hallo - Hotel Sacher… porter! about the Merian family and in the series Die liebe Familie , Kommissar Rex to the original mother Schoitl in the Kaisermühlen Blues . She played in Fritz Hochwälder's Der Himbeerpflücker (1965) with Helmut Qualtinger and in Der Unschuldige (1962) with Attila Hörbiger and in Totstellen (1975) with Bruno Dallansky . In 1976 she played alongside Rudolf Prack in Wilhelm Pellert's Jesus von Ottakring , one of the first “new” Austrian films. She later played in comedies by Reinhard Schwabenitzky and in films by Peter Kern . The play Weininger Nacht was filmed in 1988 by her son Paulus Manker , who also played the title role. In the film she played the mother of the Jewish philosopher and suicide Otto Weininger , the mother of her own son. In addition, she took part in a number of radio plays and chatted about Vienna as a grandmother on the show Im Konzertcafé for ten years .

For his 80th birthday, Hilde Sochor's son Paulus Manker shot a documentary about his mother in 2004: “Life is burning very much again today!”, Based on a text by Werner Schwab . In 2008 she played the role of Frau Horak in the film Echte Wiener - Die Sackbauer-Saga .

Her last known role was played by Hilde Sochor in the music video of the Schönbrunn Gloriettenstürmer as the protagonist's grandmother.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Catalog list Austrian National Library
  2. ↑ Gloriettenstürmer - A raindrop rarely falls alone. Youtube video. Retrieved May 28, 2013.
personal data
SURNAME Sochor, Hilde
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Sochor-Manker, Hilde
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian actress
DATE OF BIRTH February 5, 1924
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna
DATE OF DEATH May 31, 2017
Place of death Vienna