Hubert Kronlachner

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Hubert Kronlachner (born October 21, 1923 in Attnang-Puchheim ; † March 21, 2015 in Basel ) was an Austrian actor and radio play speaker .

Life

After his release from British captivity, Hubert Kronlachner first attended the conservatory in Linz before he trained as an actor at the Max Reinhardt Seminar in Vienna from 1948 to 1950 and made his debut at the Austrian State Theater in 1950, to which he was a member until 1953. In the same year Kronlachner started a 4-year engagement at the Salzburg State Theater , after which he played at the Städtische Bühnen Bremerhaven from 1957 to 1960 , from 1960 to 1962 he made guest appearances at the Städtische Bühnen Oberhausen and in the season 1962/63 at the Städtische Bühnen Augsburg . Under Kurt Hübner and Peter Zadek , Kronlachner was engaged at the Bremen Theater from 1963 to 1968 until he moved to Switzerland in the late 1960s. Here he was on the stage of the Basel theaters from 1968 to 1978 . After he had appeared as a guest at the Schauspielhaus Zürich in 1979 , Gerd Heinz brought him to his house in 1981, to whose ensemble he belonged without interruption until 2000.

Important and well-known roles in Kronlachner's stage career were the Iago in Shakespeare's Othello in Salzburg in 1955, or the title role in Brecht's The Temporary Ascent of Arturo Ui in Bremen. In Basel he was, among other roles, tarragon in Waiting for Godot by Samuel Beckett , the title character in King Ubu by Alfred Jarry or Robespierre in Büchner's Dantons Tod . The Zurich audience saw Kronlachner as Malvolio in Was ihr wollt or Odoardo in Lessing's Emilia Galotti . He was Albert Einstein in Dürrenmatt's Physicists , Koch Lobkowitz in Mein Kampf by George Tabori or Bruscon in the Swiss premiere of Thomas Bernhard's Regenmacher .

In his 60 year career on stage, Hubert Kronlachner played alongside Laurin Buser in the play The Heart of a Boxer by Lutz Hübner . He also had long-lasting success with the one-person piece Der Kontrabass by Patrick Süskind . Kronlachner played the role of orchestral musician exactly 600 times between 1981 and 2009. The last performance took place on January 4, 2009 in the Schauspielhaus Zurich.

After his comrade debut in 1965, Hubert Kronlachner also worked sporadically for television. In addition, he was also active as a radio play speaker and participated in some parts of the series Dickie Dick Dickens in 1960 . Kronlachner was also the author of the play Abraham sass nah am Abhang , which premiered on December 31, 1990 in the basement of the Schauspielhaus Zurich and had already been broadcast in a radio play version a year earlier on the Swiss radio DRS .

Hubert Kronlachner last lived in Basel and died there at the age of 91 as a result of a stroke.

Filmography

Radio plays

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Mats Staub: Hubert Kronlachner . In: Andreas Kotte (Ed.): Theater Lexikon der Schweiz . Volume 2, Chronos, Zurich 2005, ISBN 3-0340-0715-9 , p. 1039 f.
  2. ↑ a b Dominik Spirgi: The last curtain for Hubert Kronlachner , day week of March 24, 2015 , accessed on October 31, 2015
  3. ↑ Mathias Wellner's website , accessed on March 17, 2019
  4. ↑ Obituary on the website of Diogenes Verlag ( Memento of the original from March 4, 2016 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. , accessed October 31, 2015  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.diogenes.de
personal data
SURNAME Kronlachner, Hubert
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian actor and radio play speaker
DATE OF BIRTH October 21, 1923
PLACE OF BIRTH Attnang-Puchheim
DATE OF DEATH March 21, 2015
Place of death Basel