Josef Meinrad

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Role model as a good fellow , July 1947

Josef Meinrad , actually Josef Moučka , (born April 21, 1913 in Vienna , † February 18, 1996 in Großgmain , Salzburg ) was an Austrian chamber actor and from 1959 the bearer of the Iffland-Ring .

Life

Meinrad was the fourth and youngest child of the tram driver Franz Moučka and his second wife Katharina. After attending primary school from 1919 to 1924, he received a free place in the Redemptorist high school in Katzelsdorf near Wiener Neustadt .

Meinrad wanted to be a priest first, but left boarding school in 1929 and did a commercial apprenticeship in a paint factory. At the same time he took lessons at the drama school Kestranek on Getreidemarkt and eventually became an actor.

In 1930 he appeared in public for the first time at the Hans Sachs Festival in Korneuburg , where he already called himself Meinrad. Despite other minor theater roles, he passed the commercial apprenticeship exams in 1932 and remained an office intern until 1935. From 1936 he performed more and more on small stages and on May 15, 1937 passed the drama exam in front of the Ring of Austrian Performers. After guest appearances at various stages in Vienna, he received an engagement at the theater Die Komödie in autumn 1939 . After a short interlude at the Burgtheater , Meinrad worked from December 1940 to September 1944 at the Deutsches Theater in Metz , which was known as the "front theater", in the troop support.

The grave of Josef Meinrad and Germaine Renée Clement in the Großgmain cemetery

On October 22, 1945, he was back on stage in Vienna. In July 1947 he was the “good companion” at the Salzburg Festival , and in October of the same year he was engaged at the Burgtheater. He was a member of the ensemble until his 65th birthday in 1978. From 1947 to 1983 he performed 195 stage roles in front of the audience at the Burgtheater. Meinrad became famous for his portrayal of Nestroy and Raimund characters. Almost every year he was represented at the Salzburg and Bregenz Festivals , and he also made numerous guest appearances on other stages. He celebrated a great stage success as Don Quixote in the musical Der Mann von La Mancha by Dale Wasserman , which had its German premiere on January 4, 1968 at the Theater an der Wien . Meinrad wore the Iffland ring from 1959, which he passed on to Bruno Ganz .

Meinrad's roles in films and on television were rather modest compared to his fame as a stage actor. He was best known for the three Sissi films with Romy Schneider , in which he played Colonel Böckl, the empress's adjutant . He was also seen alongside Schneider in Die Halbzarte , The Beautiful Liar and in 1963 in one of his few international films, Otto Preminger's Der Kardinal .

On April 17, 1983 Meinrad had his last premiere as Theodor in Hugo von Hofmannsthal's Der Unbrechliche at the Burg- or Akademietheater: In this role, he last appeared in his parent company on December 12, 1984. In April 1987 he appeared in public for the last time as Father Rupert Mayer in the Bürgersaalkirche in Munich with the monologue I am not silent . Meinrad, who was married to the French Germaine Renée Clement on April 11, 1950, died of cancer on February 18, 1996. He was buried in the Großgmain cemetery. His wife Germaine died in August 2006 and was buried next to him.

As early as September 15, 1997, the City of Vienna named the previously unnamed place next to the Vienna Burgtheater Josef-Meinrad-Platz in his honor .

  • Josef-Meinrad-Platz in Vienna 1 at the Burgtheater; Northeast view (2013)

  • Commemorative plaque for the stage debut of Josef Meinrad (2010)

Filmography (selection)

synchronization

Meinrad dubbed the figure of the old, white-haired “Maestro” for the German-language version of the animated series Once Upon a Time ... the Man by Albert Barillé and adopted the text of the narrator, which was originally spoken by the creator of the series.

Awards

literature

Web links

Commons : Josef Meinrad  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ The grave of Josef Meinrad
  2. ↑ Vienna receives "Josef-Meinrad-Platz"
  3. ↑ Josef-Meinrad-Platz next to the Burgtheater

Remarks

  1. ↑ It is likely to have been private lessons with the singing and language teacher Zdenko Kestranek (1897–1976), who was a teacher at the Reinhardt Seminar from 1929 to 1938 and from 1945 to 1962 . - See: Zdenko Kestranek . In: Klangwege.orpheustrust.at , accessed on June 4, 2016.
personal data
SURNAME Meinrad, Josef
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Moučka; Joseph
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian film and chamber actor
DATE OF BIRTH April 21, 1913
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna , Austria
DATE OF DEATH February 18, 1996
Place of death Großgmain , Salzburg, Austria