Karl Baumgartner (actor)

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Karl Baumgartner (born March 1, 1850 in Vienna ; † November 6, 1925 there ) was an Austrian actor and theater director .

Life

The son of a chancellery head of the Vienna Ministry of Finance first completed a degree in technology before turning to the stage and taking acting lessons at the Kierschner Theater Academy in the 1870s . Following this, Baumgartner found his first engagement at the Berlin National Theater , further early stages were Aachen , Dresden and the Burgtheater in his hometown Vienna.

As early as the 1880s he was also working as a director and worked in both functions primarily on Austrian theaters (in Baden near Vienna , Klagenfurt , Innsbruck , the Bohemian-Moravian provincial towns of Reichenberg and Olomouc , Linz and finally in 1889 Salzburg ). Even before he was 40, Karl Baumgartner grew into the character subject and mainly played humorous types (including fathers of all kinds). After more than a decade in Salzburg, Baumgartner returned to the Vienna Burgtheater in the summer of 1901. Until his death, the artist, who was later appointed court actor, remained connected to this most respected Austrian stage and played a plethora of great roles - still preferably odd and comical types.

Active in film since the First World War, Baumgartner was seen mainly in the leading roles of gnarled patriarchs, dignified dignitaries and powerful people of respect - in productions of the Viennese art film , which were mainly staged by the directing duo Jakob Fleck and Luise Kolm . Baumgartner was the Adamhof farmer in the Anzengruber film adaptation The Perjury Farmer , a pastor in the drama Die Trödie auf Schloß Rottersheim , the mendicant monk Augustin in another Anzengruber adaptation, Under the Spell of Duty (based on Anzengruber's hand and heart ), and the Grand Duke in Alexander Korda's lavish epic A Sunken World .

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SURNAME Baumgartner, Karl
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian actor and theater director
DATE OF BIRTH March 1, 1850
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna
DATE OF DEATH November 6, 1925
Place of death Vienna