Karl Friedrich (actor)

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Karl Friedrich (born May 7, 1929 in Graz ) is an Austrian actor and theater director .

Life

He attended secondary school and drama school in his hometown of Graz. From 1950 to 1957 he was a member of the ensemble of the United Theaters Graz.

In 1957 he moved to the city ​​of Cologne . Roles here were Muley Hassan in Fiesco's Conspiracy in Genoa , Bärli in Musils Vinzenz and the girlfriend of important men and Cosme in Calderón's Lady Kobold .

From 1959 to 1962 he worked at the National Theater Mannheim , where he played Selicour in Friedrich Schiller's Der Parasit . From 1962 to 1966 he worked at the Darmstadt State Theater . Here he took over the title role in Woyzeck in 1964 .

From 1966 to 1972 he was engaged at the Städtische Bühnen Frankfurt am Main . Here he played alongside Joseph Offenbach in The Miser and The Robbery of the Sabine Women .

In the 1972/73 season Friedrich worked at the Schauspielhaus Bochum . There he embodied Ficsur in Liliom , Reich in Kasimir and Karoline , Oskar Schuster in the world premiere of Kroetz's Dolomite City Lienz and Reich in the world premiere of Dorst's Ice Age .

From 1973 to 1984 he worked on the stages of the city of Bonn . In 1975 he took on several roles at the Deutsches Schauspielhaus in Hamburg , including Oronte in Der Menschenfeind and Malvolio in Was ihr wollt . In Bonn he embodied Holzapfel in Much Ado About Nothing , Melchior in He wants to make a joke and Habakuk in The Farmer as a Millionaire .

In 1964 and 1978 he made guest appearances at the Ruhr Festival in Recklinghausen , also at the Luisenburg Festival in Wunsiedel (1962–86), at the Rheinisches Landestheater in Neuss (1980–83), at the Münster Municipal Theaters (1981), at the Ulm Theater (1988 / 89) and at the Bavarian State Theater in Munich (1990/91).

Since 1973 he has directed it himself. In addition, Friedrich worked in numerous television productions, some feature films and several radio plays, such as 1959 in one of the famous Paul Temple radio plays by Francis Durbridge , namely in Paul Temple and the Spencer case .

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SURNAME Friedrich, Karl
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian actor and theater director
DATE OF BIRTH May 7, 1929
PLACE OF BIRTH Graz