Karl Kneidinger

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Karl Kneidinger (* thirtieth August 1882 in Vienna , † 14. April 1952 ) was an Austrian actor of stage and film and theater director and chief director.

Live and act

Kneidinger was already on the theater stage as a teenager. The brawny actor appeared on stages in Graz, Munich and especially Vienna. In the Austrian capital he worked at the Theater in der Josefstadt, the Wiener Stadttheater (there for the first time also a director), the Wiener Volksbühne, the Wiener Schauspielhaus, the Wiener Bürgertheater, again at the Stadttheater as well as at the Renaissance Theater and the Raimund Theater. Kneidinger was also active as a director and artistic director for the Wiener Volksstückensemble.

The plays in which he appeared include, besides light-weight ones such as Tschun Tschi , the operetta Im Weißen Rößl and an open-air stage performance of Winnetou as part of the Karl May Festival in Vienna in June 1939, also a series of artistically ambitious performances with a Jewish thematic background like Eisik Scheftel, Nathan the Wise and Jud Suss.

Active in film since the end of the First World War, the corpulent Viennese embodied mostly subordinate characters such as a gardener in Richard Oswald's The Fourth Commandment , a poor landlord in Das Mädel aus der Wachau , one of his very few leading cinema roles, an accountant in the trend film Leinen aus Ireland , a servant in the Mozart film A Little Night Music, a teacher in motherly love and a postman in the peasant Schwank The award-winning mole , Kneidinger's last film and at the same time his only post-war production.

Filmography

literature

  • Johann Caspar Glenzdorf: Glenzdorf's international film lexicon. Biographical manual for the entire film industry. Volume 2: Hed – Peis. Prominent-Filmverlag, Bad Münder 1961, DNB 451560744 , p. 852.

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personal data
SURNAME Kneidinger, Karl
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian actor
DATE OF BIRTH August 30, 1882
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna
DATE OF DEATH April 14, 1952
Place of death Vienna