Kurt Meisel

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Kurt Franz-Joseph Meisel (born August 18, 1912 in Vienna ; † April 4, 1994 there ) was an Austrian actor and director .

Life

Kurt Meisel first studied law . After an internship at the Vienna Volkstheater , he made his debut in 1933 in Shakespeare's As You Like It at the Münchner Kammerspiele . From 1934 Meisel also appeared in films, where he became a popular supporting actor over the course of the 1930s. He was also on stage at the Kleine Komödie in Munich and in Berlin at the Schiller and Schlossparktheater .

In 1937 Meisel received an engagement at the Berlin State Theater. No great German-speaking director from Gustaf Gründgens to Jürgen Fehling to Karl-Heinz Stroux could get past the bald man with the razor-sharp voice and impressive stage presence. The role subject of the idiosyncratic character actor ranged from the effeminate playboy with Viennese charm in The Divine Jette to devious instincts in Final Chord (1936) or The Golden City (1942).

Kurt Meisel's films from the 1930s and 1940s include Die divine Jette (1937), Nanon (1938), Der Feuerteufel (1940), The Great King (1942) and Kolberg (1945). After gaining experience as an assistant director since 1942, Meisel began another career as a film director after the Second World War - with a playful life (1949), being a father very much (1957) and three men on a horse (1957) - alongside He continued to appear in films and occasionally acted as a voice actor .

At the beginning of the 1960 season, Meisel became senior director and actor at the Bavarian State Theater in Munich. He also taught at the Zerboni drama school. After a conflict with the theater critic Walther Kiaulehn (in the Münchner Merkur and in the Abendzeitung ) he resigned at the beginning of 1964. Meisel went to Vienna, where he was senior director and deputy director at the Burgtheater for four years from 1966 (1966 Bertolt Brecht's Life of Galilei with Curd Juergens ). At the same time he took on teaching positions at the Mozarteum in Salzburg and at the Vienna Film Academy . In 1970 he played Senator Nicolson in the premiere of Rolf Hochhuth's Guerillas at the Vienna Volkstheater under Gustav Manker's direction .

His written estate is in the archive of the Academy of Arts in Berlin.

Munich Residence Theater

In 1972 Meisel became the artistic director of the Bavarian State Theater in Munich, where he had been senior director for years. From 1976, the film director Ingmar Bergman worked there , who had fled the Swedish tax authorities to Germany ( Ibsen's Hedda Gabler , Strindbergs Traumspiel , Chekhov's Three Sisters , Molières Tartuffe ).

Meisel's last theater roles were the police concipist in Franz Molnar's Liliom at the Vienna Burgtheater (1990, director: Paulus Manker ), a play that he himself staged in 1963 at the Burgtheater with Hans Moser in this role, the Herrenstein in Elisabeth II by Thomas Bernhard ( 1989) and old Ekdal in Ibsen's Die Wildente at the Munich Residenztheater.

Private

Kurt Meisel was married to the actress Ursula Lingen , the daughter of Theo Lingen and the half-sister of Hanne Hiob , since 1953 . He died of a stroke on April 4, 1994 in his hometown .

His honorary grave is in the Vienna Central Cemetery (group 40, number 168).

Awards

In 1952 Meisel received the Berlin Art Prize , in 1975 the Bavarian Order of Merit , and a year later the Ludwig Thoma Medal . In 1979, the City of Vienna recognized his achievements with the Gold Medal of Honor . In his honor, the "Association of Friends of the Bavarian State Theater" donated the Kurt Meisel Prize in 1997 .

Filmography

as a performer, unless otherwise stated :

Radio plays

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Kurt Meisel Archive Inventory overview on the website of the Akademie der Künste in Berlin.


personal data
SURNAME Meisel, Kurt
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Meisel, Kurt Franz-Joseph
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian actor and director
DATE OF BIRTH August 18, 1912
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna
DATE OF DEATH April 4, 1994
Place of death Vienna