Kurt Sowinetz

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Kurt Sowinetz (born February 26, 1928 in Vienna ; † January 28, 1991 there ) was an Austrian folk actor .

Life

Kurt Sowinetz grew up on Arnethgasse in the Ottakring district of Vienna . He started drawing and painting at a young age. According to his own statements, his mother was able to exchange many of his paintings for food after the war. Painting accompanied him as a hobby until the end of his life. Eventually, however, he turned to acting.

In 1955 Günther Haenel , then director under the direction of Leon Epp at the Vienna Volkstheater , offered him the lead role in the then very popular drama The Rainmaker by Nathan Richard Nash . Since then he has been engaged mainly on the Viennese stages, first in the Volkstheater, later in the Theater in der Josefstadt . From 1976 he became a member of the Burgtheater ensemble .

He was also repeatedly seen in films and on television.

Sowinetz also became known to a broad public as a singer ( Alle Menschen san ma z'wider ) and as a reciter of Wolfgang Teuschl's translation of the New Testament into Viennese language, which appeared in excerpts on long-playing record and single under the title Da Jesus und seine Hawara . In addition, he formed a successful cabaret trio with Helmut Qualtinger and Walter Kohut , with the melancholy parts with the subtle undertones falling to him.

His daughter Dunja is also an actress and u. a. engaged at the Vienna Burgtheater.

Kurt Sowinetz's grave

His honorary grave is on the Döblinger Friedhof in Vienna (group 7, row 1, number 3). In 2008 the Sowinetzgasse in Vienna- Floridsdorf (21st district) was named after him.

Prizes and awards

Discography (CD / LP)

Chart positions
Explanation of the data
Albums
All people san ma zwider
  AT 1Template: Infobox chart placements / maintenance / NR1 link January 15, 1973 (12 weeks)
Blues from the taboos
  AT 19th January 15, 1978 (4 weeks)
  • Since Jesus and his Hawara (Vienna Gospel by Wolfgang A. Teuschl , 1971)
  • All people san ma zwider (1972)
  • Hallelujah the Huat Burns (1974)
  • Baron Karl
  • At the Schrammeln
  • Blues from the Taboos (1977)
  • Anyway Network (1981)
  • It's all not true (Kurt Sowinetz sings couplets by Ferdinand Raimund and Johann Nestroy ) (1979)
  • I and my team (1979)
  • Moritats (with Helmut Qualtinger )
  • Sodom and Andorra
  • Vienna District Court 1 & 2

Filmography

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Kurt Sowinetz - In rain and wind . TV documentary by Robert Tauber, ORF 2014
  2. ↑ a b Kurt Sowinetz: Da Jesus and his Hawara . In: literaturhaus.at, accessed on June 6, 2019.
  3. ↑ "Normal people who have a flick" . In: noe.orf.at, June 17, 2012, accessed on June 6, 2019.
  4. ↑ Chart sources: AT
personal data
SURNAME Sowinetz, Kurt
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian folk actor
DATE OF BIRTH February 26, 1928
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna
DATE OF DEATH January 28, 1991
Place of death Vienna