Manfred Inger

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Manfred Inger (born January 1, 1907 in Vienna ; † July 25, 1984 there ; birth name: Manfred Ignacz, changed to Fred Lorenz in exile in the USA ) was an Austrian theater and film actor and cabaret artist .

Life

Manfred Inger was born in Vienna in 1907 as the son of Ludwig Ignacz and Emma Friedmann. He attended elementary and secondary school in Vienna, then the graphic teaching and research institute and the art academy . He found his first engagement from 1927 to 1932 at the Theater Breslau . Then Inger was a member of the ensemble of the Raimundtheater , the Volkstheater and the Theater an der Wien (Kammerspiele). Inger also belonged to the ensemble of the Viennese cabaret Literatur am Naschmarkt . Because of his Jewish origins, Inger had to leave Vienna after the annexation of Austria . He initially managed to escape to the Netherlands . From there he then traveled to the United States , where he took the name Fred Lorenz.

In 1939 Inger appeared in New York on the show From Vienna together with other Austrian artists in exile. Together with Hanuš Burger and Hans Habe , he took part in the 1944 invasion of Normandy and worked for the State Department . He was the main speaker at the station 1212 in Luxembourg and, after its establishment, program director of Radio Frankfurt . In the USA, Inger later appeared in the films Captured by Max Ophüls and The Player by Robert Siodmak as an unnamed actor. Then, in 1949, he returned to Vienna.

In Vienna, Inger found engagements at the Theater in der Josefstadt and the Volkstheater, among other things . He also appeared again as a cabaret artist, for example in 1950 in the cabaret revue We'll get through it in the Kleiner Haus in Liliengasse. At the Hamburger Kammerspiele under Ida Ehre , he celebrated a great success in 1955 as the Braver Soldat Schweijk in Thaddäus Troll's dramatization of the novel by Jaroslav Hašek . From 1956 to the early 1960s Inger was engaged at the Schauspielhaus Düsseldorf . Inger returned to Vienna and became a member of the Burgtheater ensemble . In the Burgtheater staging of Molnár's Liliom (1963), which is still popular today , he played Wolf Beifeld under the direction of Kurt Meisel . In 1965 he was on stage in John Osborne's judge on his own in the production of Ulrich Erfurth alongside Curd Jürgens and Susi Nicoletti . Inger was also seen at the Salzburg Festival , for example as Robert Seicht in The Merry Wives of Windsor , directed by Rudolf Steinboeck .

Since 1949 Manfred Inger has worked in numerous film and television productions. Together with other former Austrian artists in exile, he played in 1952 in the Austrian-American co-production Adventure in Vienna and in the American version Stolen Identity . He was seen as Harry Vincent in the first Durbridge multi-part series on German television The Other . In the 1960s he took part in several television films by director Michael Kehlmann , for example in 1961 in Jack Mortimer , 1963 in Der Grüne Kakadu , 1965 in Radetzkymarsch based on the novel of the same name by Joseph Roth and in 1969 in The Tragedy by Julius Caesar . Inger became a broader audience through his participation in the popular television series Hallo - Hotel Sacher… Portier! known, in which he played the porter Breuer at the side of Fritz Eckhardt and Maxi Böhm in 21 episodes. Most recently, Inger was seen in a leading role in the episode Mordkommando in the TV series Tatort around the Vienna Inspector Marek (Fritz Eckhardt) and in the television series Ringstrasse Palace as Pepi Baron Stessl.

Manfred Inger died on July 25, 1984 in Vienna.

Filmography (selection)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b 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. 737.
  2. ↑ Ulrike Oedl. The country of exile Austria between 1933 and 1938. Page 18 at sbg.ac.at accessed on September 25, 2012
  3. ↑ Literature on the Naschmarkt in the theater and cinematic topography project Vienna, artminutes Vienna association at kinthetop.at, accessed on February 22, 2011
  4. ^ Meeting with Kortner 64 Herwig Lenau . A balance sheet. at herwig-lenau.at accessed on June 26, 2020
  5. ↑ a b c d Viennoir ( Memento from March 21, 2005 in the Internet Archive ) Michael Omasta in Stadt: Leben: Zukunft, Wiener Wissenschaftstage'03, pp. 8,10,11 on europaforum.or.at accessed on July 27, 2020 (PDF)
  6. ↑ Ulrike Oedl. Theater in Exile - Austrian theater in exile. Page 15 from literaturepochen.at (University of Salzburg) accessed on September 25, 2012
  7. ↑ Lecture about the director Hanus Burger on munich.czechcentres.cz, accessed on February 22, 2011
  8. ↑ Austrian Cabaret Archive ( Memento from March 19, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) at kabarettarchiv.at accessed on July 27, 2020
  9. ↑ CEL: Braver Soldat Schwejk in: Die Zeit No. 39/1955 of September 29, 1955, page 4 on zeit.de, accessed on February 22, 2011
  10. ^ Edition Burgtheater ( memento from March 2, 2014 in the Internet Archive ): Liliom on burgtheater.at accessed on February 22, 2011
  11. ↑ The latest from the world of the stage ( memento from March 2, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Hamburger Abendblatt from October 2, 1965, accessed on July 27, 2020 at webcache.googleusercontent.com
  12. ^ Archive of the Salzburg Festival accessed on September 25, 2012
personal data
SURNAME Inger, Manfred
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Fred Lorenz
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian actor and cabaret artist
DATE OF BIRTH January 1, 1907
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna
DATE OF DEATH July 25, 1984
Place of death Vienna