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OW Fischer (left) with part of the team from Dreamy Days and L'aiguille rouge at Munich Riem Airport, 1950

OW Fischer (born April 1, 1915 as Otto Wilhelm Fischer in Klosterneuburg , Lower Austria ; † January 29, 2004 in Lugano , Switzerland ) was an Austrian actor .

Life

The son of the lawyer and later court counselor Franz Karl Fischer and his wife Maria, b. Schoerg, attended elementary school in Langstögergasse in Klosterneuburg and the high school there . After graduating from high school in 1933, he studied English, German and art history for several semesters at the University of Vienna before moving to the Max Reinhardt Seminar in 1936 to take acting lessons. Via the Theater in der Josefstadt , the Münchner Kammerspiele and the German Volkstheater in Vienna under Walter Bruno Iltz , he played his way to the Burgtheater , of which he was a member from 1945 to 1952.

Film roles in which he appeared from 1936, including a strongly anti-Semitic part in Vienna in 1910 , brought him an entry in Goebbels ' “ Gottbegnadeten-Liste ” in 1944 .

In 1942 he married the actress Anna (Nanni) Usell (1903–1985) from Prague . From 1949 to 1952 he had a relationship with the actress Gustl Gerhards (thirteen under one hat) .

In 1950 he made his breakthrough in post-war cinema with the title role in Archduke Johanns Große Liebe . At the time of the German economic miracle , OW Fischer became the best-paid German-speaking cinema star alongside Curd Jürgens . In numerous films he played lovers with Maria Schell or Ruth Leuwerik .

His distanced style of play and the monologue-like language made him unmistakable in the contemporary German-speaking film world. His preference for brooding or demonic figures like the mythical-tragic Bavarian King Ludwig II or the clairvoyant “ Hanussen ” fascinated both cinema-goers and critics.

He also directed twice himself. In 1957 he was supposed to start a Hollywood career with the film My Man Godfrey ( Mein Mann Gottfried ) , but Fischer came into conflict with the local studio system. And so he was fired after a few days of shooting; he was replaced by David Niven . Fischer returned to Germany, where he was able to quickly build on his earlier successes.

From the 1960s he lived in Vernate in the Swiss canton of Ticino .

In the early sixties, he is said to have violently assaulted the then still very young Senta Berger , as her son Simon Verhoeven made public in a Spiegel interview in 2020 . However, the actress waived legal consequences.

Fischer recognized (like Willi Forst ) as early as the 1960s that its heyday, like that of German post-war film, was over. He still played more or less successfully in European films until 1969. Until 1988 he was seen repeatedly in television plays, about 1970 in Arthur Schnitzler's Das weite Land . In his later years he devoted himself to philosophy and theology as a private scholar and etymologist . He presented his “all-hypnosis” theory in lectures and books. OW Fischer died of heart failure in a hospital in Lugano, Switzerland in 2004. His urn and that of his wife are in the cemetery where he last lived, Vernate.

The Austrian Theater Museum has housed his estate since 2009 .

Theater roles

Filmography

movie theater

Television (selection)

  • 1970: The Wide Land (TV movie)
  • 1970: The Fly and the Frog (TV movie)
  • 1987: Autumn in Lugano (TV movie)
Portraits and interviews
  • The artist portrait (1959; NWDR)
  • The Return of OW Fischer (1968; ZDF)
  • Resurrection in Lugano (1986; ZDF)
  • I still want to grow up (1990; BR)
  • Love, Death and the Devil (1997; ORF)
  • Exchange of words (1998; SWF)
  • OW Fischer in conversation with Jürgen Fliege (2002; BR)
  • Mirror of thoughts (2004; ORF)

Awards

literature

  • Herbert Holba: OW Fischer, phenomenon of an acting personality. Vienna 1964.
  • FFG: ... what matters to me, as face, dream and sensation. The most memorable interview by O. W. Fischer. Strom, Zurich 1977, ISBN 3-85921-038-6 .
  • OW Fischer: I wasn't an angel boy. Memory of a youth. Langen Müller, Munich 1986, ISBN 3-7844-2109-1 .
  • Dorin Popa: OW Fischer. His films - his life. Heyne, Munich 1989, ISBN 3-453-00124-9 .
  • OW Fischer: Resurrection in Hollywood. Texts. Austrian State Printing Office, ISBN 3-7046-0037-7 .
  • OW Fischer: A distant sound. Texts. Hess, Ulm 1999, ISBN 3-87336-000-4 .
  • OW Fischer: My secrets. Memories and thoughts. With [20 portrait drawings and] an afterword by Margarethe Krieger . Langen Müller, Munich 2000, ISBN 3-7844-2770-7 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ OW Fischer's greatest cinema successes. In: Spiegel Online. February 3, 2004, accessed November 28, 2014 .
  2. ↑ a b c Pictures of a career in the economic boom. In: Spiegel Online. February 3, 2004, accessed November 28, 2014 .
  3. ↑ : WHY DON'T YOU FEEL HOW I FEEL? In: Der Spiegel . tape March 13 , 1957 ( spiegel.de [accessed May 1, 2018]).
  4. ↑ Assholes were considered cool . In: DER SPIEGEL No. 9 (February 22, 2020), pp. 118–119
  5. ^ Press release of the Austrian Theater Museum on July 24, 2009
  6. ↑ List of all decorations awarded by the Federal President for services to the Republic of Austria from 1952 (PDF; 6.9 MB)
personal data
SURNAME Fischer, OW
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Fischer, Otto Wilhelm (birth name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian actor
DATE OF BIRTH April 1, 1915
PLACE OF BIRTH Klosterneuburg , Lower Austria
DATE OF DEATH January 29, 2004
Place of death Lugano , Switzerland