Oswald Fuchs (actor)

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Oswald Fuchs (born January 1, 1933 in Vienna ; † February 17, 2015 in Innsbruck ) was an Austrian actor and director .

Life

Origin and education

Fuchs was born in Vienna to Jewish parents. Given away by his parents as an infant , he grew up with several foster families . He was a member of the Hitler Youth , where he received "Aryan re-education" in the sense of Nazi ideology , but was also able to avoid deportation to a concentration camp . After graduating from a sports high school , he studied sports at the University of Vienna in 1951/1952 . He first began a sporting career as a professional boxer . He broke off his sports studies when he was accepted into the Max Reinhardt Seminar in 1952 . In 1955 he completed his acting training at the Max Reinhardt Seminar in Vienna. In the same year he received the culture award of the city of Vienna.

theatre

He had his first engagement in 1955 at the Theater in der Josefstadt in Vienna. From 1956 to 1961 he was a permanent member of the ensemble at the Vorarlberger Landestheater in Bregenz . In 1961 he was engaged at the Vienna Burgtheater , where he worked with Heinz Hilpert , among others . Hilpert engaged Fuchs in 1962 at the German Theater in Göttingen , where Fuchs played numerous leading roles. There he had a particular success in Göttingen in 1964 as Junker Bleichenwang in Was ihr wollt . In Göttingen, Fuchs also directed for the first time; In 1963 he directed there father, poor father of Arthur L. Kopit . In the 1966/67 season, Fuchs moved to the Schauspielhaus Bochum . In 1968 he played the title role in Hartmut Lange's play Stalin as Herakles in a production by Hansgünther Heyme at the Berlin Schaubühne . In 1969, Fuchs went to the Städtische Bühnen Köln . There he played the role of Caliban in Shakespeare's late work The Tempest in the 1969/70 season . His outstanding performance was honored in March 1970 by Volker Canaris in the weekly newspaper DIE ZEIT with a detailed portrait of the actor. In 1970 Fuchs was engaged at the Schauspielhaus Düsseldorf . For his portrayal of the Caliban, he was voted “Actor of the Month” in Düsseldorf in 1970.

Between 1970 and 1974, Fuchs made guest appearances on several German-speaking stages. He played the merchant Shylock in Shakespeare's The Merchant of Venice at the Bonner Schauspielhaus and the title role in Nathan the Wise at the Theater am Turm in Frankfurt am Main .

From 1974 to 1979 Oswald Fuchs was director and acting director at the Tiroler Landestheater (TLT). During this time he made guest appearances at the Münchner Kammerspiele in 1975 . In 1976 he staged the comedy The Twins of Venice by Carlo Goldoni at the Nationaltheater Mannheim . He appeared at the Tiroler Landestheater as Duke of Gloucester in King Lear , as a craftsman Knieriem in The Evil Spirit Lumpacivagabundus and as Alfred Ill in The Visit of the Old Lady .

1979 followed an engagement at the State Theater Stuttgart . There Fuchs appeared in 1981 as Miklas in a stage version of Mephisto by Klaus Mann , directed by Hansgünther Heyme. From 1981 to 1989, Fuchs was again a permanent member of the Vienna Burgtheater ensemble. During these years he played clarin in Calderon's Das Leben ein Traum (premiere: 1983/84 season; director: Michael Gruner ), Luschin in a stage version of Dostojewski's Schuld und Atonement (1985; director: Yuri Lyubimow ), the courtier in Botho Strauss ' play Der Park (1984/1985) and Der Jude / First Craftsman in Woyzeck (1989; Director: Achim Freyer ).

In 1989 he appeared at the Stuttgart State Theater as Count von Kent in Shakespeare's King Lear , directed by Jürgen Bosse . From 1989 to 1995 Fuchs was engaged at the Schauspielhaus Zurich . He appeared there as Jacques in Molières Der Geizige (1990; Rudolf Noelte ), in the title role of Othello must not burst (director: Daniel Karasek ), as Schmitz in Biedermann und die Brandstifter (1995; director: Dieter Giesing ) and as a fool in Shakespeare's Was ihr wollt (1995; directed by Klaus Weise ).

In 1995, Fuchs played the world premiere of the one-person play Der Orchesterdiener by Hermann Burger in the basement of the Schauspielhaus Zürich. In the summer of 1995 he appeared at the European Festival in Recklinghausen as Tobias (Uncle Töbial Rülps) in Shakespeare's Was ihr wollt . In the summer of 1997, Fuchs made guest appearances at the Bad Hersfeld Festival with Max Reinhardt's theater rehearsal and Karl Valentin's theater visit . In the 1997/98 season he was engaged at the Stadttheater Luzern ; there he played the scientist Newton in Friedrich Dürrenmatt's play Die Physiker .

In 2000 he appeared as Pantalone in Goldoni's comedy The Servant of Two Masters at the Haag Theater Summer . From 2002 to 2004 he appeared under the direction of Christian Stückl as Dicker Vetter in Jedermann at the Salzburg Festival . In the 2003/2004 season he played the role of Lord William Hastings in Richard III at the Tiroler Landestheater . by William Shakespeare . He was last seen at the Tiroler Landestheater in 2009 as grandfather in Das Fest by Thomas Vinterberg and Mogens Rukov .

As a theater actor, Fuchs was particularly successful in comic roles; the Swiss weekly newspaper Die Weltwoche described him as a “gifted comedian”.

Movie and TV

Fuchs also took on several roles in film and television ; The focus of his artistic activity, however, remained theater work. He played his film and television roles with "remarkable comedic talent" and a "strong, almost animalistic expressiveness".

In the television film Sachrang (1978) he embodied the painter and art carver “Krautnudel”, the servant of Müllner-Peters . In 2010 he was seen as Sandler Motzl in the movie Echte Wiener 2 - Die Deppat'n und die Gspritzt'n at the side of Karl Merkatz . In the Austrian comedy film Hirschen (2014), he played the role of the village policeman Friedrich, directed by George Inci . He had his last film role in 2014, alongside Karl Merkatz, Marion Mitterhammer , Gunther Gillian and Serge Falck in the documentary film Der Alte Fuchs by Michael Thomas (director) and Jutta Duschet (screenplay). The film tells the story of an 80-year-old actor and director, almost an alter ego of Oswald Fuchs. It pays homage to an old weird artist and traces the life of Oswald Fuchs. In this film, Fuchs practically played himself as an actor, theater director, minimum pension recipient and a Jew. The film was shown at a preview in October 2014, which Fuchs also attended. The cinema premiere is planned for 2015. In memory of Fuchs, the film has now been renamed Für Oswald .

After retiring from the stage, Fuchs lived as a pensioner in Innsbruck. He died at the age of 82.

Filmography (selection)

literature

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Actor and director Oswald Fuchs died in Innsbruck Vienna.at on February 18, 2015. Accessed on February 20, 2015.
  2. ↑ a b c d e Our muse: Oswald Fuchs ( Memento of the original from February 20, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Biography; Official website of the film The Old Fox . Retrieved February 20, 2015 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.deraltefuchs.at
  3. ↑ Volker Canaris : Sklave Caliban in: DIE ZEIT , March 13, 1970. No. 11. Accessed on February 20, 2015
personal data
SURNAME Fuchs, Oswald
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian actor and director
DATE OF BIRTH January 1, 1933
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna
DATE OF DEATH 17th February 2015
Place of death innsbruck