Otto Dürer

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Otto Dürer (born October 2, 1909 in Vienna ; † January 24, 1994 there ) was an Austrian film producer , theater director , actor and director .

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After attending secondary school, Dürer received his artistic training at the Max Reinhardt Seminar in his hometown. A little later, in 1929, he began his first engagement at the city theater of Leitmeritz in Czechoslovakia . His last engagement, the 1932/33 season, took him to the Pforzheimer Schauspielhaus as director and dramaturge . When the National Socialists came to power , Dürer was dismissed for “racial reasons” and he temporarily returned to Vienna.

At the end of July 1938, four months after the so-called annexation of Austria by Hitler- Germany, Dürer left Vienna and settled in Amsterdam . In the Netherlands he found employment as a theater director. The Viennese were interned by the German occupying forces from 1941 (until the end of the war). After the liberation in May 1945, Dürer was able to continue his theater work in Holland and was, among other things, Auschwitz -Heimkehrer Otto Aurich involved in the establishment of the "Hoofdstad operetta".

In September 1946 he returned to Vienna from Amsterdam to work again as a theater director in the same place. In 1950 the actress and film producer Paula Wessely brought him to her production company as partner and production manager. Dürer Wesselys remained production and production manager until the end of her film activities in 1961, from 1957 he also appeared as general manager (producer) of his own “Vienna Film Production” and produced several productions by Georg Tressler and Rolf Thiele .

His last work was the Schnitzler adaptation Das weite Land , which featured prominently with OW Fischer , Ruth Leuwerik and Sabine Sinjen , which was broadcast by ZDF in 1970 . After that, Dürer retired from producing. He was buried at the Vienna Central Cemetery .

Movies (complete)

as a production or manufacturing manager or as a producer

literature

  • Kay Less : Between the stage and the barracks. Lexicon of persecuted theater, film and music artists from 1933 to 1945 . With a foreword by Paul Spiegel . Metropol, Berlin 2008, ISBN 978-3-938690-10-9 , p. 95.

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personal data
SURNAME Dürer, Otto
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian film producer, theater director, actor and director
DATE OF BIRTH October 2, 1909
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna
DATE OF DEATH January 24, 1994
Place of death Vienna