Otto Mächtlinger
Otto Karl Franz Xaver Mächtlinger (born April 24, 1921 in Reichenberg , Czechoslovakia , † December 29, 1985 in Zurich , Switzerland ) was a German actor.
Life
His parents were German and his mother died very early, which gave him a close bond with his sister Susanne. In 1937 Otto Mächtlinger entered the seaman's school in Hamburg-Finkenwerder and was drafted into the navy after the outbreak of World War II . As a result of his war impressions , Mächtlinger became a committed opponent of the war after the end of the war and later became a communist . After the war, he made a living as a casual worker and took singing lessons. He never received training as an actor.
He later married Edith Müller, with whom he had two children. The marriage ended in divorce. A second marriage to Antoinette Siegrist followed. After his return to Switzerland in 1978, Mächtlinger worked as a freelancer and lived in Dottikon . Otto Mächtlinger died of cancer on December 29, 1985, after having performed as Daedalus in the Theater am Neumarkt the previous evening.
Mächtlinger had appearances and readings at the Swiss Peace Movement, the Socialist Unity Party West Berlin and the Labor Party in Zurich.
theatre
- 1947–1956: "Coburg Cultural Circle" touring stage (later renamed "Fränkisches Theater")
- 1956–1957: Residenztheater Munich (direction: Fritz Kortner )
- 1957–1970: Schauspielhaus Zürich, among others in John Osborne : Blick zurück im Zorn ; Bertolt Brecht : Mother Courage (with Therese Giehse ), The Caucasian Chalk Circle and Turandot (Director: Benno Besson ); Friedrich Dürrenmatt : Romulus the Great and Frank V ; Max Frisch : Biedermann and the arsonists and Andorra
- 1965/66: Guest performance at the Freie Volksbühne Berlin (direction: Erwin Piscator ). Peter Weiss : The investigation
- 1970–1978: After the Schauspielhaus scandal about the dismissal of director Löffler in 1970, Mächtlinger joined Peter Stein's troupe and moved to the Schaubühne on Halleschen Ufer in West Berlin. The season began with the performance of Brecht's Die Mutter with Therese Giehse in the lead role.
- 1985: Theater am Neumarkt Zurich: Dario Fo - Dädalus and Ikarus
Film (actor)
- 1957: Rübezahl - Lord of the Mountains
- 1964: The Embassy Prisoner
- 1968/1969: In this hell
- 1968: service included
- 1970: Right or Wrong - Justice for Dettlinger
- 1972: The Wollands
- 1975: family happiness
- 1976: summer guests
- 1976: The unreal end of Siegfried Braun. A detective story in Rushing the Grain
- 1979: The frozen heart
- 1980/1981: The boat is full
- 1981/1982: Doctor Faustus
- 1981: The house in the park
- 1981: On shoemaker's pony
- 1982: The old lady's visit
- 1983: Heinrich Heine - The second expulsion from paradise
- 1985/1986: The black Tanner
- 1986: Lenz or freedom
literature
- Thomas Blubacher : Otto Mächtlinger . In: Andreas Kotte (Ed.): Theater Lexikon der Schweiz . Volume 2, Chronos, Zurich 2005, ISBN 3-0340-0715-9 , p. 1153.
Web links
- Otto Mächtlinger in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Otto Mächtlinger at filmportal.de
Individual evidence
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Mächtlinger, Otto |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Mächtlinger, Otto Karl Franz Xaver (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German actor |
| DATE OF BIRTH | April 24, 1921 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Liberec , Czechoslovakia |
| DATE OF DEATH | December 29, 1985 |
| Place of death | Zurich , Switzerland |