Otto Stark (cabaret artist)
Otto Stark (born April 2, 1922 in Vienna ; † November 28, 2018 in Berlin ) was an Austrian cabaret artist , actor and director who worked mainly in the GDR .
Life
Otto Stark was the son of a Jewish hat maker from Ottakring ; his parents and younger brother were murdered by the Nazis in the Holocaust . He himself, also a trained hat maker, fled to England in 1938 , worked there as a baker and waiter and was interned in 1940. Stark had his first appearances in the internment camp theater group; from 1942 he played in the Austrian exile theater Das Laterndl in London . In 1946 he returned to Vienna, where he took the acting examination and played at the Theater der 49 . In 1949 he went to the GDR and had engagements in Berlin and at the Dresden State Theater . In 1952 he joined the SED .
On January 8, 1955, Stark founded the cabaret Herkuleskeule in Dresden . In addition to Alexander Bauer and Wilhelm Burmeister , Stark's wife Ilse Maybrid also belonged to the ensemble of the cabaret he directed, which continued under the name Herkuleskeulchen from 1956 to 1959 . In the summer of 1959 the troop disbanded; Stark went back to Berlin, where he was initially engaged at the Theater der Freundage . In 1960 he switched to the cabaret Die Distel and was part of their ensemble as an actor and director until the fall of the Berlin Wall . As successor to Georg Honigmann , he was director of Distel from October 1968 ; In 1990 he left the stage, which was soon privatized.
At the beginning of the 1990s, Stark went on tour with Heinz Draehn , Hanna Donner and other former Distel actors in the cabaret group Distel-Oldies . Most recently, on February 16, 2018, he performed his program, Stories of a Century of Life, in the Anna Seghers Library in the Neu-Hohenschönhausen district of Berlin .
Stark died in November 2018 at the age of 96 in Berlin.
Filmography
- 1953: Jacket like pants - Director: Eduard Kubat
- 1958: Fledermaus Squadron - Director: Erich Engel
- 1961: The Man with the Lens - Director: Frank Vogel
- 1961: Conscience in turmoil (TV) - directed by Günter Reisch and Hans-Joachim Kasprzik
- 1961: Death has a face - Director: Joachim Hasler
- 1962: Acquittal for lack of evidence - Director: Richard Groschopp
- 1962: On the sunny side - Director: Ralf Kirsten
- 1962: Not thought through to the end (short film) - Director: Helmut Nitzschke
- 1962: Jean Baras' Big Chance (TV) - Director: Kurt Jung-Alsen
- 1963: Rüpel - Director: Bärbl Bergmann
- 1963: The trail leads to 7th heaven (TV) - Director: Rudi Kurz
- 1965: Without a passport in someone else's bed - Director: Vladimír Brebera
- 1966/2009: Hands up or I'll shoot - Director: Hans-Joachim Kasprzik
- 1967: Wedding night in the rain - Director: Horst Seemann
- 1967: Tales of That Night (Episode 4): Big and Small Willi - Director: Gerhard Klein
- 1967: The Man from Canada (TV) - Director: Rudi Kurz
- 1968: Meeting Point Geneva (TV) - Director: Rudi Kurz
- 1970: Unter den Linden - history and stories (TV film)
- 1971: The man who came after Grandma - Director: Roland Oehme
- 1972: Zernik corpse matter - Director: Helmut Nitzschke
- 1972: Dangerous Journey (TV, 6 parts) - Director: Hans-Joachim Hildebrandt
- 1972: Tomorrow he will join the army - Director: Gerhard Bombal
Radio plays
- 1961: Reszö Szirmai : Everyone's Christmas Tree (Csobolya) - Director: Fritz-Ernst Fechner (radio play - Broadcasting of the GDR )
- 1962: Manfred Bieler : Career of a Piano (Speaker) - Director: Werner Grunow (Broadcasting of the GDR)
- 1962: Karel Čapek : An evening with Karel Čapek (Nerad) - director: Hans Knötzsch (radio play comedy - radio of the GDR)
- 1963: Thorbjørn Egner : Annette and the wild robbers (Karli) - director: Fritz Göhler (children's radio play - radio of the GDR)
- 1964: Ephraim Kishon : Der Blaumilchkanal (Wachtmeister) - Director: Helmut Hellstorff (radio play - Broadcasting of the GDR)
- 1965: Vercors : Zoo or The Humane Murderer (Father Dillingham) - Director: Edgar Kaufmann (Broadcasting of the GDR)
- 1965: Gisela Richter-Rostalski : An Italian Family (Father Civina) - Director: Flora Hoffmann (Children's radio play - Broadcasting of the GDR)
- 1978: Karel Čapek: Pocket games (Obergärtner Holan) - Director: Joachim Staritz (radio play - Broadcasting of the GDR)
- 1990: Valerie Radtke : My Big Letter - Director: Horst Liepach (radio play - Funkhaus Berlin )
Discography
- 1983: Fun and joy for little people - songs with clown Oops , Wolfgang Hosfeld (as singer and speaker) and Otto Stark (as speaker), Deutsche Schallplatten , Berlin (East)
- 2008: Berlin Temperament and Viennese Schmäh - A marriage with cabaret , Thistle songs and scenes from the years 1963–1983, Ilse Maybrid and Otto Stark, self-irony publisher, Leipzig
Awards
- 1972: Patriotic Order of Merit in bronze
- 1979: Banner of Labor Level I
- 1981: National Prize of the GDR, 1st class for art and literature
- 1985 Goethe Prize of the City of Berlin
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Cabaret artist Otto Stark died at the age of 96 , derstandard.de, published and accessed on November 29, 2018
- ↑ Berliner Morgenpost- Berlin: Cabaret artist Otto Stark died at the age of 96. November 29, 2018, accessed on January 5, 2019 (German).
- ↑ sopos.org ( Memento of the original dated December 8, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Lichtenberger Libraries in February 2018 , berlin.de, accessed on November 30, 2018
literature
- Gisela Winkler: Strong, Otto . In: Who was who in the GDR? 5th edition. Volume 2. Ch. Links, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-86153-561-4 .
- Kurt Zimmermann: Otto Stark - Plea for a comedian . In: Ernst Günther, Heinz P. Hofmann, Walter Rösler (eds.): Cassette. An almanac for the stage, podium and ring (= cassette ). No. 1 . Henschelverlag Art and Society, Berlin 1977, p. 26-31 .
Web links
- Media from and about Otto Stark in the catalog of the German National Library
- Otto Stark in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Otto Stark at filmportal.de
personal data | |
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SURNAME | Strong, Otto |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Austrian cabaret artist and actor |
DATE OF BIRTH | April 2, 1922 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Vienna |
DATE OF DEATH | 29th November 2018 |
Place of death | Berlin |