Paul Bösiger

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Paul Bösiger

Paul Bösiger (born January 22, 1929 in Basel , † October 23, 1977 near Basel) was a Swiss actor .

Life

The merchant's son was initially forced to do an apprenticeship in the Firestone tire factory in Pratteln near Basel . Following his theatrical passion, he secretly applied to the renowned stage actor Ernst Ginsberg , who was working in Basel at the time. On his recommendation, Artistic Director Kurt Horwitz wanted to take him on , but he had to wrestle with his parents and the trainer for consent or termination of the contract. This was followed by three years in the subject of the youthful hero at the Basel Theater . Then he and his two mentors moved to Zurich for another three years . In 1954 he was released from Ginsberg to a certain extent in independence by referring him to Darmstadt. So he settled with his wife and two-year-old twins at the foot of the Mathildenhöhe artists' colony . But from there, after his film career began in 1956, he moved on to Munich, interrupted by a season in Berlin (house of the Freie Volksbühne in the Theater am Kurfürstendamm ). He came to the Städtische Bühnen Nürnberg in 1969 via another stopover, namely in Freiburg in 1962 . There he often embodied obscure, multi-layered characters such as festivals , the fool in Shakespeare's Was ihr wollt or Goethe's Mephisto . In addition, he also took over stage direction from 1972 (" Draussen vor der Tür " by Wolfgang Borchert , "Julia" by August Strindberg and others).

In 1954 Paul Bösiger gave his feature film debut alongside Hans Söhnker in the comedy your big exam . In the same year his big breakthrough followed in the first part of the 08/15 trilogy after Hans Hellmut Kirst . As Kanonier Vierbein , Bösiger embodied one of the film's popular figures, who is exposed to eternal harassment from the spit ( Emmerich Schrenk ) and "Schleifer" Platzek ( Hans Christian Blech ) and ultimately death in the continuation 08/15 - Part Two (1955) finds. In the following year Bösiger stood for the drama Because you are poor, you have to die with his 08/15 colleagues Hans Christian Blech, Rudolf Rhomberg and Peter Carsten again in front of the camera. He also played alongside Curd Jürgens and Lilli Palmer in the drama Devil in Silk , alongside OE Hasse in Heinz G. Konsalik's The Doctor of Stalingrad , in William Dieterle's Antigone film adaptation (with Joana Maria Gorvin ) and Nackt wie Gott she created after Johannes Mario Simmel . Bösiger also played in television productions such as the multi-part drama The silk shoe (with Maximilian Schell ).

Paul Bösiger died on October 23, 1977 in a clinic near his Swiss hometown after a long and serious illness at the age of only 48. His grave is in the Origlio cemetery . Paul Bösiger is the father of three children, of whom his son Johannes Boesiger later emerged as a film critic for the “ Neue Zürcher Zeitung ” as well as a screenwriter and producer (including “Kinder der Landstrasse” , 1992).

Filmography (selection)

Radio play (selection)

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ life data cited after: Piet Hein Honig, Hanns-Georg Rodek : 100001. The show business encyclopedia of the 20th century. Showbiz-Data-Verlag, Villingen-Schwenningen 1992, ISBN 3-929009-01-5 , p. 117.
  2. ^ Paul Bösiger on ticinarte.ch
personal data
SURNAME Badder, Paul
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss actor
DATE OF BIRTH January 22, 1929
PLACE OF BIRTH Basel
DATE OF DEATH October 23, 1977
Place of death near Basel