Peter Matic

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Peter Matić (2010)

Peter Matić (born March 24, 1937 in Vienna ; † June 20, 2019 there ) was an Austrian actor , voice actor and audio book interpreter . His voice was best known for dubbing the British character actor Ben Kingsley .

Live and act

Youth and private life

Peter Matić came from the von Warsberg family on his mother's side and from the officers' family Matić von Dravodol on his father's side. His father was a cavalryman and due to his occupation, Matić grew up first in Stolp (Pomerania), then Mulhouse in Alsace and then in Neckarsteinach . In 1949 the family moved to Salzburg , where the future actor graduated from the Bundesgymnasium (today: Academic Gymnasium ) in 1956 . He then moved to Vienna, where he applied to the Max Reinhardt Seminar and failed.

Peter Matić had been married since 1965 and had two children. His son Paul is also an actor.

Peter Matić died on June 20, 2019 at the age of 82. He was buried in the Hietzingen cemetery in Vienna's 13th district .

theatre

After completing his training at the Krauss drama school and with Dorothea Neff , Matić made his debut at the Theater in der Josefstadt in Vienna in 1960 , where he held a permanent position until 1968. After guest appearances at the Basel Theater and the Münchner Kammerspiele , Matić worked at the State Drama Theaters in Berlin from 1972 until they closed in 1993 . In Ferdinand Raimund's magic game Der Alpenkönig und der Misfeind he took on the leading role of the Alpenkönig alongside Nikolaus Paryla in 1972 , and in Die Maiden by Jean Genet (1973) he played alongside Helmut Griem and Thomas Holtzmann . In addition, Matić has appeared as a guest actor at the Deutsche Oper Berlin , the Theater des Westens , the Renaissance Theater Berlin , the Schauspiel Frankfurt , and the Bavarian State Opera . At the Reichenau Festival he appeared almost every season in leading roles, including the title character in Schnitzler's Professor Bernhardi in a production by Beverly Blankenship .

The actor has been a regular guest at the Salzburg Festival since 1970 - first as Rosencrantz in Oskar Werner's Hamlet production. From 1973 to 1982 he took on the role of Thin Cousin in Ernst Haeusserman's Jedermann production on Domplatz, and in 1975 he was the master of ceremonies in the acclaimed Johannes Schaaf production of Büchner's Leonce and Lena in the Landestheater. In two Salzburg productions of the opera Ariadne auf Naxos by Hofmannsthal and Strauss , Matić was the steward: 1979 to 1982 in the thoroughly composed Viennese version directed by Dieter Dorn , first with Karl Böhm , then with Wolfgang Sawallisch at the podium; In 2012, finally, in the Stuttgart original version with the preceding Molière comedy Der Bürger als Edelmann , staged by Sven-Eric Bechtolf and conducted by Daniel Harding . The actor was highly praised by the audience and the press in both productions, as well as for his return to Salzburg in 2014 with several smaller roles in the last days of mankind by Karl Kraus , staged by Georg Schmiedleitner . For his participation in this production he received the Nestroy Theater Prize 2014. It was a coproduction with the Vienna Burgtheater , whose ensemble Matić belonged from 1994 to 2019.

In front of the camera, Matić also took on roles in various television films, series and cinema productions in the early 1960s. He also acted as voice-over speaker in the religiously influenced ORF show Feierabend as well as in numerous documentary films .

synchronization

Since Gandhi (1982) Matić was the German regular speaker of the British character actor Ben Kingsley . He also lent his voice to Jeffrey Jones in Amadeus (1984), Wallace Shawn in Hotel New Hampshire (1984), Ian Holm in Brazil (1985), Joel Gray in Remo - Unarmed and Dangerous (1985), Scott Glenn in The Silence of the Lambs (1991), First Dwarf in Snow White and the Secret of the Dwarfs (1992), Nigel Hawthorne in Demolition Man (1993).

In the mid-1990s, Matić increasingly withdrew from film dubbing, but continued to dub Ben Kingsley.

Audio productions

Parallel to his work as a stage and television actor, Matić had been active as a spokesperson for radio since the 1960s and participated in a large number of radio plays for ORF. He took on guest roles as a narrator in The False Track by Henning Mankell (2000) and as Jaspar Rodenkirchen in Tod und Teufel by Frank Schätzing (2008). He spoke various roles in the series of radio plays Professor van Dusen, produced by RIAS and then by Deutschlandradio Kultur for over two decades (1978–1999) .

As an audio book interpreter, Matić set novels by important writers to music, including Mario and the Magician by Thomas Mann , Keraban the Starrkopf by Jules Verne , The Trial by Franz Kafka and the 7-volume cycle of novels In Search of Lost Time by Marcel Proust , which is the most extensive to date Audiobook project in German-speaking countries and Matić was nominated for the German Audiobook Prize 2011 in the category “Best Performer” and was awarded the German Record Critics' Prize. In addition, the work was named "Audio Book of the Year 2010" on the audio book best list . In 2007, Matić read Beyond Guilt and Atonement by Jean Améry from the HörEdition der Weltliteratur series , and with Schindler's List by Thomas Keneally , he recited another work on the era of National Socialism .

In addition to biographies of people from politics and science, including Fidel Castro. My Life of Ignacio Ramonet and Albert Einstein - The Berlin Years of Thomas Levenson Matić's work as an audio book speaker also includes non-fiction books that are critical of the media such as The Second Enlightenment. From the 18th to the 21st Century by Neil Postman (2000) and The Google Trap by Gerald Reischl (2008).

Filmography (selection)

Synchronous rollers (selection)

Ben Kingsley

Movies

Series

Radio plays (selection)

Publications

Awards

Peter Matić with Maria Happel and Nicole Heesters at the Nestroy Awards 2014

documentary

  • Salzburg Festival interviews: Peter Matić. Talk, Austria, 2012, 10 min., Moderation: Barbara Rett , production: PPS, ORF III , series: Spezial, first broadcast: August 21, 2012, table of contents .

literature

  • Renate Graber (Interview): “ You can't find time again ” , castle mime Peter Matić on transience, too old Hamlets and his wildest role , in: Daily newspaper Der Standard , Vienna, 27./28. December 2014, p. 8

See also

Web links

Commons : Peter Matić  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Peter Matić, the finest of the actors, has died in Die Presse , accessed July 2, 2019
  2. ↑ Castle actor Peter Matic is dead . In: wien.orf.at, accessed on June 21, 2019.
  3. ↑ Klaus Nerger: The grave of Peter Matić. In: knerger.de. Retrieved June 30, 2020 .
  4. ↑ Peter Matić reads Thomas Mann Mario and the Magician , Argon Verlag GmbH, Berlin 2006, ISBN 978-3-86610-089-3
  5. ↑ rbb production named audio book of the year . rbb online, November 25, 2010, accessed on December 6, 2010
  6. ↑ Nominations for the German Audiobook Prize 2011 ( Memento from July 18, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) German Audiobook Prize, accessed on January 11, 2011
  7. ↑ Annual Awards of the German Record Critics 2011 Website of the German Record Critics, accessed on September 10, 2011
  8. ↑ Audiobook of the year: 160 hours of Proust . Berliner-Literaturkritik.de , November 29, 2010, accessed on March 6, 2012
personal data
SURNAME Matić, Peter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian actor and voice actor
DATE OF BIRTH March 24, 1937
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna
DATE OF DEATH 20th June 2019
Place of death Vienna