Raimund Kuchar

Raimund Kuchar (born August 18, 1909 in Brno , † June 26, 1968 in Salzburg ) was an Austrian actor , director and theater director .

Raimund Kuchar attended the German secondary school. Contrary to the wishes of his tutors, he trained as an actor in Brno and Vienna . He made his stage debut in 1931. The character actor played in almost all German-speaking theaters in Czechoslovakia , especially in Brno and Moravian-Ostrava . During the Second World War he was conscripted and became a prisoner of war .

After the war, Kuchar first played in Munich and at other theaters in Bavaria . For several years he was director of the theater company “Die Ackermannlayers”. In 1957 he came to Vienna, where he worked as a director of contemporary plays in cellar theaters. For example, he staged the Austrian premiere of Jacques Audiberti's Quoat-Quoat at the experiment at Liechtenwerd . As a result, Raimund Kuchar was hired as an actor and director at the Klagenfurt City Theater . His repertoire included roles as a "heavy hero" and father actor. He also acted as a speaker on several ORF radio plays. Most recently he was an actor at the Salzburg State Theater , to which Artistic Director Gandolf Buschbeck brought him in 1967.

Raimund Kuchar was married twice. A daughter comes from his first marriage. Kuchar died unexpectedly of a heart attack. His grave is in the Vienna Central Cemetery .

literature

• Wilhelm Formann: The curtain no longer rose: theater landscapes and actor walks in the east . Delp, Munich 1974, ISBN 3-7689-0109-2
• Raimund Kuchar (obituary). In: German stage yearbook. 78th year 1970 - season 1969/1970 . Cooperative of German Stage Members, Hamburg 1972, p. 115