Rainer Artenfels

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Rainer Artenfels, also known as Rainer von Artenfels , (born July 19, 1939 in Graz ; † May 1, 1991 ) was an Austrian actor and theater director .

Life

After taking acting lessons in the early 1960s, Rainer Artenfels had engagements at theaters in Munich , Frankfurt am Main , Düsseldorf , Klagenfurt am Wörthersee and Vienna . The Burgtheater actor could occasionally work as a director.

From the mid-1960s, the slim, dark-haired actor also appeared regularly in television games. Appearances in movies, however, remained the exception. After one of the leading roles in the Simmel film adaptation of All People Become Brothers - in which he played one of the two brothers, the writer Richard Mark - Artenfels received several offers in the next ten years, especially from Hans-Jürgen Syberberg . In his 1974 biography of Karl May he played Adolf Hitler , two years later Syberberg brought him in for five roles in his Hitler film Hitler, a film from Germany .

In later years Artenfels was seen in a number of TV productions, often based on literary models. For example, he was the teacher in Die Alpensaga , Senno in the ZDF historical four-part series Wallenstein and played Adolf Loos in Der Narr von Wien . He has also worked as a radio play speaker and as a writer.

Artenfels spent a long time with his teacher and friend Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh. After the immune deficiency disease AIDS broke out, he lived in a log house he had built and died on May 1, 1991.

Filmography (television)

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ See: Vienna's threatened baroque. In: Die Zeit , No. 49, December 5, 1969. ( Article in Zeit Online. Retrieved November 28, 2011.)
  2. ↑ See entries in Google Book Search .
  3. ↑ See Rainer Artenfels TOP original autograph +28383. Offer from July 6, 2011 on eBay. Accessed on November 28, 2011: “Hello to Dieter! / Rainer Artenfels / 1/24/77 "
  4. ↑ a b c Panels for Rainer Artenfels in the Austrian AIDS Memorial Quilt des Names Project Vienna: Das Tuch für Rainer (Artenfels) (died May 1, 1991). The cloth for Rainer Artenfels (July 19, 1939 - May 1, 1991). Retrieved November 28, 2011.
  5. ↑ Rainer types of rock in the Ö1 -Hörspiel search.
personal data
SURNAME Artenfels, Rainer
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Artenfels, Rainer von (stage name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian actor and theater director
DATE OF BIRTH July 19, 1939
PLACE OF BIRTH Graz
DATE OF DEATH May 1, 1991