Richard Eybner

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Richard Eybner (born March 17, 1896 in St. Pölten ; † June 20, 1986 in Vienna ) was an Austrian actor and operetta singer ( baritone ).

Life

Eybner was the son of the postmaster and 18th mayor of St. Pölten Otto Eybner (1856–1917) and Leopoldine Eybner, née Pittner, sister of Franz Pittner . He attended the commercial academy in Vienna and was then drafted into military service in the First World War. From 1915 to 1920 he was a prisoner of war, after which he was a bank clerk and tourist guide . Around this time he also joined the international men's association " Schlaraffia ". He also tried his hand at acting and made his debut at the Turnvereinsbühne Korneuburg in 1926 . From 1927 he worked as a cabaret artist who appeared at the Viennese cabarets Femina, Colosseum and Simpl . After all, he made guest appearances at events all over Austria, including Germany, Switzerland and Czechoslovakia .

According to his own statements, Eybner joined the NSDAP on May 30, 1933 and was thus one of the earliest and most prominent members of the NSDAP, which was still illegal in Austria before 1938, but was not actually accepted into the NSDAP until April 1, 1940, which indicates a non- Crediting his time as an “illegal” suggests. After the “Anschluss” he always made use of his best relationships with National Socialist circles and also appeared at party political events, such as the exhibition “Our Army” in May 1944. This aspect of Eybner's biography was not discussed after the war, although Eybner did after was suspended from the Burgtheater at the end of the Second World War in May 1945 to 1946.

In 1929 Eybner finally decided to become an actor and completed the Max Reinhardt Seminar by 1930 . Then he was under Reinhardt's direction at the Schönbrunn Palace Theater in Shakespeare's What You Want to see. From 1931 to 1972 he was a member of the Vienna Burgtheater ensemble . In 1931 he also made his film debut. In mostly smaller roles he played in a large number of films, whether as a professor in Hallo Dienstmann , as a servant in Die Deutschmeister or as postmaster of Ischl in Sissi . Apart from his work at the Burgtheater, Eybner made guest appearances at the Deutsches Theater in Berlin (1930), at the Vienna State Opera (from 1934), at the Volksoper (from 1947) and at the Theater an der Wien (from 1948), as well as at the Bregenz Festival and the Salzburg Festival . He was particularly successful from 1948 as "Frosch" in the operetta Die Fledermaus or as "Drake" in Der Bettelstudent .

Richard Eybner's grave

The chamber actor and later professor Richard Eybner received the medal of honor of the federal capital Vienna in silver in 1966 . Since 1971 he has been active against nuclear power in Austria, was an honorary member of the Rotary Club Krems-Wachau and from 1975 to 1980 president of the Club of Austrian Cat Lovers KKÖ. In 1986 he published his memoirs under the title I want to be able to live as I live .

In his honor there is a Richard-Eybner-Park (Silbergasse / Billrothstraße) in the Viennese district of Döbling . Eybner's honorary grave is located in the Döblinger Friedhof in Vienna (group 33, row 2, number 31).

Richard Eybner took part in the “First Rally” organized by Walther Soyka and his family against the construction of the Zwentendorf nuclear power plant near Tulln on the Danube. Eybner is one of the founders of the European resistance against the peaceful use of atomic energy. In the Oberneuland Freemason Lodge "To the rising light" and in the "International Freemason Museum Oberneuland", directed by Wieland A. Körner and Achim Dissing (Oberneuland is a middle-class district of Bremen), Richard Eybner's life's work in nuclear resistance is commemorated.

Filmography

Awards and honors

Web links

Commons : Richard Eybner  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Commercial Councilor Franz Pittner. In:  Neue Freie Presse , September 21, 1929, p. 19 (online at ANNO ).Template: ANNO / Maintenance / nfp
  2. ^ Street names in Vienna since 1860 as "Political Places of Remembrance" (PDF; 4.4 MB), p. 253, final research project report, Vienna, July 2013
  3. ↑ List of all decorations awarded by the Federal President for services to the Republic of Austria from 1952 (PDF; 6.9 MB)
personal data
SURNAME Eybner, Richard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian actor and operetta singer (baritone)
DATE OF BIRTH March 17, 1896
PLACE OF BIRTH St. Polten
DATE OF DEATH June 20, 1986
Place of death Vienna