Robert Friday

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Robert Freitag (born April 7, 1916 in Vienna , † July 8, 2010 in Munich ; actually Robert Peter Freytag ) was an Austrian-Swiss theater and film actor and director .

Life

Robert Freitag was born the son of the Swiss opera singer Otto Freitag. He received his acting training at the Reinhardt Seminar in Vienna . In 1941 he went to Switzerland, where he had been working as an actor at the Schauspielhaus Zurich since the same year . In 1945 he married the German actress Maria Becker , who had studied drama in Vienna and who had worked at the same house since 1938, which experienced a climax as an emigrant theater during the Second World War . The emigrant Becker obtained Swiss citizenship through her marriage to Freitag .

From 1949 Friday took part in the Salzburg Festival . He later played at the Deutsches Schauspielhaus and the Kammerspiele in Hamburg, among others . With his wife at the time, Maria Becker, and the German theater actor Will Quadflieg , Freitag founded the touring theater Die Schauspieltruppe Zürich (also Zürcher Schauspieltruppe ) in Zurich in 1956 , some of which he also directed and with which he on numerous tours throughout the German-speaking area and in performed in the USA .

Robert Freitag appeared on stage in a variety of classic and modern roles. From 1941 he also played in films , including his star role as Wilhelm Tell , and later often on television . His marriage to Maria Becker was divorced in 1966; Both continued to work together after the divorce, however, and performed together until the 1990s, especially in productions by the touring ensemble they founded, the Zurich Drama Company . The marriage resulted in three sons, two of whom became actors, Benedict Freitag and Oliver Tobias .

In 1994 Robert Freitag's autobiography was published by Zurich-based Pendo Verlag under the title It wanted me comfortable to tell the truth with laughter . Still in old age he had a role in 2001 in the television film Die Liebenden vom Alexanderplatz , directed by Detlef Rönfeldt .

Freitag was married to the German actress Maria Sebaldt from 1965 , with whom he lived in Grünwald near Munich. The marriage has a daughter.

His grave is located in the Grünwald forest cemetery .

Filmography (selection)

Radio plays

Publications (selection)

  • I want to be comfortable telling the truth with laughter . Pendo Verlag, Zurich 1994, ISBN 3-85842-280-0 . (Autobiography)
  • The Zurich acting troupe . Die Schauspieltruppe (self-published), Zurich 1968. (With: Maria Becker)
  • The acting troupe Will Quadflieg, Maria Becker, Robert Freitag shows: Penthesilea . Tragedy by Heinrich von Kleist . World premiere of the original version of the work dictated by the poet and improved by himself . Die Schauspieltruppe (self-published), Zurich 1962. (With: Will Quadflieg, Maria Becker)

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d Actor and director Robert Freitag has died. Neue Zürcher Zeitung , July 9, 2010, accessed on July 10, 2010 .
  2. ↑ Oliver Meier: I still have stage fright today. Berner Zeitung , March 4, 2010, accessed on July 10, 2010 .
  3. ↑ knerger.de: The grave of Robert Freitag
personal data
SURNAME Friday, Robert
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Freytag, Robert Peter (real name); Freytag, Robert
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian-Swiss actor and television director
DATE OF BIRTH April 7, 1916
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna
DATE OF DEATH July 8, 2010
Place of death Munich