Robert Tessen

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Robert Tessen (born September 22, 1915 in Graz , † March 13, 2002 in Zurich ) was an Austrian actor .

biography

Robert Tessen was a member of the Zurich Schauspielhaus ensemble for around thirty years and played well over a hundred roles on the Pfauenbühne. He has also appeared in numerous film and television roles.

At the theater

Tessen received his artistic training at the drama academy in his hometown and made his theater debut in 1936 at the Landesbühne Graz. Commitments to the Bremen theater and the Nuremberg City Theater followed until the Second World War. The artist started his post-war career in 1946 as a member of the Vienna theater “Die Insel”. He stayed here for five years, but also appeared at the Burgtheater in the 1946/47 season . After another flying visit to the "Burg" in 1951, Tessen was engaged at the Lucerne City Theater from 1951 to 1954. He then worked at the Comedy Basel until 1961. Robert Tessen came to Zurich in 1961 and stayed there, only interrupted by the years 1969–1974, when he was a member of the ensemble at the Hamburg Thalia Theater (1969–1972) and returned a third time to the Burgtheater (1972–1974), until 1992.

Tessen's most important stage roles include the gravedigger in Hamlet , the Dr. Bloek in Molnars Panoptikum , the rag collector in Giraudoux's Die Irre von Chaillot , the Karsky in Sartre's Die Dirty Hands , the Jim in Jim and Jill from Ellis and Myers, the woodpecker in Willems' Bearskin and the witch in Goethe's Faust .

With film and television

He started his film career in 1942 with the comedy film Sophienlund , in which Heinz Rühmann directed and played one of the leading roles alongside Harry Liedtke , Käthe Haack and Hannelore Schroth . He worked again with Heinz Rühmann in 1943/44, this time in the comedy film Quax in Afrika . In the unfinished 1944/45 feature film by GW Pabst The Molander case , he was cast as violinist Fritz Molander. Further film and television roles followed in the post-war period. For example, in 1968 he played the role of Ferdinand in 13 episodes of the comedic television series Zimmer 13 . In the television film Die Fee from 1969, directed by Ettore Cella , he starred alongside Christiane Hörbiger and Gretl Schörg ; also in the television comedy Prometheus from the Seitengasse - again directed by Ettore Cella. In the 1974 television film The Clairvoyant he played one of the leading roles alongside Ingeburg Kanstein and Wolfram Schaerf . He had his last cinematic appearance in 1993 in the television film The Scandalous Women by Xaver Schwarzenberger , in which the castle actress Elisabeth Augustin , Haymon Maria Buttinger and Veronica Ferres played the leading roles.

The actor died in March 2002 after a long illness in Zurich. Richard Merz said goodbye to him in the Neue Zürcher Zeitung , among other things with the words that “the mastery of this sensitive, quietly nuanced actor” was “to let infinitely more resonate in one sentence and to convey it to the viewer than the words alone reveal ".

Filmography (selection)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b Richard Merz: Silent Events - On the death of the Zurich actor Robert Tessen ; Neue Zürcher Zeitung, March 16, 2002. Retrieved November 3, 2017.
  2. ↑ Deutsches Theater-Lexikon, biograph. u. bibliographer. Handbook by Wilhelm Kosch. Continued v. Ingrid Bigler-Marshal. Bern and Munich 1996, p. 2531
  3. ^ Herbert A. Frenzel , Hans Joachim Moser (ed.): Kürschner's biographical theater manual. Drama, opera, film, radio. Germany, Austria, Switzerland. De Gruyter, Berlin 1956, DNB 010075518 , p. 739.
personal data
SURNAME Tessen, Robert
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian actor
DATE OF BIRTH September 22, 1915
PLACE OF BIRTH Graz
DATE OF DEATH March 13, 2002
Place of death Zurich