Roland Kenda

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Roland Kenda (born June 5, 1941 in Schneidemühl ; † December 24, 2015 ) was a German actor and member of the Vienna Burgtheater ensemble .

Life

Roland Kenda was born the son of a Carinthian , his mother came from Schneidemühl (today Piła in Poland). His father went to Nest on the Baltic Sea in the province of Pomerania as the technical director of a water airport , where Roland Kenda spent the first four years of his life. Towards the end of the Second World War, the family fled via Berlin to Friedberg in Hesse, where he played in the theater group of his high school. After passing the entrance examination at the Frankfurt drama school, he got his first engagement in Dortmund, later he performed with the Mannheim theater. Further stations were Marburg and Wuppertal.

After an engagement at the Hamburger Schauspielhaus , he moved to the Schauspielhaus Wien in 1995 . He was seen at the Vienna Burgtheater from 1998, his first role was that of Dr. Plow fields in Schnitzler's Professor Bernhardi , staged by Achim Benning . He was most recently seen in the play Eine Familie by Tracy Letts in 2009 and in Chekhov's Platonov in 2011 , both directed by Alvis Hermanis , at the Akademietheater .

Kenda died on December 24, 2015 after a long illness at the age of 74.

Filmography

Theater records

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. a b burgtheater-ensemble.at: Roland Kenda ( Memento from January 9, 2016 in the web archive archive.today ). Retrieved January 9, 2016.
  2. a b orf.at - Castle actor Roland Kenda has passed away . Article dated December 30, 2015, accessed December 31, 2015.
  3. a b Helmut Schödel: A theater person . Article dated November 6, 2011, accessed December 31, 2015.
  4. Burgtheater: Gotthold Ephraim Lessing - Emilia Galotti ( Memento from December 30, 2015 in the Internet Archive ). Retrieved December 30, 2015.