Romuald Pekny

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Romuald Pekny. Bust from 1970 by Ulla M. Scholl .

Romuald Pekny (born July 1, 1920 in Vienna , † November 9, 2007 in Linz ) was an Austrian actor who became known in both stage and film roles.

life and career

Pekny was born as the son of a judicial officer and initially did a commercial apprenticeship after school. It was not until relatively late that he trained as an actor at the Max Reinhardt Seminar in Vienna at the age of 26 . He made his debut at the Schönbrunner Schlosstheater, followed by engagements in Linz, Basel, Cologne and Munich. From 1958 on he was part of the ensemble of the Münchner Kammerspiele for many decades , where he was a major protagonist in productions by Fritz Kortner (title role in Shakespeare's Timon von Athen , 1961; Jago in Othello , title role in Richard III. , 1963) and Dieter Dorn ( including Mephisto in Goethe's Faust ) was. From 1966 he was mainly engaged in classical roles at the Burgtheater (again Jago in Othello under Kortner's direction; Enobardus in Shakespeare's Antonius und Cleopatra , directed by Gerhard Klingenberg , 1969; adventurer in Hofmannsthal's Der Abenteurer und die Sängerin , directed by Rudolf Steinboeck , 1971; 1980 Emperor Rudolf II in Grillparzer's A Brotherly Quarrel in Habsburg , directed by Leopold Lindtberg , for which he received the Grillparzer Ring in 1982); Title role in Ibsen’s John Gabriel Borkman , directed by Achim Benning (1985), but also in modern dramas (Werner in Sartre's Die Inclosed , Salieri in Peter Shaffer's Amadeus , directed by Peter Wood , for whom he received the Kainz Medal in 1982).

From the 1960s he was often employed at the Salzburg Festival : among others, 1966 and 1967 as Theseus and Oberon in Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream , directed by Lindtberg; 1971 as Theodor in Hofmannsthal's Der Unbrechliche , directed by Gustav Manker ; 1973 as Alceste in Molières Der Menschenfeind , directed by Rudolf Noelte ; 1975 and 1976 as King Peter in Büchner's comedy Leonce and Lena at the side of Klaus Maria Brandauer , directed by Johannes Schaaf ; also as a TV recording; 1980 and 1981 as Duke in Shakespeare's As You Like It , directed by Otto Schenk ; 1982 as Alfons the Second in Goethe's Torquato Tasso , directed by Dorn; 1983–85 as Death in Hofmannsthal's Jedermann , directed by Ernst Haeusserman ; 1993 as Wernyhora in Stanisław Wyspiańskis Wesele , directed by Andrzej Wajda and several recitation evenings.

Pekny also worked in film and television. He appeared in episodes of the television series Der Kommissar (as "Robert Pepper" in the episode Sister Ignatia from 1972), in Tatort (as lawyer Dr. Alexander in episode 52 The Reckoning ) and Derrick (as lawyer Dr. Voss in episode 59 Lena ) on. In 1978 he played the role of Ferdinand II in the multi-part television series Wallenstein , directed by Franz Peter Wirth . Pekny starred in the films Der Schüler Gerber (1981) and 38 (1987), directed by Wolfgang Glück .

Pekny became known to a wide audience through roles in literary films . He was experienced in 1964 in Professor Bernhardi based on the play by Arthur Schnitzler or in Rolf von Sydow's The Flea in the Ear (1966).

Pekny's outstanding performances on stage include the title role in Lessing's Nathan the Wise and Mephisto in Goethe's Faust - From Heaven through the World to Hell . Besides his work for theater and film, Pekny always took time for recitation evenings, where he impressed the audience with products including classic ballads or with sermons of Abraham a Santa Clara (1644-1709), which he in the 1970s for the ORF represented . In 1987 the actor and his wife Eva Petrus-Pekny were among the initiators of the “Ausseer Kultursommers”, where he often gave readings.

Romuald Pekny held the professional titles of chamber actor (since 1981) and professor (since 1986).

After the farewell in the parish church of St. Leopold in Urfahr, the burial took place on November 23, 2007 in the mountain cemetery (Gräberfeld 4, grave no. 106) of Pöstlingberg , a district of Linz, although he could have had an honorary grave in Vienna . However, Pekny had decreed that he wanted to be laid to rest on the Pöstlingberg . His widow Eva justified this with the fact that they both married in the Pöstlingberg Church, their son Thomas was born here and his acting career began in Linz.

Filmography (selection)

  • 1958: You'd have to be twenty again
  • 1961: The Torn One (TV movie)
  • 1961: The miracle of Malachia
  • 1961: Amphitryon (TV movie)
  • 1962: Postseason (TV movie)
  • 1962: Wallenstein (TV movie)
  • 1962: Murder in the Cathedral (TV movie)
  • 1962: Heroic Comedy (TV movie)
  • 1963: The Successor (TV movie)
  • 1963: The Deadly Patent (TV movie)
  • 1964: Willy Reichert in ... (TV series, two episodes)
  • 1964: Professor Bernhardi (TV film)
  • 1964: Columbus - Report and Portrait (TV movie)
  • 1965: Tabula rasa (TV movie)
  • 1965: Port Royal (TV movie)
  • 1965: The Business of Mr Mercadet (TV movie)
  • 1965: Romulus the Great (TV movie)
  • 1965: The houses of Mr. Sartorius (TV movie)
  • 1965: No Man's Land (TV movie)
  • 1965: Colonel Wennerström (TV movie)
  • 1966: No carte blanche for murder (TV movie)
  • 1966: Music (TV movie)
  • 1966: Everyone should listen, even those who have difficulty hearing ..! (TV movie)
  • 1966: The Flea in the Ear (TV movie)
  • 1968: The incorruptible (TV movie)
  • 1968: Dreyfus Affair (miniseries)
  • 1969: A Thousand and One Nights (TV series, one episode)
  • 1969: The Relapse (TV movie)
  • 1970: The Pearl - From the diary of a housemaid (TV series, one episode)
  • 1970: The Professions of Mr. K. (TV series)
  • 1971: The young Baron Neuhaus (TV movie)
  • 1971: The Sleeping Car Controller (TV movie)
  • 1971: Procryl for Rosenbach (TV film)
  • 1971: Wonderland is everywhere - memories of Joachim Ringelnatz (TV movie)
  • 1972: The Century of Surgeons (TV series, one episode)
  • 1972: The Commissioner - Sister Ignatia (TV series)
  • 1973: Macbett (TV movie)
  • 1973: A young man from the Innviertel - Adolf Hitler (TV movie)
  • 1974: Poison Affair (TV movie)
  • 1975: The Commissioner - On the Edge of Events (TV series)
  • 1975: The involuntary journeys of Moritz August Benjowski (mini-series, four episodes)
  • 1975: Countess Mizzi (TV movie)
  • 1975: Cockfight (TV movie)
  • 1975: Polly or Die Bataille at Bluewater Creek (TV movie)
  • 1975: Tatort - The accounting
  • 1975: Ask about Casanova (TV movie)
  • 1975: Old hats from Vienna - funny - pointed - sparkling (TV movie)
  • 1975: Leonce and Lena (TV movie)
  • 1977: A glass of water (TV movie)
  • 1978: Dona Rosita or The Language of Flowers (TV film)
  • 1978: Wallenstein (mini series)
  • 1979: Derrick - Lena (TV series, one episode)
  • 1979: Morals (TV movie)
  • 1980–1981: Ringstrasse Palace (TV series, three episodes)
  • 1981: The student Gerber
  • 1982: Balance of a Life (TV movie)
  • 1983: Everyman (TV movie)
  • 1985: Torquato Tasso (TV movie)
  • 1986: 38 - That was Vienna too
  • 1988: Faust - From heaven through the world to hell
  • 1996: Stockinger - The Dead in the Narcissus Field (TV series, one episode)
  • 1998: Beloved Opponents (TV movie)
  • 1999: The Beast in Lake Constance (TV movie)

Radio plays

Awards (selection)

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ knerger.de: The grave of Romuald Pekny
  2. ^ Obituary OÖN of November 21, 2007
  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 Pekny, Romuald
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian chamber actor
DATE OF BIRTH July 1, 1920
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna
DATE OF DEATH November 9, 2007
Place of death Linz