Rudolf Schati

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Rudolf Schati , also Rudolf Schadi or Rudolf Chati (born October 16, 1913 in Triebswetter , Kingdom of Hungary , Austria-Hungary ; † December 20, 1984 in Timișoara , Socialist Republic of Romania ) was a German actor , theater director , director and founding member of the German State Theater Timisoara .

Life

Rudolf Schati was born in Tomnatic in 1913 as a member of the Banat Swabian ethnic group . After elementary school in Sânnicolau Mare , he attended the German secondary school in Timișoara from 1928 to 1932 . As a track and field athlete, he achieved short-distance success in the early 1930s. In 1938 he was a student at the Deutsches Landestheater in Sibiu . Here he met his future wife Irmgard Schati (née Pfniss). After 1945 he came as an actor to the Romanian State Theater in Timișoara and in 1947 to the Romanian State Opera in Timișoara. Here he directed Johann Strauss Fledermaus , where he also took on the role of the frog.

In the fall of 1952, Schati took over the founding of the ensemble for the German-speaking section of the Romanian State Theater. In January 1953, the German-speaking department was formally founded with Laube's play "Die Karlsschüler". In 1956 this was converted into the German State Theater Timisoara as an independent unit and Rudolf Schati was appointed as the director. He held this position until 1967 when he moved to the State Theater in Sibiu . Of the first twelve performances in the seasons 1953–1956, Schati directed half of the plays. He staged Laube's “Karlsschüler” (1953), Lucia Demetrius' drama “People of Today” (1953), Molière's The Imaginary Sick , Aurel Baranga's “The Great Lamb”, Lessing's Minna von Barnhelm (1956).

Schati first appeared as an actor at the German State Theater in Sibiu in the 1938–1939 season. After 1944 he came to Timișoara, where he initially worked at the Romanian State Theater until the German-speaking department was founded in 1953. Here he played the Duke Karl August in Laube's “Karlsschüler” (1953), the president of Walther in Schiller's Cabal and Love (1955), the main role in Anzengruber's perjury builder (1957), Philipp II in Schiller's Don Carlos (1958), the Koch in Brecht's Mother Courage (1957) or Knieriem in Nestroy's Lumpazivagabundus .

Schati played Father Moor in Schiller's Robber , and American Major Kennedy in Hans Pfeiffer's Nagasaki play "Lantern Festival". The Schati couple celebrated a particular success in Horia Lovinescu's “The Death of an Artist” (1964), in which Schati played the aging artist Manole or Lorenzo in Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet . His last role was in 1974 in Hans Kehrer's “Narrenbrot”, a dialect in which he played the village judge of Bogarosch .

Awards

  • Award for cultural merits of the People's Republic of Romania

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Anton Peter Petri: Biographical Lexicon of the Banater Deutschtums. Th. Breit Verlag, Marquartstein 1992, ISBN 3-922046-76-2 .
  2. ↑ a b c d Horst Fassel: The German State Theater Temeswar (1953-2003). From supraregional bearer of identity to the experimental theater , Berlin 2011, ISBN 978-3-643-11413-6


personal data
SURNAME Schati, Rudolf
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Schadi, Rudolf; Chati, Rudolf
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German actor, theater director, director and founding member of the German State Theater Timişoara
DATE OF BIRTH October 16, 1913
PLACE OF BIRTH Triebswetter , Kingdom of Hungary , Austria-Hungary
DATE OF DEATH December 20, 1984
Place of death Timișoara , Socialist Republic of Romania