Rudolf Melichar

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Rudolf Melichar (born June 22, 1929 in Berlin ) is an Austrian actor . He is one of the most famous theater and film actors in his country.

Life

Melichar was born as the son of the Austrian composer and conductor Alois Melichar . He came to Vienna at the age of 13 , where he trained as an actor at the Reinhardt Seminar . He appeared in several theaters, such as in Kiel , Essen , Hanover , Dortmund and Cologne .

Melichar has been a permanent member of the Vienna Burgtheater ensemble since 1968 . He was there in about 130 roles on the stage. He played a wide repertoire , which included pieces by William Shakespeare , the German-speaking authors of the Classical and Romantic periods , folk plays by Ferdinand Raimund and Johann Nestroy , but also pieces from modern times and contemporary theater. He was often seen in plays by Ödön von Horváth , Arthur Schnitzler , Heinrich von Kleist or Bertolt Brecht , but also took on roles in international classics of the theater repertoire such as Molière , Anton Chekhov and Henrik Ibsen .

He took over from the 1980s roles including in Hamlet (1986, Polonius), in The resistible rise of Arturo Ui (1987, Mulberry) in the German lunch of Thomas Bernhard (1987, Mr. Mühlfenzl), The Deputy , (1988 Der Alte), in Children of the Sun by Maxim Gorki (1988, Avdeevic), in the world premiere of Heldenplatz (1988, Professor Liebig), in Sezuan's Good Man (1989, The Man), in Othello (1990, Gratiano), in the world premiere of Sommer 14 (1990) by Rolf Hochhuth , in the Austrian premiere of Botho Strauss ' Schlusschor (1991), in The Visit of the Old Lady (1992, Gatten VII-IX by Claire Zachanassian), in the Austrian premiere of Die Round Heads and Pointed Heads (1993) by Bertolt Brecht, in Sunset by Isaak Babel (1993, Ben S'charja), in Liliom (1993, Dr. Reich), in the world premiere of Elfriede Jelinek's Raststätte oder Sie machens all (1994, Elch ), in Witch Hunt (1995, Francis Nurse), in Die Dreigroschenop he (1996, Säge-Robert), in the Austrian premiere of Heiner Müller's Germania 3 (1996), in the Austrian premiere of Stecken, Stab and Stangl (1997), in the premiere of Elfriede Jelinek's Ein Sportstück (1998) and in the First performance of George Taboris Purgatorium (1998).

In recent years Melichar has played in the following plays in Vienna, among others: Leonce and Lena (2001, President of the State Archives), in the world premiere of Elfriede Jelinek's Das Werk (2003), in Was ihr wollt (2003/2004, Valentin), in the German-language premiere of Martin McDonagh's The Pillow Man (2003) and in the world premiere of Elfriede Jelinek's Babel (2005). At the end of 2008 he appeared at the Burgtheater in the Thomas Mann dramatization Doctor Faustus - my love is as a fever .

Melichar also regularly took on a few film and television roles from the 1970s. In 1978 he played the role of the Polish partisan Anton in the US miniseries Holocaust - The Story of the White Family .

In 1953 he married Gabrielle Countess von Khevenhüller -Metsch (1925–1979) for the first time. The marriage had two children. In 1981 he married the actress Elisabeth Augustin . The marriage had three children, two daughters and a son.

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SURNAME Melichar, Rudolf
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian actor
DATE OF BIRTH June 22, 1929
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin