Rudolf Prack

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Rudolf Anton Prack (born August 2, 1905 in Vienna ; † December 2, 1981 there ) was an Austrian actor.

Life

The son of the post office clerk Rudolf Prack († March 1922 at the age of 43) and his wife Melanie Elisabeth (April 7, 1883– June 12, 1976) attended the commercial academy after finishing secondary school. He became a bank clerk to finance the visit to the Max Reinhardt Seminar , which was founded in 1929 and not yet officially known at the time . After his training as an actor, he played briefly in 1924 to 1933 by Max Reinhardt and from 1933 to 1935 by Otto Preminger directed theater in Josefstadt in Vienna.

Prack made his first film in 1937. From 1938 to 1945 several films by Wien-Film GmbH that were acceptable to the Nazi regime followed , but which did not mean great success for him. In 1938, Prack was not entered in Lehmann's Vienna address book . In the editions 1939 to 1942 (the last ones published) it was registered with the address 14., Hadikgasse 12, and thus from 1940/1941 to the immediate neighbor of the Burgtheater drama school , which has been called the Max Reinhardt Seminar since 1945.

He made his breakthrough in 1950 with the film Schwarzwaldmädel , when the homeland film genre became more and more popular during the years of the West German economic miracle . He finally became a star in 1951 with Grün ist die Heide .

His film roles earned him the reputation of being the “most kissed man in German film”. Although Rudolf Prack was already around 50 at the time and many of his partners, including several times Sonja Ziemann , were over 20 years younger than him, the age difference never became a film topic. In 1949 and 1950 Prack received a Bambi .

He also worked as a television actor, for example from 1967 to 1969 as a country doctor in the series Country Doctor Dr. Brock . With the unsympathetic role in Jesus von Ottakring , a 1976 play by Wilhelm Pellert and Helmut Korherr , he showed himself from another side. He also worked as a writer of short stories and radio plays.

Prack was married to Maria Heinisch (October 15, 1904– January 17, 1974). The couple had two children, Adelheid and Michael. After 1945 he lived in a villa in Vienna's 13th district, Hietzing , at Stoesslgasse 15 (corner of Kupelwiesergasse) in the Unter-St.-Veit district (in the same district at the time, Hans Moser also had his villa), right next to Hügelpark .

Rudolf Prack died in 1981 of complications from pneumonia . He was buried in the Hietzinger Friedhof in grave group 50, number 37, in the grave of his parents and his wife. The grave is dedicated for the duration of the cemetery.

Prack, who is said to have been “the ultimate lover of German and Austrian post-war films”, allegedly described himself as a “reluctant womanizer”.

Filmography

movie theater

Television (selection)

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Graveyard search by Friedhöfe Wien GmbH.
  2. ^ The lover against his will , in: Tageszeitung Arbeiter-Zeitung (AZ) , Vienna, December 5, 1981, p. 24
personal data
SURNAME Prack, Rudolf
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Prack, Rudolf Amon (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian actor
DATE OF BIRTH 2nd August 1905
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna
DATE OF DEATH 2nd December 1981
Place of death Vienna