Rudolf Steinboeck

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Rudolf Steinboeck (born August 7, 1908 in Baden near Vienna , † August 19, 1996 in Vienna ) was an Austrian actor , theater director , film director , opera director and theater director .

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Steinboeck received his training at the Vienna Conservatory . He then worked as an actor in Strasbourg (1933/34) and Vienna (1934 to 1938), where he appeared on cabaret stages and in cabaret literature on the Naschmarkt . He was one of the sponsors of the writer Jura Soyfer .

In 1938 he began working as an actor and director at the Theater in der Josefstadt . From 1945 to 1954 Steinboeck succeeded Heinz Hilpert as director of the theater.

As an actor he made his debut in 1939 as Karl Schilf in Ferdinand Raimund's Der Bauer als Millionär . Until 1945 he was seen in various roles, for example as Hortensio in William Shakespeare's The Taming of the Shrew , Tusenbach in Anton Chekhov's Three Sisters and in his own productions of Curt Goetz ' Ingeborg and John Priestley's Die Conways and Die Zeit .

From 1945 he worked exclusively as a director. Steinboeck assembled a well-known ensemble with Paula Wessely , Attila Hörbiger and Adrienne Gessner on his stage . He successfully staged Hugo von Hofmannsthal's Der Schwierige here in 1945 and 1954 , the same play in 1967 at the Salzburg Festival with OW Fischer and in 1978 at the Burgtheater with Michael Heltau and Erika Pluhar .

Other productions at the Theater in der Josefstadt were Ödön von Horváth's The Youngest Day , Bertolt Brecht's The Good Man of Sezuan , Tolstoy's The Living Corpse , Ferenc Molnár's Olympia , Thornton Wilders We Got Away Again , William Shakespeare's The Winter's Tale , Aldous Huxley's The Smile Gioconda , William Saroyans My Heart Is In The Highlands , John Steinbeck's Von Mäusen und Menschen , Anton Wildgans ' In Eternity Amen Max Mell's Imitation Christ Game , Eugène Scribes The Glass of Water , and pieces by Anouilh and Giraudoux . Between 1970 and 1985 Steinboeck appeared several times as a guest director in the Josefstadt and directed Oscar Wilde's A Woman Without Meaning , August von Kotzebue's The Two Klingsbergs and the spoken version of Hugo von Hofmannsthal's Der Rosenkavalier .

From 1957 to 1984 Steinboeck staged continuously at the Burgtheater, including Raimund's plays Moisasur's Magic Curse (1960), The Unheilbringende Zauberkrone (1961), The Alpine King and the Misanthrope (1965) and The Farmer as Millionaire (1966, with Paul Hörbiger ). Further works were the German premiere of Arthur Miller's After the Fall of Man (1964), Edward Albee's Sensitive Balance (1967), the German premiere of André Roussin's Die Lokomotive (1967), Congreve's Love for Love (1969), Horváth's Der Recent Day (1969) ), Francoise Dorins An Unbearable Egoist (1971, with Theo Lingen ), Henrik Ibsen's Ghosts (1975), Hartmut Lange's wife von Kauenhofen (1978, with Paula Wessely), Hofmannsthal's Der Unbrechliche (1982) and Molnár's Olympia (1984). Since 1978 he was an honorary member of the Burgtheater.

In 1956 he staged Der Bauer als Millionär at the Schillertheater Berlin , and the same play at the Salzburg Festival in 1961 . In Berlin and Hamburg he made guest appearances mainly at the houses of Oscar Fritz Schuh .

His Hofmannsthal and Schnitzler productions were seen as exemplary . He also directed operas and worked in film, radio and television. Steinboeck was married to the actress Aglaja Schmid . His final resting place is at the Neustift cemetery in the Neustift am Walde district of Vienna .

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SURNAME Steinboeck, Rudolf
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian actor, theater director and theater director
DATE OF BIRTH August 7, 1908
PLACE OF BIRTH Baden near Vienna
DATE OF DEATH August 19, 1996
Place of death Vienna