Theodor Grieg

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Theodor Maria Ignaz Grieg ( November 10, 1889 in Vienna - March 7, 1957 ) was an Austrian actor and director .

life and work

Grieg took acting lessons from the actor and director Leopold Kramer (1869–1942), who was appointed senior director at the German People's Theater in Vienna. Grieg made his debut at this house in 1910 and stayed there until 1913. Engagements followed at the Stadttheater Klagenfurt (1913-1916) and the Stadttheater Graz (1920-1925), then for a season in Frankfurt am Main and from 1926 at the Wiener Kammerspiele , where he also appeared in productions by Franz Wenzler , including in Hans Kaltneker's lesbian drama Die Sister . In 1930 he returned to the German Volkstheater.

After the annexation of Austria in March 1938, Grieg was banned from working and dismissed from the theater's ensemble as “unsustainable”. Initially he was able to play in Mährisch-Ostrau and later in Metz . In 1944 he was drafted into the service .

From 1945 he played again at the Volkstheater and was one of the pillars of the ensemble in the following years. For the old Viennese folk comedy by Johann Nestroy and Ferdinand Raimund , the director Gustav Manker (1913–1988) succeeded in developing a new staging style with actors such as Theodor Grieg, Inge Konradi , Karl Paryla , Hans Putz and Karl Skraup . In the years after the fall of the Nazi regime, Grieg was also engaged for a number of film productions. In the film he worked with the directors Franz Antel , Ernst and Hubert Marischka , Arthur Maria Rabenalt and Hans Schweikart, among others . He also worked for radio , for example as the butler Mr. Charly in Curt Goetz ' Das Märchen , staged by the author himself.

Grieg was buried in the Vienna Central Cemetery (Gr. 30E, R. 7, No. 6). The grave has already been abandoned .

Film rolls (selection)

literature

  • Evelyn Schreiner (ed.): 100 years of popular theater. Theater, time, history. Vienna: Jugend und Volk-Verlag 1989
  • Hans Markl: Do you know the famous final resting places in Vienna's cemeteries? Volume 1: Central cemetery and crematorium (urn grove). Vienna: Pechan 1961, 69
  • Felix Czeike (Ed.): Grieg Theodor. In:  Historisches Lexikon Wien . Volume 2, Kremayr & Scheriau, Vienna 1993, ISBN 3-218-00544-2 , pp. 599-560 ( digitized version ).

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Irene Löwy: Cultural Policy in National Socialism 1938 to 1945 using the example of the German People's Theater in Vienna , diploma thesis at the University of Vienna, November 2010
personal data
SURNAME Grieg, Theodor
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Grieg, Theodor Maria Ignaz (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian actor and director
DATE OF BIRTH November 10, 1889
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna
DATE OF DEATH March 7, 1957
Place of death Vienna