Toni Berger

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Toni Berger (born March 27, 1921 in Munich ; † January 29, 2005 there ) was a German actor . He gained particular fame through his roles as a Bavarian folk actor .

Life

Growing up in the Au district of Munich , Toni Berger began taking acting lessons in 1939 after completing an apprenticeship in a foundry. As a child he had already played puppet shows for his friends . The Second World War ruined Berger, who actually wanted to become an opera singer, all career plans.

After his military service in 1945 he went to the Sigmaringen court theater with his friend and colleague Gustl Bayrhammer, who was just as unknown at the time , where he gained his first professional experience. Thanks to his versatility and his talent for credibly embodying character roles, he managed to make a name for himself in the theater scene outside of Bavaria. From 1966 to 1972 he played in the National Theater in Mannheim and at the Schiller Theater in Berlin , as well as in Bielefeld . In Sigmaringen he occasionally appeared as a baritone buffo in operettas , especially when there was a shortage of staff in the music theater .

In 1972 Kurt Meisel brought him to the Munich Residenztheater , among other things in the role of mayor in Der Hauptmann von Köpenick . In his first major role he took over the "Illo" from his late colleague Hans Cossy in Wallenstein . However, he found the role of his life in the Bavarian folk play Der Brandner Kaspar und das Eternal 'Leben , in which he embodied Boandlkramer , the “Kerschgeist” -addicted Bavarian death, with his all too human weaknesses over a thousand times . As a result, he, who had mainly played the classic character roles, became the grand master of Bavarian comedy. In 1984 he played old Brovik in Peter Zadek's production of Henrik Ibsen's “ Master Builder Solness ”. When Berger took over some of his role positions after the death of Gustl Bayrhammer , his level of awareness increased further.

Toni Berger was also in great demand in film and television. He played guest roles in a number of well-known television series, for example in Tatort , White-Blue Stories , Derrick , Meister Eder and his Pumuckl and Der Bulle von Tölz . Berger is best known to a large audience as Martin Binser in Somehow and Anyway and as Komet in Zur Freiheit . Berger embodied the monk Father Franz "Ignatius" Lechner in the forester's house in Falkenau . He has also stood on the boards of the comedy nobility countless times , most recently in the play Das Attenhamer Christkindl in 2003.

In 1997 Toni Berger, who had moved his main residence back to Munich, could also be seen in the Kleine Komödie am Max II and in 2001 in the Komödie im Bayerischer Hof . He had his last appearances in December 2004 with the Ludwig Thoma reading Die Heilige Nacht and on January 19, 2005 in the recital No beautiful land by Franz Wittenbrink in the Munich Kammerspiele.

Toni Berger was buried in Munich's Ostfriedhof (grave number: 77-2-3).

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  1. ↑ knerger.de: Toni Berger's grave
personal data
SURNAME Berger, Toni
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Bavarian folk actor and character actor
DATE OF BIRTH March 27, 1921
PLACE OF BIRTH Munich
DATE OF DEATH January 29, 2005
Place of death Munich