Tonio Riedl

Tonio Riedl (born February 17, 1906 in Vienna , Austria-Hungary ; † December 29, 1995 there ) was an Austrian actor on stage, film and television.

Live and act

At the age of 20, Riedl took acting lessons from Paul Senden in Cologne and then from Raoul Aslan in Vienna. The Viennese made his debut in Bad Godesberg in 1927 in the play The Dancer of Our Lady by Franz Johannes Weinrich . In the same year Riedl accepted an engagement that led him to the city theater of Konstanz. Here and in his subsequent stages he was initially employed in the role of youth hero and youth lover. This was followed by engagements at the Kammerspiele Munich (1927–1929), the German Volkstheater Vienna (1929–1934), the Thalia Theater in Hamburg (1936), again at the Vienna Volkstheater (1937) and then at the Stadttheater in Reichenberg ( Sudetenland, 1938).

In 1939 Tonio Riedl was brought in front of the camera for two film roles for the first time and also took part in radio broadcasts before he was committed to Die Insel in Vienna (1940–1941) in 1940. After working at the German city theater of German-occupied Metz (Lorraine) during the war years (1941–1944), Tonio Riedl returned to Vienna and was henceforth a permanent member of the Burgtheater ensemble . His best-known Viennese appearances include Leon in Grillparzer's Weh dem who lies , Don Karlos in the Schiller play of the same name, Romeo in Romeo and Juliet , Prince von Homburg , Marchbanks in Shaw's Candida , Phaon in Grillparzer's Sappho , the Fritz Lobheimer in Schnitzler's Liebelei , Lysander in Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream and Jaakob in Beer-Hofmann's Jaakobs Traum . In later years Riedl could be seen in one or the other television production.

Private

The actor Aslan, who was around 20 years his senior, and Riedl's greatest sponsor and mentor, also became Tonio Riedl's partner from 1932. Aslan later even adopted Riedl; the actor was buried in Aslan's grave as Tonio Riedl-Aslan. The lively correspondence between the two Viennese actors began in 1978 under the title Raoul Aslan. Encounter in the light. Correspondence with Tonio Riedl published by Margarete Gruber.

Filmography

1939: Three fathers around Anna
1939: your first experience
1956: He wants to make a joke
1961: The dyer and his twin brother
1963: the spendthrift
1965: The conceited sick man
1967: The Torn One
1969: The unveiling
1970: The adjourned night

literature

Herbert A. Frenzel , Hans Joachim Moser (ed.): Kürschner's biographical theater manual. Drama, opera, film, radio. Germany, Austria, Switzerland. De Gruyter, Berlin 1956, DNB 010075518 , p. 601 f.
Johann Caspar Glenzdorf: Glenzdorf's international film lexicon. Biographical manual for the entire film industry. Volume 3: Peit – Zz. Prominent-Filmverlag, Bad Münder 1961, DNB 451560752 , p. 1400.

Individual evidence

↑ Aslan's and Riedl's grave at the Grinzing cemetery (Raoul Aslan's grave of honor)
↑ Encounter in the Light by Margarete Gruber

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personal data
SURNAME	Riedl, Tonio
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Austrian stage, film and television actor
DATE OF BIRTH	February 17, 1906
PLACE OF BIRTH	Vienna , Austria-Hungary
DATE OF DEATH	December 29, 1995
Place of death	Vienna

[1] Aslan's and Riedl's grave at the Grinzing cemetery (Raoul Aslan's grave of honor)

[2] Encounter in the Light by Margarete Gruber