Ulrich Bettac
Ulrich Ewald Berthold Bettac (born May 2, 1897 in Stettin , † April 20, 1959 in Vienna ) was a German-Austrian actor and theater director .
Life
Ulrich Bettac attended the drama school of the Deutsches Theater in Berlin in 1916/17 and then made his debut at the Oldenburg Court Theater . From 1919 to 1921 he played in Frankfurt am Main and then came to Berlin stages.
From 1927 he was engaged as a bon vivant and from around 1945 as a character actor at the Burgtheater in Vienna. After the “Anschluss” of Austria , Bettac, who had belonged to the previously illegal SA Brigade 6, became the deputy head of the Reichstheaterkammer . From August 23, 1938 to April 30, 1939, he was the provisional director of the Burgtheater, as the originally planned Lothar Müthel , also a staunch National Socialist, first had to cure the consequences of a serious car accident. Bettac also staged some plays, especially at the Akademietheater . Both as an actor and as a director, he preferred conversational pieces .
After a few silent film roles, Bettac was rarely seen in film as an actor for a long time, but in the 1930s he directed the dialogue for the films Die Geliebte von Paris (1936, unfinished), Manege (1937) and Die Große und die kleine Liebe (1937) . It was not until the 1950s that he took on numerous smaller film roles.
The chamber actor Bettac acted as president of the Austrian theater staff and as the executive president of the “Artists help artists” campaign. He was the bearer of the Burgtheater's ring of honor.
It rests in an honorary grave in Vienna's central cemetery (group 13 B, row 1, number 13).
Filmography
- 1921: desire
- 1923: Everything for money
- 1924: mother and son
- 1924: In the claws of guilt
- 1925: the booty
- 1925: The untouched woman
- 1926: Autumn maneuvers
- 1926: women who lost their way
- 1949: Duel with death
- 1949: Mysterious depth
- 1949: My friend who can't say no
- 1950: The Wallner boy
- 1951: Dance into happiness
- 1951: The cheerful farmer
- 1952: April 1, 2000
- 1952: Adventure in Vienna
- 1952: The great temptation
- 1952: Bang and Fall as an impostor
- 1953: Arlette conquers Paris
- 1953: On the green field
- 1953: Miss Casanova
- 1953: The divorced woman
- 1953: mask in blue
- 1954: Eternal Waltz
- 1954: A house full of love
- 1955: André and Ursula
- 1955: Three men in the snow
- 1955: Sissi
- 1956: Sissi - The young empress
- 1956: A great hotel
- 1957: Eva only kisses directors
- 1957: The linden landlady from the Danube beach
- 1958: You're only young twice
- 1959: Always the girls
literature
- Oliver Rathkolb : Faithful to the leader and God's grace. Artist elite in the Third Reich . Österreichischer Bundesverlag, Vienna 1991 ISBN 3-215-07490-7 .
Web links
- Entry on Ulrich Bettac in the Austria Forum (in the AEIOU Austria Lexicon )
- Ulrich Bettac in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Ulrich Bettac at filmportal.de
Individual evidence
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Bettac, Ulrich |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Bettac, Ulrich Ewald Berthold (maiden name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German-Austrian actor and theater director |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 2, 1897 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Szczecin |
| DATE OF DEATH | April 20, 1959 |
| Place of death | Vienna |