Viktor Kutschera
Viktor Kutschera (born May 2, 1863 in Vienna ; † January 20, 1933 there ) was an Austrian theater and film actor and theater director.
Live and act
The son of a railway engineer attended the Conservatory of the Gesellschaft der Musikfreunde and received his first engagement as an actor on August 1, 1884 at the Meininger Hoftheater , where he stayed until 1889 and thus performed internationally as " Meininger ". In 1889 he returned to Vienna and performed at the recently opened “ German People's Theater ”, today's “People's Theater”. Kutschera stayed with this stage for almost his entire career, most recently as a director, with the exception of the years 1895 to 1898, when he also performed at the Burgtheater . He was a co-founder of the German-Austrian stage association (later joined the Filmbund ).
After his early phase, in which he often tragically played young lovers, Kutschera soon rose to become a character actor. As such, he played almost the entire repertoire of roles in both classical and modern theater, in a total of 541 pieces. He was highly valued for his lifelike, authentic and folk art of interpretation. His star roles included Karl Moor , Mark Anton , Heinrich von Navarra , Mortimer , Demetrius and Melchthal .
In the burgeoning Austrian film scene, from 1911 he was repeatedly cast for roles of sedate dignitaries or as a person of respect. He played a banker in the first major Viennese art film production The Unknown (1912, director: Luise Fleck ), a count in The Last Heir of Lassa (1918) and a spy chief in Arsonists Europe (1926, director: Max Neufeld ). However, he also played poor characters, such as a beggar in Dresses Make People (1921), where he played next to a still unknown Hans Moser .
Viktor Kutschera married the actress Elsa Sedlmeyer in 1890 or 1900 . The couple had a daughter, Tilly Kutschera , who also began an acting career, but died in 1920 at the age of 29 by suicide. She played film roles in Bogdan Stimoff (1916) and The Last Heir of Lassa (1918).
Viktor Kutschera died on January 20, 1933 in Vienna and was buried at the Vienna Central Cemetery (group 30 D, row 1, number 25) in an honorary grave . In 1960 Viktor-Kutschera-Platz in Vienna- Penzing (14th district) was named after him, with the brief description “celebrated actor at the Volkstheater” .
Filmography (selection)
- 1912: The Unknown
- 1918: The last heir to Lassa
- 1919: Just not a contradiction
- 1919: Opium cure
- 1919: Pst, I know everything
- 1920: distress signal
- 1920: The splendor and misery of the courtesans
- 1920: Satan's toy
- 1920: the key to power
- 1921: Clothes make the man
- 1922: Meriota, the dancer
- 1922: Parema, the being from the world of stars
- 1922: The man who died twice
- 1922: The choking hand
- 1922: A Monk's Memoirs
- 1923: The portrait / L'image
- 1924: The Forbidden Land
- 1924: The poison of the Borgia
- 1924: The Maharaja's doll
- 1926: Arsonist in Europe
- 1926: Hotel Archduchess Viktoria / His Highness the dancer
literature
- Lining: Kutschera Viktor. In: Austrian Biographical Lexicon 1815–1950 (ÖBL). Volume 4, Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Vienna 1969, p. 375 f. (Direct links on p. 375 , p. 376 ).
Web links
- Viktor Kutschera in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Viktor Kutschera at filmportal.de
- Viktor Kutschera at The German Early Cinema Database
Individual evidence
- ^ Ludwig Eisenberg : Large biographical lexicon of the German stage in the XIX. Century . Verlag von Paul List , Leipzig 1903, p. 562, ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Kutschera, Viktor |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Austrian film and theater actor and theater director |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 2, 1863 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Vienna , Austrian Empire |
| DATE OF DEATH | January 20, 1933 |
| Place of death | Vienna , Austria |