Viktor Warsitz

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Viktor Franz Warsitz , even Victor Warsitz (* 4. July 1906 in Cologne , † after 1979) was a German actor in theater and television as well as a theater director and playwright .

Live and act

Warsitz had studied philosophy , art history and German language and literature after graduating from high school up to his doctorate . He then trained as a singer and actor.

Warsitz made his debut on stage in 1930 at the Schiller Theater in Altona (today Hamburg). Subsequent engagements brought the artist to the Hamburger Kammerspiele, the Volkstheater in Munich as well as to Düsseldorf, Graz, Gera, Schwerin, Leipzig, Lübeck (where he also worked as director and chief dramaturge), Baden-Baden and Bremerhaven. Warsitz then returned to Hamburg, where he worked as a dramaturge and director at the Operettenhaus and again at the Altona Theater.

It wasn't until late, at almost 60 years old, that Warsitz appeared regularly in front of television cameras. In the 1960s and 1970s, the actor with the striking bald head and mustache played every form of high-ranking authorities and dignitaries: sometimes he was a professor or colonel, then again a district court director or a count, and finally a general and a senate president. After 1979 his track is lost.

Victor Warsitz also worked as a writer, his Goya drama Genie ohne Volk was premiered on June 15, 1937 at the Düsseldorfer Schauspielhaus with Werner Krauss .

Warsitz was married to the two years younger Swiss opera singer Nelly Bischoff , with whom he had been engaged in Schwerin from 1947 to 1949.

Filmography

Television films or series

  • 1962: Life of Galileo
  • 1963: The Criminal Court (TV series, episode The Calmette Case )
  • 1964: The Maria Schäfer case
  • 1965: The Harry Domela case
  • 1965: The Michael Reiber case
  • 1965: Permit - My name is Cox (TV series, episode circus story )
  • 1966: The Hau case
  • 1966: The case of Captain Behrens - Foreign Legionnaires on board
  • 1966: The gentlemen ask for cash (miniseries, 3rd part)
  • 1966: The Angelika case
  • 1967: Cliff Dexter (TV series, episode The Bill Doesn't Work )
  • 1967/1968: Big man what now? (TV series, 3 episodes)
  • 1968: Civil War in Russia
  • 1968: Sir Roger Casement
  • 1969: Percy Stuart (TV series, episode The Exhibition )
  • 1969: woe to him who inherits
  • 1970: Miss Molly Mill (TV series, episode The Coughing Prince )
  • 1970: Count Claus Stauffenberg
  • 1971: deep blue sea
  • 1979: Kommissariat 9 (TV series, episode Die Edlen der Heilkunst )

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. 787.
  • 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. 1830.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Karl-Josef Kutsch , Leo Riemens : Bischoff, Nelly, soprano . In: Large song dictionary . tape 1 : Aarden Castles . KG Saur, Munich 2003, ISBN 3-598-11598-9 , pp. 422 ( books.google.com ).
personal data
SURNAME Warsitz, Viktor
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Warsitz, Viktor Franz (full name); Warsitz, Victor
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German actor on stage and television as well as a theater director and playwright
DATE OF BIRTH 4th July 1906
PLACE OF BIRTH Cologne
DATE OF DEATH after 1979