Walter Kohut

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Walter Kohut (also: Walter Kohout; born November 20, 1927 in Vienna ; † May 18, 1980 in Innsbruck ) was an Austrian actor .

Life

Kohut's first marriage was to actress Elfriede Irrall and her second marriage to actress Immy Schell , Maria Schell's sister . During the filming of the film Panische Zeiten on January 14, 1980, he suffered a circulatory collapse, fell into a coma and died a few months later without having regained consciousness. He rests in Vienna on the Mauer cemetery (group 29, row 2, number 7) next to his wife.

theatre

Together with Helmut Qualtinger , whom he had met with the flak helpers during World War II, Kohut founded the “Mozart Stage” in Vienna in 1944. The first premiere was Nur keck by Johann Nepomuk Nestroy .

After the Second World War, Kohut was engaged at the Vienna Volkstheater and in 1947, at the age of 20, played Arthur in Confusion of Youth by Eugene O'Neill (director: Günther Haenel ), the stepson Adolf in Johann Nestroy's Zu Eben, at the side of Oskar Werner ground and first floor (directed by Gustav Manker , 1948), and under the direction of Leon Epp from 1952 to Kubich in the process of Franz Kafka (director: Leon Epp, 1952), and in the following years under Gustav Manker director melancholy Son Guido in Johann Nestroy's Das Haus der Temperamente (1953), Julius Fint in Johann Nestroy's Mein Freund (1955), night waiter Rocky Pioggi in the Austrian premiere of Eugene O'Neill's The Ice Man Comes (1955), Today's in Max Frisch's The Chinese Mauer (1956), the carpenter Leim in Johann Nestroy Der böse Geist Lumpazivagabundus (with Fritz Muliar and Harry Fuss , 1957), Jimmy Porter in the Austrian premiere of John Osborne's Blick zurück im Zorn (1958) and Napoleon Bonaparte in Hermann Bahr's Josephine (with Blanche Aubry , 1959).

In 1959 Walter Kohut celebrated his greatest success as Franz Moor in Friedrich Schiller's Die Räuber under Gustav Manker's direction. After disputes over a rejected role, Kohut moved to Theater in der Josefstadt in 1960 , where he was a member of the ensemble until 1963. There he embodied u. a. Glumow in Alexander Ostrowski's comedy “Young Man Makes a Career” (1961), Chris Keller in Arthur Miller's “Alle Meine Söhne” (1961), Hugo in Jean-Paul Sartre's “The Dirty Hands” (1961) and Signor Ponza in Luigi Pirandello's “So it is - is it so?” (1962). In 1962, he was still playing at Vienna's Raimund Theater to Valentin in Ferdinand Raimund The Spendthrift (with Hilde Sochor than pink), staged even in the Theater an der Wien Johann Nestroy The evil spirit Lumpazivagabundus with Fritz Holzer as Knieriem, Georg Trenkwitz as twine and Peter Gruber as glue and then withdrew from the theater entirely.

Hans Weigel wrote of Kohut in a review: “Walter Kohut ... so splendid that this word almost sounds blasphemous, as no superlative would be exaggerated. 'I still saw the Kohut' our children will tell their grandchildren in a moving voice. ” And in 1957 the picture telegraph to Nestroy's The Evil Spirit Lumpazivagabundus at the Volkstheater: Walter Kohut as glue “ puts a pale figure on the edge by the grace of the performance Center and gains unimagined perspectives. "

Movie and TV

Kohut made his screen debut in 1949. From 1961 until his death, Kohut was seen in numerous film productions - often as one of the leading actors.

He is best known for his part in the film Supermarket (1973), for which he received the German Film Prize in 1974 .

In the internationally star-studded war epic Die Brücke von Arnheim (director: Richard Attenborough ) he played alongside Maximilian Schell and Dirk Bogarde the role of German Field Marshal Walter Model .

In 1978, under Peter Patzak's direction, he played the Viennese greengrocer Karl Kassbach in Kassbach (script: Helmut Zenker , based on his novel Kassbach or The general interest in guinea pigs ), member of the right-wing extremist organization "Initiative", which plans and carries out numerous smaller attacks in the Vienna area .

On television, Kohut often appeared in popular crime series such as Der Kommissar , Tatort (" The Delicatessen ") and subsequently "Threatening Letters" from the television series Kottan (Director: Peter Patzak).

His portrayal of Alfred in the television adaptation of Ödön von Horváth's Tales from the Vienna Woods , alongside Hans Moser , Helmut Qualtinger and Johanna Matz (director: Erich Neuberg , 1961) , became famous .

Filmography (selection)

Sound recordings

The unknown from the Seine by Ödön von Horváth (with Hans Putz , Hans Frank , Hilde Sochor , Otto Schenk , Kurt Jaggberg , Lona Dubois and others)

In 1965 Kohut spoke for NDR in Arthur Schnitzler's Anatol alongside Michael Heltau as Anatol in the role of Max.

Kohut also recorded texts by the Marquis de Sade on record.

Radio plays

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Kay Less : The film's great personal dictionary . The actors, directors, cameramen, producers, composers, screenwriters, film architects, outfitters, costume designers, editors, sound engineers, make-up artists and special effects designers of the 20th century. Volume 4: H - L. Botho Höfer - Richard Lester. Schwarzkopf & Schwarzkopf, Berlin 2001, ISBN 3-89602-340-3 , p. 436.
  2. ^ Weigel, Hans: 1001 premiere. Vienna 1982, p. 49. According to Weigel, it was a role in a play by Anton Wildgans , about which he does not give any details. The refusal resulted in the dismissal without notice, but in another passage (p. 348) Weigel speaks of Walter Kohut having left the Volkstheater voluntarily after the incident.
  3. ↑ Critic out of love . In: The time . No. 41/1961 ( online ).
  4. ↑ The theater man Gustav Manker . Search for clues. Amalthea, Vienna 2010 ISBN 978-3-85002-738-0
personal data
SURNAME Kohut, Walter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian actor
DATE OF BIRTH November 20, 1927
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna
DATE OF DEATH May 18, 1980
Place of death innsbruck