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Walter Riss (born February 24, 1931 in Tamsweg , Land Salzburg , Austria ; † January 21, 2001 , in Natters , Tyrol ) was an Austrian actor on stage and television.
Live and act
Riss received acting lessons from Helene Thimig and Fred Liewehr at the Max Reinhardt Seminar in Vienna . He made his debut in 1952 at the Schauspielhaus Zürich . His early theater positions include Graz, Kiel, Bochum, Hanover and Berlin, where he played under Boleslaw Barlog at the Schiller Theater. In Vienna he worked at the Theater in der Josefstadt. The Salzburg native later switched to stage direction and staged Lessing's Emilia Galotti at the Salzburg State Theater .
Between 1975 and 1994 he taught as a professor of acting at the Salzburg Mozarteum . In the Austrian capital, Riss also put together a series of productions for the “Salzburg Children's and Youth Theater”. In 1997 Walter Riss presented 20 performances of his own play Play Tolstoy , an adaptation of Leo Tolstoy's Kreutzer Sonata, in the Berlin Schlossparktheater .
Standing in front of television cameras since 1963, this medium had only a subordinate role in Riss' artistic work. In 1975 and 1979 he took on the role of High Commissioner Tuncnik in numerous episodes of the German crime series Kommissariat 9 .
Filmography
- 1963: The seagull
- 1964: Leocadia
- 1965: A hermit is discovered
- 1966: Blood Association
- 1967: The sad story of Frederick the Great
- 1969: red murder
- 1970: Memorial Day
- 1970: Memorial Day - A soldier's political rebellion
- 1971: Procryl for Rosenbach
- 1971: The weavers
- 1972: The Bear from Dumfries
- 1972: Motive love (TV series, one episode)
- 1972: Das Kurheim (TV series, one episode)
- 1973: Local appointment (TV series, one episode)
- 1974: Eiger
- 1974: The Maker or Waiting for Godot
- 1976: Sladek or The Black Army
- 1978: material rank
- 1975, 1979: Commissariat 9
- 1983: The golden shoes
- 1984: the end of the world
- 1977, 1985: The Old One (TV series, two episodes)
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. 606.
- Who's Who in the Arts, two volumes. 2nd revised edition, Wörthsee 1978. Second volume, p. 112
Individual evidence
- ↑ Play Tolstoy on berliner-zeitung.de
Web links
- Walter crack in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Walter Riss at filmportal.de
- Biography on Der Standard
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Riss, Walter |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Austrian actor on stage and television |
| DATE OF BIRTH | February 24, 1931 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Salzburg , Austria |
| DATE OF DEATH | January 21, 2001 |
| Place of death | Natters , Tyrol |