Wilhelm Hufnagl

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Wilhelm Hufnagl , also: Willy Hufnagl or Willi Hufnagl (born June 15, 1904 in Frankfurt am Main , † December 25, 1994 in Vienna ) was an Austrian actor, broadcaster and theater director.

Live and act

In Vienna, Hufnagl had acting engagements at the Volkstheater , Theater in der Josefstadt , Renaissance theater and the Löwinger stage .

In the history of Viennese cabaret , his name is particularly associated with the cabaret Literatur am Naschmarkt , founded in 1933 by Rudolf Weys (1898–1978) and F. W. Stein († 1945) , where he joined Johann Nestroy's chief Abendwind as one of the two protagonists in 1934 . Like other actors in literature , Hufnagl was also seen on the stage Der liebe Augustin founded by Stella Kadmon in 1931 , where he gave the title character in Herrmann Mostar's Der liebe Augustin in 1936 and the performance of one of the best on Biberstrasse ( ON 2 ) made. When the company Literatur am Naschmarkt had to be liquidated in November 1938 by Rudolf Weys, chairman of the Association of Austrian Young Authors and in-house author, Adolf Müller-Reitzner (1901–1943) initiated the Moulin Rouge revue stage ( Vienna interior Stadt , Liliengasse 3; today: the theater of the youth theater ) on January 20, 1939 the cabaret Wiener Werkel opened. Wilhelm Hufnagl was part of the house's ensemble from the beginning until the theater was closed in September 1944. After the death of Adolf Müller-Reitzner in 1943, and the takeover of the Werkl by his wife, author and painter Christl Müller-Räntz, Hufnagl also worked as a director.

After the Second World War and being a Soviet prisoner of war in a coal mine in the Donets Basin , Hufnagl became head of the entertainment department at Radio Wien in 1946 , but was still a late addition to the ensemble that opened in June 1945 by Rolf Olsen at Rotgasse 5 ( Vienna-Innere Stadt ) in mid-1948 closed small board .

As a broadcaster, Hufnagl had his own programs such as Im Konzertkaffee , a live broadcast from the AEZ in Vienna with the Small Vienna Radio Orchestra under the direction of Heinz Sandauer and Franz Zelwecker (1911–1998).

Wilhelm Hufnagl appeared in dozens of Austrian films and television programs. He was an interpreter of Viennese songs ( Die Zeit is never so ). He also wrote the text for the marching song Come fly with us together with Theodor Ottawa . His short story A Strange Christmas Eve , which came from the time of his captivity, was broadcast by ORF . At the age of 75, he designed the radio show Frühschoppen Wien .

Wilhelm Hufnagl spent his twilight years in the market town of Apetlon , Burgenland .

His final resting place is in the Evangelical Cemetery Vienna Matzleinsdorf (group 15, number 303) in Vienna.

Wilhelm Hufnagl grave

Filmography (selection)

Television productions

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ (Various :) Funny Viennese Evening December 6th, advance notice December 25th, 26th, 27th Guest performance by Ernst Arnold . Pictorial representation. Karner, Franz (Anton Durstmüller), Vienna 1942, OBV . - Image .
  2. ^ Weys: Cabaret and Cabaret in Vienna , p. 38.
  3. ↑ Weys: Cabaret and Cabaret in Vienna , p. 36.
  4. ↑ Fine arts. (...) “Wiener Werkel” in the Moulin Rouge. In:  Das kleine Volksblatt , No. 19/1939, January 19, 1939, p. 10, column 3 below. (Online at ANNO ). Template: ANNO / Maintenance / dkv.
  5. ↑ Weys: Cabaret and Cabaret in Vienna , p. 73 f.
  6. ↑ Daily report. (...) The fun evening. In:  Neues Wiener Tagblatt , No. 232/1943 (LXXVII. Year), 23 August 1943, p. 3, column 2 middle. (Online at ANNO ). Template: ANNO / Maintenance / nwg.
  7. ↑ Weys: Cabaret and Cabaret in Vienna , p. 78.
  8. ↑ Willy Hufnagl is 75 . In: Arbeiter-Zeitung . Vienna June 14, 1979, p. 13 , top left ( berufer-zeitung.at - the open online archive - digitized).
  9. ↑ (caption :) Prominent anniversary boy . In: BF - The Burgenland Week . No. 28/1994 (LXIV. Volume), July 13, 1994, ZDB -ID 2588385-9 , p. 15, bottom left.

Remarks

  1. ↑ Stein (probably a pseudonym for Winterstein ), as a Jew, fell into the hands of a German patrol at the beginning of 1945 and was taken to an extermination camp. - Ingeborg Reisner: Cabaret as a workshop for the theater. Literary cabaret in Vienna before the Second World War . Theodor Kramer Society , Vienna 2004, ISBN 3-901602-15-1 , p. 202. (Also: Dissertation, University of Vienna, Vienna 1961).
    According to Hans Veigl : Tears and Laughter, Cabaret in Reconstruction (Straden 2009, ZDB -ID 2460812-9 ), p. 142, Stein died in 1944 in the Auschwitz concentration camp .
  2. ↑ Müller-Reitzner had played on literature for two years . He was a party candidate for the NSDAP and, as an ambitious actor, proposed a (politically and racially) portable ensemble for Vienna to the Berlin Reichstheaterkammer in the summer of 1938 (including, in addition to Hufnagl: Hugo Gottschlich , Josef Meinrad , Walter Varndal , Oskar Wegrostek , Rosl Dorena , Erna Michall , Josef Carl Knaflitsch ), which the Reich Propaganda Office Vienna commissioned to open a cabaret at Liliengasse 3. Under the protection of Müller-Reitzner's party badge alone, the theater management succeeded in camouflaging “non-Aryans” and “mixed race” and also accommodating plays by “intolerable” authors like Fritz Eckhardt . - Weys: Cabaret and Cabaret in Vienna , p. 64 f.
personal data
SURNAME Hufnagl, Wilhelm
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Hufnagl, Willy
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian actor, broadcaster and theater director
DATE OF BIRTH June 15, 1904
PLACE OF BIRTH Frankfurt am Main
DATE OF DEATH December 25, 1994
Place of death Vienna