Willy Trenk-Trebitsch

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Willy Trenk-Trebitsch (born March 11, 1902 in Vienna , † September 21, 1983 in Berlin ) was an Austrian actor .

biography

Willy Trenk-Trebitsch first studied music in Vienna before deciding on a career as an actor. In 1927 he made his debut at the Deutsches Theater in Prague . The Mack the Knife from The Threepenny Opera by Bertolt Brecht was Trenk-Trebitsch both at its premiere at the opening of the Theater am Schiffbauerdamm in Berlin on 28 August 1928 (next to Lotte Lenya and Erich Ponto under the musical direction of theo mackeben ) at the Prague premiere as with the first record of the work from 1930.

The actor was known to be demanding, who made the highest demands on himself and others. The writer Max Brod wrote of him: "When he is on the test, he works like a foreman in a steel mill."

In the following years Trenk-Trebitsch played in Berlin under Max Reinhardt and Leopold Jessner and was engaged by Heinz Hilpert at the Volksbühne until the seizure of power in 1933 . He then went to Vienna, where he mainly worked on radio. After the annexation of Austria in 1938 he fled to Paris. There he worked on the film 1939 white slaver of Robert Siodmak with as an assistant director.

In 1940, Trenk-Trebitsch managed to travel to the USA via Trinidad with false French papers . There he played theater as well as supporting roles in films. In 1952 he returned to Germany to mainly play theater there. In 1957 he played his star role as Mackie Messer in a television production of the Threepenny Opera .

Willy Trenk-Trebitsch died in September 1983 at the age of 81 in Berlin. He was buried in the state's own cemetery in Heerstraße in today's Berlin-Westend district .

His written estate is in the archive of the Academy of Arts in Berlin.

Filmography

actor
Director
  • 1961: Hope is a thing with feathers
  • 1961: Mrs. Billings' divorce

Radio plays

Works

  • Fritz Kortner, Max Reinhardt and I (lecture). In: Theater im Exil 1933-1945 , Volume 12, pp. 251 f.

literature

  • 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. Schwarzkopf & Schwarzkopf, Berlin 2001, ISBN 3-89602-340-3 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Willy-Trenk-Trebitsch-Archiv Inventory overview on the website of the Academy of Arts in Berlin.
personal data
SURNAME Trenk-Trebitsch, Willy
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Trenk, William
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian actor
DATE OF BIRTH March 11, 1902
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna
DATE OF DEATH September 21, 1983
Place of death Berlin