Wolfgang Dörich

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Wolfgang Dörich (* 2. May 1918 in Vienna , † 1. January 1993 in Munich ) was an Austrian actor of stage, film and television as well as a theater director .

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Dörich, son of the opera singer and chief director Theodor Dörich and the chamber singer Josefine Reich , attended secondary school before he left in 1935. This year, at the beginning of his two-year acting training at the Max Reinhardt Seminar in Vienna, Wolfgang Dörich made his stage debut with the Dr. Purgon in Molières The imaginary sick man at the Schönbrunn Palace Theater. From 1936 to 1938 he performed during the Salzburg Festival . After completing his training, he was engaged in his first season in 1937/38 in the role of “youthful hero” and “lover” at the Troppau city theater. From 1938 to 1940 Dörich was employed in the Tyrolean State Theater Innsbruck and was also used there as an operetta buffo. Mortimer in Schiller's Maria Stuart was one of his most famous roles there . From 1940 to 1944 Dörich belonged to the ensemble of the Teplitz-Schönau City Theater. Here he not only took on the title roles in Goethe's Clavigo , Kleist's Prince Friedrich von Homburg and Hebbels Gyges and his Ring , but he was also allowed to work as a director for the first time (for the play The Last Adventure ). The last season before the end of the war in 1945 led Wolfgang Dörich to the City Theater of Mährisch-Ostrau.

After the resurrection of Czechoslovakia, Dörich had to flee the country and found himself in his hometown Vienna, where he worked from 1946 to 1952 both as an actor and as a director on various stages (such as the Renaissance theater). During this time, the first offers for small roles in the film followed. Nevertheless, Dörich remained primarily a man of the theater for many years, went on tours and worked at the United Theaters in Graz from 1952 to 1954 as well as in the 1954/55 season as senior director of the theater and as an actor at the Klagenfurt City Theater. From 1955 to 1959 Dörich was a member of the St. Gallen City Theater and was also active there as an actor and director. There he played in around 30 productions: Dörich was the secretary Thomas Schmitt in the musical comedy An Angel Called Schmitt , Petruchio in Shakespeare's The Taming of the Shrew , Marinelli in Lessing's Emilia Galotti and The Liar in the Goldoni play of the same name. He was also seen there as a fool in Shakespeare's What You Want and as a Knieriem in Nestroy's The Evil Spirit Lumpazivagabundus . St. Gallen also gave him the opportunity to stage more than 20 plays (Verneuil's State Affair , Dürrenmatt's An Angel Comes to Babylon and The Visit of the Old Lady , Shaw's Caesar and Cleopatra , Schiller's Don Carlos and Maria Stuart , Nash's The Rainmaker and Borchert's Outside in front of the door ). Dörich also put on operettas and operas, including Little Swindle in Paris by Robert Stolz.

In the 1960s, Wolfgang Dörich continued his theater work in the Federal Republic of Germany. He found employment in Munich at the Intimate Theater, the Tribune, the Little Comedy and the Chamber Opera. Further engagements brought him to the Gandersheim Cathedral Festival as well as to the Theater an der Berliner Allee in Düsseldorf, the Luisenburg Festival in Wunsiedel, the Bad Hersfeld Festival and as a director at the Stadttheater St. Pölten. In 1972/73 he went on tour with the Zurich Theater Company. During these years, Wolfgang Dörich was often in front of the camera and was involved in a considerable number of television productions. There the roles were rather small, however, and Dörich was mostly seen as a well-established person of respect, such as a lawyer, engineer, officer or doctor. His participation in a crime scene in 1981 also meant his last role in front of the camera.

Filmography

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. 154 f.
  • Johann Caspar Glenzdorf: Glenzdorf's international film lexicon. Biographical manual for the entire film industry. Volume 1: A-Heck. Prominent-Filmverlag, Bad Münder 1960, DNB 451560736 , p. 299.

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personal data
SURNAME Dörich, Wolfgang
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian actor
DATE OF BIRTH May 2, 1918
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna
DATE OF DEATH January 1, 1993
Place of death Munich