Wolfgang Hebenstreith

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Wolfgang Hebenstreith (alternative spelling Hebenstreit , actually from Hebenstreith ; * August 28, 1906 in Linz , † June 27, 1968 in Vienna ) was an Austrian actor in the stage, film and television industry and a theater director .

Live and act

Wolfgang von Hebenstreith played on German-speaking theaters in Czechoslovakia (Brüx, Reichenberg, Troppau etc.) throughout the 1930s and was allowed to work there as a director in later years. During the Second World War, Hebenstreith worked as an actor as well as a director at the Linz State Theater and at the same time, from 1942, he held the position of regional director of the Nazi Reichstheaterkammer Gau Oberdonau. Immediately after the end of the war he moved to neighboring Urfahr, where Hebenstreith was appointed as artistic director of the local folk theater.

Hebenstreith then worked as an actor and director at the Landestheater until 1951, before moving to the Theater in der Josefstadt in Vienna for many years in the following season. There he saw him, among other things , as the mayor of Kafka's Das Schloß , as Elling in Anderson's Johanna from Lorraine , as Bernard in Grünwalds / Steckels Manon , as Ikonenko in Ustinov's Die Liebe der vier Oberste and as Koefeld in Dumas' / Sartres Kean .

In the 1960s, the man from Linz made the leap to Vienna's most famous stage, the Burgtheater. Hebenstreith remained a member of the "Burg" until the end of his life; Guest performances led him a. a. to Bern. Wolfgang von Hebenstreith was also president of the stage staff section in the Austrian trade union federation. For this union commitment he was appointed professor on October 1, 1965 by the then Austrian Federal President. Hebenstreith's excursions in front of film and television cameras are largely irrelevant; he played supporting roles of all kinds: a wine merchant, a builder, a director, a public prosecutor, a doctor and finally a landlord.

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. 260.
  • 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. 621.

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personal data
SURNAME Hebenstreith, Wolfgang
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Hebenstreit, Wolfgang; Hebenstreith, Wolfgang von (real name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian actor in stage, film and television and a theater director
DATE OF BIRTH August 28, 1906
PLACE OF BIRTH Linz
DATE OF DEATH June 27, 1968
Place of death Vienna