Attila Hörbiger
Attila Hörbiger (* April 21, 1896 in Budapest, Austria - Hungary, † April 27, 1987 in Vienna, Austria ) was an Austrian actor.
Life
Attila Hörbiger was the son of Hanns Hörbiger, the brother of Paul Hörbiger, from 1935 husband of Paula Wessely and the father of Elisabeth Orth, Christiane Hörbiger and Maresa Hörbiger, the grandfather of Cornelius Obonya, the son of Elisabeth Orth, and the great-uncle of Mavie Hörbiger and Christian Tramitz.
Born in Budapest, he moved in 1903 with his parents to Vienna. From 1906 to 1914 he attended the Stiftsgymnasium St. Paul in the Lavant Valley, where he gained his first acting experience. In 1919 he made his stage debut in Wiener Neustadt. He then played in the Swabian Volksbühne in Stuttgart, 1920 in Bolzano, 1921 at the Raimund Theater in Vienna, Bad Ischl and 1922 at the Stadttheater Reichenberg, 1923 in Vienna at the Jarno stage, 1925 in Brno and from 1926 to 1928 at the New Theatre in Prague.
Hörbiger was engaged from 1928 to 1949 at the Theater in der Josefstadt in Vienna, from 1950 to 1975 he was a member of the Vienna Burgtheater. On October 15, 1955, he played on the occasion of the reopening of the Burgtheater, the Rudolf of Habsburg in Grillparzer's King Ottokar's Fortune and End.
1935 to 1937 and 1947 to 1951 he represented the "everyone" at the Salzburg Festival. On April 6, 1974 he played at the Burgtheater premiere of Nathan the Wise Nathan, his youngest daughter Maresa the Recha. 1985 was Hörbiger than in winter Ferdinand Raimund's The diamond of the Spirit King for the last time on stage. 1986 portrait was unveiled by him in the gallery of honor of the Burgtheater.
After the Anschluss Hörbiger was 6,295,909 NSDAP member under the member number. Together with his second wife, Paula Wessely, he starred in Homecoming, an anti -Polish and anti- Semitic propaganda film by Gustav Ucicky from the year 1941. Due to the pronounced propagandistic intention in the interest of the Nazi rulers, the concoction is after the end of the Third Reich as movie title classified. Even before the pair turned the propaganda film "Harvest " for the Austro-fascist regime.
Attila Hörbiger was married to the opera singer Consuelo Martinez since June 14, 1924. On November 26, 1934, came to divorce ( " separation from bed and board " ), on 14 November 1935 ecclesiastical annulment of the marriage. On 23 November 1935 he married actress Paula Wessely. 1936 Elisabeth Orth, Maresa Hörbiger born in 1938 Christiane Hörbiger and 1945.
It is located in Vienna in an honorary grave dedicated to Grinzing Cemetery ( Group 6, Series 3, Number 3) on the side of his wife buried.