Fritz Hochwälder

Fritz Hochwälder ( born May 28, 1911 in Vienna, † October 20, 1986 in Zurich) was an Austrian playwright.

Life

Fritz Hochwälder learned from his father in Westbahnstraße, in the 7th district of Vienna building the Decorators craft, but pursued a self-taught, such as adult education classes at the home of the people Ottakring, historical and political education and became politically active on the part of Socialist Working Youth ( SAJ ), the youth organization of the SDAP in the district of Neubau. During this time, his only extended prose work Thursday, which was found after his death and published posthumously in 1995 the estate was built. There is a written in the late expressionist style city novel, " as he has no comparison in Austrian literature of those years " (Karl -Markus Gauss, NZZ).

High Waelder first tragedy, Jehr, was premiered in 1932 in the Vienna Chamber games. In August 1938, after the Anschluss, he was forced to flee from Austria as a Jew and an avowed leftist. He could go undetected from Vienna to Vorarlberg and reached from there by the Rhine floating Switzerland. There he was interned temporarily, but then made, obliged by the laws of professional inactivity, his writing hobby to the main employment.

High Waelder drama The Holy Experiment, an illustration of the failure of the Jesuit state in Paraguay to the worldly interests of the Spanish colonial rule, in 1943 at the Theater Biel Solothurn (then Städtebunddtheater Biel -Solothurn ) premiere ( Director: Peter Lotar ) and experienced in 1947 its successful premiere in liberated Austria ( the Vienna Burgtheater ). 1952 brought its author and her international breakthrough, starting from Paris ( under the title Sur la terre comme au ciel ).

High Waelder most successful period was the 1950s, in which he virtually acted as writer in residence at the Burgtheater and its well-built dramatic, tension-filled pieces with historical and political background, a lot were played abroad. High Waelder work was also discovered for television. Many of his plays have been adapted for the very bound to the conditions of the theater teleplay and also participated in high forests orders for screenplays. In the 1960s, it was silent around him. The somewhat pathetic, trained in the classics language of the playwright went out of fashion, high Waelder heart condition also affected his creativity. Fritz Hochwälder but remained to the end "of the " official playwright of the Second Republic.

He was buried in a grave of honor in Vienna's Central Cemetery (Group 33 G, number 74).

Awards

Plays

  • Jehr. 1932
  • Love in Florence. 1939
  • The holy experiment. 1942
  • Hotel du Commerce. 1943
  • The Refugee. 1945
  • The veiled woman. 1946
  • Meier Helmbrecht. 1946
  • The public prosecutor. 1947
  • Virginia. 1948
  • Donadieu. 1953
  • The hostel. 1955
  • The innocent. 1956
  • Thursday. 1959
  • Fate comedy. 1960
  • The Lost Moon. 1961
  • 1003. 1964
  • The raspberry pickers. 1965
  • The command. 1967
  • Lazaretti or The saber tiger. 1975
  • In changing times. 1980

Films

The movie Mission from 1986 (directed by Roland Joffé, starring Robert De Niro, Jeremy Irons, Liam Neeson ) was originally stimulated by high Waelder piece The Holy Experiment.

Franz-Grillparzer-Preis Anton Wildgans Prize Helmut Qualtinger Klaus Schwarzkopf Carl Lange (actor) Paul Dahlke The Mission (1986 film) Theaterlexikon der Schweiz Integrated Authority File
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