Karl Forest
Karl Forest ( born November 12, 1874 in Vienna, native Karl Obertimpfler, † May 31, 1944 ) was an Austrian actor and theater director.
Life and work
The son of the coffee boiler Carl Obertimpfler was at the age of 17 years for the first time on stage at the age of 19 he received his first permanent engagement at the Stadttheater Passau. About Karlsruhe, Aschaffenburg, Heilbronn, Chernivtsi, Reichenberg (1898 ), Munich (1899 ) and Hamburg he reached the end of 1902 to Berlin. There he played mainly comic roles, first at the Deutsches Theater, after which he belonged from 1904 to 1916 the ensemble of the Lessing Theatre on. Most recently, he was employed at the German Art Theatre.
In the fall of 1917 Forest returned to Vienna and took on a commitment at the local popular theater. From 1919 to 1921 he played at the Burgtheater in 1921 he moved to the Raimund Theater, 1924 at the National Theatre. There he worked from 1927 as a senior director. His most important roles he took in pieces by Franz Grillparzer, Gerhart Hauptmann, August Strindberg, Carl Sternheim and especially Henrik Ibsen. His roles included Piper in The Weavers, Mortensgaard in Rosmersholm, the old Ekdal in The Wild Duck, Aslaksen in An Enemy, Tezel in Strindbers Luther, Ringmaster in Frank Wedekind's Hidalla, Rudolf II in a fraternal strife in Hapsburg, Malvolio in Twelfth Night and Weihgast in the last masks. 1940 to 1944 he was obliged at the Theater in der Josefstadt, where he only had small appearances.
Since the end of World War Forest starred in various films. One of his few leading roles he played in 1929 as a Field Marshal Radetzky in the historical film Father Radetzky. He was for a time married to actress Traute Carlsen.
In 1966, the Forest street was named after him in Vienna Donau City 's 22nd district.