Karl Paryla
Karl Paryla ( born August 12, 1905 in Vienna, † July 14, 1996 ) was an Austrian Symbolist theater actor and director, who appeared relatively rare in film and television, and staged. He belonged to the circle of Bertolt Brecht and Wolfgang Langhoff, who had formed during the Nazi dictatorship at the Zurich Schauspielhaus. His last film in 1993 was the world premiere of The canteen by Wolfgang Bauer at the Schauspielhaus in Graz.
Life
Paryla grew up in poor circumstances, debuted after the drama school at Vienna's Raimund Theater and played 1927-1933 in Germany (Cologne, Dusseldorf, Wroclaw, Darmstadt). He was a member of the Revolutionary Trade Union Opposition and headed in Wroclaw a working group game of the interest group for working-class culture. After the seizure of power in 1933, he returned to Vienna and became a member of the Theater in der Josefstadt. After the annexation of Austria in 1938, he emigrated to Switzerland, where he worked at the Schauspielhaus Zurich. In the world premiere of Brecht's Mother Courage and Her Children, he played the Swiss Cheese.
After his return in 1948 he joined the Communist Party ( KPO ) at Wolfgang Heinz and headed with the "New Theatre at La Scala ", which was closed in 1956. Like the theater, he dropped the "sanctions" of the Brecht boycott victim, even the devil in everyone he was not allowed to play at the Salzburg Festival.
Paryla went to East Berlin, and later to West German theaters, where he worked as a performer and guest director. In Fritz Kortner Munich production of Faust he gave the Mephisto, in numerous Nestroy and Raimund roles underlined the character actor his comedic talent. In the 1960s, the Viennese theater criticism his declared political stance took him badly and made around 1962 on the occasion of his participation in Nestroys The fateful Carnival night at the Theater in der Josefstadt in page after page of comments outraged the question whether a Bolshevik could play an der Josefstadt. The audience remained of it, however, unimpressed. In Cologne Paryla excited with productions of Maxim Gorky's petty bourgeois and Elias Canetti's wedding stir. In the 1980s, he led performances of Dario Fo - Street Theatre in Vienna.
Paryla was the brother of Emil Stöhr. Married Paryla was in his first marriage with Eva, nee Mason, from this marriage was born his first son, the late actor Michael Paryla 1965, and in second marriage to actress Hortense Raky. With her, their two sons, Nicholas and Stephen, both of which are also active as an actor today, he lived and worked in the early years of the GDR for a time in East Berlin. His honorary dedicated tomb is located in Vienna's Central Cemetery ( Gr. 89, R. 18, No. 51).
Work
Film and Television
The best known of the few movies in which he participated as actor, are Burgtheater (1936) and The Angel with the Trumpet (1948 ). In 1950 he played the role of Dr. Semmelweis - savior of mothers in the eponymous film. Director, he directed that the comedian of Vienna ( 1954), a film adaptation of the life of the legendary actor Alexander Girardi. Can feel the heart and soul, he managed to put on film for the comedian and actor, a monument. I Thirst (1956 ) is another, less well-known film in which Paryla acted as a director.
The television employed Paryla relatively rare, but until old age. Notable TV appearances are his involvement in Otto Schenk's star-studded television adaptations of Shakespeare's plays, such as in Twelfth Night, where he was besides Josef Meinrad, Sabine Sinjen, Klaus Maria Brandauer, Christiane Hörbiger and Helmuth Lohner to see 1973 but also in the TV movie Professor Bernhardi ( 1964) by Arthur Schnitzler.
Theater
The theater was his life Parylas passion. Parylas from today's perspective, the biggest, not high enough einzuschätzendes merit was staging a farce of a political nature by Johann Nepomuk Nestroy in 1948: fear of hell with the congenial incidental music by Hanns Eisler. It marks the beginning of a serious confrontation with Nestroys work after the Second World War and founded Nestroys present rank as an Austrian classics, after years previously Karl Kraus had first championed this popular representatives of the Viennese popular theater as a serious satirist and as it called him his role model. 1990 Paryla, who had also later rendered outstanding services to the Nestroy'sche work was awarded the Nestroy ring.
For his production of the play Celestina by Carlo Terron the Cologne Theatre was honored with an invitation to the 4th Berlin Theatre Meeting in 1967. A histrionic climax in Parylas career, who played as a mime under major directors such as Ernst Lothar, Gustav Manker (Johann Nestroy The House of temperaments and Ferdinand Raimund The farmer as a millionaire ), Günther Haenel ( Raimund The barometer makers on the magic island) or Otto Schenk, was the appearance of Mephistopheles in Faust I by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, directed by Fritz Kortner with Gerd brothers as a fist.
1986 awarded him the members of the Hamburg Volksbühne the honorary prize Silver mask.
Paryla was " notorious " for its long samples, which often lasted until late into the night. It could happen that the actors - after the electrician had gone home - had to continue to work by candlelight. According to the motto: "If the actors are on the brink of collapse, only then they are really good ." (Source: Brigitte drummer who worked with Paryla as an actress at the Theatre Cologne, Germany. )
Even as a 85 -year-old, he directed the world premiere of a capriccio, for example, by Wolfgang Bauer in the United Stages Graz. Canteen in 1991 as a professor in the subject drama, Paryla promoted young actor, so, he recorded Douglas Welbat with him three years acting classes.