Robert Freitag
Robert Freitag (* April 7, 1916 in Vienna, † July 8th, 2010 in Munich, actually Robert Peter Freytag ) was an Austrian -Swiss theater and film actor and director.
Life
Robert Freitag was born as the son of Swiss opera singer Otto Friday. He received his acting training at the Reinhardt Seminar in Vienna. During the period of National Socialism, he went to Switzerland, where he worked as an actor at the Schauspielhaus in Zurich in 1941. In 1945 he married the German actress Maria Becker, who had studied acting in Vienna and was engaged at the same house since 1938, the theater as emigrants experienced a climax during the Second World War. The emigrant Becker gained Swiss citizenship by marrying Friday.
From 1949 on Friday took part in the Salzburg Festival. Later he played among others at the Deutsches Schauspielhaus and the intimate theater in Hamburg. With his then-wife, Maria Becker, and the German theater actor Will Quadflieg founded Friday, 1956 in Zurich, the touring theater, the troupe Zurich (also Zürcher acting troupe ), in which he partly directed and in which he on numerous tours throughout the German-speaking and in the United States occurred.
On the stage was to be seen in a variety of classical and modern roles Robert Freitag. From 1941 he also played in the movie, such as, among others, in his signature role as William Tell, later also often on television. His marriage to Maria Becker was divorced in 1966; However, both worked together after the divorce and still came up in the 1990s on together, especially in productions of ensembles founded by them walking, the troupe Zurich. The marriage produced three sons were born, two of whom were actors, Benedict Friday and Oliver Tobias.
Published in 1994 in Zurich Pendo Verlag Robert Fridays autobiography under the title It want me pleasure to say with laughter the truth. Even in old age he had a role in the 2001 TV movie The lovers from Alexanderplatz and directed by Detlef Rönfeldt.
Friday was married to his second wife since 1966 with the German actress Maria Sebaldt, with whom he lived in Grünwald near Munich. The marriage produced a daughter.
His tomb is located in the forest cemetery Grünwald.
Filmography (selection)
Publications (selection )
- It want to comfort me, to tell the truth with laughter. Pendo Verlag, Zurich 1994, ISBN 3-85842-280-0. ( Autobiography )
- The troupe Zurich. . The acting troupe ( self-published ), Zurich 1968 ( with Maria Becker)
- The troupe Will Quadflieg, Maria Becker, Robert Freitag shows: Penthesilea. Tragedy by Heinrich von Kleist. World premiere of the original dictated by the poet and hand improved version of the work. . The acting troupe ( self-published ), Zurich 1962 ( Featuring: Will Quad Fly, Mary Becker)