Walter Schmidinger

Walter Schmid Inger ( born April 28, 1933, Linz, Upper Austria, † September 28, 2013 in Berlin) was an Austrian actor.

Life

Schmidinger first completed an apprenticeship as a salesman and decorator in a cloth shop. From 1951, he began his training as an actor at the Max Reinhardt Seminar in Vienna. He received his first engagement with the local theater in the Josefstadt. In 1954, he received a call to the stages of the city of Bonn, the ensemble he served until 1969. Then Schmidinger was a member of the ensemble of the Munich Studio Theater for three years. From there he moved to the Bavarian State Theatre in Munich. Here he became a crowd favorite. He remained until 1984 in Munich, he first went to the theater in Berlin, a year later at the Berlin Schiller Theater, where he stood until its closure in 1993, on the stage and also acted as a director. In the nineties of the last century, he then played at the Deutsches Theater in Berlin. Subsequently, he also belonged to the Berliner Ensemble. Schmidinger guested in addition to all the major theaters in Germany, for example, the Deutsches Schauspielhaus in Hamburg and the Burgtheater in Vienna and at the Salzburg Festival.

Since the early 1970s Schmidinger also played repeatedly on television. He has guest starred in the crime scene, Derrick and Der Alte. Also in some television dramas ( eg fast as in real life, play in the lock, Kir Royal, Opera Ball ), he worked with.

In his cinema career began in 1973 with a small supporting role in Maximilian Schell's The pedestrians. There was a variety of film roles. Apart Maximilian Schell Schmidinger worked there along with Ingmar Bergman, Peter Schamoni, Karin Brandauer and István Szabó.

Frequently Schmidinger also made readings and recitation evenings. He employed, for example, to with works by Thomas Bernhard, Joseph Roth, Arthur Schnitzler, Else Lasker-Schüler, Johann Nestroy, Heinrich Heine and Franz Kafka. Uniquely were his interpretations of texts Karl Valentin.

In 2001, Schmid Inger was on the jury of the Alfred Kerr Actors price.

Walter Schmid Inger died on September 28, 2013 in Berlin and was buried in the cemetery Dorotheenstädtischer. On December 1, 2013 was a matinee at the Berliner Ensemble ( "The migratory birds continue ...") to commemorate the actor instead. Colleagues and friends like Carmen - Maja Antoni, Robert Wilson, Andrea Eckert, Angela Winkler, Claus Peymann and Meret Becker reminded once again of the deceased.

Services

For his performance in Willi Franz Xaver Kroetz ' homework at the Munich Kammerspielen Schmidinger was voted the best actor of the year. Since then, he was one of the stars of the German-language theater. He impressed by a multi-faceted game and exceptional acting dominance. His graceful melancholy made ​​an impression at risk.

Especially torn figures and broken souls were his domain. His depictions of Malvolio in Shakespeare's Twelfth Night, Hamlet be, King Lear or Nathan ( in Lessing's Nathan the Wise ) theater history have written. The press celebrated him as " conceited sick of all time" in Molière's title role. Unforgettable also be Salieri in Peter Shaffer Amadeus. In Berlin, he was honored for his portrayal of the music critic Reger in Thomas Bernhard's Old Masters with the Critics' Prize of the Berliner Zeitung.

Hellmuth Karasek praised Schmidinger in the Tagesspiegel as "one of the few actors that one without hesitation, bestowed favors, ' may be called, with something you know clearly that graced ' always cursed ' means and means grace and curse are two sides of the same coin ... Great art is always a pact with the devil. "

Trivia

In 1976 Schmidinger suffered during a guest performance by the Munich Residenz Theater in Schweinfurt because of a " trailer " in Gerhart Hauptmann's Michael Kramer a nervous breakdown and began to smash the decorations. The audience kept the first for a part of the staging, to the colleagues dragged the bewildered actor of the stage and the curtain fell.

Roles (selection)

• Petypon in Love ( Director: Rolf Becker)
• Willi in Homework ( Director: Horst boiling )
• Hatch in The Lake (directed by Luc Bondy )
• Tartuffe Tartuffe in (directed by Ingmar Bergman )
• Mr. Lips in The Torn ( Director: Gustav Manker )
• Duke of Clarence in Richard III. (Directed by Kurt Meisel )
• Gennadius in the forest ( Director: Harald Clemen )
• Kari Buhl in The Difficult ( Director: Hans Gratzer )
• Salieri in Amadeus ( Director: Kurt Meisel )
• Poet in the dance (directed by Kurt Meisel )
• Doctor in To Damascus ( Director: Erwin Axer )
• Shylock in The Merchant of Venice (directed by Alfred Kirchner )
• Malvolio in Twelfth Night (directed by Wilfried Minks )
• Leonce in Leonce and Lena ( Directed by Dieter Dorn )
• Cyprian in The Park (directed by Peter Stein )
• Nathan in Nathan the Wise ( Director: Bernard Sobel )
• 1 actor in Hamlet (directed by Klaus Maria Brandauer )
• Leonce and Lena in King ( Director: Robert Wilson)

Filmography (selection)

Awards

In November 2006 he received the Nestroy Theatre Prize for his life's work.