Willy Trenk-Trebitsch

Willy Trenk - Trebitsch ( born March 11, 1902 in Vienna, † 21 September 1983 in Berlin) was an Austrian actor.

Biography

Willy Trenk - Trebitsch first studied music in Vienna before he decided on a career as an actor. In 1927, he debuted at the Deutsches Theater in Prague. The Mack the Knife from The Threepenny Opera by Bertolt Brecht was Trenk - Trebitsch both at its premiere at the opening of the theater on Schiffbauerdamm in Berlin on August 28, 1928 (next to Lotte Lenya and Erich Ponto under the musical direction of Theo Mack Eben), at the Prague premiere as with the first gramophone recording of the work from the year 1930.

The actor was known as a demanding, for supreme to themselves and others. The writer Max Brod wrote of him: "If he is on the sample, it works like a Vormeister in a steel mill. "

In the following years Trenk - Trebitsch played in Berlin under Max Reinhardt, and Leopold Jessner and was committed to the seizure of power in 1933 at the Volksbühne of Heinz Hilpert. He then went to Vienna, where he worked mainly on the radio. After the annexation of Austria in 1938, he fled to Paris. There he worked on the 1939 film by Robert Siodmak white slaver as assistant director with.

1940 succeeded Trenk - Trebitsch with false French papers over Trinidad to emigrate to the United States. There he played supporting roles in films and theater. In 1952 he returned to Germany to play there mainly theater. In 1957, he starred in a television production of The Threepenny Opera his signature role as Mack the Knife.

Filmography

( as an actor )

(as director)

Works

Fritz Kortner, Max Reinhardt and I (Lecture ), in: Theatre in Exile 1933-1945, Volume 12, pp. 251f.