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person_profile-Helmut Qualtinger

Helmut Qualtinger Died at age: 57

Actor | Producer

Fullname:

Helmut Qualtinger

Date of Birth:

Oct 08, 1928

Country of birth:

Austria

Died:

Sep 29, 1986

Biography of

Helmut Qualtinger

    From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

    Helmut Qualtinger was born in Vienna, Austria. He initially studied medicine, but quit university to become a newspaper reporter and film critic for local press, while beginning to write texts for cabaret performances and theater plays. Qualtinger debuted as an actor at a student theater and attended the Max Reinhardt Seminar as a guest student.

    Beginning in 1947, he appeared in cabaret performances. In 1949, Qualtinger's first theatrical play, Jugend vor den Schranken, was staged in Graz. Up to 1960, Qualtinger collaborated on various cabaret programmes with the Namenlosen Ensemble made up of Gerhard Bronner, Carl Merz, Louise Martini, Peter Wehle, Georg Kreisler, and Michael Kehlmann.

    Qualtinger was famous for his practical jokes. In 1951, he managed to launch a false report in several newspapers announcing a visit to Vienna of a (fictional) famous Inuit poet named Kobuk (author of "The Burning Igloo"). The reporters who assembled at the railway station however were to witness Qualtinger, in fur coat and cap, stepping from the train. Asked about his "first impressions of Vienna", the "Inuit poet" commented in broad Viennese dialect, "Haaaßis'sdo - [It's hot here]."

    The short one-man play Der Herr Karl, written by Qualtinger and Carl Merz and performed by Qualtinger in 1961, made the author known across German-speaking countries. "Herr Karl", a grocery store clerk, tells the story of his life to an imaginary colleague - from the days of the Habsburg empire, the First Austrian Republic, the Austrofascist regime leading up to the Anschluss (annexation) by Nazi Germany, World War II and finally military occupation by Allied forces in the 1950s, seen from the perspective of a one who is a prototypical opportunist. Qualtinger's portrayal of the petit-bourgeois Nazi collaborator came at a time when "normality" had just been restored and Austrians' involvement in the Nazi movement was being downplayed and "forgotten", making many enemies for the author, who even received anonymous threats of murder.

    Beginning in the 1970s, Qualtinger frequently performed recitals of his own and other texts, including excerpts from Adolf Hitler's Mein Kampf and Karl Kraus' Die letzten Tage der Menschheit (The Last Days of Mankind). These recitals were highly popular and resulted in several records being published.

    Qualtinger played countless theater, TV and film parts, making his final appearance in The Name of the Rose in 1986, along with Sean Connery.

    Qualtinger died in Vienna on 29 September 1986, of a liver condition.

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Filmography of

Helmut Qualtinger

Found 20 Movies in total

... 2011

The Name of the Rose

Remigio da Varagine ( Actor )

... 1986

Tales from the Vienna Woods

Zauberkönig ( Actor )

... 1979

End of the Game

Von Schwendi ( Actor )

... 1978

Grandison

Dr. Ludwig Pfister ( Actor )

... 1978

... 1977

Mitgift

Huck ( Actor )

... 1976

Eiszeit

Offizier ( Actor )

... 1975

The Cultist

Kulterer ( Actor )

... 1974

... 1973

Weights and Measures

Anselm Eibenschütz ( Actor )

... 1973

Diary of a Serial Killer

Rudi Böhm ( Actor )

... 1969

The Castle

Bürgel ( Actor )

... 1968

Der Herr Karl

Herr Karl ( Actor )

Writer

... 1967

Radetzkymarsch

Kapturak ( Actor )

... 1965

Mann im Schatten

Oberpolizeirat Dr. Radosch ( Actor )

... 1961

The Magnificent Rogue

Seppl Reber ( Actor )

... 1960

Die schöne Lügnerin

Detective Zawadil ( Actor )

... 1959

Mikosch im Geheimdienst

Oberst Fedor Fedorowitsch Ganiew ( Actor )

... 1959

... 1952