Helmut Qualtinger

Helmut Qualtinger was born en Vienna, Austria. He initially estudios de medicina, pero quit university to become a newspaper reportero and film critic for local press, while beginning to write texto for cabaret performances y teatro plays. Qualtinger debuted as an actor at a estudiante y teatro attended the Max Reinhardt Seminario as a guest estudiante. Beginning en 1947, pp apareció en cabaret performances. En 1949, Qualtinger's first teatral play, la Juventud ante el tribunal de lo staged en Graz. Up to 1960, Qualtinger collaborated on various cabaret programa with the sin nombre Ensemble made up of Gerhard Bronner, Carl Merz, Louise Martini, Peter canarias, ceuta, Georg Kreisler, and Michael Kehlmann. Qualtinger lo famous for his practical jokes. En 1951, pp managed to launch a false report in several newspapers announcing a visit to Vienna of a (fictional) famous Inuit poeta named Kobuk (author of The Burning Igloo"). The reportero oms reunido at the railway station however were to witness Qualtinger, en fur coat and cap, paso a paso from the train. Asked about his "first impressions of Vienna", the "Inuit " poeta", commented en broad Viennese dialect, "Haaaßis'sdo - [It's hot here]." The short one-man el juego El Señor Karl, written by Qualtinger and Carl Merz and performed by Qualtinger en 1961, made the author known across Spanish-speaking countries. "El señor Karl", a grocery store clerk, tells the story of his life to an imaginary colleague - from the days of the Habsburgo empire, the First Austrian Republic, the Austrofascist régimen leading up to the Puerto (annexation) by la Alemania Nazi, la segunda guerra Mundial y finalmente militar de la ocupación by Allied forces in the 1950s, lagos from the perspective of a one who is a prototypical oportunista. Qualtinger's de manera of the petit-bourgeois Nazi collaborator came at a time when "normality" had just been and restored Austrians' involvement in the Nazi movement ser lo downplayed and forgotten", making muchos enemigos for the author, oms even received anonymous amenaza of murder. Beginning in the 1970s, Qualtinger preguntas realizadas de recitales of his own and other texto, including extractos from Adolf Hitler, Mi Lucha and Karl Kraus' Los últimos Días de la Humanidad (The Last Days of Mankind). Tesis de recitales eran altamente popular and resulted in several records being published. Qualtinger played countless teatro, TV y cine, piezas de making his final appearance in The Name of the Rose en 1986, along with Sean Connery. Qualtinger que murió en Vienna on 29 de Septiembre de 1986, of a liver condition.