Helmut Qualtinger
Age: N/A | From: Vienna, Austria
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Aliases: No known aliases
Gender: Male
Place of birth: Vienna, Austria
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Movie Involvements: 39
TV Involvements: 5
Most Famous Work
Biography
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. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Most Famous Work
Deutscher Filmpreis
(1951) Self
Goldene Kamera Verleihung
(1966) Self
Krimistunde
(1982) Harry Beggs
Ikonen Österreichs
(2019) Self (archive footage)
The Name of the Rose
(1986) Remigio da Varagine
Die Alpensaga
(1976) Allinger
Grandison
(1978) Dr. Ludwig PfisterActing
| Year | Character | Movie/Tv |
|---|---|---|
| 2019 | Self (archive footage) | |
| 2011 | N/A | |
| 1986 | Self | |
| Remigio da Varagine | ||
| Dr. Döblinger | ||
| 1985 | Viktor | |
| N/A | ||
| 1982 | Harry Beggs | |
| 1981 | N/A | |
| 1979 | Zauberkönig | |
| 1978 | Sepp O'Brian | |
| Dr. Ludwig Pfister | ||
| 1977 | N/A | |
| Mulligan | ||
| 1976 | Allinger | |
| Huck | ||
| 1975 | Von Schwendi | |
| Offizier | ||
| N/A | ||
| 1974 | Ragin | |
| Self | ||
| Kulterer | ||
| 1973 | Self | |
| Anselm Eibenschütz | ||
| 1972 | Himself | |
| 1971 | Soldat | |
| Erwin Plückhahn | ||
| Johann Plantagenet, König von England | ||
| 1970 | Nationalrat Bröschl | |
| Natter | ||
| 1969 | Ignaz Trummer | |
| Rudi Böhm | ||
| 1968 | Schalanter | |
| Bürgel | ||
| 1967 | Ferry | |
| Inspektor Pokorny | ||
| Pitzl | ||
| Herr Karl | ||
| 1966 | Matzenauer | |
| Capitano Agamemnon Heredia | ||
| Scharfrichter Engel | ||
| Self | ||
| 1965 | Knieriem, ein Schustergeselle | |
| Konrad Steisshäuptl | ||
| Kapturak | ||
| 1963 | Schmitz - ein Ringer | |
| 1962 | Melchior - Hausknecht | |
| Self | ||
| 1961 | Oskar | |
| Oberpolizeirat Dr. Radosch | ||
| Ministerialdirigent Kriegbaum | ||
| 1960 | Seppl Reber | |
| 1959 | Detective Zawadil | |
| Oberst Fedor Fedorowitsch Ganiew | ||
| 1958 | Kanzakis | |
| 1957 | Der Schlechtere | |
| Wollner | ||
| 1955 | Ernst Röhm | |
| Werbefachmann | ||
| Orientalischer Fürst | ||
| 1954 | Mirko | |
| 1953 | Direktor Pokorny | |
| Kraps | ||
| 1952 | N/A | |
| 1951 | Self | |
| Year | Character | Movie/Tv |
Writing
| Year | Role | Movie/Tv |
|---|---|---|
| 2023 | Writer | |
| 2022 | Writer | |
| 1967 | Writer | |
| Writer | ||
| 1963 | Writer | |
| Year | Role | Movie/Tv |
