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Fritz MULIAR
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Fritz Muliar was born 1919 in Vienna. After studies at the Vienna School af Arts he was engaged as cabaret artist in Stella Kadmon's cabaret theatre "Der liebe Augustin" in the late 1930s. After serving in the Second World War, he was imprisoned by the Nazis in 1942 and spent seven months in solitary confinement for "Betätigung zur Wiederherstellung eines freien Österreich" (activities to restore Austrian independence).
After the war, further engagements at cabaret theatres followed, until Muliar started his career as a stage actor. He played at stages in Innsbruck and Graz, at the Raimund and at the Volkstheater in Vienna, and at the "Theater in der Josefstadt" (here he has been ensemble member again since 1994). In the mid seventies Muliar was assigned as ensemble member at the Burgtheater in Vienna. Of small build, he once said that his ambitions have never included playing parts such as that of Othello. Rather, he has always preferred comic roles and traditional Austrian fare (Johann Nestroy, Ferdinand Raimund). So Muliar has excelled as banker Natter in Schnitzler's "Das weite Land" and as proletarian boss of London's beggars Peachum in "The Threepenny Opera" – for which he was granted the Kainz medal. While he also performed regularly at the Salzburg Festival (Jedermann, a version of Everyman), Muliar also appeared in numerous films and in some television series such as "Kir Royal" (alongside Franz Xaver Kroetz) and "Kommissar Rex". He is best remembered beyond the boundaries of his native Vienna for playing the title role in the 13-part TV series, "Die Abenteuer des braven Soldaten Schwejk", which was filmed in German and broadcast by the Austrian state TV (ORF) in 1972. |
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