Josef Meinrad

Josef Meinrad was born on the 21^st April 1913; he died on the 18^th February 1996. He was an Austrian actor.

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Josef Meinrad was born as Josef Moucka in the city of Vienna; he was the 4^th and final child of the tram driver Franz Moučka and his second wife Katharina. For his secondary school, he got a scholarship in a school run by Redemptorists in Katzelsdorf near Wiener Neustadt. He at first had the intentions of being a priest, but he excaped from the boarding school in the year 1929 and became a clerk while he was receiving lessons on acting. He made his first public acting appearance in the year 1930. His first engagement with the Burgtheatre was in the year 1939 and he played then at the Salsburg Festival in the year 1947. He later in that year became a full member of the Burgtheatre Company and was a member of the ensemble until his 65^th birthday in the year 1978. He played the total of 195 roles on the stage.

He was the keeper of the Iffland-Ring that has been given to the most crucial actor of the German Speaking theatre for 200 years; he passed the ring to Bruno Ganz.

Josef Meinrad was married to Germaine Renée Clement from the year 1950 till he died of cancer in the year 1996 at the age of 82. His wife died in the year 2006.

Honors and Awards

Ø  1955: Appointed Kammerschauspieler

Ø  1959: Iffland Ring

Ø  1961: Blue Ribbon Award from the National Council Screen

Ø  1963: Kainz Medal

Ø  1963: Austrian Cross of Honour for Science and Art, 1st class

Ø  1973: Honorary Member of the Vienna Burgtheater

Ø  1980: Honorary Ring of the city of Bregenz

Ø  1983: Raymund Ring of the Federal Ministry for Education, Arts and Culture

Ø  1983: Honorary Ring of the Vienna

Ø  1985: Nestroy Ring

Ø  1997: Josef Meinrad-Platz near the Vienna Burgtheater

Films

Ø  Die Welt dreht sich verkehrt, 1947

Ø  Fregola (1948)

Ø  Anni (1948)

Ø  Der Prozeß, 1948 (see: Tiszaeszlár blood libel)

Ø  Rendezvous im Salzkammergut, 1948

Ø  Das Siegel Gottes, 1949

Ø  Prämien auf den Tod, 1950

Ø  Jetzt schlägt's 13, 1950

Ø  Erzherzog Johanns große Liebe, 1950

Ø  Der Verschwender, 1953

Ø  Weg in die Vergangenheit, 1954

Ø  Sissi, 1955

Ø  Sarajevo (1955)

Ø  Don Giovanni, 1955

Ø  Die Deutschmeister, 1955

Ø  Der Kongreß tanzt, 1956

Ø  Opernball, 1956

Ø  Sissi – Die junge Kaiserin, 1956

Ø  Die Trapp-Familie, 1956 (cf. The Sound of Music)

Ø  August, der Halbstarke, 1957

Ø  Familie Schimek, 1957

Ø  Goodbye, Franziska (1957)

Ø  Sissi – Schicksalsjahre einer Kaiserin, 1957

Ø  Die Halbzarte, 1958

Ø  Solang' die Sterne glüh'n, 1958,

Ø  The Trapp Family in America (1958)

Ø  Die schöne Lügnerin (de), 1959

Ø  Bezaubernde Arabella, 1959

Ø  Der Bauer als Millionär, 1961

Ø  Napoléon II l'Aiglon, 1961

Ø  The Cardinal, 1963

Ø  Der Verschwender, 1963

Ø  Liliom, 1963

Ø  Don Quijote, 1965

Ø  Man of La Mancha, 1972

Ø  Was ihr wollt, 1973

Ø  Der Räuber Hotzenplotz (de), 1974

Ø  Die schöne Helena, 1974

Ø  Gaslicht, 1977

Ø  Ringstraßenpalais, 1980,

Ø  Die Fledermaus, 1984

Ø  Der Unbestechliche, 1984

Ø  Der Vorhang fällt, 1988

He appeared twice in the German TV series, Der Kommissar.