Paul Hörbiger

Paul Hörbiger was born on the 29^th April 1894; he died on the 5^th March 1981. He was an Austrian theatre and a film actor.

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Life and Work

Paul Hörbiger was born in Budapest; he was the son of Hans Hörbiger, an engineer. His family moved back to the city of Vienna in the year 1902 while Paul attended the gymnasium at the St. Paul’s Abbey in the Lavanttal. At the time of the World War I, Paul Hörbiger worked in a mountain artillery regiment of the Austro-Hungarian Soldiers. He was discharged in the year 1918 with the rank of Oberleutnant.

Paul Hörbiger started his acting profession in the year 1919 at the city theatre of Liberec and from the year 1920, he performed at the New German theatre in Prague. His fame developed in the year 1926 after he had been employed by Max Reinhardt at the ensemble of the Deutsches theatre in Berlin, getting to the climax with his appointment at the Vienna Burgtheatre in the year 1940.

He played roles in over 240 movies of the country from the year 1928, mostly lightweight comedies of the Wiener movie category popular among the Austrian and the German audiences in the 1930s and in the 1940s

Paul Hörbiger established his own movie industry called Algefa together with director E. W. Emo in the year 1936.

After the war, Paul Hörbiger remained one of the most crucial German-speaking movie actors in many Heimatfilme.

Paul Hörbiger got married to the actress of the country called Josepha Gettke and they both had four kids together.

Paul Hörbiger died at the age of 86 in the city of Vienna and was buried in an Ehrengrab at the Vienna Zentralfriedhof.

The actors of the country like Christian Tramitz and Mavie Hörbiger are grandchildren of Paul Hörbiger.

Selected filmography

Ø  Strauss Is Playing Today (1928)

Ø  The Gallant Hussar (1928)

Ø  The Great Adventuress (1928)

Ø  The Green Monocle (1929)

Ø  Women on the Edge (1929)

Ø  The Convict from Istanbul (1929)

Ø  Spione (1928), directed by Fritz Lang

Ø  Her Grace Commands (1930)

Ø  Never Trust a Woman (1930)

Ø  Three Days Confined to Barracks (1930)

Ø  The Squeaker (1931)

Ø  Der Kongreß tanzt (1931)

Ø  Poor as a Church Mouse (1931)

Ø  Once There Was a Waltz (1932)

Ø  Trenck (1932)

Ø  Peter Voss, Thief of Millions (1932)

Ø  Paprika (1932)

Ø  You Don't Forget Such a Girl (1932)

Ø  A Tremendously Rich Man (1932)

Ø  Scampolo (1932)

Ø  Homecoming to Happiness (1933)

Ø  Liebelei (1933), directed by Max Ophüls

Ø  Walzerkrieg (1933)

Ø  Die Csárdásfürstin (1934)

Ø  Florentine (1937)

Ø  Heimat (1938)

Ø  The Blue Fox (1938)

Ø  Opernball (1939)

Ø  Immortal Waltz (1939)

Ø  Maria Ilona (1939)

Ø  Beloved Augustin (1940)

Ø  Vienna Tales (1940)

Ø  Wunschkonzert (1940), as himself

Ø  Die grosse Liebe (1942)

Ø  The Third Man (1949)

Ø  When the Evening Bells Ring (1951)

Ø  1. April 2000 (1952)

Ø  The Land of Smiles (1952)

Ø  I Lost My Heart in Heidelberg (1952)

Ø  Die Privatsekretärin (1953)

Ø  Victoria in Dover (1954)

Ø  Charley's Aunt (1956)

Ø  Sebastian Kneipp (1958)

Ø  I Learned It from Father (1964)

Awards

• State actor (Staatsschauspieler) (1942)
• Decoration of Honour in Gold for Services to the Republic of Austria (1964)
• Medal of the Austrian capital Vienna (1964)
• Kammerschauspieler (1969)
• Film Award for many years of excellent work in the German film industry (1969)
• Girardi Ring (1972)
• Austrian Cross of Honour for Science and Art, 1st class (1974)
• Honorary Ring of Vienna (1977)
• Nestroy Ring (1980)