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O. W. Fischer






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O. W. Fischer
Fischer (1st from left) with Michel Auclair and Axel von Ambesser (right), Munich-Riem Airport, 1951
Born

Otto Wilhelm Fischer


(1915-04-01)1 April 1915
Died29 January 2004(2004-01-29) (aged 88)
EducationUniversity of Vienna
OccupationActor

Otto Wilhelm Fischer (German: O. W. Fischer, pronounced [oː veː ˈfɪʃɐ] ; 1 April 1915 – 29 January 2004) was an Austrian film and theatre actor, a leading man of West German cinema during the Wirtschaftswunder era of the 1950s and 1960s.

Biography

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He was born in Klosterneuburg near Vienna, where he obtained his Matura degree at the local gymnasium secondary school. Fischer began studying English and German philology and art history at the University of Vienna, in 1936, however, he enlisted at the Max Reinhardt Seminar drama school. He had first engagements as an actor at the Vienna Theater in der Josefstadt, the Munich Kammerspiele, and the Vienna Volkstheater. In 1945 he reached the highpoint of his theatre career when he joined the ensemble of the Burgtheater.

Fischer began filming in 1936, his performance in the 1942 propaganda movie Vienna 1910 earned him an entry on Goebbel's Gottbegnadeten list. He made his breakthrough after the war starring in A Heidelberg Romance and numerous other romance films, often with female co-stars Maria Schell and Ruth Leuwerik.

Fischer enjoyed a great career, but unlike countrymen and -women Oskar Werner, Curd Jürgens, Maria Schell and Romy Schneider, he never made it internationally. Worse, his American break ended before it began: he was signed to star with June Allyson in a remakeofMy Man Godfrey in 1956, but was fired after 16 days of shooting[1] and replaced by David Niven when Fischer reportedly lost his memory during filming. Fischer directed and starred opposite Anouk Aimée in a 1956 film, Ich suche Dich, based on the play, Jupiter Laughs, by A. J. Cronin. In 1955, he directed and starred in Hanussen, a movie detailing the life of clairvoyant Erik Jan Hanussen. While the film is considered highly romanticized, it assisted historians and biographers in uncovering previously unknown facts. He also starred in the title role of tragic King Ludwig II of Bavaria in the classic German film, Ludwig II: Glanz und Ende eines KönigsbyHelmut Käutner.

In the early 1970s, he retired to live in Vernate, Ticino and to concentrate on linguistics and philosophy, on which he lectured and published a number of books. He died in Lugano, Switzerlandofkidney failure.

Selected filmography

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Honours and awards

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Publications

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References

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  1. ^ "O. W. Fischer's Back in Reich; Germans See Blow to Their Stars". Variety. 27 February 1957. p. 13. Retrieved 10 June 2019 – via Archive.org.
  • ^ "Reply to a parliamentary question" (PDF) (in German). p. 85. Retrieved 1 November 2012.
  • ^ "Reply to a parliamentary question" (PDF) (in German). p. 984. Retrieved 19 December 2012.
  • ^ "Reply to a parliamentary question" (PDF) (in German). p. 1009. Retrieved 19 December 2012.
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