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Hugo Thimig
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Hugo Thimig
Born
Hugo August Thimig
16 June 1854
Dresden
,
German Confederation
Died
24 September 1944 (aged 90)
Vienna
,
Austria
Resting place
Sieveringer Cemetery, Vienna
Nationality
German
-
Austrian
Occupation
Actor, theatre director
Years active
1874–1924
Spouse(s)
Franziska "Fanny" Hummel
Children
Hermann Thimig
Friedrich Thimg
Helene Thimig
Hans Thimig
Hugo August Thimig
(16 June 1854 – 24 September 1944), although born in
Germany
, spent his working life in
Austria
as an
actor
,
director
, and director of the
Burgtheater
in
Vienna
.
[1]
[2]
Contents
1
Biography
2
Recognition
3
Selected filmography
4
Notes
5
References
6
External links
Biography
[
edit
]
Thimig was the founding father of one of
Austria
's most famous theatrical families, but was born in
Dresden
, the son of a shoemaker. He worked in a grocery and attended a trade school before making several appearances on stage as an amateur in his home town. He made his professional debut in October 1872 in the town theatre of
Bautzen
. Within only two years, via the theatres in
Zittau
,
Kamenz
and
Freiberg
,
Saxony
, and the
Lobe-Theater
in
Breslau
, he obtained an engagement at the
Burgtheater
, and arrived in Vienna in 1874 to take it up. A week before his 20th birthday he gave his first performance there as Didier in
Charlotte Birch-Pfeiffer
's
Die Grille
.
Thimig began as a "shy lover", but soon developed into both comic and serious character roles, and his career soon took off. As early as 1881 he was appointed
Hofrat
, in 1897 he directed his first play, and from 1912 to 1917 he was also director of the
Burgtheater
, from which he had long since obtained a contract for life plus entitlement to a pension.
After his retirement in 1924 at the age of seventy he moved to the
Theater in der Josefstadt
, run by his future son-in-law
Max Reinhardt
, where he stayed until 1933, when he finally withdrew into private life, aged alm