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Otto Wilhelm Fischer (Template:Langx, {{#invoke:IPA|main}}; 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.

BiographyEdit

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 remake of My Man Godfrey in 1956, but was fired after 16 days of shooting<ref>Template:Cite news</ref> 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 Königs by Helmut Käutner.

In 2021 Senta Berger claimed that O. W. Fischer attempted to rape her in a hotel room during production on Es muß nicht immer Kaviar sein (1961)<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

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, Switzerland of kidney failure.

Selected filmographyEdit

Honours and awardsEdit

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  • 1961: Europa Prize for Das Riesenrad
  • 1961: Honorary Member of the Association of the Spanish film journalists
  • 1970: Appointed Professor
  • 1977: Filmband in Gold for long and outstanding achievements in German film
  • 1987, 1990: Bambi award
  • 1987: Cordon Bleu du Saint Esprit
  • 1995: Grand Silver Decoration for Services to the Republic of Austria<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation

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PublicationsEdit

  • [-?-]: Auferstehung in Hollywood. Texte, Wien: Österreichische Staatsdruckerei, o.J. Template:ISBN
  • 1986: Engelsknabe war ich keiner. Erinnerung an eine Jugend, Munich: Langen Müller Template:ISBN
  • 1999: Ferner Klang. Texte, Ulm: Hess Template:ISBN
  • 2000: Meine Geheimnisse. Erinnerungen und Gedanken, Munich: Langen Müller Template:ISBN

ReferencesEdit

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Further readingEdit

  • Holba, Herbert: O. W. Fischer, Phänomen einer schauspielerischen Persönlichkeit, Wien 1964
  • Popa, Dorin: O. W. Fischer, Seine Filme – sein Leben, Heyne, München 1989. Template:ISBN
  • F.F.G.: ...was mich ankommt, als Gesicht, Traum und Empfindung. Das denkwürdigste Interview von O. W. Fischer, Strom, Zürich 1977. Template:ISBN

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