Hubert Marischka (27 August 1882 – 4 December 1959), brother of
Ernst Marischka
Ernst Marischka (2 January 1893 – 12 May 1963) was an Austrian screenwriter and film director. He wrote for more than 90 films between 1913 and 1962. He also directed 29 films between 1915 and 1962. He wrote and directed the Sissi trilogy ...
, was an
Austria
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operetta
Operetta is a form of theatre and a genre of light opera. It includes spoken dialogue, songs, and dances. It is lighter than opera in terms of its music, orchestral size, length of the work, and at face value, subject matter. Apart from its s ...
tenor
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, actor,
film director
A film director controls a film's artistic and dramatic aspects and visualizes the screenplay (or script) while guiding the film crew and actors in the fulfilment of that vision. The director has a key role in choosing the cast members, p ...
and
screenwriter
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...
.
Career
Marischka was born in
Brunn am Gebirge
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History
Excavations from the Neolithic period show that the area was already inhabited 6000 BC and Brunn maki ...
, the son of Jiří (or Johann) Marischka, a supplier to the court of the
Austro-Hungarian monarchy
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, and his wife Bertha. Hubert began work as a joiner but trained as a singer and in 1904 began a new career in operetta in the town theatre of
St. Pölten
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. He had his first success as a singer in
Brünn
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in 1906, as Danilo in ''
Die lustige Witwe
''The Merry Widow'' (german: Die lustige Witwe, links=no ) is an operetta by the Austro-Hungarian composer Franz Lehár. The librettists, Viktor Léon and Leo Stein, based the story – concerning a rich widow, and her countrymen's attempt t ...
''. On 27 July 1907 he sang at the premiere of the ''
Der fidele Bauer'' by
Leo Fall
Leopold Fall (2 February 187316 September 1925) was an Austrian Kapellmeister and composer of operettas.
Life
Born in Olmütz (Olomouc), Leo (or Leopold) Fall was taught by his father Moritz Fall (1848–1922), a bandmaster and composer, who sett ...
in
Mannheim
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.
On 23 December 1908 he appeared on stage for the first time in Vienna at the
Carltheater
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It was the successor to the Leopoldstädter Theater. After a series of financial difficulties, that theater had ...
in Fall's ''Die geschiedene Frau''. From then on he was particularly successful in the
Theater an der Wien
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, where later he worked as director, mostly of operettas. In 1923 he rose to be director of the Theater an der Wien. On 28 February 1924 he was responsible for the premiere of the operetta ''
Gräfin Mariza
''Gräfin Mariza'' (''Countess Maritza'') is an operetta in three acts composed by Hungarian composer Emmerich Kálmán, with a German libretto by Julius Brammer and Alfred Grünwald. It premiered in Vienna on 28 February 1924 at the Theater an ...
''. At the end of the 1920s he sang at the
Wiener Staatsoper
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in ''
Eine Nacht in Venedig
'' Eine Nacht in Venedig '' (''A Night in Venice'') is an operetta in three acts by Johann Strauss II. Its libretto was by F. Zell and Richard Genée based on ''Le Château Trompette'' by Eugène Cormon and Richard Genée. The farcical, romantic ...
''. For a time Marischka was also director of the
Stadttheater Wien and of the
Raimundtheater
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Named after the Austrian dramatist Ferdinand Raimund, the theatre was built by an association of Viennese citizens and opened on 28 November 1893 with Raimund's play ...
, director of the Papageno Music Publishers and a professor of operetta at the ''
Akademie für Musik und darstellende Kunst
The University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna (german: link=no, Universität für Musik und darstellende Kunst Wien, abbreviated MDW) is an Austrian university located in Vienna, established in 1817.
With a student body of over three thousa ...
''.
Films
He made contact early on with the new medium of film, in which he worked as actor, director and screenwriter. His films are often of the ''
Wiener Film
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'' genre. With
Hans Moser he made such well-known films as ''
Wir bitten zum Tanz
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'' (1941) and ''
Der Herr Kanzleirat
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'' (1948).
Personal life
In 1907 he married Lizzy Léon (d. 1918), daughter of the librettist
Viktor Léon
Victor Léon, also Viktor Léon (born Victor Hirschfeld; 4 January 1858, Szenic, Nyitra County, Kingdom of Hungary, Austrian Empire (today Senica, Slovakia) – 23 February 1940, Vienna) was a well-known Jewish Austrian-Hungarian librettist. He col ...
. They had three children: Lisl Marischka, actress, 1908–1945, who married in 1933 Austrian baron Alfons von Gecmen-Waldeck; Viktor Marischka, born 1915; and the director
Franz Marischka
Franz Marischka (1918–2009) was an Austrian actor, screenwriter and film director. He was the son of the director Hubert Marischka.Goble p.84
Selected filmography Screenwriter
* '' The Daughter of the Regiment'' (1953)
* '' Victoria and Her H ...
, born 1918. Hubert Marischka married as his second wife Lilian "Lilly" Karczag, daughter of the theatre director Wilhelm Karczag, and from this marriage had two more children, the director
Georg Marischka
Georg Marischka (born 29 June 1922 in Vienna; died 9 August 1999 in Munich) was an Austrian actor, screen writer, director and film producer for cinema and television.
Life
George Marischka was born into the world of film because his father w ...
, 1922–1999, and Tassilo Marischka, born 1928. This marriage ended in divorce. During
World War II
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he was married for a short time to his third wife, Juliane. In 1946 he was married for the fourth and last time to the actress Trude Basch-Havel. Hubert Marischka died in
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, and is buried in the
Hietzing Cemetery
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* Jean-Baptiste Clery (1759–1809), valet to King Louis XVI
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in
Hietzing
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.
Filmography
*1913: Die Feuerprobe (actor)
*1913: Der Millionenonkel / Der Verschwender (actor, co-screenwriter, co-director)
*1915: ''
With Heart and Hand for the Fatherland
''With Heart and Hand for the Fatherland'' (German: ''Mit Herz und Hand fürs Vaterland'') is a 1915 Austrian silent war drama film directed by Jacob Fleck and Luise Fleck and starring Hubert Marischka, Hermann Benke and Liane Haid. The composer ...
'' (actor)
*1915: Zwei Freunde (actor, co-director)
*1915: Der Schusterprinz (screenwriter)
*1915: Das erste Weib (director, screenwriter)
*1916: ''
On the Heights
''On the Heights'' (German: ''Auf der Höhe'') is a 1916 Austrian silent drama film directed by Jacob Fleck and Luise Fleck and starring Liane Haid, Hermann Benke and Wilhelm Klitsch.Parish p.245
Cast
* Wilhelm Klitsch as Gregor Stark
* Liane Ha ...
'' (actor)
*1917: ''
The Black Hand'' (actor)
*1918: Wo die Lerche singt (actor, co-screenwriter)
*1918: Der Tribut des Künstlers (short film; actor)
*1918: Um ein Weib (actor, co-director)
*1932: ''
Countess Mariza
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'' (actor)
*1935: Die ganze Welt dreht sich um Liebe / Liebesmelodie (screenwriter)
*1939: Drunter und drüber (director, co-screenwriter)
*1939: Hochzeitsreise zu dritt (director, co-screenwriter)
*1939: Das Glück wohnt nebenan (director, co-screenwriter)
*1940: Herzensfreud - Herzensleid (director, co-screenwriter)
*1940: ''
The Unfaithful Eckehart'' (director)
*1941:
Wir bitten zum Tanz
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(director)
*1941: Oh diese Männer (director)
*1942: ''
Vienna Blood'' (1942) (co-screenwriter)
*1943: ''
The Master Detective
''The Master Detective'' (german: Der Meisterdetektiv) is a 1944 German comedy film directed by Hubert Marischka and starring Rudolf Platte who plays a private detective. The film's art direction was by Gustav A. Knauer and Arthur Schwarz.
Cast ...
'' (director)
*1943: Drei tolle Mädels (director)
*1943: ''
A Man for My Wife
''A Man for My Wife'' (german: Ein Mann für meine Frau) is a 1943 German comedy film directed by Hubert Marischka and starring Magda Schneider, Johannes Riemann and Clementia Egies. The film's sets were designed by the art directors Hans Leders ...
'' (director)
*1943: Ein Walzer mit dir (director, co-screenwriter)
*1943: Alles aus Liebe (director, co-screenwriter)
*1944: Ein Mann gehört ins Haus (director)
*1947: Wiener Melodien (co-director)
*1948:
Der Herr Kanzleirat
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(director, screenwriter)
*1950: ''
Kissing Is No Sin'' (director, co-screenwriter)
*1951: Stadtpark / Kleiner Peter, große Sorgen (director, co-screenwriter)
*1951: Der fidele Bauer (co-screenwriter)
*1951: ''
The Csardas Princess'' (actor)
*1951: ''
City Park
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''
*1952: ''
Knall and Fall as Imposters
''Knall and Fall as Imposters'' (German: ''Knall und Fall als Hochstapler'') is a 1952 Austrian-German comedy film directed by Ulrich Bettac and Hubert Marischka and starring Hans Richter, Rudolf Carl and Curd Jürgens. It was followed by a 1953 ...
'' (director)
*1952: ''
The Land of Smiles
''The Land of Smiles'' (German: ') is a 1929 romantic operetta in three acts by Franz Lehár. The German language libretto was by and Fritz Löhner-Beda. The performance duration is about 100 minutes.
This was one of Lehár's later works, and h ...
'' (co-screenwriter)
*1952: ''
Rose of the Mountain
''Rose of the Mountain'' (german: Du bist die Rose vom Wörthersee) is a 1952 West German musical comedy film directed by Hubert Marischka and starring Marte Harell, Grethe Weiser and Waltraut Haas.New Austrian Film p. 240 It takes its German titl ...
'' (director, co-screenwriter)
*1953: Die Perle von Tokay (director, co-screenwriter)
*1955: ''
Let the Sun Shine Again
''Let the Sun Shine Again'' (German: ''Lass die Sonne wieder scheinen'') is a 1955 Austrian-West German musical comedy film directed by Hubert Marischka and starring Hans Holt, Hertha Feiler and Cornelia Froboess.Wagnleitner p.281 Shooting took pl ...
'' (director)
*1956: ''
Love, Summer and Music
''Love, Summer and Music'' (German: ''Liebe, Sommer und Musik'') is a 1956 Austrian-German musical comedy film directed by Hubert Marischka and starring Joe Stöckel, Fritz Heller and Rudolf Wasserlof.Elsaesser & Wedel p.171
The film's sets were ...
'' (director, co-screenwriter)
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1882 births
1959 deaths
People from Mödling District
Austrian male film actors
Austrian film directors
Austrian operatic tenors
Austrian male screenwriters
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20th-century Austrian male writers