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@chrisl7000.bsky.social Oct 1, 2026, 6:23 PM

Heute vor 40 Jahren: Helmut Qualtinger-Nachruf in der Times vom 1. Oktober 1986.
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Titel: "Herr Helmut Qualtinger". Text: "Herr Helmut Qualtinger, the actor and playwright whose satirical depiction of the vices of the Austrian character made him a household name in the post-war German-speaking world, died in Vienna on September 29. He was 57.
Born in Vienna on October 8, 1928, the only child of a schoolmaster, Qualtinger's experience of the brutality and cynicism which lay beneath so much of the charm of interwar Austria developed a powerful sense of irony which he was to put to good use in cabaret theatres after the war. Despite his obvious gifts as an actor, he preferred cabaret to the formality of the theatre stage, which he believed could no longer adaquately portray that ironic strain in Austrian literature which was developed in the last century by Nestroy and,later, Karl Kraus.
In 1961, in conjunction with Gerhard Bronner's Fledermaus Cabaret Theatre, he unveiled, in a one-man play of the same name, the character with which he was to be forever associated: "Herr Karl", the opportunist, cynical, perpetually grumbling Austrian whose barely-repressed desire for a "strong arm" to discipline his innate slovenliness is a literary monument to the Austrian character.
He was well-known for his readings from Mein Kampf, with which he made several foreign tours, conjuring horror and humour from Hitler's work as a constant warning against any revival of his ideas.
A vastly built man, whose baroque size was a landmark in the older Vienna cafes, Qualtinger was a link with an art of satire now virtually
extinct in Austria."

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