Otto Tausig

Otto Tausig
Tausig being interviewed after winning the Nestroy Theatre Award for Lifetime Achievement
Born	Otto Bruno Tausig 13 February 1922(1922-02-13) Vienna, Austria
Died	10 October 2011(2011-10-10) (aged 89) Vienna, Austria
Occupation	Actor
Years active	1956–2011

Otto Tausig (13 February 1922 – 10 October 2011) was an Austrian writer, director and actor. Although he usually appeared in German language films, he also played in films in English such as Love Comes Lately, and in French in such as La Reine Margot and Place Vendôme.

Life and career

Tausig was the son of author Franziska Tausig. As a Jew, Otto emigrated from Austria on January 1938 after the country was being taken over by Germany.^[1] His mother sent Otto, then 16, to England through an advertisement in The Times which was looking for factory workers, thus saving him from The Holocaust.^[2]

After the end of World War II, he returned back to Austria in 1946 and became a student the Max Reinhardt Seminar in Vienna. Two years later, in 1948, Tausig began as an actor, director and chief editor at the New Theatre in the Scala.^[3]

After The New Theatre was closed in 1956, Tausig worked at the Deutsches Theater and the Volksbühne in East Berlin.^[1] It was there where he worked as a screenwriter and director of satirical short films of DEFA, the so-called "Das Stacheltier".^[2] In 1960, Tausig then moved to Zurich to work at the Schauspielhaus as a free-lance actor and director.^[1] A decade later, Tausig was an ensemble member and director at the Vienna Burgtheater, where he was active until 1983.^[1]

Tausig also worked as a freelance artist throughout the German-speaking world as well he taught at the Max Reinhardt Seminar. He frequently wrote and directed German television films.^{[citation needed]}

Awards

Tausig winning the Nestroy Theatre Award for Lifetime Achievement

• 1997: Bruno Kreisky Award for Services to the Human Rights^[4]
• 2007: Austrian Honorary Cross for Science and Art, First Class
• 2009: Nestroy Theatre Award, Award for Lifetime Achievement

References

1. ^ ^{a b c d} Frank-Burkhard Habel, Volker Wachter: Das große Lexikon der DDR-Stars, Schwarzkopf & Schwarzkopf, Berlin 2002, ISBN 3-89602-391-8
2. ^ ^{a b} Otto Tausig: Kasperl, Kummerl, Jud Eine Lebensgeschichte, Mandelbaum, Wien 2003, ISBN 385476149X
3. ^ "Otto Tausig - Entwicklungshilfeklub". Eh-klub.at. http://www.eh-klub.at/ueber/team/mitglieder/tausig. Retrieved 2011-04-22. 
4. ^ "Bruno Kreisky Menschenrechtspreis". Kreisky.org. http://www.kreisky.org/human.rights/deutsch/preisverleihungen9.htm. Retrieved 2011-04-22. 

External links

• Otto Tausig at the Internet Movie Database
• Otto Tausig at AllRovi

Persondata
Name	Tausig, Otto
Alternative names
Short description	Austrian actor
Date of birth	13 February 1922
Place of birth	Vienna, Austria
Date of death	10 October 2011
Place of death