Kurt Sterneck Explained

Kurt Julius Sterneck (28 June 1919 – 23 January 1998) was an Austro-German stage and film actor, radio drama narrator and director.

Life

Born in Graz, Sterneck was the son of the opera singer Berthold Sterneck (1887–1943) and his first wife Ernestine Franziska Sterneck, née Schröder. The Jewish father and Catholic mother had converted to Protestantism shortly before the marriage in 1918.[1] As the mother died already in September 1919, her son initially grew up with relatives of his mother in Graz. The father married again in 1922 and took the son to live with him in Munich in 1923.[2]

After passing his Abitur from a Realgymnasium in Munich in 1937, he initially worked as a trainee in preparation for studying engineering. In 1938, Sterneck entered military service and later participated in World War II as a soldier. In 1943, he began studying engineering at the Technical University of Munich. In 1944, he was arrested because of his Jewish origins. After stays in the Dachau concentration camp and a forced labour camp, Sterneck continued his interrupted studies after the end of the war in 1945 and successfully completed them. In addition to his profession as an engineer, he took acting lessons with Anna Zeise-Ernst and Heinz Thiele from 1949.[3] [4]

Sterneck made his debut in Munich in 1951. From autumn 1955, he was a member of the ensemble at the Theater Krefeld und Mönchengladbach. Stints at theatres in Pforzheim, Augsburg, Innsbruck and Tübingen followed. In 1967, he received an engagement at the .[5] In 1991, a performance is planned in the Stuttgart Komödie im Marquardt in the play Trautes Heim – nie allein by Anthony Marriott and Bob Grant zu verzeichnen. In the 1993/1994 season, he embodied his last stage role in Hermann Bahr's The Concert at the Komödie im Bayerischen Hof in Munich.[6]

Sterneck took part in several television productions. Among them was the well-known television series Die Fernfahrer on the Süddeutscher Rundfunk (SDR) by with and . He took also part in [7] also directed by Theo Mezger with Horst Niendorf, and and in episodes of the television series Derrick and Die Abenteuer des braven Soldaten Schwejk. He also worked frequently as a radio play narrator[8] and directed several radio dramas.[9] For example, he appeared in Andreas Okopenko's radio drama Johanna.[10]

Sterneck continued to teach at the University of Music and Performing Arts Graz.

Sterneck died in Munich at the age of 78. His gravesite is located at the in Munich.

Filmography[11]

Radio play

Narrator

Direction

Further reading

Notes and References

  1. Möllmann, Sterneck und seine Familie. In Schoßig (ed.), Ins Licht gerückt, Munich 2008, .
  2. Heimo Halbrainer, Gerald Lamprecht: Berthold und Kurt Sterneck. In the same: So dass uns Kindern eine durchwegs christliche Umgebung geschaffen war. The Heiland Church and its Jewish Christians between 1880 and 1955. CLIO Graz 2010,, (Online; retrieved 5 February 2021).
  3. Möllmann, pp. 153 f.
  4. Kürschners biographisches Theater-Handbuch. Berlin 1956, .
  5. Möllmann, Sterneck und seine Familie. In Schoßig (ed.), Ins Licht gerückt, Munich 2008, .
  6. Möllmann, Sterneck und seine Familie. In Schoßig (ed.), Ins Licht gerückt, Munich 2008, .
  7. http://krimiserien.heimat.eu/fernsehspiele/1966-zeitsperre.htm Zeitsperre
  8. http://oe1.orf.at/hoerspiel/suche?s_autor_name=&s_autor_firstname=&s_titel=&s_nach_day=&s_nach_month=&s_nach_year=&s_vor_day=&s_vor_month=&s_vor_year=&s_produktion=&s_regie=&s_mitwirkende=Kurt+Sterneck&s_bearbeitung=&s_assistenz=&s_schnitt=&s_ton=&s_fulltextsearch=&s_sort=name Hörspielarchiv des ORF
  9. http://oe1.orf.at/hoerspiel/suche/?s_autor_name=&s_autor_firstname=&s_titel=&s_nach_day=&s_nach_month=&s_nach_year=&s_vor_day=&s_vor_month=&s_vor_year=&s_produktion=&s_regie=Sterneck+Kurt&s_mitwirkende=&s_bearbeitung=&s_assistenz=&s_schnitt=&s_ton=&s_fulltextsearch=&s_sort=name Hörspielarchiv des ORF
  10. http://hoerspiele.dra.de/vollinfo.php?dukey=1528350&SID Johanna
  11. https://www.fernsehserien.de/kurt-sterneck/filmografie Filmography Kurt Sterneck

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