Otto Tausig 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.
(13 February 1922 – 10 October 2011)
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 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
- 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
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