Veit Relin

Veit Relin was an Austrian actor , screenwriter and director .

The son of a police officer first appeared on stage at the age of twelve as an extra at the Landestheater Linz . After high school he attended the Max Reinhardt Seminar in Vienna . At the same time he studied painting at the Vienna Art Academy . He made his debut at the Landestheater Innsbruck in 1945 as game announcer in a performance of Jedermann .

This was followed by engagements at the Landestheater Linz (1945/46), at the Insel in Vienna (1946/47), Burgtheater (1947/48), Theater in Chur and Sommertheater in Winterthur (1949/50), Scala Vienna (1950 to 1952) , Landestheater Salzburg (1952/53), Bavarian State Theater in Munich (1953), Staatstheater Kassel (1953 to 1955) and the Municipal Theater in Frankfurt (1956/57), where he first worked as a stage designer.

From 1960 to 1962 he played again at the Burgtheater. In 1960 he founded the Ateliertheater am Naschmarkt in Vienna , which he directed until 1967. There he staged, among other things, Oskar Kokoschka 's Orpheus and Eurydice and the premiere in Austria (1962) of Picasso's How to grab wishes by the tail .

From 1964 Relin went on tour with his future wife, the actress Maria Schell (1926-2005), and worked as an actor and director for television. In 1976 he took over the Sommerhausen Torturmtheater in Sommerhausen near Würzburg, which was founded in 1950 by Luigi Malipiero in a small tower above an old city gate. There he staged some world premieres such as Fred Viebahn's blood sisters and Hans Krendlesberger 's I've had enough, I stay in bed and in 1985 the German premiere of Edward Albee's The Man Who Had Three Arms .

In 1981 he launched the open-air theater in Sommerhausen. Because the municipal council did not agree with his plans, he moved with his theater and his ideas to Brattenstein Castle near Röttingen , which was then half in ruins . The first play he performed there in 1984 was Earlier Relationships in a proscenium stage and, like in 1985, played the role of Muffl. He was director there until 1987. Plays by the Viennese Volkstheater were performed under his direction.

Since then he has lived mainly in Sommerhausen and Winterhausen . From 1950 he emerged as a painter, took part in exhibitions and used the Torturmtheater as a gallery for his pictures. Relin was married to Maria Schell from 1966 to 1986. Marie-Theres Relin (* 1966) came from this marriage .

Veit Relin, who died on January 23, 2013 at the age of 86 in Ochsenfurt, near Würzburg, was buried on February 1, 2013 in the Sommerhausen cemetery.