Kurt Sterneck

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. 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.

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.

Sterneck made his debut in Munich in 1951. From autumn 1955, he was a member of the ensemble at the Theater Krefeld und Mönchengladbach. 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.

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 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 and directed several radio dramas. For example, he appeared in Andreas Okopenko's radio drama Johanna.

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 Source: 1963: Die Fernfahrer (TV series) – Frachtbrief Nr. 1012 1965: Zeitsperre (TV film) 1966: Zehn Prozent (TV film) 1967: Blick von der Brücke (TV film) 1972–1976: Die Abenteuer des braven Soldaten Schwejk (TV series) – 1 sequel 1984: Derrick (TV series) – Angriff aus dem Dunkel

Radio play

Narrator 1961: Spiel auf der Tenne 1962: Die einzige Rechnung (Folge aus dem Mehrteiler „Terra Incognita“) 1968: Fast eine Reportage 1969: Johanna 1963: Gesucht wird Jimmy Hardwick 1964: Das Fenster 1964: Der fahrende Schüler im Paradies 1964: Jobal und die vier Reiter 1965: Solo für Störtebeker 1967: Das gefleckte Band 1967: Der Mann mit den zwei Bärten 1967: Ein Leben 1968: Der Sonntag der braven Leute 1968: Geheimakt ADM 20 C auf der Kinderspielwiese (8 sequels) 1968: Mord im Erholungsdorf (8 szequels) 1968: Alles für Septimius Severus 1968: Die Stimme unter der Brücke 1968: Hier darf nur geflogen werden 1969: Der Große Rindfleisch-Vertrag 1969: Korsakow 1969: Die Partei der Anständigen 1969: Das Mädchen am Fenster 1969: Mauer 1969: Frau Kröner fährt Taxi 1970: Ausbruch 1970: Der Käfig 1970: Die Rückkehr des Cortez 1971: Auslandsgespräch 1971: Der Aufstand der Würmer 1971: Der Tod der Bessie Smith 1971: Die blaue Küste 1971: Goll Moll 1971: Ferngespräche 1971: Die heißen Tage der Gerti Zeiss 1972: Beschreibungen 1972: Miteinander, Füreinander 1972: Johanna oder Ein Familienzwist 1973: Das Lächeln der Apostel 1973: Der Mann, der seine persönliche Meinung verloren hat 1974: Eins, zwei, drei 1975: Der schwarze Tod 1975: Große Oper für Stanislaw den Schweiger 1977: Paß nach Drüben 1978: Ein Hund namens Hegel

Direction 1972: Der Pfründner 1972: Der Mensch Adam Deigl und die Obrigkeit 1973: Menschenkuchen 1973: Der Verderber 1973: Die Schreibmaschinen 1973: Erdbeereis mit Schlagobers 1973: Lieferung frei Haus 1974: Sprechstunde bei Dr. Weiss 1975: Einfach Anna 1977: Hecht im Karpfenteich 1980: Männlicher gegen Maschine