!!!Zbonek, Edwin

b. Linz (Upper Austria), March 28, 1928, director of plays and films, 
theatre manager. Studied at the Reinhardt Seminar drama school in 
Vienna, worked as a director at different Austrian theatres (e.g. the 
Theater in der Josefstadt, the Burgtheater and the Volkstheater in 
Vienna, at the Tyrolean Landestheater, the Graz Opera House, the 
Festival at Moerbisch on Lake Neusiedl); influential film critic in 
the 1950s. First film in 1960 ("Am Galgen haengt die Liebe"), directed 
numerous TV productions (e.g. the series "Der alte Richter" with P.  
Hoerbiger); for many years artistic director of the  Theater der 
Jugend in Vienna and responsible for the plays performed there.


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