Richard Felix Fortin
- Actor
After studying at the famous Max-Reinhardt-Seminar in Vienna Richard
Fortin worked as an actor at the Stadttheater Klagenfurt, Carinthia,
Austria. Due to Nazi-denunciation he was sent to war to Africa. In a
British POW-camp he was allowed to read classic books to the captives
to keep up the morals. This helped him back in occupied post-war Vienna
to get a job at the newly founded broadcasting station, the predecessor
of ORF, the Austrian Broadcasting Corporation. For the following
decennials Richard Felix Fortin worked mainly as a speaker for the ORF
radio news. His trained and beautiful voice was a daily companion for
generations of post-war Austrians. He frequently read plays for the
radio, a popular entertainment in the pre-TV era. Apart from scarce
appearances on film or stage he never took to acting again, although
his marvellous voice never left him until his death at age 95.