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Laura Bilgeri

Laura Bilgeri is a young actress based in Los Angeles. Bilgeri began her acting career when she was 14 years old. She made her feature film debut in the film "A Breath Of Heaven", which won the Golden Rooster Award for best foreign film. Then she appeared in the popular German/Austrian TV Series Vienna Crime Squad. Laura gained international attention when she got a role in the 2014 World War I Drama "The Silent Mountain" along side film icon Claudia Cardinale ("Once Upon a Time in the West") and British actor William Moseley ("The Chronicles Of Narnia", "Royals") She also co-stared alongside Emmy Award winning actress Pamela Adlon in the new FX series "Better Things", directed by Louis C.K. Besides she's been working as a model in the US, Italy, Austria, Germany, Switzerland & China. Bilgeri was also featured in the new US wide Mazda Commercial, produced by Ridley Scott & directed by Jake Scott.

Peter Patzak

Peter Patzak was an Austrian filmmaker known especially for directing the satirical crime series Kottan ermittelt and many other films and TV productions. After studying psychology, art history and painting, he directed his first feature and later adapted literary works and historical stories for screen. In addition to filmmaking, he was also a painter, author and long-time professor of directing at the Vienna Film Academy, and he won numerous international awards throughout his career. Patzak passed away in 2021 at the age of 76 following heart surgery.

Julia Koschitz

Julia Koschitz (born in 1974 in Brussels) is an Austrian actress. Trained at the Franz Schubert Conservatory in Vienna, she began her acting career in theatre, notably at the Landestheater Coburg and the Regensburg Theatre. On television, she gained widespread recognition for her role in the comedy series Doctor's Diary (2008–2011), before focusing on television dramas and TV movies. Her performance in the television film Passgut earned her a Grimme Award in 2014. In film and television, she has appeared in feature films such as Tour de Force (Hin und weg, 2014) and Jonathan (2016), as well as in drama and crime series such as Pagan Peak (Der Pass) and Kitz.

Barbara Sotelsek

Barbara Sotelsek is an Austrian actor, performer and producer based in Berlin. After starting out at the legendary "Theater in DE Josefstadt" in Vienna, she came to major prominence as a lead in the queer crime series 'Behind bars'. Since then she has worked in numerous international productions such as the Turkish feature film "Son Mektup", the BBC drama series "Killing Eve","Paint the Dragons' Eyes" by Academy Award winner James Lucas, "Regardless" a Turkish-German-British feature film produced by the team behind "Mustang" (nominated for an Academy Award 2016) and most recently as part of "YOU" a mini series for SKY /BBC. She created a Performance for the "Klangraum Minoritenkirche Krems - Blutspuren" in Austria. As a producer she worked on "Not a Good Man" (USA)

Monica Bleibtreu

Monica Bleibtreu (born May 4, 1944, in Vienna; died May 13, 2009, in Hamburg) was an Austrian actress, acting instructor, and screenwriter. Bleibtreu hailed from a family with a long-standing theatrical tradition. Her father, Renato Attilio Bleibtreu, directed the *Wiener Zimmerbühne* in Mödling, and her great-aunt was the renowned actress Hedwig Bleibtreu. Following the financial failure of the theater, Monica Bleibtreu was compelled to contribute to her family's livelihood while still a teenager. At the age of sixteen, she moved to Hamburg, where she took acting lessons. She later studied at the Max Reinhardt Seminar in Vienna. Her career began on the stage, where she performed at venues including the *Schillertheater* in Berlin, the *Freie Volksbühne Berlin*, the *Münchner Kammerspiele*, and the *Burgtheater*. From 1993 to 1998, Bleibtreu served as a professor of acting at the University of Music and Theatre Hamburg. She landed her first television role in 1972 in the crime series *Der Kommissar*. Over the following decades, she established herself as one of the most distinguished character actresses in German-language film and television. Her later works include the television film *Ein starker Abgang*—starring alongside Bruno Ganz—as well as the feature films *Tannöd* and *Soul Kitchen*, both of which were released posthumously. Her son, the actor Moritz Bleibtreu, was born of her relationship with the actor Hans Brenner. Monica Bleibtreu died in Hamburg in 2009 at the age of 65.

Anton Figl

Anton Figl—sometimes credited as Anton Fiegl—(born 1968) is an Austrian film and theater actor. Anton Figl completed his acting training from 1989 to 1993 at the Krauss Drama School in Vienna. Further studies took him to the Lee Strasberg Theatre and Film Institute in New York in 1998, and to the Deutsche Schauspielerakademie in Munich in 1999. Initially, Figl worked primarily as a stage actor, performing at venues such as the Landesbühne Hannover and the Theater am Kurfürstendamm. Since the early 2000s, he has appeared regularly in film and television productions. His most notable works include roles in *(T)Raumschiff Surprise – Periode 1* and *Sophie Scholl – Die letzten Tage*. From 2007 onwards, he also performed regularly at the Kammertheater München. Since 2014, Figl has been a permanent member of the ensemble for the crime series *Kommissarin Lucas*, playing the role of forensic pathologist Pauli.

Ina Jaich

Ina Jaich (born 10 April 1984 in Stuttgart) is a German actress. Trained at the Ulm Academy of Dramatic Arts (akademie für darstellende kunst adk-ulm), she began her career on stage, performing across numerous European theatre venues, notably at the HAU – Hebbel am Ufer in Berlin, the Thalia Theater in Hamburg, and WERK X in Vienna. In cinema, she drew attention playing one of the leading roles in Sinje Köhler's drama film Viva Forever (2021), a performance that earned her a nomination for the Young German Cinema Award (Förderpreis Neues Deutsches Kino) in the acting category. On television and in short films, she has appeared in various projects, including the crime series SOKO Wismar and Notruf Hafenkante.

Joachim Kemmer

Joachim Kemmer (September 12, 1939 - April 27, 2000) was a German actor, voice actor, singer, and cabaret performer. Born in Brandenburg an der Havel, Germany, he grew up in Berlin and studied acting at the Fritz Kirchhoff School. He later performed in theaters across Germany and Austria, including the Theater an der Wien, the Theater in der Josefstadt, and the Salzburg Festival. Kemmer appeared in numerous German films and television productions. His notable screen credits include The Vampire Happening (1971), Meier (1986), Otto - Der neue Film (1987), and Dominik Graf’s crime thriller Die Katze (1988), in which he appeared alongside Götz George. He also made guest appearances in popular German television series such as Derrick, Der Alte, Tatort, and Liebling Kreuzberg. He was particularly renowned for his extensive voice acting career, becoming one of Germany’s most recognizable dubbing artists. He provided German voices for international actors including Humphrey Bogart, Al Pacino, Richard Pryor, Anthony Hopkins, Harvey Keitel, and Willem Dafoe. Kemmer also voiced numerous characters in German-language versions of animated films, including Sebastian in The Little Mermaid (1989), Lumiere in Beauty and the Beast (1991), Jafar in Aladdin (1992), Rafiki in The Lion King (1994), Governor Ratcliffe in Pocahontas (1995), and Rasputin in Anastasia (1997). In addition to his film and voice work, he performed in musical theater, notably portraying Gus, Bustopher Jones, and Growltiger in the German-language production of Cats. Kemmer died in Vienna, Austria, on April 27, 2000, at the age of 60.

Peter Fitz

Peter Fitz (8 August 1931 - 10 January 2013) was a German stage and film actor. Fitz completed an apprenticeship at the drama school of the Deutsches Schauspielhaus in Hamburg in the 1950s. In the 1960s, engagements at the Schauspiel Frankfurt theatre followed. Director Peter Stein brought him into the ensemble of the Berlin Schaubühne theatre, where he worked under the direction of Stein as well as Klaus Michael Grüber. In the course of his career, Fitz performed at all major German-language venues, such as the Vienna Burgtheater, the Munich Kammerspiele, Berlin's Schiller Theater, as well as the Salzburg Festival. In 1980 and 1983, he was voted Actor of the Year by the editors of Theater heute magazine. Fitz' theater work took precedence throughout his career, but he also appeared in a number of films and television productions. Some of these include the 1987 film Au revoir les enfants and The Wannsee Conference in 1984. In 1996, Fitz was nominated for the German Film Award for his portrayal of Reinhold Schünzel in Hans-Christoph Blumenberg's Beim nächsten Kuß knall’ ich ihn nieder. Fitz was also known to a broad television audience through crime films and series, as well as for his voice acting work. Peter Fitz died in his Berlin apartment on 10 January 2013 at the age of 81. He was the father of actress Hendrikje Fitz (1961–2016) and actor Florian Fitz (born 1967). His is buried in the Waldfriedhof Zehlendorf Berlin forest cemetery. His daughter was buried next to him upon her death in 2016. Source: Article "Peter Fitz" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA 3.0.

Hans-Jochen Wagner

Hans-Jochen Wagner comes from a family of teachers and was born as the middle of three brothers in December 1968 in Tübingen. He grew up in Reutlingen, where his mother worked as an anthroposophical art therapist and he attended the Waldorf school. He initially studied teaching in Tübingen (specializing in mathematics and history) and worked on the side as a technician and assistant director at the Reutlingen theater Die Tonne. He then pursued a degree in cultural education in Hildesheim. From 1994 to 1997, he completed his acting training at the Ernst Busch Academy of Dramatic Arts in Berlin. Later, he took a film acting course at the Film Academy Baden-Württemberg in Ludwigsburg. In 1997, he was engaged at the Burgtheater in Vienna.. Wagner made his camera debut in 1998 in the short film "Zita - Stories about Deadly Sins." In 2002, he appeared as Martin alongside Harald Schrott and Lisa Martinek in the television film "Die Rückkehr" (The Return), directed by Christoph Stark. His first leading film role was in 2003 in the German-Austrian feature film "Sie haben Knut" (They Have Knut). From 2013 to 2021, he played Detective Chief Inspector Hendrik Verhoeven in nine episodes of the ZDF crime series "Kommissarin Heller" alongside Lisa Wagner and Nina Kronjäger. From 2004 onwards, he took on guest roles in several "Tatort" episodes. Since 2017, he has been appearing as Detective Friedemann Berg in the Black Forest "Tatort" of SWR alongside Eva Löbau. __________ This is an excerpt from Wikipedia. The complete article (/wiki/Hans-Jochen_Wagner) is licenced under „Creative Commons Attribution/Share Alike“. The complete list of contributors is available at the source.

Vienna Weaver

Vienna Norris

Cast · Known for The Family Plan

Vienna Hehir

Vienna Barrus

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Sophie Bauer

Sophie Bauer is a Vienna-based actress, who was born and raised in Paris in 1993.

Felix Kammerer

Cast · Known for All Quiet on the Western Front, Frankenstein

Felix Kammerer (Vienna, September 19, 1995) is an Austrian actor. Son of Angelika Kirchschlager and Hans Peter Kammerer, both opera singers. He studied at the Ernst Busch Academy of Dramatic Arts in Berlin. Member of the Vienna Burgtheater ensemble. He made his big screen debut in the 2022 German-language adaptation of All Quiet on the Front, the title character and central figure of the story playing Paul Bäumer. It was awarded with the Bafta award in 2023.

Isabel Karajan

Isabel Karajan (born 25 June 1960 in Vienna) is an Austrian actress. She is a daughter of Herbert von Karajan and Eliette von Karajan. After completing her Matura, Isabel Karajan studied acting in Vienna and Paris. She had her first acting engagements with the playhouses in Zurich and Stuttgart, the Thalia theatre Hamburg, the theatre Der Kreis in Vienna and the Théâtre National de la Colline. From 1995 to 1998 Isabel Karajan played the part of the Good Works in Jedermann at the Salzburg Festival. She also performed in Avignon and Adelaide, Australia, as well as at the Teatro Colón in Buenos Aires, the Schauspielhaus Stuttgart, the Münchner Kammerspiele and at the Schaubühne in Berlin. In 2000, she appeared in Jeanne d'Arc au bûcher by Arthur Honegger at the Saito-Kinen Festival in Japan. It's the extraordinary projects that are close to Isabel Karajan's heart. She has been developing her own projects for solo theatrical performances, chamber music or large orchestra with directors such as Klaus Ortner, Jorge Lavelli, Julian Pölsler, Christina Pfrötschner and others for several years. At the Shostakovich Days in Gohrisch, the Salzburg Easter Festival, the Diaghilev Festival of Currentzis in Perm, the Soli Deo Gloria Festival in Goslar and the Kfar Blum Festival in Israel, she presented "Miss Death meets Mr. Shostakovich ", a scenic collage on fear with chamber music by Shostakovich and texts by his contemporaries. Together with members of the Berliner Philharmoniker and the Bamberg Symphony Orchestra, she appeared on stage in Stravinsky's "The Story of the Soldier" and also played "Eight Songs for a Mad King" by Peter Maxwell Davies. At the Saito-Kinen Festival in Japan, she appeared as "Jeanne d`Arc au bûcher" by Arthur Honegger. In 2015, under the direction of Julian Pölsler, "Die Feuerprobe" with poems by Christine Lavant and Op. 40 by Shostakovich. Furthermore, Isabel Karajan, in collaboration with the director Christina Pfrötschner, created a word music collage for the Midsummer Night's Dream. In 2016, Isabel Karajan starred in Bernstein's "Candide" with the Hamburg Symphony Orchestra under the direction of Jeffrey Tate. This was followed in 2017 by Edgar A. Poe's "The Mask of the Red Death" at the Swiss Alp Classic Festival in Andermatt with Clemens Hellsberg and members of the Vienna Philharmonic. In the summer of 2018 she performed with the composer Beat Furrer at the Salzburg Festival with an interpretation of the "Wüstenbuch" fragment by Ingeborg Bachmann. As leading actress she was involved in the development and successful premiere of the opera "Stillhang" by Christian Spitzenstätter in December 2018 under the direction of Klaus Ortner. Shakespeare's "Midsummer Night's Dream" in the version by F. Mendelssohn Bartholdy described her from the point of view of an orchestra violist together with the Staatskapelle Dresden and the conductor Vladimir Jurowski in three concert evenings in the Semper Oper Dresden in 2019. ... Source: Article "Isabel Karajan" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA 3.0.

Christiane Hörbiger

Cast · Known for alpha Österreich

Christiane Hörbiger (born 13 October 1938 in Vienna, Austria) is an Austrian television and film actress. She is one of the three actress daughters of Austrian actors Attila Hörbiger (1896–1987) and Paula Wessely (1907–2000). Her sisters are Elisabeth Orth and Maresa Hörbiger. She is also the aunt of German-Austrian actor Christian Tramitz. She has played roles in various German and Austrian TV movies and TV series. For example, from 1998 until 2002 she played the eponymous role in the Austrian TV series Julia—eine ungewöhnliche Frau (Julia—An Extraordinary Woman). In 1995, she was a member of the jury at the 45th Berlin International Film Festival.[1] Her only foray so far into voice acting has been the role of Mrs Caloway (the dairy cow) in the German-language version of Disney's Home on the Range. Today Christiane Hörbiger lives mainly in Vienna. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Masa Lizdek

Cast · Known for Ready or Not: Here I Come

Masa (Masha) Lizdek was born in Vienna, raised in former Yugoslavia and immigrated to Canada with her family as refugees during the Yugoslav War. Masa is best known for her guest star appearances on The Detail (2018), Man Seeking Woman (2015) and Murdoch Mysteries (2013). Lizdek also starred in The Waiting Room (2015) as Sanja (supporting lead), performing in her mother tongue (Serbo-Croatian). The film was nominated and featured in Toronto International Film Festival, Locarno International Film Festival and several more.

Helmut Qualtinger

Cast · Known for The Name of the Rose

Helmut Qualtinger was born in Vienna, Austria. He initially studied medicine, but quit university to become a newspaper reporter and film critic for local press, while beginning to write texts for cabaret performances and theater plays. Qualtinger debuted as an actor at a student theater and attended the Max Reinhardt Seminar as a guest student. Beginning in 1947, he appeared in cabaret performances. In 1949, Qualtinger's first theatrical play, Jugend vor den Schranken, was staged in Graz. Up to 1960, Qualtinger collaborated on various cabaret programmes with the Namenlosen Ensemble made up of Gerhard Bronner, Carl Merz, Louise Martini, Peter Wehle, Georg Kreisler, and Michael Kehlmann. Qualtinger was famous for his practical jokes. In 1951, he managed to launch a false report in several newspapers announcing a visit to Vienna of a (fictional) famous Inuit poet named Kobuk (author of "The Burning Igloo"). The reporters who assembled at the railway station however were to witness Qualtinger, in fur coat and cap, stepping from the train. Asked about his "first impressions of Vienna", the "Inuit poet" commented in broad Viennese dialect, "Haaaßis'sdo - [It's hot here]". The short one-man play Der Herr Karl, written by Qualtinger and Carl Merz and performed by Qualtinger in 1961, made the author known across German-speaking countries. "Herr Karl", a grocery store clerk, tells the story of his life to an imaginary colleague - from the days of the Habsburg empire, the First Austrian Republic, the Austrofascist regime leading up to the Anschluss (annexation) by Nazi Germany, World War II and finally military occupation by Allied forces in the 1950s, seen from the perspective of a one who is a prototypical opportunist. Qualtinger's portrayal of the petit-bourgeois Nazi collaborator came at a time when "normality" had just been restored and Austrians' involvement in the Nazi movement was being downplayed and "forgotten", making many enemies for the author, who even received anonymous threats of murder. Beginning in the 1970s, Qualtinger frequently performed recitals of his own and other texts, including excerpts from Adolf Hitler's Mein Kampf and Karl Kraus' Die letzten Tage der Menschheit (The Last Days of Mankind). These recitals were highly popular and resulted in several records being published. Qualtinger played countless theater, TV and film parts, making his final appearance in The Name of the Rose in 1986, along with Sean Connery. Qualtinger died in Vienna on 29 September 1986, of a liver condition. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Norbert Schiller

Norbert Schiller, Born in Vienna, Austria on November 24, 1899, Norbert Schiller embarked on a successful acting career that spanned across continents and mediums. Schiller's early life is shrouded in some mystery. We know he was born in Vienna and entered the world of acting at a young age, captivating audiences with his natural stage presence and expressive voice. He honed his skills in the vibrant Viennese theater scene, eventually graduating to prominent roles in both Austria and Germany. The allure of Hollywood beckoned in the 1920s, leading Schiller to relocate to Los Angeles and pursue opportunities in American film. He quickly found success, appearing in numerous films throughout the silent and early sound eras. His versatility allowed him to portray a wide range of characters, from charming heroes to cunning villains, captivating audiences with his nuanced performances. Schiller's career continued to flourish throughout the mid-20th century. He divided his time between film and television, appearing in popular shows like "The Twilight Zone" and "Alfred Hitchcock Presents." He also continued to work in theater, both on Broadway and in regional productions.

Amira El Sayed

Amira El Sayed is an Austrian actress and author based in Vienna, Austria.