Adi Hirschal

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Adi Hirschal (Vienna 2008)

Adolf "Adi" Hirschal (born November 17, 1948 in Innsbruck , Tyrol ) is an Austrian actor, cabaret artist and artistic director who lives in Vienna . Adi Hirschal is married and has two children, a son and a daughter, Maddalena , who also works as an actor.

education

The son of a dentist came to Linz at the age of three , where he attended elementary school in the Ebelsberg district . He then moved to Vienna to the “ Vienna Boys' Choir ” (1958 to 1963), where he first came into professional contact with music and singing. The Matura followed the military service (1968) with the mountain hunters in Glasenbach .

1969 Hirschal began the University of Vienna Jus study (up to the first state examination), but went in 1970 to Berlin to collect first experiences as an actor. The following year, back in Vienna, he began his acting training at the Max Reinhardt Seminar , which he graduated with a diploma in 1974, and studied theater studies . This was followed by a first engagement at the Vienna Burgtheater , where he a. a. worked with Axel Corti , Giorgio Strehler , Otto Schenk , Gerhard Klingenberg and Michael Kehlmann .

"Best of Strizzis" - Adi Hirschal and Wolfgang Böck (Vienna 2008)

Career

A. Hirschal, 2010.

Adi Hirschal describes the time from 1977 when he went hiking as his second school leaving examination . He tried his hand at the streets of Europe with his own music and lyrics, preferably in Italy. Five years later he returned to the theater and spent three years in Memmingen before deciding to return to Vienna.

In the following years he played in 1988 a. a. at the Theater in der Josefstadt in A Strange Couple , 1989 under Ruth Drexel at the Münchner Volkstheater in Der Sumörder , 1990 at the Vienna Akademietheater in Mauerstücke , the following year at the Wiener Metropol in Lysistrata . He also appeared regularly in television series and films ( Kaisermühlen-Blues , Kommissar Rex , Der Bockerer ). Engagements in the State Theater Stuttgart and as Titus Feuerfuchs in the Ernst Deutsch Theater Hamburg 1996.

In 1993 he played alongside Karlheinz Hackl in the stories from the Vienna Woods at the Theater in der Josefstadt . From 1990 he also dealt with his own productions, conceived his own musical projects and gave concerts in Austria and Germany. T. together with Wolfgang Böck ( Strizzilieder ). He also worked as a director, u. a. at City of Angels at the Amstetten musical summer. From 2000 he played the milkman Tevje in Anatevka, first at the Aalto-Theater in Essen under the direction of Helmuth Matiasek , then from 2003 to 2008 under the direction of Matias Davids in the Vienna Volksoper . In 2005 he staged One Night in Venice at the Lucerne Theater .

Since 2004 he has been the artistic director of the Wiener Lustspielhaus , a plug-in theater based on old Viennese tradition, which he founded. The wooden theater can be dismantled, in good weather the roof can be opened and it offers space for 400 people. The location is Am Hof , but it was originally intended to be set up at different locations.

From 2003 to 2008 he was director of the Haag theater summer . At the Haag theater summer in 2008, the wild play Das Gespenst von Canterville was performed , with the specter from Hubert Wolf ( Papa Putz at Möbel Lutz ). After six years as artistic director, Adi Hirschal handed over this function to Gregor Bloéb at the end of 2008 , who in 2007 gave Phileas Fogg in the play Around the World in 80 Days . Bloéb played the leading role in Cyrano de Bergerac in his first year as artistic director .

Since spring 2007, Adi Hirschal has been back together with Wolfgang Böck with a Viennese song program called Best of Strizzis .

Since 2011 he has been the director of the Laxenburg Cultural Summer as the successor to Jürgen Wilke .

Movie and TV

honors and awards

Web links

Commons : Adi Hirschal  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ New Upper Austria from April 14, 2008
  2. ↑ Upper Austrian News of December 30, 2008
  3. ^ Laxenburg cultural summer: Adi Hirschal new director . Article dated October 20, 2011, accessed February 2, 2019.
  4. ^ Archive report for the State of Vienna from September 26, 2001
  5. ^ "Great Golden Decoration" from the state of Lower Austria to Adi Hirschal from September 29, 2015, accessed on September 30, 2015
personal data
SURNAME Hirschal, Adi
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Hirschal, Adolf
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian actor, cabaret artist and artistic director
DATE OF BIRTH November 17, 1948
PLACE OF BIRTH Innsbruck , Tyrol