Albert Kitzl

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Albert Kitzl (* 1943 in Bakowa , Kingdom of Romania ) is a Romanian - German actor .

Life

Early years in Romania

Kitzl was born in the Romanian Banat , in a village only a few kilometers from the birthplace of the Nobel Prize winner Herta Müller . His family belonged to the German-speaking minority of the Banat Swabians .

From 1969 to 1973 he completed a four-year course at the State Film and Drama School in Bucharest . During his studies he played at the German State Theater Timişoara . In 1969 he appeared there in The Cactus Blossom . After completing his studies, he was initially committed to the Jewish State Theater in Bucharest. Later he went to the Bulandra Theater in Bucharest . In 1977 Kitzl came to Germany as a repatriate .

Theater in Germany

He had theater engagements in Essen , at the Stadttheater Bern , at the Schauspielhaus Frankfurt , at the Schauspielhaus Köln (in the season 1984/85 as La Hire in Die Jungfrau von Orleans ; director: Jürgen Flimm ) and at the Deutsches Schauspielhaus Hamburg . In 1987 he was engaged by Peter Zadek at the Deutsches Schauspielhaus Hamburg, where he appeared in 1987 as Reineke Fuchs by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe , directed by Michael Bogdanov . His other engagements at the Schauspielhaus Dusseldorf (1993 Basow in summer guests of Maxim Gorky ) and the Theater in der Josefstadt in Vienna .

Kitzl appeared several times in plays by the Israeli playwright Jehoschua Sobol , in 1987 in his debut at the Deutsches Schauspielhaus Hamburg in Die Palestinenserin (director: David Mouchtar-Samorai , with Renan Demirkan ) and in 1996 during the Wiener Festwochen in the world premiere of the play Alma - A Show Biz ans Ende (premiere in the Sanatorium Purkersdorf , director: Paulus Manker , with Susi Nicoletti , Johanna Wokalek , Paulus Manker and Leon Askin ), which was filmed in 1999. In 1998 he was a guest at the Bad Hersfeld Festival .

In the 2001/02 season he was a permanent member of the ensemble at the Schauspiel Frankfurt . There he appeared as Polonius in Hamlet , as Oronte in The Misanthrope and as the farmer Veit Tümpel in Der zerbrochne Krug . In 2004 he played at the Schauspiel Frankfurt together with Felix von Manteuffel in Denis Diderot's dialogue Rameus Neffe . In the 2003/04 season he took over at the Hamburg Kammerspiele the role of Truffaldino in Carlo Goldoni's comedy The Servant of Two Masters ; Directed by Michael Bogdanov. In 2005 he was a guest at the Hamburger Kammerspiele with Rameus Neffe in the production of Schauspiel Frankfurt. In the 2007/08 season he appeared as godfather Risto Mihaijlov in the play Fremdes Haus by Dea Loher at the Cologne Theater . In 2009, Kitzl played the old husband Petey Boles in Harold Pinter's early work The Birthday Party at the Schauspiel Köln, alongside Helga Uthmann (Theater Dortmund) and Lucas Gregorowicz . In 2011 he played the servant Sachar in a stage version of the novel Oblomow in a production by Alvis Hermanis at the Städtische Bühnen Köln in the Halle Kalk .

Movie and TV

Kitzl played his first film roles in Romania in the late 1970s. From the beginning of the 1980s he was regularly seen in German-language cinema and television productions. Kitzl mostly took on concise supporting roles. He often played characters with a migration background . Due to its southern appearance, it was often occupied as a Turkish, Italian, Greek, Romanian or Arab.

Kitzl had cinema roles in the films Charlie & Louise - Das doppelte Lottchen (1994, as Sülo), Long Hello & Short Goodbye (1999; as a drug dealer), Absolute Giganten (1999; as Boss and Elvis Presley impersonator), September (2003; as Mr. Moshen) and Dreiviertelmond (2011; as Mr. Arslan). In the film project The Tulse Luper Suitcases (2003) by Peter Greenaway , he played a gypsy and mechanic from Bucharest in the first part of The Moab Story .

He worked in the television films Reise in die Nacht (1998, alongside Ulrike Kriener as the Turkish lawyer Ali Dicle), Der Preis der Sehnsucht (1999, alongside Christiane Hörbiger as Pavel, the sick father of the call boy Aleksandr), Fresh Goods (2000, as cunning Peddler Köpferl Hansei), Operation Rubikon (2002, as gunsmith Anton Czarny) and Schimanski: The Secret of the Golem (2004, as Mr. Fränckel, member of the Jewish community).

Kitzl was also seen several times in the crime series Tatort : in Tatort: ​​Kleine Diebe (2000, as Romanian Popescu), in Tatort: ​​Tod aus Afrika (2006, as asylum seeker Jaragi from Chechnya ) and Tatort: ​​Vertigo- Free (2013, as Techniker Wasili ). In the Donna Leon thriller How Through a Dark Glass (2009) he had a small role as a trattoria owner. In the ZDF television film Mutter muss weg (2012) he played the hit man Josip alongside Bastian Pastewka and Judy Winter .

Kitzl also acted in numerous television series . In 1993 he had a continuous serial role as the Turkish greengrocer Gülüsan Ükzknürz in the ARD pre-evening series Motzki . He also took on episode roles in the television series Rennschwein Rudi Rüssel (2008, as Uncle Rakim), SOKO Vienna (2009, as Romanian Radu Brucan), SOKO Stuttgart (2010, as Serbian local landlord Milan Saric) and Forsthaus Falkenau (2013, as shepherd Georgios) .

In the ZDF television film Nägel mit Köppen (2012) he played the Greek Dimiris. He played the vacation acquaintance of the main female character Petra Koslowski (Ulrike Kriener), who learns after many years that he is the father of an illegitimate son. In the television film Until the End of the World , which was broadcast for the first time in November 2014 in the ARD theme week “Tolerance”, Kitzl embodied the grandfather Silvano, head of a Roma family, alongside Christiane Hörbiger . In the ARD crime series Der Kroatien-Krimi he had one of the episode roles in the third film Mord auf Vis (first broadcast: January 2018); he played the old witness Marko, who shares a terrible secret from the past with the local police chief. In November 2018 he was seen in the ZDF series The Specialists - In the Name of the Victims alongside Natalia Bobyleva in an episode lead role; he was the Russian-German Waldemar Kremer, who killed his own son in excess alcohol, who he believed had been murdered. In the ARD crime series Der Prag-Krimi , he also had one of the episode roles in the second case, The Cold Death (first broadcast: December 2018); He played old Jan Koller, who lives as a caretaker in a senior citizens' flat in Prague and wants nothing more to do with his son, the crime investigator for the television series.

Speaker activity

Kitzl also acted as a speaker for radio plays and audio books . He became aware of the literary work of his compatriot Herta Müller through the collection of stories Niederungen . He got in touch with her and has been friends with her ever since. He recorded Niederungen as an audio book together with Marlen Diekhoff . In 2014 he played the title role of Kotzbrock in the children's radio play Sultan and Kotzbrocken in a world without pillows by Claudia Schreiber in a SWR production .

Private

Kitzl is married. His wife was a dancer . Kitzl's daughter Joanna Kitzl is also an actress.

Kitzl had lived in Hamburg with his family since 1987. He currently lives (as of November 2018) in Berlin .

Filmography (selection)

Radio plays (selection)

  • 2008: A matter of negotiation ( Radio Tatort , WDR ), role: Hasan Arif, director: Thomas Leutzbach
  • 2010: Testosteron (Radio Tatort, WDR), role: Arthur Kowallek, director: Claudia Johanna Leist
  • 2010: Warlords (Radio Tatort, WDR), role: Arthur Kowallek, director: Claudia Johanna Leist
  • 2010: Osman - The Djinn in a Clamp (three-part series), director: Thomas Werner (WDR)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. a b c d e Albert Kitzl short vita at Audiobook Hamburg. Retrieved January 3, 2015
  2. a b Albert Kitzl at schauspielervideos.de
  3. a b c d The servant of several masters . In: Hamburger Abendblatt from May 13, 2004
  4. ^ Manic-depressive Diderot: Felix von Manteuffel and Albert Kitzl play "Rameau's Neffe" in the Frankfurter Schauspiel in: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung of May 2, 2004. Accessed on January 3, 2015
  5. Two masters serve the servants of two masters in: DIE WELT from January 12, 2004
  6. Albert Kitzl excelled as a thoroughbred comedian . In: Hamburger Abendblatt from January 19, 2004
  7. Harold Pinter production: Waiting for the removal. Performance review in Westdeutsche Allgemeine Zeitung of June 10, 2009. Accessed January 3, 2015
  8. SEHNSUCHT SAMOWAR ( Memento of 4 January 2015, Internet Archive ). In: Kölner Theaterzeitung. March 2011. Retrieved January 3, 2015
  9. The Croatian crime thriller: Murder on Vis . Plot, cast and picture gallery. Official website Das Erste . Retrieved November 14, 2018.
  10. Albert Kitzl plays Mirko . Official website Das Erste . Retrieved November 14, 2018.
  11. The Specialists - On behalf of the victims: Shenja's return . Plot and picture gallery. Prisma.de . Retrieved November 14, 2018.
  12. The Prague thriller: The cold death . Plot and cast. Official website Das Erste . Retrieved November 14, 2018.
  13. Sultan and Kotzbrocken in a world without pillows (2/4) . Content, cast and production details. Retrieved January 3, 2015
  14. a b Joanna Kitzl . Vita at Family Style Management Ltd. Retrieved August 9, 2019.