Alexander Hoffelner

Alexander Hoffelner (* 1990 in Klosterneuburg ) is an Austrian actor , speaker and theater educator.

Life

Hoffelner grew up in Höflein on the Danube , attended the grammar school in Klosterneuburg and the Higher Education Institute for Tourism HLTW XIII Vienna-Bergheidengasse and then studied history and completed a teaching degree (history and social studies / political education and geography and economics) at the University of Vienna and from Swansea University ( Wales ). He also received acting lessons from Norbert Holoubek and Alice Mortsch, as well as singing lessons from Rita Nikodim and Brigitte Berger-Görlich.

He took his first professional steps on a stage at the association teatro in the field of music theater , where he among other things, Zettel in Midsummer Night's Dream , Shirkan in the jungle book , the scarecrow in the Wizard of Oz and Bill Sikes in Oliver Twist in places like the bed spring factory in Oberwaltersdorf , the city ​​theater Mödling , the Wiener Musikverein and the Stadthalle Wien .

In the summer of 2014 he made his debut at the Reichenau Festival in the world premiere of Nicolaus Hagg's play “1914 - Zweiwege in den Untergang”, where he could also be seen in important roles in 2015 and 2016 and will appear again in 2021. He himself repeatedly developed radio plays (including for Ö1, Radio Play Summer Leipzig ...) and short films as an author and producer. Hoffelner has been a member of the Schedlfrey improvisation theater group since 2012. In 2016 he founded "kubus twenty" together with Simon Schober, their own association for the implementation of artistic projects of all kinds. Together with the Wienerlied musician Christian Tesak, he developed and played Viennese lied and literary evenings throughout Austria.

Furthermore, Hoffelner teaches children, young people and adults in workshops in the field of drama, musicals and improvisation and is a lecturer for improvisation at the Performing Academy in Vienna.

Since 2017 he has been a university assistant at the Center for Teacher Education at the University of Vienna and researches in the areas of “ theater education”, “educational improvisation” and “ political education and maturity”. He also trains prospective teachers at the University of Vienna and works in teacher training at the University of Education in Vienna , Lower Austria , Upper Austria , Styria , Salzburg and Vorarlberg as well as at the KPH Vienna-Krems .

In 2017 he wrote his first play, in which he also took on two leading roles .

He lives in Vienna.

Roles (selection)

Mödling City Theater

• 2011: Scarecrow in Der Zauberer von Oz based on L. Frank Baum (musical), directed by Walter Ludwig (revived at Wiener Musikverein )
• 2012: Shirkan in The Jungle Book based on Rudyard Kipling (musical), directed by Norberto Bertassi
• 2013: Bill Sikes in Oliver Twist based on Charles Dickens (musical), director: Norberto Bertassi (revived at MuTh Vienna)
• 2017: King and geographer in The Little Prince based on Antoine de Saint-Exupéry (musical), director and script: Norbert Holoubek
• 2018: Cheshire Cat and Dodo in Alice in Wonderland based on Lewis Carroll (musical), directed and written by Norbert Holoubek

Reichenau Festival

• 2014: Danilo Illic in 1914 - Two ways into the downfall by Nicolaus Hagg , director: Michael Gampe
• 2015: Hochroitzpointner in Professor Bernhardi by Arthur Schnitzler Director: Hermann Beil
• 2016: Anton Buchner in love stories and marriage matters by Johann Nepomuk Nestroy , director: Helmut Wiesner
• 2021: Ignaz mouse Huber in vain by Johann Nepomuk Nestroy , directed by Michael Gampe

Other roles (selection)

• 2010: Note in a Midsummer Night's Dream based on William Shakespeare , Bettfedernfabrik Oberwaltersdorf, director: Norberto Bertassi (revived in the Wiener Stadthalle )
• 2011: Davide in Voll Fett by Helmut Korherr, stage in Hof St. Pölten , director: Peter Gruber
• 2012: Double role in Stones by Tom Lycos and Stefo Nantsou, Klosterneuburg, directed by Leila Müller
• 2015: Absyrtus in Medea based on Euripides / Franz Grillparzer / Heiner Müller , Theater am Akademischen Gymnasium, director: Georg Zlabinger
• since 2015 (annually): Marley and the spirit of the future Christmas in The Christmas story by Charles Dickens , Stadtgalerie Mödling, director: Alexander Medem / Norbert Holoubek
• 2016: Tom in the glass menagerie of Tennessee Williams , Theater Center Forum, directed by Angelica Schütz
• 2017/2018: Aeneas Perl and Ernst Tommel in what you don't see . by Alexander Hoffelner, Lower Austria (several venues), director: Alice Mortsch
• 2017/2018/2019: Kreuzpointner in Taxi, Taxi - Double life is better by Ray Cooney , Theater Center Forum, directed by Ronny Hein
• 2019/2021: Martin, second cast Pfleger and second cast Kafka in Reset - Alles auf Beginn by Michael Niavarani and Roman Frankl, Theater Center Forum and Stadtgalerie Mödling (Kultursommer Mödling), director: Ronny Hein
• 2019/2020: Bear in When the Animals Go to Sleep (Production and Concept: Company Free Play), Tischlerei Melk / Dschungel Wien
• 2020: Vodka in Tom Sawyer and Huckelberry Finn based on Mark Twain (musical), Europahalle Mödling, script and direction: Norbert Holoubek, music: Norberto Bertassi / Walter Lochmann
• 2021: JB in Das Bärtchen (La mustâche) by Sacha Judaszko and Fabrice Donnio , Austria tour, director: Marcus Strahl

Author (selection)

• 2014: heimat bist du (radio play with Simon Schober)
• 2015: Parking lot (radio play with Simon Schober)
• 2015: "Untitled" - short story, published in the Austrian literary magazine Radieschen
• 2016: let's bury the cat and we'll have an ice cream. (Radio play)
• 2017: what you don't see. (Play, WP October 19, 2017)

Awards

• 2012: Culture Prize of the City of Klosterneuburg
• 2013: Josef Höchtl Prize for the production "Stones" in Klosterneuburg
• 2015: 2nd place at the Ö1 short radio play award (you're home)
• 2016: 2nd place in the Ö1 short radio play award (parking lot)
• 2017: Nomination at the radio play summer Leipzig in the category "Best radio play" (let's bury the cat and we'll have an ice cream)
• 2020: Finalist of the St. Leopold Peace Prize with the painting "in between" (2019), Klosterneuburg Abbey

Individual evidence

1. ↑ peter.jarolin: Festival Reichenau: When the perpetrators themselves become victims . July 5, 2014 ( kurier.at [accessed October 11, 2017]).
2. ↑ SCHEDLFREY. Retrieved October 11, 2017 . 
3. ↑ Cultural Networking Lower Austria: kubus twenty - Association for transdisciplinary art and cultural work. Retrieved October 11, 2017 . 
4. ↑ alexanderhoffelner.at
5. ↑ Heiner Boberski: A piece of history comes to life on stage . In: Stage - Wiener Zeitung Online . July 7, 2014 ( wienerzeitung.at [accessed October 11, 2017]).
6. ↑ peter.jarolin: Festival Reichenau: When the perpetrators themselves become victims . July 5, 2014 ( kurier.at [accessed October 11, 2017]).
7. ^ Veritable great moment: "Professor Bernhardi" in Reichenau . In: www.kleinezeitung.at . July 6, 2015 ( kleinezeitung.at [accessed October 11, 2017]).
8. ^ STANDARD Verlagsgesellschaft mbH: Nestroy in Reichenau: From farming down to marrying up . In: derStandard.at . July 6, 2016 ( derstandard.at [accessed October 11, 2017]).
9. ↑ Reichenau Festival: A bilious, bitter Nestroy fun . In: The press . July 6, 2016 ( diepresse.com [accessed October 11, 2017]).
10. ↑ Reichenau Festival - Free of charge. Retrieved January 17, 2020 . 
11. ↑ Reset - everything at the beginning. Accessed July 30, 2020 (German). 
12. ↑ When the animals go to sleep. Retrieved November 16, 2019 . 
13. ↑ Jungle Vienna. Retrieved January 17, 2020 . 
14. ↑ Summer production. May 8, 2018, accessed July 30, 2020 . 
15. ↑ THE BEARD (IT WILL NEVER BE WORSE). Accessed July 30, 2020 . 
16. ↑ track 5 'short radio play competition by ö1 & sfd - school for poetry | vienna poetry school. Retrieved October 11, 2017 . 
17. ^ Ö1: "Radio Play of the Year 2015" is Christine Lavant's "Das Wechselbälgchen" - "Radio Play Critics' Prize" for David Zane Mairowitz . In: OTS.at . February 26, 2016 ( ots.at [accessed October 11, 2017]).
18. ↑ oe1.orf.at: parking lot . In: oe1.orf.at . February 1, 2016 ( orf.at [accessed October 11, 2017]).
19. ^ Literary magazine "& Radieschen": edition archive. Retrieved October 11, 2017 . 
20. ↑ Leipzig radio play summer. (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on October 12, 2017 ; accessed on October 11, 2017 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
21. ↑ Regionalmedien Austria: The new piece “what you don't see” premieres in Höflein . In: mein district.at . October 4, 2017 ( mein district.at [accessed October 11, 2017]).
22. ^ Regional media Austria: Honored Citizens by the City Council . In: mein district.at . November 14, 2013 ( mein district.at [accessed October 11, 2017]).
23. ↑ Leipzig radio play summer. (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on October 12, 2017 ; accessed on October 12, 2017 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
24. ^ Oe1.orf.at: The best short radio plays . In: oe1.orf.at . January 25, 2018 ( orf.at [accessed January 11, 2020]).
25. ↑ Leipzig radio play summer. (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on October 12, 2017 ; accessed on October 12, 2017 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
26. ↑ Art Prize 2020 finalists. Accessed January 17, 2020 (German).