Alexander Lhotzky

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Alexander Lhotzky (born October 22, 1959 in Vienna ; † March 21, 2016 there ) was an Austrian theater and film actor .

Life

Alexander Lhotzky was born as the son of the director and later director of the Vienna Volkstheater Emmy Werner and the actor and director Georg Lhotsky . He passed his Matura at the Lycée Français de Vienne ; then he studied theater studies . Artistically he worked as assistant director at the Theater of Courage and as a manager in television productions. He then took acting lessons from Eva Zilcher and Dorothea Neff . In 1983 he completed his acting training with the stage maturity examination.

From 1982 he worked at numerous smaller Viennese theaters, cellar theaters and in independent theater productions; He worked continuously from the 1983/84 season to 2004 at Theater Gruppe 80 . He had engagements at the Theater in der Drachengasse (several times from 1982), at the Jura-Soyfer-Theater at the Spittelberg in Vienna (season 1987/88) and at the Vienna Theater of Youth (1991).

Since 1997 he has appeared regularly at the Vienna Volkstheater in various productions and at various venues. Since 2010 Lhotzky has been a permanent member of the Vienna Volkstheater ensemble.

His roles at the Vienna Volkstheater included Füllenstein in King Ottokar's Glück und Ende (2000; director: Georg Schmiedleitner), Dr. phil. in Biedermann und die Brandstifter (2002; director: Anselm Weber ), Süßmayr in Mozart's vision of Franzobel (2004; director: Alexander Kubelka), mayor in The Visit of the Old Lady (2008; director: Alexander Kubelka), school inspector Chlopow in Der Revisor (2013; directed by Thomas Schulte-Michels) and Sir Amias Paulet in Maria Stuart (2014; directed by Stephan Müller). In the season 2014/15 he was at the National Theater, among others, as Marabu in The Birds of Aristophanes and as Augustin Ferraillon in Georges Feydeau comedy flea in the ear on the stage. His last premiere was Egeus in A Midsummer Night's Dream in April 2015 . In 2015 Lhotzky was one of the few actors who were taken over into the new ensemble after Anna Badora took office . Due to illness, however, Lhotzky could no longer perform.

As a guest he was seen at the Stadttheater Klagenfurt and between 1992 and 2009 at the Reichenau Festival several times . In 1992 he played the Justiziarius Staubmann in the Nestroy posse Der Zerrissene at the Reichenau Festival , and in 1993 he appeared in various roles in Jacobowsky and the Colonel . In 2000 he played the role of Suslov in the Summer Games Reichenau summer guests of Maxim Gorky . In 2003 he took over the teaching of teething problems there, Dr. Löwenstein in Arthur Schnitzler's play Professor Bernhardi . In 2007 he appeared there as son Wolfgang Clausen in Before Sunset .

At the Stadttheater Klagenfurt he played Albany in King Lear (2007), Hermann Kruk in Ghetto von Jehoschua Sobol (2007) and Hakenfinger-Jakob in Brecht / Weill's Die Dreigroschenoper (2009).

He also worked for radio and television. He was, among other things, mostly in smaller roles, in the television series If the neighbors knew (1990/1991), Kommissar Rex (1994) and Kaisermühlen Blues (2000).

Lhotzky died in Vienna in March 2016 at the age of 56. According to the Vienna Volkstheater, he suffered from a "serious and rare illness". He was married and has a daughter.

Filmography (selection)

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e f g h i Obituary - actor Alexander Lhotzky died. In: kleinezeitung.at. Kleine Zeitung , March 22, 2016, accessed March 24, 2016.
  2. ↑ A Midsummer Night's Dream ( Memento of the original from March 25, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) 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. On: volkstheater.at. Vienna Volkstheater. Retrieved March 24, 2016. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / alt.volkstheater.at
personal data
SURNAME Lhotzky, Alexander
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian theater and film actor
DATE OF BIRTH October 22, 1959
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna , Austria
DATE OF DEATH March 21, 2016
Place of death Vienna , Austria