Alexander Tschernek

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Alexander Tschernek (born June 10, 1966 in Munich ) is a German actor , radio play speaker and author .

Life

Tschernek began his artistic career at the age of ten as a Tölz Choir Boy. After his first experiences as an actor at the Jagsthausen Castle Festival (1985–1987), Tschernek attended the Frankfurt University of Music and Performing Arts between 1987 and 1990 . In 1998 he became a member of the Association of Swiss Authors . Since 2005, he organized the reading philosophy Pur and contributors of the 2011 Stefan Brotbeck founded Philosophicum , a free Institute for Research, Education and Culture in Basel . He lives and works in Vienna and Basel. In addition to his acting activities, Tschernek also works as a director and author and writes poetry, radio plays and plays.

Artistic career

Tölzer Boys Choir

From 1976 to 1980 Tschernek was a member and soloist of the Tölzer Boys Choir . He made his stage debut in 1977 at the Munich State Theater on Gärtnerplatz as the 3rd boy in Die Zauberflöte . This was followed by engagements in the production of Jean-Pierre Ponnelle at the Salzburg Festival under conductor James Levine , by Hans Werner Henze at the Stuttgart Opera, at the National Theater in Munich in the production of August Everding and conducted by Wolfgang Sawallisch . A performance was also completed in the Grand Théâtre de Genève . Tschernek sang in the St. Matthew Passion under Herbert von Karajan at the Salzburg Easter Festival .

During the time in the Tölzer Knabenchor numerous other concerts of classical music literature and folk music literature were performed under conductors such as Claudio Abbado , Nikolaus Harnoncourt , Carl Orff and the choirmaster Gerhard Schmidt-Gaden . In 1979 the Tölzer Boys Choir played for Philips with the English Baroque Ensemble Giovanni Battista Pergolesi's Stabat mater . At the Munich Theater Festival 1977, he sang in by Eberhard Schoener Event Concert initiated trance lineup alongside The Police Gregorian chants.

stage

After studying acting, Tschernek was a permanent member of the ensemble at the Staatstheater Darmstadt and the Theater Basel from 1990 to 1993 , after which he played at the Freiburg Theater , Theater am Neumarkt Zurich , Stadttheater Bern , the Vienna Volksoper and the Steyr Music Festival . In 2010 he worked with Nikola Weisse on the Basel production of Atlantik Mann , in which the love story between Marguerite Duras and Yann Andréa is told and reflected on. The production described by the critics as a “wonderfully filled hour on the inexplicability of love” then went on a tour. After playing the three husbands in Friedrich Dürrenmatt's classic The Visit of the Old Lady alongside Anne Bennent at the Stockerau Festival in 2013 , he played three counts in Das Käthchen von Heilbronn , directed by Maria Happel, at the 2014 Perchtoldsdorf Summer Games . His piece Vive la ..! Premiered in Basel in 1994 . was selected in 1995 to open the Berlin Theatertreffen der Jugend .

Movie

Tschernek was first seen on television in 1987 as a police student in the series Löwengrube , directed by Rainer Wolffhardt . In 1997 he played in Der Bulle von Tölz: One hand washes the other a young revolutionary who is murdered. In 1998 he investigated as an assistant to the Swiss investigation team in the crime scene episode At the End of the World . After several engagements in television productions Tschnernek played in cinema productions such as Jörg Kalt's Crash Test Dummies (2005), and alongside Moritz Bleibtreu in Hans Weingartner's successful media satire Free Rainer (2007). In 2013 he had a brief appearance as professor at Barbara Sukowa in Margarethe von Trotta's Hannah Arendt (film) . In 2003 Tschernek published his first artistic experimental short film in his own production with Bathtub Monologue.

Tschernek has appeared in various cinema productions as a speaker and narrator. The 1993 documentary Wild Boy, directed by Josy Meier and Stefan Jung, received the Zurich Film Prize and the Federal Quality Award in 1994 . 2009 in which the Zurich Film Prize and the European Documentary Award - excellent "Prix ARTE" film The Sound of Insects (The Sound of Insects) by Peter Liechti he borrowed, as the narrator of the diary entries, a starving in Waldmann his voice.

music

Since his vocal and artistic training in the Tölzer Boys Choir, Tschernek has appeared again and again as a singer. In 1989 Tschernek played the dentist in Little Shop Of Horrors (musical) at the Staatstheater Darmstadt, directed by Werner Eggenhofer . In 1992 he played the torero Tarugo and the dance student Quica in Zarzuela (director: Herbert Wernicke ) and in 1997 the Duke in the musical The Black Rider composed by Tom Waits and directed by Pavel Mikulastik. In 2004 he sang Sciarrone in Giacomo Puccini's Tosca at the Steyr Music Festival . As a guest of Martin Stepanik and his band Lovely Rita, Tschernek organized an experimental recital in 2001 with his own texts and poems at the Vienna Porgy & Bess (jazz club) under the title hic hedonistic improvisation concept . 2014 Tschernek took in the course of his CD release mind and money and good life with the Vienna music producer Thomas Mauerhofer and violinist Klemens Bittman , the song of the invigorating effect of money by Bertolt Brecht and Hanns Eisler on.

Radio play and radio

Tschernek made his radio debut in 1982 on Bayerischer Rundfunk in the report Kind und Verkehr . Since 1988 his voice can be heard in around 50 radio plays and audio books. In 1990 the radio play Ripley Under Ground by Patricia Highsmith , which was also produced with Hessischer Rundfunk and was later published as an audio book, was released. From 1992 Tschernik was heard on the Swiss radio DRS , until 2002 in various radio plays, including the 1997 Prix ​​Europa awarded The Olympia Dealer and the 2002 Prix Suisse awarded radio play Das Duell . Both in the Olympiafähndler and The duel led Fritz Zaugg director, with the Tschernek more radio plays from the Swiss train Schreckmümpfeli recorded. Since 2001 Tschernek has been a speaker and presenter in the Austrian broadcasting company ORF, especially in the cultural channel Ö1 . There he created the live broadcast Ach der Zeitenwandel - the music of ideas , with Helmut Jasbar , for Christmas 2013 under the title Since a conversation we are and hear from each other an atmospheric audio image with Friedrich Hölderlin's hymn peace celebration.

philosophy

Tschernek has been devoting himself to philosophy since 2005 and since then has organized the series of lectures Philosophy Pur in Vienna , Graz , Basel and Munich . In it, he presents philosophical and theological texts from the Gospel according to Matthew to Hannah Arendt's Vita activa or On active life . In 2005 Tschernek dealt with four philosophers in his program 4x4 Philosophy Pur: Kierkegaard-Nietzsche-Heidegger-Hölderlin in a “Philosophical Performance in the Permanent Provision”. Tschernek also designed thematic reading series on Hannah Arendt and Ueber den Tod . With WORK - MUST - LAZY! about the concept of work and the social change in work culture. In the event Geist und Geld und Gutesleben 2014 in the Vienna Radiokulturhaus , he shed light on the relationship between mind and money. He produced the audio book of the same name with ORF , in which Tschernek also uses short radio plays (with the voices of Anne Bennent , Daniel Häni, Kathrin Resetarits and Markus Schleinzer ) to investigate the question of the good life .

theatre

play

Director

Opera and musical

Filmography

Discography and radio plays

Discography

Radio plays

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Neue Zürcher Zeitung from April 15, 2010
  2. ↑ - Berliner Zeitung of May 31, 1995
  3. ^ Porgy & Bess: Thu, June 21, 2001 9:00 p.m.: A Lovely Affair
  4. ↑ The song of the invigorating effect of money youtube.com, accessed on October 30, 2018
personal data
SURNAME Tschernek, Alexander
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German actor and author
DATE OF BIRTH June 10, 1966
PLACE OF BIRTH Munich