Astrit Alihajdaraj

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Astrit Alihajdaraj (born December 10, 1976 in Istok , Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia ) is a Kosovar actor and author .

Life

Origin and beginnings

Astrit Alihajdaraj grew up as the youngest of four children in Istok, a small town in northwestern Kosovo. When the political situation in Kosovo escalated in the mid-1990s , he went to Vienna . There he first studied at the Vienna University of Economics and Business .

The director Barbara Albert discovered Alihajdaraj during his studies for her debut film Nordrand (1999), in which he played Senad, an illegally immigrated refugee from Bosnia . Further engagements then followed. From 2001 to 2005 he completed his acting training at the Vienna Film School.

theatre

He had his first theater engagements during his training at WUK Vienna (2004), at the Alte Werft in Korneuburg (2004) and at the Theater Gruppe 80 in Vienna (2004). 2005–2007, and again in 2009, he was a guest at the Reichenau Festival . Here he stood u. a. on stage as Onufrij in Radetzkymarsch (2005), in The Last Days of Mankind (2006) and as Vinzenz in Der Schwierige (2007). He had other engagements with the independent theater company “Theater Tour” (2006; as Rodrigo in Othello ), with the “Wiener Wortstätten” (2007) and at the Theater klas in Heunburg (2008). In 2008 he played the leading role of the Palestinian Mahmoud in the Austrian premiere of the play Sixteen Injured by Eliam Kraiem at the Neue Bühne Villach .

In addition to his film and TV engagements, Alihajdaraj continues to work as a theater actor. In 2013/2014 he played the role of the believed-dead lover in the play Habe die Ehre by the Syrian author Ibrahim Amir (* 1984) at the Vienna Off-Theater Theater Nestroyhof Hamakom . In 2015 he was engaged as a guest at the Vorarlberger Landestheater ; there he played the Comte de Guiche in Cyrano de Bergerac . In the 2015/16 season he played the leading role of Foreign Minister and future Prime Minister Cosmo Constantine in the musical Call Me Madam at the Mierscher Kulturhaus in Luxembourg . In 2016 he played the male lead in the play Atmen by Duncan Macmillan at the Drachengasse Theater in Vienna .

He worked at the theater a. a. with the directors Christopher Widauer , Nicholas Ofczarek , Helmut Wiesner , Augustin Jagg , Alfred Meschnigg , Hans Escher and Christine Wipplinger . Since 2009 he has also worked as a playwright ( Armend und seine Wien , Eine Reise nach Europa ). He wrote the short piece Armend und seine Wien as part of the intercultural author theater project “Wiener Wortstätten”.

Movie and TV

Alihajdaraj has appeared in numerous international and German-language cinema and TV productions. In the movie Balkan Traffic - The Day After Tomorrow Nirgendwo (2008) he played Dragan, one of three criminal brothers. In the Vienna Tatort: ​​Operation Hiob (first broadcast: July 2010) he had a supporting role as Luca Conti, alongside Harald Krassnitzer and Kasem Hoxha . He took on a continuous series role in 2011–2012 as Akai Özgür in the Austrian television series Die Lottosieger .

He has appeared several times in supporting roles in the Austrian crime series SOKO Donau : in 2009 as the Romanian knife-cutter Traian Codri, in 2011 as the mafia boss and brothel owner Milan Tarmac and in 2017 as the Georgian mafia boss Sasa Grigol. He also had episode roles in the television series Medicopter 117 - Every Life Counts (2007; as Dombrowski), Schnell discovered (2011; as suspect Johannes Kranz), CopStories (2014), SOKO Kitzbühel (2015; as an opaque businessman Nikolai Ivanov) and Alarm for Cobra 11 - Die Autobahnpolizei (2016; as Toni Duric).

In December 2016 Alihajdaraj was seen in an episode role in the ZDF series SOKO Munich ; he played the Kosovar Albanian Adnan Kemal, a used car dealer and drug dealer in Neuperlach . In February 2018 Alihajdaraj was seen again in an episode role in the Austrian TV series SOKO Kitzbühel , this time as taxi entrepreneur Emre Durmaz. In the German-Austrian TV series Der Pass (2019) he played the Bulgarian smuggler Petko Slovejko, who was convicted of human trafficking and imprisoned in the Graz-Jakomini prison . In the ARD crime series Der Kroatien-Krimi (2019) he embodied the corrupt hospital doctor Dr. Damir Ivanda. In the ZDF crime series Kommissarin Lucas , he played one of the episode roles in the 30th film with the title Die Invisbaren (first broadcast: August 2020) as an illegally employed construction worker from Albania , whose brother died on a large construction site in Regensburg .

Private

Astrit Alihajdaraj speaks several languages, in which he also plays multilingual and stands in front of the camera. In addition to his native Albanian , he is fluent in English and Serbo-Croatian .

Astrit Alihajdaraj, who works as a freelance actor, has lived in Vienna since 1996. Since then, Vienna has also been his main focus of work and his main residence. Alihajdaraj is a member of the Association of Austrian Film Actors.

Awards

  • 2010: Best actor in the short film Iliriana , at the Swikos Film Festival
  • 2014: Best Actor, Gone Back , at Albanian Film Week in New York City.

Filmography (selection)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Astrit Alihajdaraj ; Profile and vita at Schauspielervideos.de. Retrieved January 29, 2017.
  2. ↑ a b c d e Astrit Alihajdaraj . Vita. Official website of WIENER WORTSTAETTEN. Retrieved January 29, 2017.
  3. ↑ a b c d e f g h Astrit Alihajdaraj ( Memento of the original from January 29, 2017 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. . Vita. Official website of the Vorarlberger Landestheater . Retrieved January 29, 2017. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / landestheater.org
  4. ↑ Sixteen injured / New stage in Villach . orf.at. Retrieved January 29, 2017
  5. ↑ Vienna Wortstätten Honorary Mörderisch funny . Performance review. Kultiversum.de from September 13, 2013. Retrieved January 29, 2017
  6. ↑ A fun-loving ambassador . Performance review. In: Letzebuerger Journal of December 11, 2015. Accessed January 29, 2017
  7. ↑ Astrit Alihajdaraj, me rol në muzikalin e famshëm 'Call me Madam' . Performance review. Gazeta Blic, December 5, 2015. Retrieved January 29, 2017
  8. ↑ "Breathing": The descendant as a mortal danger . Performance review. In: Der Standard from January 12, 2016. Retrieved January 29, 2017
  9. ↑ Crime scene: Operation Job . Photo. Retrieved January 29, 2017
  10. ↑ Astrit Alihajdaraj në serialin gjerman “Soko Munchen” (VIDEO) . Report and video. www.gazetaexpress.com from December 6, 2016. Accessed January 29, 2017.
  11. ↑ before Christmas: ZDF shows Skys "The Pass", but not at 20.15 . Oddsmeter.de from October 22, 2019. Retrieved on December 1, 2019.
  12. ↑ The Croatia thriller: The executioner . Plot, cast and picture gallery. Official website Das Erste . Retrieved March 24, 2019.
  13. ↑ Inspector Lucas: The Invisible . Official website of the ZDF . Retrieved August 29, 2020.
personal data
SURNAME Alihajdaraj, Astrit
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Kosovar actor and author
DATE OF BIRTH December 10, 1976
PLACE OF BIRTH Istok , Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia