August Zirner

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August Zirner (2010)

August Zirner (born January 7, 1956 in Urbana , Illinois , USA ) is an American - Austrian actor who has appeared in over 120 film productions.

life and work

Zirner was born in the United States as the only child of Austrian emigrants of Jewish origin (the costume designer Laura Beata Wärndorfer and the opera director Ludwig Zirner ) and is still a US citizen .

Zirners grandfather Ludwig Rusk led under the name Ludwig rusks and brother during the Austro-Hungarian Monarchy one of the most significant Viennese clothing stores. Zirner's grandmother, Zirner's daughter Ella (1878–1970), inherited most of the company in 1930. The family was in 1938 by the Nazi - regime expropriated.

When August Zirner was 14 years old, his father died. August Zirner lived in Europe since 1973, in Vienna he attended the Max Reinhardt Seminar . After the debut at the Volkstheater Wien , engagements in Hanover, Wiesbaden and at the Münchner Kammerspiele followed .

He has appeared in numerous cinema and television films, for example in Café Europa (1990) by Franz Xaver Bogner , Homo Faber (1990) by Volker Schlöndorff , Stadt talk (1995) by Rainer Kaufmann , Winterkind (1997) by Margarethe von Trotta , Die Apothekerin (1997) by Rainer Kaufmann and Die Fälscher by Stefan Ruzowitzky , who won an Oscar for best foreign language film in 2008 . In 2006 he received the Grimme Prize for the film Wut .

Zirner appeared in 2009 as a flautist with the money box trio in the stage program Diagnose: Jazz . From May 2011 Zirner can be seen in Blinde Date based on the film by Theo van Gogh at the Schauspielhaus Graz in a production by Bernadette Sonnenbichler . Since 2011 he has been on the stage of the Residenztheater Munich , since 2015 he has played Nathan the Wise in the Munich Volkstheater in a production by Christian Stückl .

August Zirner is married to the actress Katalin Zsigmondy and lives in Prien am Chiemsee . Two of the couple's four children are also actors, Johannes Zirner and Leo Zirner , daughter Ana Zirner is a director.

Awards

Filmography (selection)

Audiobooks (selection)

Web links

Commons : August Zirner  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Three of his grandparents came from Jewish families, but the grandfather on his father's side was the Austro-Hungarian composer Franz Schmidt .
  2. ↑ Interview with actor August Zirner at profil.at, accessed on December 2, 2014.
  3. ^ Viennese noble restaurant "Drei Husaren" in bankruptcy at vienna.at, accessed on December 2, 2014.
  4. ↑ Director Ana Zirner - "What one knows, questioning". Retrieved on February 10, 2020 (German).
  5. ↑ August Zirner in the role of the “Cardinal of the Century” ( Memento of the original from September 19, 2011 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. (orf.at) @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / programm.orf.at
personal data
SURNAME Zirner, August
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American-Austrian actor
DATE OF BIRTH January 7, 1956
PLACE OF BIRTH Urbana , Illinois , USA