Barbara Spitz

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Barbara Spitz (* 1954 in London ) is an Austrian actress , singer and author .

Life

Barbara Spitz was born in London as the daughter of a Viennese emigrant couple. She attended Putney High School and studied from 1971 to 1975 at Alsager College at Keele University, the subjects "Drama" and "Social and Community Studies".

She initially worked as a teacher for four years, a. a. at London “hot spot schools”. Since the mid-seventies she has been active as a guitarist and singer in various London pub and punk bands . a. with Framed , The Elgin Marbles and in the band of Dana Gillespie . In 1977 she went on tour with the Sadista Sisters ; She also made a guest appearance in the former Quartier Latin Club in Berlin . In order to earn a living, she took numerous odd jobs. She worked as a lighting technology assistant and stage manager at the theater, as an assistant to a photographer, as a night porter, as a household and kitchen helper, babysitter and as a customer service employee on various telephone hotlines .

In 1983 she went to Vienna to take on the role of Columbia in the musical The Rocky Horror Show under the direction of Hans Gratzer at the Schauspielhaus Wien . Since then, Vienna has been the center of her life. There she played, under Gratzer's direction, the role of sister Agathe in the musical The Sound of Music (1992/93 season). Numerous engagements at other Viennese theaters followed, including a. at the Raimundtheater (as Miss Lynch in Grease , director: Michael Schottenberg ), at the Theater an der Wien (as cook Fanny in Intermezzo , director: Christof Loy , season 2008/09, premiere: December 2008), at the Volkstheater , at the Metropol Wien , at the Renaissance theater (inter alia as Miss Umney in Das Gespenst von Canterville , directed by Thomas Birkmeir , 1997) and at the Theater der Jugend .

At the Salzburg Easter Festival 2012, and later also at the Summer Festival, she was the female Lillas Pastia in the opera Carmen in a production by Aletta Collins , who created this character as a "lesbian puff mother". In 2012, Barbara Spitz also took on a guest role at the Schauspiel Frankfurt as a singer in the play The Merchant of Venice (production: Barrie Kosky ). In 2013 she was a guest at the Salzburg Festival as Mrs. Schnautz in Henry Mason's Midsummer Night's Dream production. In 2014 she was the wet nurse in Romeo and Juliet at the Vienna Festival "Shakespeare in the Park Open Air" in Pötzleinsdorf . At the Komische Oper Berlin , Barbara Spitz has played the role of matchmaker Jente in the Anatevka production by Barrie Kosky since the premiere in December 2017 .

Barbara Spitz has also made guest appearances at the Edinburgh Festival , the Sydney Opera House , the Het Muziektheater Amsterdam and Luxembourg and has worked with directors such as Adriana Altaras ( Die Vagina-Monologe , Arena Berlin), Folke Braband and Thomas Jonigk .

Spitz also appeared in several cinema and TV productions. She had guest roles a. a. in the Austrian television series Kommissar Rex , Schnell determined (2010, as the owner of a modeling agency) and SOKO Donau . In the ZDF “ Herzkino ” film A Summer in Oxford , which premiered in October 2018, Spitz played the pensioner Molly Robinson at the side of Mira Bartuschek .

In addition to her work as an actress, Spitz also writes scripts and directs. She was responsible for the texts and dialogues for the production of the musical Hair at the United Theaters in Vienna (March 2001 – June 2002); she wrote the script and directed the musical Hotline to Heaven (DE, May 1998, Schauspielhaus Wien ), which she wrote, and was co-author of the play Hinter Gitti , a parody of women performed at Brut Wien in 2004.

Barbara Spitz lives as a freelance actress, translator , speaker, author and musician in Vienna.

Filmography

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Barbara Spitz at schauspielervideos.de. Retrieved October 31, 2018.
  2. ↑ a b Barbara Spitz . Vita and profile at CASTFORWARD. Retrieved October 31, 2018.
  3. ↑ a b c Barbara Spitz . Vita. Official website of the Komische Oper Berlin . Retrieved October 31, 2018.
  4. ^ The Sound of Music . Cast and production details. Retrieved October 31, 2018.
  5. ↑ Intermezzo . Cast and production details. Retrieved October 31, 2018.
  6. ↑ This Carmen cannot inflame anyone . Performance review. In: Die Presse from April 1, 2012.. Retrieved October 31, 2018.
  7. ↑ References and cross-references: Shakespeare-Mendelssohn's “Midsummer Night's Dream” and Wagner's “Meistersinger” at the Salzburg Festival . Performance review. In: nmz online . Retrieved October 31, 2018.
  8. ↑ Barbara Spitz, actress . In: DER STANDARD of July 18, 2014. Retrieved October 31, 2018.
  9. ^ Anatevka (Fiddler on the Roof) . Performance review. Online music magazine. Retrieved October 31, 2018.
  10. ^ "A summer in Oxford": ZDF shoots "Herzkino" love film . ZDF press portal. Communication dated June 4, 2018. Accessed October 16, 2018.
  11. ↑ A Summer in Oxford . Plot, cast and production details. Retrieved October 16, 2018.
  12. ↑ HAIR . Cast and production details. Retrieved October 31, 2018.
  13. ↑ Hotline To Heaven . Official website of the Felix Bloch Erben publishing house . Retrieved October 31, 2018.
  14. ↑ BEHIND GITTI . Production details. Retrieved October 31, 2018.
personal data
SURNAME Spitz, Barbara
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian actress, singer and author
DATE OF BIRTH 1954
PLACE OF BIRTH London , England, UK