Bernd Birkhahn

Bernd Birkhahn (born 1945 ) is a German actor who has been a member of the Burgtheater ensemble since 1986 .

stage

Birkhahn completed his education at the Westphalian Drama School in Bochum and in 1968 to the Schauspielhaus Bochum involved. From 1969 he was engaged for two seasons in the ensemble of the Koblenz City Theater , then at the Badisches Staatstheater Karlsruhe . In 1979 he returned to the Schauspielhaus Bochum , where he took on a number of main and mostly important supporting roles under Claus Peymann (e.g. Carlos in Clavigo , The Man in Open Relationship and the friar in Nathan the Wise ). In 1986, Peymann signed Birkhahn to the Burgtheater in Vienna , where he has been one of the pillars of the ensemble ever since. He was able to record a particular personal success in 2012 in Matthias Hartmann's dramatization of the Trojan War , in which he embodied King Priam of Troy.

Film, television

In 1969 Birkhahn played Javier Goya in Wilhelm Semmelroth's two-part television play Goya . From 2000 he was seen in TV series, including Kommissar Rex (2000–01), Julia - An Unusual Woman (2002) and Die Alpenklinik (2006).

He played in television recordings of Burgtheater performances - including Die Hermannsschlacht ( Claus Peymann , 1984), Glaube und Heimat ( Martin Kušej , 2001), Don Carlos ( Andrea Breth , 2005) and Was ihr wollt ( Matthias Hartmann , 2011) - and took over from 2009 some character roles in feature films. He was also seen in the following German and Austrian television films: August the Happy ( Joseph Vilsmaier , 2002), Love, Lies, Passions ( Marco Serafini , 2002), All the happiness of this earth ( Otto Retzer , 2003), Anna's last chance ( Karsten Wichniarz , 2008), Something Better Than Death ( Nicole Weegmann , 2010), as Stralendorff in Die Seelen im Feuer ( Urs Egger , 2013), Böse Wetter - The Secret of the Past (2016) and Spring - Family on Trial ( Michael Karen , 2019).

Direction, teaching

2005 staged black grouse in the Festival Reichenau - with Regina Fritsch . Juergen Maurer and Sascha Oskar Weis - Schnitzler interlude , just there in 2006 - with Dietrich Mattausch and Petra Morzé - Chekhov's Uncle Vanya .

From 1991 to 2013 Birkhahn taught at the Max Reinhardt Seminar in Vienna.

Film rolls

• 2009: Mein Kampf , director: Urs Odermatt , role: Lobkowitz
• 2009: Domaine , director: Patric Chiha , role: Prof. Schwarzbach
• 2010: Give me your heart , director: Nicole Weegmann , role: Max Pinas
• 2012: Ludwig II. , Director: Peter Sehr , Marie Noëlle , role: Otto von Bismarck
• 2019: The Ground Under Your Feet , Director: Marie Kreutzer

Web links

• Bernd Birkhahn in the Internet Movie Database (English)
• Bernd Birkhahn , website, accessed June 13, 2014