Carl Achleitner

Carl Achleitner - 2016

Carl Achleitner (born October 3, 1963 in Grieskirchen , Upper Austria ) is an Austrian film and theater actor .

Life

From 1979 to 1983 Carl Achleitner trained as a cook and waiter in the Linz theater restaurant "Casino". He then switched to the theater . From 1985 to 1989 he trained as an actor at the Zurich Acting Academy . Further studies took place from 1993 to 1995 with Susan Batson, a member of the Actors Studio in New York City .

He had theater engagements at the Landestheater Vorarlberg (1988, Der gute Mensch von Sezuan ), the Schauspiel Bonn (1989, King Ottokars Glück und Ende ), at the Schauburg , the youth theater of the Münchner Kammerspiele (1989-1992), at the Münchner Volkstheater ( 1993, in Don Quijote based on motifs by Cervantes ), at the Schauspielhaus Wien (1994, in Angels in America by Tony Kushner ), at the Scala Vienna (since 2003), at the Stadttheater Mödling (since 2004), at the Fritz-Rémond-Theater in Frankfurt am Main (2009) and at the Komödie (2009–2010, as pimp Bonbon in Irma la Douce ) in Frankfurt.

In addition to theater engagements, he has so far participated in over 90 film and television productions. He played u. a. the painter and first-person narrator Florian in the Adalbert Stifter film adaptation Brigitta by Dagmar Knöpfel , the Yellow Press reporter Bernd Konecny in Andreas Gruber's film Die Schuld der Liebe with Sandrine Bonnaire . He had smaller roles in the movies Rosenstrasse as SS-Sturmbannführer and in Klimt with John Malkovich . In the television film Stars shine also during the day , directed by Roland Suso Richter, he played the role of Carl Heinzeller, the public prosecutor and disloyal superior of the female lead actress ( Veronica Ferres ). The ZDF committed Achleitner for the TV movie clouds over Sommarholm from the Inga Lindström -Fernsehreihe. In the ORF crime series Four Women and a Death he had the continuous serial role of bank clerk Helmut "Heli" Bacher from 2004-2008. In 2010 he played the chief steward Franz Navratil in the film adaptation of the Pavel Kohout novel The Long Wave Behind the Kiel by Nikolaus Leytner , at the side of Christiane Hörbiger and Mario Adorf .

In 2012, international engagements followed in the Russian TV series Smersch - Spies must die , in which Achleitner played the SS man Otto Skorzeny, and as Johannes Trithemius in the European series Borgia about the renaissance family Borgia . Nikolaus Leytner engaged Achleitner again in 2012, this time for the television film Die Auslöschung with Klaus Maria Brandauer and Martina Gedeck in the leading roles.

In 2016, Carl Achleitner was awarded the “Best Performance in Comedy” prize by the non-profit organization “NewFilmmakers Los Angeles” in Hollywood for the title role in Marc Schlegel's comedy The Funeral of Harald Kramer .

Achleitner is a member of the Academy of Austrian Films, founded in 2009 . From 2013 to 2020 he represented the interests of Austrian film actors on the board of the collecting society for filmmakers (VdFS).