Christoph von Friedl

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Christoph von Friedl, actually Christoph Friedl (born May 16, 1976 in Vienna ) is an Austrian actor .

Life

After graduating from high school and doing military service in the armed forces , he studied interpreting and translation studies for three semesters at the University of Vienna before moving to Elfriede Ott at the Vienna Conservatory in 1996 to learn acting and directing. Even before graduating in 2000, he played on various Austrian theaters such as the Landestheater für Vorarlberg and the touring theater “Der Grüne Wagen”. Later also at the State Theater for Lower Austria St. Pölten (title role in Friedrich Torberg's “Der Schüler Gerber”), the United Theaters Graz (Next Liberty) and the Stadttheater Klagenfurt . From 2002 he was a regular guest at the Volkstheater (Vienna) until he became director of Emmy Werner in June 2005.

He is known to a broader audience through television series such as Schlosshotel Orth or Tessa - Leben für die Liebe . In the cinema was Thomas Rabitsch in the film Falco - Damn, we're still alive! , seen on television in 2009 in the crime scene episode Tree of Redemption as Georg Larcher. In 2018 he shot again for the Austrian crime scene "Baum falls" under the direction of Nikolaus Leytner.

In 2011, he took on the role of Karl Lenz in the 13-part ORF / ARD summer series The Happiness of this Earth , who is a rider at a famous Styrian stud and at the same time the brother of the protagonist. In parts three and four of the four-part TV series This September (German: Four Women ) based on a novel by Rosamunde Pilcher , he shot with Charles Dance , Eileen Atkins and Rebecca Night .

In 2012, the German Camera Award (Category Camera TV movie / docudrama) for Peter Zeitlinger excellent film The Little witness - Traces : (directed by Andreas Senn he was also seen in a lead role as the corrupt detective Roland Kriesch). With the internationally award-winning short film Träumer ( Dark Dreamer ), directed by Max Ponischowski, he was nominated for best actor at both TMFF (The Monthly Film Festival) and at the San Francisco Comic-Con in 2017. In 2018 he was named "Best Actor" at the Darbhanga International Film Festival in India.

Furthermore, he regularly reads audio books ( DAISY audio book ) for the Bavarian hearing library for the blind, e.g. For example: Your name from Navid Kermani or parallel stories by Péter Nádas , as well as the 2013 Pulitzer Prize winner Adam Johnson with “The stolen life of the orphan Jun Do” or “The narrow path through the hinterland” by Richard Flanagan (Booker Prize 2016).

Private

Christoph von Friedl comes from a family that has worked in front of and behind the camera for several generations: his father Fritz von Friedl and his aunt Loni von Friedl are also actors, his grandfather Fritz von Friedl was a cameraman.

In summer 2010 he married the actress Eva-Maria Grein, who has since performed under the stage name Eva-Maria Grein von Friedl . The two live near Munich.

Filmography (selection)

Stage (selection)

  • 2002: The student Gerber, title role, State Theater St. Pölten
  • 2002: Howie the Rookie, leading role, Theater in der Drachengasse, Vienna
  • 2003: The village on the border, leading role, Stadttheater Klagenfurt
  • 2003–2005: Volkstheater Vienna :
    • Nathan the Wise, Role: Templar
    • Phaedra, role: Hippolytos
    • The greatest day
    • The farmer as a millionaire
    • Elizabeth of England, role: Essex
    • Princess dramas
  • 2005: Baby with the Bathwater, leading role, Brotfabrik Berlin
  • 2006: Japan tour with the Salzburg ensemble as Mozart, recitation of letters
  • 2006: Faust I, role: Mephisto / young Faust
  • 2007: King Lear, Klagenfurt City Theater
  • 2008: Der Weibsteufel, role: Jäger, Kammertheater Munich
  • 2009: The Difficult, Role: Stani, Theater zum Himmel, Vienna
  • 2009: The green cockatoo, leading role
  • 2010: Das Apartment, tour of the Theater am Kurfürstendamm Berlin
  • 2010: Clavigo, title role, Kammertheater Munich
  • 2010: Liebelei, role: Theodor, Theater zum Himmel, Vienna
  • 2012: The Sorrows of Young Werther, title role, Kammertheater Munich
  • 2015: Die Freizeitgesellschaft (German premiere), role: Marc-Antoine, Teamtheater Munich
  • 2016: Terror (Ferdinand von Schirach), role: Major Lars Koch, Metropoltheater Munich
  • 2017: The good death (Wannie de Wijn), role: Michael, Metropoltheater Munich
  • 2018: Boeing Boeing restarted (Mark Camolletti / Robert Kolar), role: William Harper, Berndorf Festival

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ See Christoph von Friedl actor. Personally managed profile on e-Talenta, accessed on April 10, 2016: "real name [en] / civil name [de]: Christoph Friedl".
  2. ↑ See entry by Christoph Friedl in the directory of members of the Association of Austrian Film Actors , accessed on April 10, 2015.
personal data
SURNAME Friedl, Christoph von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Friedl, Christoph (real name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian actor
DATE OF BIRTH May 16, 1976
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna