Cornelius Obonya

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Cornelius Obonya (2013)

Cornelius Obonya (born March 29, 1969 in Vienna ) is an Austrian actor . From 2013 to 2016 he played at the Salzburg Festival to everyone .

Life

Cornelius Obonya with Ruth Brauer-Kvam , opening of the Life Ball 2013

Cornelius Obonya is the son of Elisabeth Orth . He lost his father Hanns Obonya , who was also a castle actor, at the age of nine. His maternal grandparents are the castle actors Attila Hörbiger and Paula Wessely .

At the age of 17 he went to the Max Reinhardt Seminar to study acting, but left after a year and began training with the cabaret artist Gerhard Bronner .

Between 1989 and 1992 Obonya was engaged at the Vienna Volkstheater under the direction of Emmy Werner . His first significant role was Eugene in Neil Simon's Brighton Beach Memoirs , for which he received the 1989 Karl Skraup Prize for Young Talent . In 1989 he was awarded the OE Hasse Prize .

Between 1992 and 1999 he played at the Schaubühne am Lehniner Platz in Berlin under the direction of Andrea Breth , in whose productions he is often involved to this day. He also works with Klaus Michael Grüber , Luc Bondy and Robert Wilson . He played in Klaus Michael Grüber's world premiere Splendid's by Jean Genet and Bleiche Mutter, tender sister of Jorge Semprún at the Weimar Art Festival . In the radio play series Cocktail for Two by Michael Koser , produced by Deutschlandradio Berlin in 1999 , he spoke the main character Felix .

Since 2000 he has appeared regularly in the Vienna Burgtheater , initially exclusively in Andrea Breth productions: Edward Bond's “Die See” (as Hollarcut), Lessing's Emilia Galotti (Pirro), Schiller's Don Carlos (Domingo), Chekhov's Der Kirschgarten (private tutor Trofimow ), Tennessee Williams' The Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (Gooper) and Lessing's Minna von Barnhelm (Paul Werner). He had a solo evening in the vestibule (Burgtheater) with the title Ecklokal mit Loser and appeared as a frog in the bat at the Vienna State Opera . As Schubi he played a police assistant in SOKO Danube .

As Everyman of the Salzburg Festival (with Brigitte Hobmeier as a passion), 2014

In Andrea Breth's production of Schnitzler's Das weite Land , he made his debut as Paul Kreindl at the Salzburg Festival in 2002 . It was there that he was seen in 2012 as Monsieur Jourdain in the original version of Ariadne auf Naxos by Hugo von Hofmannsthal and Richard Strauss . From June 2008 he played the leading role in the German-language premiere of the Broadway hit musical The Producers . The venues were the Ronacher establishment in Vienna and the Admiralspalast in Berlin. In 2010 and (after resumption) in 2011, Cornelius Obonya was on stage in Cordoba - The Second Leg at the Vienna Rabenhof Theater , a critically acclaimed one-man show in which he embodied several roles in different dialects.

Every year from 2013 to 2016 he played the role of Jedermann at the Salzburg Festival , which his grandfather Attila Hörbiger had played. This new production was directed by the British Julian Crouch and the American Brian Mertes .

Obonya is married to the Osnabrück- born director Carolin Pienkos and has had a son since November 2005, who - probably after Obonya's grandfather Attila Hörbiger - bears the name Attila Ruben.

Awards

Filmography (selection)

Radio plays

Audio books

See also

literature

  • Georg Markus : The Hörbigers. Family biography . Amalthea Verlag, Vienna 2006, ISBN 3-85002-565-9 .
  • Christina Höfferer and Andreas Kloner: Hörbiger. A family constellation. ORF radio feature 2008, 54 min.

Web links

Commons : Cornelius Obonya  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ orf.at - Buhlschaft ends again . Article dated August 30, 2016, accessed August 30, 2016.
  2. ↑ Biography of Cornelius Obonya at salzburgerfestspiele.at, accessed on May 16, 2018.
personal data
SURNAME Obonya, Cornelius
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian actor
DATE OF BIRTH March 29, 1969
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna