Dirk Nocker

Dirk Nocker and Maria Happel (2015)

Dirk Nocker (born April 18, 1966 in Berlin) is a German actor who has been a member of the Burgtheater in Vienna since 1994 .

life and work

Nocker is the son of an Austrian and the German opera singer Hanns Nocker . He completed his training at the Ernst Busch drama school in Berlin .

His first engagement took him to the National Theater Weimar . In 1991 he played Gianettino Doria in Schiller's Conspiracy of Fiesco in Genoa in a production by Leander Haussmann ; this performance was also recorded for television.

In 1994 he was engaged by Claus Peymann at the Burgtheater, where he took on a number of small and medium-sized roles. In 2012 he played in two cult productions of the castle: In After the Opera. Würgeengel by Martin Wuttke (after Luis Buñuel ) in the casino on Schwarzenbergplatz , he embodied Cristiáno Ugaldo in Yellow Moon. The ballad of Leila and Lee. from David Greig in the vestibule, he took on several smaller roles. In the 2013-2014 season, the actor appeared in the Matthias Hartmann production Spatz und Engel (about the friendship between Marlene Dietrich and Édith Piaf ), in the David Bösch production of Brecht's mother Courage and her children and the controversial Frank Castorf - production of Hans Henny Jahnn's coronation of Richard III. With.

In 1991 Nocker played Conspiracy of Silence in the Canadian production . In 1995 he took over the leading role of Mark in Bernd Michael Laden's film Revenge , in 2001 he was Policeman 2 in Laden's Zero O'12 . In the TV series HeliCops - Einsatz über Berlin he subsequently played Misdirected (1998) as Heiner Schmitz, and in 26 episodes of the TV series Die Anstalt - Back to Life he played the role of Karl Dombrowski from 2002 to 2008. He was also seen in smaller roles in the TV films Geliebte Diebin (2002) and Sehnsucht nach Liebe (2004). In 2015 he played in the TV film Mordkommission Berlin 1 .

Nocker is married to the castle actress Maria Happel , the couple has two daughters.

personal data
SURNAME	Nocker, Dirk
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German actor, ensemble of the Vienna Burgtheater (since 1994)
DATE OF BIRTH	April 18, 1966
PLACE OF BIRTH	Berlin