Doris Schretzmayer

Doris Schretzmayer (2015)

Doris Schretzmayer (born May 31, 1972 in Tulln an der Donau ) is an Austrian actress , author and presenter .

Life

At the age of 17 Schretzmayer had her first television appearance in a commercial. As "Jennifer" she promoted FELIX ketchup, the spot enjoyed great popularity and was broadcast for several years. A few months after graduating from high school , she started working for Radio CD International as a presenter and editor in 1992 . The studios and the workplace were in Bratislava , since the ORF still held the radio monopoly at the beginning of the 1990s and private radio stations were not allowed in Austria.

At the same time, she enrolled in journalism and business administration , but dropped out after just one semester to devote herself only to her work on the radio. In 1993 she moved to ORF , where she was engaged by the radio station Ö3 . In the following two years she moderated various programs, including a. the "Radiodrom". In a survey by the magazine "Wiener" she was described as the "most erotic voice in Austria". At the end of 1993 she also began as Austria's youngest television announcer (program announcement), but soon after switched to the youth department of the ORF ( X-Large ), where she presented various youth programs on TV and worked as an editor. In 1994 she hosted the Romy TV gala in the main evening program .

In the course of her work in front of the camera, she met Rosmarin Frauendorfer , who taught at the Vienna Conservatory and from then on took private acting lessons with Schretzmayer for several years. At the same time she founded a production company with a friend in London and commuted between her activities and the two places of residence of Vienna and London. At the same time she began to write for magazines, including a. she wrote weekly double-page articles and columns on the subject of “trends” in the Sunday supplement of the Kronen Zeitung (1995–1997).

In 1996 she decided to work mainly as an actress and only occasionally as a presenter. She ended her engagements with ORF and played her first small television role in Tatort under the direction of Houchang Allahyari (in a role as a television reporter). She made her cinema debut in the same year when Stefan Ruzowitzky cast her in his first feature film " Tempo ".

In 1997 she got her first leading role in the ORF / SAT 1 - coproduction Die Neue - Eine Frau mit Kaliber . In the title role as inspector Lisa Engel, she investigated the Mondsee in the Salzkammergut in 13 episodes and the pilot film and was considered the youngest commissioner of German-speaking television.

While she was filming the series, Schretzmayer survived a serious car accident. On a non-turning day, she was driving a convertible on the autobahn and met a wrong- way driver whom she was able to avoid. She suffered serious injuries. The shooting had to be interrupted for several weeks.

When the series was broadcast on ORF and on SAT 1 in 1998 , the series and Schretzmayer received excellent reviews. Nevertheless, the series was not continued because the market share was only 13.5% instead of the required 15%.

In 1998 Schretzmayer went to Los Angeles for half a year to take acting lessons. a. with Corey Allen , Margie Haber and Cherolyn Franklin . Her 15-part portrait series “Dreams and Foams”, which appeared in the Sunday supplement of the Kronen Zeitung and for which she interviewed and portrayed Austrians in Los Angeles, was also created there .

In the following years Schretzmayer took on numerous leading roles in German and Austrian television films and lived in Hamburg and Munich before moving to Berlin in 2001 .

Several engagements for the cinema followed: she played a leading role with Til Schweiger in the Columbia-Tri Star cinema production What to do when it burns? , in which she acted as a former squatter, in Robert Schwentke 's tragedy comedy she was seen in Eierdiebe and, under the direction of Marc Ottiker , she played an orderly neurotic in a production by Wim Wenders in Halbe Rent . With Mike Figgis , she began a collaboration with “CoMa” in 2004 and the previously unpublished experimental film project “A Certain Form Of Reality”.

Occasionally she appeared together with Friedrich Gulda , who hired Schretzmayer to present his appearances, u. a. in the Wiener Konzerthaus and in the Anton Bruckner Haus in Linz (1998). She also took on the role of moderator for the “Night of Sports” gala in the Vienna Hofburg (2001), for the Jupiter Award from Cinema magazine in Berlin , the Hessian Film Prize (2003), and the Life Ball in Vienna (with Maximilian Schell , 2004), the Vienna Fashion Week (2007), the Prix Ars Electronica in Linz (2008).

Other work as an author includes journalistic articles, interviews and short stories for the magazine “Fleisch” (2008–2010), the column “Doris' Days” (2004-5) in Seitenblicke Magazin , and short stories for the magazine “2012”.

Schretzmayer's son was born at the end of July 2006; a few weeks before that, she and her partner and father of the child, Florian Horwath , had moved back to Vienna. Schretzmayer and Horwath married in August 2010.

In 2009 she appeared on the theater stage in Vienna for the first time - in the stage version of "Kottan determined - Rabengasse 3a", which was highly appreciated by the audience and critics, she played the role of caretaker Korherr in the Rabenhof Theater under the direction of Thomas Gratzer , in the film by Louise Martini had been embodied. Theater engagements followed. a. at the Neue Bühne Villach (where she played the lead role in the Pulitzer Prize- winning play Rabbit Hole ) and at the Landestheater Niederösterreich .

In 2013 Doris Schretzmayer took part in the ORF show Dancing Stars .

With the theater formation Bernhard Ensemble , Schretzmayer developed a fusion of stories from the Wiener Wald by Horváth with Pulp Fiction by Tarantino - the piece "Wiener.Wald.Fiction" by means of improvisation under the direction of Ernst Kurt Weigel . (Nominated Nestroy Award "Best Off-Production 2014") In 2014 she shot the film adaptation of Doris Knecht's novel "Gruber geht!" With director Marie Kreutzer , whom she met in the film Die Vaterlosen 2010 . Manuel Rubey plays the title role of John Gruber, Schretzmayer his sister Kathi. The film was released in theaters in 2015.