Franz Solar (actor)

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Franz Solar (* 1962 in Graz ) is an Austrian actor in theater, film and television. He is married to the actress Margarethe Tiesel and lives with her in Graz. Franz Solar is a member of the ensemble at the Schauspielhaus Graz .

life and work

Franz Solar was born in Graz in 1962 and studied acting at the Krauss Drama School in Vienna from 1983 to 1985 . In Vienna, Solar, who was awarded the “Golden Mask” in 1989, had engagements at the Theater Brett , the Volksoper Vienna , the Theater der Jugend , the Vienna Chamber Opera and the Theater an der Wien . He also had permanent engagements at the Württembergische Landesbühne Esslingen , the Städtische Bühnen Freiburg / Breisgau , the Staatsschauspiel Stuttgart , as well as at the Salzburg Festival , where he was in a production of Seven Against Thebes by Aeschylus , a co-production with the Schauspiel Frankfurt , was seen. Solar was on a stage in Graz for the first time in 1995 in Hurray Jesus! To see a high fight by Christoph Schlingensief . Since autumn 1995 he has been a permanent member of the ensemble at the Schauspielhaus Graz and from that time on he came to numerous appearances in a wide variety of plays. Already in the early 1990s he appeared in the theater play India , the film adaptation of which appeared in 1993 with Josef Hader and Alfred Dorfer in the lead role and directed by Paul Harather , in Dorfer's later role as Kurt Fellner .

Especially from the mid-1990s, Solar also excelled as an actor in film and television. In the 1990s, for example, he was seen in the films The Shadow of the Writer by Niki List (1995) or Wanted by Harald Safeitz (1999), as well as in an episode of Kriminaltango by Holger Barthel (1995). At the beginning of the 2000s, there followed just as insignificant appearances in television series as Trautmann (1 episode, 2000), Kommissar Rex (1 episode, 2001) or Julia - An Unusual Woman (1 episode, 2002). After concentrating almost exclusively on theater for several years, he returned to regular appearances in film and television in 2008. In Love for Advanced (2008) he was seen in the role of Otto and in 2009 as the postman in Pipilotti Rist's Pepperminta . In 2010 he made appearances in short films such as Tage ohne Morgen by the young Graz director David Lapuch or True by Nils Kaltschmidt and Vincent Seidl . In 2011 he was seen in Nur der Berg knows the truth by director Hartmut Griesmayr in the supporting role of Simon and had another role in a Lapuch production, as a tired police officer in the short film Hinterland .

In 2012 the play Democracy - The Show was filmed for television in the Schauspielhaus ; Solar can be seen in it as Franz S. , as well as an impersonator of Wolfgang Schüssel . This was followed by assignments for him in Die Fremde und das Dorf by Peter Keglevic (2014) and in the first LandKrimi Die Frau mit ein Schuh by Michael Glawogger (2014); both minor minor roles. In Adam , Solar was seen again alongside Reinhard Nowak or Pia Hierzegger in a production by David Lapuch, who was born in 1987 and lives in Stainz , and who made his feature film debut here. In recent years, the native of Graz has starred in an episode of the TV series Artist in Residence (2015), where he appears as a narrator, as well as in the TV films A Secret in the Village - Sister and Brother (2016) and Battleship in the Village (2017) With.

Filmography (selection)

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ A young director conquers the cinema with "Adam" , accessed on November 28, 2018
personal data
SURNAME Solar, Franz
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian actor in theater, film and television
DATE OF BIRTH 1962
PLACE OF BIRTH Graz , Austria