Franz Winter (actor)
Franz Winter (born November 26, 1950 in Tegernsee ) is a director , actor , reciter , author , music producer and writer .
Life
Franz Winter grew up in Austria and attended the Jesuit college "Stella Matutina" in Feldkirch / Vorarlberg and the Benedictine music school in Niederaltaich . His acting training took place at the Otto Falckenberg School in Munich. He received a “sponsorship award for the young generation” from the Academy of Arts in what was then West Berlin at the suggestion of academician and director Rudolf Noelte . From 1985 to 1988 he was acting director in Giessen.
Winter works as a director in spoken and music theater as well as in film productions, of which he is the author, in particular of cultural-historical films for Polygram International . Films were made about the Renaissance in Florence, Tuscany, Vienna, Prague, Venice, the cultural landscape of the Loire, Ludwig II. And Gustav Mahler . Franz Winter co-founded the music label “ Winter & Winter ” and as artistic director is responsible for musical recordings from Bach to Mahler, as well as for special projects such as the 1998 CD “Venezia La Festa”.
Stations as an actor
- German theater in Göttingen
- Staatliche Schauspielbühnen Berlin : (Schiller-Theater, Schlosspark-Theater), roles like Don Karlos in Don Karlos , Mortimer in Maria Stuart by Friedrich Schiller
- Burgtheater Vienna, where he mainly plays the roles of Austrian poets, such as Stani in Der Schwierige by Hugo von Hofmannsthal , Das Haus Delorme by Arthur Schnitzler , Don Cesar in A Brotherly Controversy in the House of Habsburg by Franz Grillparzer , but also Alois in grandfather and half-brother by Thomas Hürlimann as television recording.
- Salzburg Festival among others Otto in Schnitzler's The Wide Land .
As an author, he translates and edited plays, opera and operetta libretti, wrote plays: The Snow Queen , Ninotschka (with series of performances), essays, scripts: Vivaldi , short stories: The violin maker for quarterback, Tyrol….
As a reciter he was, among other things, active in readings of opera text books such as Wagner's Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg or Hofmannsthal's Elektra at the Tyrolean Festival in Erl, which were released on CD by “ col legno ” as well as his “Beethoven audio books”. There he edited the 9 symphonies of Beethoven with a recording by Gustav Kuhn with his own texts (author and speaker) and established a connection between word and music.
Filmography (selection)
- 1973: Convicted (TV movie)
- 1974: The Commissioner (episode: The Sailboat Murder )
- 1979: Don't be like all men are - Biographical film about Hugo von Hofmannsthal
- 1980: Stefan Zweig - Fight against War (TV movie)
- 1984: Rauhnacht (TV movie)
- 2005: I've lost the world (DVD - film biography by Gustav Mahler)
Radio plays and audio CDs
- 1978: The Assassin - Director: Robert Matejka (radio play)
- Monorails in Winter & Winter
- 1997: Venezia La Festa: Live music by the three Gran Cafe orchestras from St. Mark's Square in Venice
- 1997: Johann Sebastian Bach - Violoncello Solo Suites I, II, III
- 1997: Franz Schubert - Trio in E flat major op.100, Sonata in B flat major
- Monorails at Col legno
- 2008: Franz Winter - Beethoven audio books
- 2009: Franz Winter reads Richard Wagner - The Mastersingers
- 2010: Franz Winter reads Hofmannsthal - Elektra
Books
- Operation Rheingold. Novel. Braumüller Literaturverlag, Vienna 2011, ISBN 978-3-99200-041-8 .
- Orfanels. Venice novel. Braumüller Literaturverlag, Vienna 2012, ISBN 978-3-99200-073-9 .
- The difficult ones . Braumüller Literaturverlag, Vienna 2017. ISBN 3-99200-187-3
Awards
- "Promotion Prize for the Young Generation" from the Academy of Arts (Berlin)
- 2011 nomination for the " Leo Perutz Literature Prize " for Operation Rheingold
Web links
- Franz Winter in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Franz Winter's website at franzwinter.com
- Interview with Franz Winter in the “Kleine Zeitung” ( memento from August 16, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) on kleinezeitung.at
- Biographical information about Franz Winter at Krimi-Couch.de
Individual evidence
- ^ Piet Hein Honig, Hanns-Georg Rodek : 100001. The show business encyclopedia of the 20th century. Showbiz-Data-Verlag, Villingen-Schwenningen 1992, ISBN 3-929009-01-5 , p. 1046.
- ↑ a b c Franz Winter biography on franzwinter.com, accessed on May 26, 2013.
- ^ From the experience of finiteness ( memento of August 16, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) in kleinezeitung.at, July 12, 2011.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Winter, Franz |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German director and author |
| DATE OF BIRTH | November 26, 1950 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Tegernsee |