Günter Rainer

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Günter Rainer (actually Günter Reinecke ) (born October 25, 1941 in Vienna ) is a German actor , director and radio play speaker .

Life

Günter Rainer's parents were the owners of a textile wholesaler who insisted on their son's commercial school-leaving certificate. Rainer began his stage career in 1961 in Klagenfurt and Salzburg. In 1973 he moved to the the time of Horst Zankl led the Theater am Neumarkt in Zurich. After further engagements at the Hamburger Schauspielhaus , the Landestheater Innsbruck , where he also acted as head of the youth department, or the Ateliertheater in Bern, where he directed, Rainer came to the Landestheater Linz in 1986 , of which he was a member until 2007. Since then he has been working as a freelancer, continued to perform on stage in Linz, but also made guest appearances at the Ernst-Deutsch-Theater in Hamburg or at the Theater an der Rott , for example . His roles include a number of Nestroy figures such as the Titus fire fox from the talisman , the knee strap in the Lumpazivagabundus or the ember hammer in the torn . Rainer also played the title role in Peer Gynt and Shakespeare's King Lear , the Mackie Messer in Brecht's Threepenny Opera , but also Horace Vandergelder in the musical Hello, Dolly! or the frog in the bat .

Günter Rainer has only taken on a few tasks for television, including a. you saw him in an episode of the crime series Four Women and a Death or in the novel, Come, Sweet Death . On the other hand, his work for radio is more extensive, where Rainer has so far participated in numerous productions for Austrian radio .

Günter Rainer is married to the English dancer Helen Isaacson. They have a son and a daughter together.

Filmography (selection)

Radio plays (selection)

  • 1980: Peter Struwwel is alive - Director: Helmut Wlasak
  • 1982: A village without men - Director: Franz Hölbing
  • 1983: Absterbens Amen - Director: Hans Haid u. Franz Hölbing
  • 1983: The Blue of Penelope - Director: Franz Hölbing
  • 1983: Roast pheasant with chestnut puree and serviette dumplings - Director: Franz Hölbing
  • 1983: Probably gone crazy - Director: Franz Hölbing
  • 1984: Judith and Holofernes - Director: Gert Rydl
  • 1984: Time Lapse - Director: Franz Hölbing
  • 1985: Odysseus is on strike - Director: Franz Hölbing
  • 1987: Katz im Sack - Director: Alfred Pittertschatscher
  • 1990: Postseason - Director: Alfred Pittertschatscher
  • 1992: Taking hostages - Director: Friedrich Zauner
  • 1992: Nothing at all is never. Almost never - Director: Christian Hanna u. Alfred Pittertschatscher
  • 1993: Management by Poker - Directed by Alfred Pittertschatscher
  • 1993: Thousands - Director: Alfred Pittertschatscher
  • 1994: Visit to the retirement home - Director: Alfred Pittertschatscher
  • 1994: Saugruft - Directed by Heide Stockinger

Awards

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b radio interview from May 3, 2015 , accessed on September 1, 2015. (Here Rainer also mentions that he is a German citizen.)
  2. ↑ a b c State correspondence No. 207 of October 31, 2011 , accessed on September 1, 2015
  3. ↑ Biographical information on the website of the Theater an der Rott , accessed on September 1, 2015
  4. ↑ Biography on the website of the Landestheater Linz
  5. ^ Rarely laughed like that in the Ernst-Deutsch-Theater , Hamburger Abendblatt of March 10, 2012 , accessed on September 1, 2015
personal data
SURNAME Rainer, Günter
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Reinecke, Günter (real name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German actor, director and radio play speaker
DATE OF BIRTH October 25, 1941
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna