Georg Staudacher

Georg Staudacher (born January 20, 1965 in Vienna ; † June 30, 2007 there ) was an Austrian theater director , screenwriter and actor .

Life

Georg Staudacher attended drama school at the Volkstheater in Vienna. First engagements took him to Graz , St. Gallen , Salzburg and Linz , then he returned to his hometown, where he could also be seen in independent productions. He gained fame among other things through Thomas Baum's Jörg Haider farce “HJ” ( premiered in 1993 at the Linz Theater Phönix ), in which he embodied a populist politician. He also worked at the Burgtheater and the Volkstheater in Vienna, and also took on film and television roles.

In the mid-1990s he switched to directing. In 2001 he was awarded the Nestroy Theater Prize in the category of “Best Male Offspring” for his production of Wolfgang Bauer's “Cafe Tamagotchi” .

At the Vienna Rabenhof he staged “Austrian Psycho” by Franzobel and his children's opera “Die Nase”. He brought the musicals " Jesus Christ Superstar " and " Cabaret " to the stage in the Kurtheater Bad Hall . Georg Staudacher also directed twice in the children's and youth theater sector in Linz. At the Children's Theater he staged “Schnickschnack” by Claus Senderowitz, and at the Landestheater the play “Only for three days”.

The successful director suffered badly from his alcohol addiction. For Jörg Böckem's book Afterwards everything was different (DVA, 2006) he told his story. Like Böckem, Staudacher had always tried to hide his addiction.

Staudacher threw himself out of a window of his fourth floor apartment on June 30, 2007 and succumbed to the injuries he suffered. It is still unclear why he chose to commit suicide, as there is no suicide note, but family differences and his alcohol problem are accepted. He was buried at the cemetery in Hinterbrühl.

Web links

• "Georg Staudacher had a fatal accident" (ORF)
• Georg Staudacher in the Internet Movie Database (English)