Gerald Votava

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Gerald Votava with the Lässig family (2015)

Gerald Ralf Votava (born July 8, 1970 in Vienna ) is an Austrian actor , musician , author and cabaret artist .

Life

Gerald Votava was born in Vienna Dornbach (17th district) as the son of the then very famous presenter Kurt Votava . He grew up with his mother and only met his father when he was 18 years old. At the age of ten he was enrolled by his mother in the boarding school and the humanistic grammar school in the college in Kalksburg , where he passed the Matura . He studied at the University of Vienna first Jus , then psychology without completing the study. He has been a radio presenter, cabaret artist and actor since 1994. Since 2009, Votava has devoted himself increasingly to acting and music.

Theater (actor)

  • 2006: end, even better than good. An evening without Wolfgang Bauer ( Rabenhof Theater , author: Wolfgang Bauer , director: Roman Freiassner )
  • 2010: Häuserl am Oasch (Rabenhoftheater, author: Ernst Molden , director: Thomas Gratzer )
  • 2010: Kassbach (Rabenhoftheater, author: Helmut Zenker , director: Anatole Sternberg )
  • 2010: Presumption of innocence (Rabenhoftheater, author: Florian Scheuba , director: Thomas Gratzer)
  • 2011: Iba de gaunz oamen Leit (Rabenhoftheater, author: Christine Nöstlinger , director: Anatole Sternberg)
  • 2013: Columbo Dreams (Rabenhoftheater, author: Peter Waldeck , director: Thomas Gratzer)
  • 2013: Port of Vienna (Rabenhoftheater, author: Ernst Molden, director: Thomas Gratzer)
  • 2017: Mayerling (Rabenhoftheater, author: Ernst Molden, director: Thomas Gratzer)

TV / film (actor)

Gerald Votava (right) with Hilde Dalik and Michael Ostrowski (2012)

Radio plays (as speaker and singer)

  • 2011: How to Become a Bad Lover (Ö1)
  • 2012: Iba de gaunz oamen Leit (CD, Ö1 / Rabenhoftheater)
  • 2013: The glare (Ö1 / Bayerischer Rundfunk)

Music / production

  • 2002: All Night (film music)
  • 2010: Florian Horwath - Speak To Me Now (CD)
  • 2011: Florian Horwath - How one should live (film music)
  • 2011: Votava - Elf (11) (CD)
  • 2011: Willi Resetarits - Da Jesus and his Hawara (3CD audio book)
  • 2012: Scheiner - De Waund (CD)
  • 2012: Oh Yeah, She Performs! (Film soundtrack CD)
  • 2013: From the life of Hödlmoser (3CD audio book)

radio

  • 1993–1999: Ö3 (night radio, great moments with Gerda Rogers , meeting point Ö3)
  • 1999–2009: FM4 (Connected, Homebase)
  • 1995–2009: FM4 Project X (FM4)
  • since 2002: FM4 double room special (annually on December 24th)

Cabaret programs

  • 1997: Yakimoto Revue (with Oliver Baier )
  • 1998: Gerald and Chantal (solo program)
  • 1999: Project X Protest (as part of Project X )
  • 2000: Project remiX - Leben (with Clemens Haipl and Martin Puntigam )
  • 2002–2008: The super night of Christmas stars (with Martin Puntigam, Thomas Maurer , Dirk Stermann , Michael Ostrowski , Clemens Haipl, Oliver Baier and others)
  • 2005: The "Because, Why" show (with Willi Resetarits )
  • 2004–2009: The Willi Resetarits New Year's Eve Show (Wiener Konzerthaus)
  • 2015: Narcissism and Animals (solo program, premiere 23 January)

Awards

Web links

Commons : Gerald Votava  - Collection of Images

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Short biography ( memento of October 2, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) (PDF; 340 kB) at literaturhaus-graz.at
  2. ↑ Wolfgang Kralicek: Never again class brawl . ( Memento from February 15, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) In: Falter , No. 4/2015, January 21, 2015, p. 36 ff.
personal data
SURNAME Votava, Gerald
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Votava, Gerald Ralf (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian actor, musician, author and cabaret artist
DATE OF BIRTH July 8, 1970
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna