Harald Krassnitzer

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Harald Krassnitzer at Voices for Refugees in Vienna (2015)

Harald Krassnitzer (born September 10, 1960 in Grödig near Salzburg ) is an Austrian actor and presenter . He became known for the title role of Dr. Justus Hallstein in the ZDF series Der Bergdoktor and the role of crime scene commissioner Moritz Eisner , which he has played since 1999.

Life

Artistic career

Harald Krassnitzer with Adele Neuhauser at the Grimme Awards 2014
Ann-Kathrin Kramer and Harald Krassnitzer ( Romy Awards 2008 in Vienna)

Harald Krassnitzer grew up in Grödig in the Salzburg region . His father was a locksmith, his mother worked in a candy factory. At the age of ten he made his first stage appearance in a shepherd's play .

After graduating from high school , Krassnitzer completed an apprenticeship as a forwarding agent and his acting training at the Elisabeth stage in Salzburg , where he was engaged from 1984 to 1988. After that he played for two years at the Schauspielhaus Graz . For one year each he was engaged at the Vienna Volkstheater and at the Saarland State Theater in Saarbrücken . He worked in stage plays such as Henrik Ibsen's Peer Gynt , Heiner Müller's Die Hamletmaschine , Sophocles ' King Oedipus , Johann Wolfgang von Goethe's Faust I and Faust II or Friedrich Schiller's Die Räuber .

In 1993 Krassnitzer made his television debut in the television series Die Oase , in which he took on the role of Dieter Krause. In 1996 he then took on his first permanent series role in the ZDF series Der Bergdoktor , where he won the Dr. Justus Hallstein embodied. In Miguel Alexandre's film drama The Pact - When Children Kill (1996), he made his film debut in the role of family father Dieter Koll, who sexually abuses his son Nikolas ( Daniel Brühl ) , who is 15 years old . In 1998 he was in the Sat.1 thriller Whore Murder - A Priest Is Silent for the first time at the side of Ann-Kathrin Kramer , who played his film sister, in the title role of the priest Thomas Fauser, who, due to his confessional secret , has to allow a wrong man behind bars for a murder. Since 1999 he has been working as investigator Moritz Eisner for ORF in the Tatort series , sometimes alone, sometimes with changing colleagues. In 2000 and 2008 he was awarded the Romy as “Most Popular Series Actor”. Since his 24th fall, he has been working with Bibi Fellner, portrayed by Adele Neuhauser . In 2014 they were awarded the Grimme Prize for their acting performance, which is shown in the episode Counted .

In 2001 he played the riding stable owner Bernhard Bausch in the ARD television film Alone Among Men , in which the young veterinarian Dr. Tana Fechner (Ann-Kathrin Kramer) in love. In Jo Baier's German-Austrian television film Stauffenberg (2004), he played Erich Fellgiebel, the German news troop general and resistance fighter of July 20, 1944 . From 2005 to 2009 he acted in the Austrian television series Der Winzerkönig in the leading role of the Rust-born winemaker's son Thomas Stickler, who has to take over the estate of his deceased father and was head of production at a Frankfurt high-tech company until the company was relocated. At the end of December 2008 he was in the ZDF crime film Marie Brand and the Charm of Evil in the role of the unscrupulous lawyer Dr. To see Ulf Tilmann. Dieter Wedel cast him for his two- parter Gier in the role of Hajo Novak. In the thirteenth film in the film series Das Traumhotel , Chiang Mai (2010), he played a leading role as Holger Rückert, who was missing from his wife Susanne (Ann-Kathrin Kramer) after a dive in Chiang Mai, Thailand. In the Austro-German television film The Competition (2012) he was seen again as oil manager Hubert Fischbach at the side of his wife. In 2013 he took on the role of the eponymous mediator in the thirteen-part Austrian family series Paul Kemp - Alles keine Problem . In Lars Becker's crime film My Stranger Woman , he played the public prosecutor Bruno Hofer alongside Ursula Strauss . 2016 was in the Austrian country thriller in the two episodes Drachenjungfrau (as Mayor Erlinger) and Höhenstraße (cameo as Moritz Eisner) to be seen. From 2016 to 2017 he was seen together with Ann-Kathrin Kramer in the ARD film series Parents alone at home as the Schröder couple. In the ARD television film Wedding in Rome (2017) he was seen as the father of the Cologne-based architect Max Hauser, who fell in love with the attractive waitress Bianca D'Arcadia from Rome.

At the end of January 2020 it was announced that Krassnitzer would be in front of the camera as Rupert Althammer for a cameo in the winter special of the series Der Bergdoktor, which was reissued with Hans Sigl in 2008 . In April 2020 he was seen as judge Hans Bachleitner in the episode Small Cases of the ZDF comedy series Über Land .

He is co-owner of Blinklicht , a production company for mobile television that he founded in Vienna with two friends from his youth.

Krassnitzer also acts as a moderator. In the 1998 Licht-ins-Dunkel gala he co- hosted alongside Peter Rapp . In the summer of 1999, Krassnitzer presented the film series Wunderland, a personal declaration of love to Austria, in which he presented his favorite music and his favorite regions. Since 2014 he has been moderating the ORF pre-Christmas program Magical Christmas in the Land of Silent Night together with Sonja Weissensteiner .

engagement

Together with Ann-Kathrin Kramer, Krassnitzer shows volunteer work for the Dunkelziffer association , which works for sexually abused children. In addition, he is committed to the relief organization Austria International and to the victim protection organization Weißer Ring . For the social association he was seen on posters and in interviews in 2016 as part of a campaign together with other Tatort actors.

Harald Krassnitzer is a social democrat and regularly supports SPÖ campaigns .

Private

Since 1999 he has been with the German actress Ann-Kathrin Kramer , whom he met while filming Hurenmord - Ein Priester is silent . On July 7th, 2009 the couple got married after ten years of relationship on a ship on the Danube in the Wachau . They live together in Wuppertal and in Krassnitzer's adopted home Mieming in Tyrol .

Filmography (selection)

Plays (selection)

Radio plays

Publications

  • 2019: Raunächte: wonderful things for a special time , Residenz-Verlag, Salzburg 2019, ISBN 978-3-7017-1725-5

Awards

Web links

Commons : Harald Krassnitzer  - Collection of Images

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d Harald Krassnitzer - biography at prosieben.de. Retrieved May 22, 2013.
  2. ↑ Das Erste: "Hochzeit in Rom" (AT): Shooting in Italy with Harald Krassnitzer and Ann-Kathrin Kramer for a romantic ARD Degeto comedy from October 12, 2016 on presseportal.de
  3. ↑ Der Bergdoktor: Harald Krassnitzer will return from January 30, 2020 on Stern.de .
  4. ↑ Harald Krassnitzer | WHITE RING e. V. Accessed July 27, 2017 .
  5. ↑ WHITE RING: Statement of television Commissioner Harald Krassnitzer. September 19, 2016. Retrieved July 27, 2017 .
  6. ↑ whores murder - A priest is silent content and film criticism at tvspielfilm.de
  7. ↑ Adultery drama at Wetten, dass ..? In: BZ , online edition of January 28, 2006.
  8. ^ Krassnitzer / Kramer: Wedding on the Danube In: Hamburger Abendblatt , online edition of July 15, 2009.
  9. ↑ Love Waltz on the Blue Danube In: Bunte Issue No. 30/2009.
  10. ↑ Jonas Erlenkämper: Krassnitzer raves about the glamor-free life in Wuppertal In: Berliner Morgenpost , online edition of December 2, 2016.
  11. ↑ Ann-Kathrin Kramer and Harald Krassnitzer: Time out at Christmas In: Gala , online edition from December 25, 2016.
  12. ↑ ORF 2012 . In: trailer episode 2 ( We are hell ), first broadcast on ORF on October 10, 2013, in Das Erste on June 17, 2014.
personal data
SURNAME Krassnitzer, Harald
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian actor and presenter
DATE OF BIRTH September 10, 1960
PLACE OF BIRTH Grödig