Heinz Hellberg

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Heinz Hellberg (born October 21, 1944 in Vienna ) is an Austrian actor , operetta singer , musical performer and theater director .

Hellberg began his musical career as a member of the Vienna Boys' Choir . At the age of 15 he enrolled at the Academy for Music and Performing Arts in Vienna, where he studied horn and also learned to conduct in the conducting class. At the age of 16 he was the youngest choir director in Austria. He began as an orchestral musician at the Raimund Theater in Vienna , where he was first horn player for two years. He then switched to the stage as an operetta singer at the age of 21. He received his first small roles at the Stadttheater Baden near Vienna . Larger roles were added there later. As an operetta buffo , he had numerous engagements in Austria and Germany in the following years.

In the course of his career, his numerous operetta roles included a. a. Bonuses in Die Csárdásfürstin (Vienna Operetta Festival ), Raoul de St. Brioche in The Merry Widow (Vienna Volksoper), Armand Brissard in Der Graf von Luxemburg (Stadttheater St. Gallen), Toni Schlumberger in Die Zirkusprinzessin (Stadttheater St. Gallen), Seppl Fraunhofer in mask in blue (Vienna), in Toni Haberl in season in Salzburg (Stadttheater Baden near Vienna), Arpad in The Hungarian Wedding (Die Münchner Opernbühne, Munich) and the pay waiter Leopold Brandmeyer in Im Weißen Rößl (Operettenbühne Vienna).

In 1974 he took on the role of the drug addict, paranoid pop star Dave in the premiere of the musical Who knows Jürgen Beck by Klaus Wirbitzky at the Munster Municipal Theater . In the 1982/83 season he had a guest contract with the Munster Municipal Theaters for Hans-Ulrich Engelmann's scenic cantata Die Mauer . In the 1982/83 and 1983/84 seasons he was again committed to the Stadttheater Baden near Vienna. In 1984 he played the tailor Mottel in the musical Anatevka . In the 1987/88 season he took on the male leading role of Alfred in the play Tales from the Vienna Woods in a touring theater production of the "Berliner Tournee" ; his partners were Anja Kruse (as Marianne) and Franziska Bronnen (as Valerie).

In 1984 Hellberg was engaged as a permanent member of the ensemble and soloist at the Vienna Volksoper . Hellberg was a member there for a total of 13 years, where he was used in operettas and musicals. Up to and including the 1995/96 season she was a permanent member of the Vienna Volksoper. In the musical area he performed there a. a. as Ambrose Kemper in Hello, Dolly! (September 1984 to November 1986) and as Bill Calhoun / Lucentio in Kiss Me, Kate (November 1988 to June 1992).

Hellberg took part in over 50 television shows in Germany, Austria and the Netherlands. He had gigs a. a. in Melodies for Millions (1986, with Anja Kruse as a partner; 1989 with Melanie Holliday as a partner), Zum Blauen Bock (1987; with Anja Kruse as a partner with melodies by Werner Richard Heymann ) and The great television concert of the operetta (1985; with excerpts from the operetta Die Csárdásfürstin ). Hellberg also made some recordings with operetta melodies and hits, in which u. a. Anja Kruse, Melanie Holliday, Waldemar Kmentt , Helmut Kummer and the conductor Emmerich Smola were his partners.

In 1996 he founded the Operettenbühne Wien , with which he has been touring with two productions every year since the 1996/97 season. Since then he has been director of the Operettenbühne Vienna without interruption. Since 2004 Hellberg has also been the artistic director and director of the summer “Vienna Operetta Festival”. Since 1999 he has also been a regular guest at the Luisenburg Festival in Wunsiedel with the Operettenbühne Wien . In the context of the productions of the Operettenbühne Wien Hellberg also appears again and again as an actor, for example as the pay waiter Leopold in Im Weißen Rößl (2010) and as Don Pedro del Vargas in Mask in Blue (2015).

In June 2008 he was awarded the professional title of " Professor " by the Federal Ministry for Education, Art and Culture .

Hellberg was in a relationship with the German actress Anja Kruse for nine years until 1989. Hellberg is married to the actress and operetta soubrette Susanne Hellberg . He lives in Vienna.

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ Heinz Hellberg (1944-) entry Naxos Music Library. Retrieved October 19, 2015
  2. ↑ a b c d e f g h Viennese operetta in the Gloria interview with Heinz Hellberg; Badische Zeitung, October 24, 2013. Retrieved October 19, 2015
  3. ↑ a b c d e f g h i Heinz Hellberg Vita; ORF.at culinary. Retrieved October 19, 2015
  4. ↑ a b c d e f g BMUKK: Professors title to Gottfried Cervenka, Heinz Hellberg and Günter Neuhold ; Press release of the Federal Ministry for Education, Art and Culture on June 26, 2008. Accessed on October 19, 2015
  5. ↑ performance review ; in: opera world ; Issue July 1983, page 39
  6. ↑ Christoph Wagner-Trenkwitz : It is so green. Musical at the Vienna Volksoper . P. 162, p. 165f. Amalthea Verlag, Vienna 2007, ISBN 978-3-85002-632-1 .
  7. ↑ Heinz Hellberg entry in Muziekweb. Retrieved October 19, 2015
  8. ↑ Melodies For Millions - New 1989 Entry at Discogs. Retrieved October 19, 2015
personal data
SURNAME Hellberg, Heinz
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian actor, operetta singer, musical performer and theater director
DATE OF BIRTH October 21, 1944
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna