Ignaz Kirchner

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Ignaz Kirchner , actually Hanns-Peter Kirchner-Wierichs (born July 13, 1946 in Wuppertal ; † September 26, 2018 in Bremen ) was a German actor .

Stage career

Kirchner grew up as the son of a homosexual father and a lesbian mother. After attending the Jesuit boarding school Stella Matutina zu Feldkirch (in Vorarlberg , Austria ), Kirchner first completed an apprenticeship as a bookseller and then received his acting training at the Bochum drama school. He got his first role in 1970 while still a student, playing as Peter Kirchner in Alfred Kirchner's Vitrac production The Coup von Trafalgar . As a stage name he then chose that of Ignatius of Loyola . He started his first party engagement in 1970 at the Bonn Theater . In 1973 and 1974 he took part in two productions by Wilfried Minks at the Freie Volksbühne Berlin . In 1974 Claus Peymann brought him to Stuttgart . He was part of the ensemble there until 1977, then moved to the Schauspiel Frankfurt and from there a year later to the Theater Bremen, where he had his greatest success there in 1980 as Hamlet under the direction of Jürgen Gosch and the drama director Frank-Patrick Steckel .

Between 1982 and 1986 he was a member of the Münchner Kammerspiele ensemble , where he worked with Dieter Dorn , Ernst Wendt and Thomas Langhoff , among others . Here he also met George Tabori , with whom he later worked closely at the Burgtheater in Vienna . In the 1983/84 season he played at the Kölner Schauspielhaus , including the princes in Marivaux ' Der Streit directed by Benjamin Korn , Lopachin in Chekhov's The Cherry Orchard directed by Jürgen Flimm and Estragon in Beckett's Waiting for Godot directed by Gosch.

In 1987 he became an ensemble member of the Burgtheater in Vienna for the first time under the direction of Claus Peymann. His first role was Schlomo Herzl in George Tabori's world premiere Mein Kampf . Other important roles included the title role in Sophocles / Müller's Oedipus, Tyrann , directed by Matthias Langhoff in 1988 , Antonio in Shakespeare's The Merchant of Venice in the same year, and in 1990 as Doctor Lvov in Chekhov's Ivanov with director Peter Zadek . Also in 1990 he played Iago in Shakespeare's Othello again under Tabori and in 1992 Macduff in Shakespeare's Macbeth (directed by Peymann). In 1991 he was named Goldberg in Taboris Goldberg Variationen together with Gert Voss from the magazine Theater heute for Actor Couple of the Year. His solo programs such as Wilhelm Reich's Speech to the Little Man and Robert Walser in sequels were also great successes, since 2010 he has been reading from Fernando Pessoa's “Book of Unrest” at the Burgtheater .

In the 1992/93 season he moved to the Deutsches Theater Berlin , where he appeared in Ostrowski's Der Wald in 1992 under the direction of Thomas Langhoff and again as Sosias in Kleist's Amphitryon under Gosch in 1993 . He then came to the Hamburg Thalia Theater , where he played the doctor in Schnitzler's Das weite Land directed by Jürgen Flimm and in 1996 he played Zettel in Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream with director Jens-Daniel Herzog and the title role in Molières Tartuffe again under Flimm.

From 1997 onwards, Kirchner was again a member of the Vienna Burgtheater ensemble. His most important roles in recent years have included Clov in Beckett's Fin de Partie in 1998 (director: George Tabori, invited to the Berliner Theatertreffen ), in 1999 Schigolch in Lulu by Frank Wedekind (director: Andreas Kriegenburg ), and in 2000 Solange in Jean Genet's Die Maiden ( Directors: Ignaz Kirchner, Gert and Ursula Voss ), also in 2000 Dr. Thorn in Chekhov's Die Möwe with director Luc Bondy . In 2001, Sandperger followed in Karl Schönherrs Glaube und Heimat (director: Martin Kušej ) and the role of a guard and a policeman in Koltès Roberto Zucco (director: Klaus Michael Grüber ). In 2002 he played Uta-Napishti in the world premiere of Raoul Schrott's Gilgamesh (director: Theu Boermans , 2002) and Richard in the Austrian premiere of Thomas Bernhard's Elisabeth II (director: Thomas Langhoff). He also had back solo programs like The Walk of Robert Walser , Thomas Bernhard reading The voice imitator and Minetti . Especially his performances with Gert Voss are legendary. Since 2005 he has played the solo role of the piece in the Burgtheater production Der Anatom by Klaus Pohl in the Anatomical Hall of the Fine Arts. In Der Kirschgarten , directed by Andrea Breth as the servant of Firs and as Hermann, the driver, in Lukas Bärfuss The Bus - The Stuff of a Saint he could then be seen. At the Salzburg Festival in 2007 he took on the role of Samiel in the Freischütz production by Falk Richter .

Kirchner appeared in numerous plays as a comedian duo with Gert Voss at the Vienna Burgtheater , for example in the black comedy by George Tabori Goldberg Variations (1991) or in Neil Simon's Die Sunshine Boys (2003), but also in Samuel Beckett's Endspiel and in Jean Genets The maids . Their joint appearance began in classical pieces such as Shakespeare's The Merchant of Venice (Shylock / Antonio) and Othello (Othello / Iago). "Like Shylock and Antonio, like Othello and Iago, Mr. Jay and Goldberg are a sadomasochistic male couple - a combination like master and servant, father and son, Laurel and Hardy." ( Theater Heute , August 1991).

In 2011 Kirchner was at the Burgtheater a. a. as Pozzo in Waiting for Godot (directed by Matthias Hartmann ) and as Prince Bolkonskyi in War and Peace , a dramatization of the Tolstoy novel. For this role he was also nominated for "Best Leading Role" for the Nestroy Prize 2010. From 2012–2014 he continued to work with René Pollesch , Frank Castorf , Jan Bosse and Antú Romero Nunes at the Burgtheater. There he also read Robert Musil's Mann without Qualities in continuations.

Kirchner died in September 2018 at the age of 72 as a result of a stroke he suffered in early April .

Filmography (selection)

theatre

Awards

literature

See also

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Georg Leyrer: Castle actor Ignaz Kirchner died. In: Kurier.at . September 27, 2018, accessed September 27, 2018 .
  2. ^ Georg Leyrer: Castle actor Ignaz Kirchner died. In: Kurier.at . September 27, 2018, accessed September 27, 2018 .
personal data
SURNAME Kirchner, Ignaz
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Kirchner-Wierichs, Hanns-Peter (real name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German actor and member of the Burgtheater ensemble
DATE OF BIRTH July 13, 1946
PLACE OF BIRTH Wuppertal
DATE OF DEATH 26th September 2018
Place of death Bremen