Johanna Mertinz

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Johanna Mertinz (born November 23, 1945 in Vienna ) is an Austrian actress and reciter .

Life

After graduating from high school, Mertinz completed her acting training at the Max Reinhardt Seminar in Vienna . She also received dance training at the “ Rosalia Chladek Dance Academy ” in Vienna. She had theater engagements at the Freie Volksbühne Berlin , the Hessisches Staatstheater Wiesbaden , the Staatstheater Stuttgart , the Münchner Kammerspiele (1973–1978), the theaters of the city of Bonn (1980; as Lucile in Dantons Tod and as Nadjeshda in Die Lesten) by Maxim Gorki ) and at the Renaissance Theater Berlin (season 1978/79; as Leonore Sanvitale in Torquato Tasso ; director: Willi Schmidt).

She was a guest at the Wiener Festwochen and toured Germany , Israel (2012) and other countries. She also went on a theater tour with the ensemble of the Vienna Burgtheater .

At the Münchner Kammerspiele she appeared as Regine in Gespenster (director: Ernst Wendt ), as Martha in Die Wupper (1974; director: Adolf Dresen ) and Celia in Volpone (1975; director: Hans-Michael Rehberg ). In 1980 she took on 20 different roles in Hans Hollmann's production of the play The Last Days of Mankind at the Wiener Festwochen in the Wiener Konzerthaus . In 1981 she played the role of Frau Maske in Carl Sternheim's comedy Die Hose as part of the Wiener Festwochen in the Theater an der Wien alongside Helmut Qualtinger ; Directed by Dietmar Pflegerl .

From 1981 to 2010 Mertinz was a permanent member of the ensemble at the Volkstheater Vienna . She has continued to appear there as a guest since her retirement. Her roles at the Volkstheater Wien included: Lady Milford in Kabale und Liebe , Countess Orsina in Emilia Galotti , Dorimène in Der Bürger als Edelmann , Constanze in Der Talisman , Frau von Blumenblatt in He wants to make a joke , Madame in stories from the Wiener Wald , Ills Frau in The Visit of the Old Lady , the title role in The bitter tears of Petra von Kant , Blanche Du Bois in Endstation Sehnsucht and the nurse in Sonny Boys (as partner of Peter Weck and Harald Serafin ).

In the comedy Mein Freund Harvey (premiere: June 2013) she took on the double role of Betty Chumley / Mrs. Ethel Chauvenet. In the 2013/14 season she appeared again in these two roles at the Volkstheater Wien. She also played the singer Mrs. Verindah-Gedge at the Austrian premiere of the comedy Glorious! At the side of Maria Bill as Florence Foster Jenkins . by Peter Quilter on; Mertinz was Florence Foster Jenkins' opponent in the play.

In the 2012/13 season she was a guest alongside Florian Eisner at the Innsbruck cellar theater in the Austrian premiere of David Gieselmann's play Falscher Hase . In 2014 she appeared at the Kellertheater Bern, in 2015 and 2016 at the Stadttheater Klagenfurt (in Lavant ! , a theater project for Christine Lavant's 100th birthday ), in 2018 at the Neue Bühne Villach as Maude in Harold and Maude and in 2019 at the “Theater Wolkenflug” / Klagenfurt as Hecuba in Trojans .

Mertinz was also active in film and television ; however, her main field of activity as an actress was the theater. In the crime series Tatort in 1995 she was seen in the episode Ace of Hearts . In addition to Martin Lüttge , she embodied the ex-wife of an adventurer who was believed to be dead and who was returning from New Caledonia to his hometown of Düsseldorf . In the Austrian television series Julia - An Unusual Woman , she had a continuous supporting role as Frau Demmerlein from 1999 to 2003. She played the secretary of the Viennese lawyer Dr. Arthur Laubach ( Peter Bongartz ). In the German-Austrian television film Lilly Schönauer - Umweg ins Glück (2007) she was the owner of the palace, Gabriele Ehrenfels. In 2015 she played a leading role in the Viennese Tatort: ​​Gier (director: Robert Dornhelm ), in which she embodied the chemical factory's "veteran" as the secretary of a chemical factory. In 2019, she played episode roles in Quickly determined and Die Rosenheim-Cops .

Mertinz also worked as a voice actress; she was u. a. the German voice of Marlène Jobert . She also appeared in radio plays .

Mertinz also appeared regularly as a reciter and gave her own solo reading evenings, for example with texts by Botho Strauss , Elfriede Hammerl , Elfriede Jelinek , Marlene Streeruwitz and Werner Schwab . She also gave readings from the autobiography We Live In Hidden by Ceija Stojka . She was also the speaker for the audio book One of Many , which is based on texts by Elfriede Hartmann (1921-1943), a Viennese resistance fighter. In 1990 Mertinz bought the estate of her aunt Dr. Gerda Hartmann taken over; it contained the receipts of Elfriede Hartmann, Gerda Hartmann's younger sister. In 2013 she published texts and letters from Elfriede Hartmann from her Gestapo imprisonment under the title Courage, Courage - I still live out of it at Mandelbaum Verlag . 2018 doctorate Mertinz at the University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna Dr. phil. In 2019 her book Exodus der Talente was published by Mandelbaum Verlag . Heinrich Schnitzler and the German People's Theater Vienna , 1938–1945 .

Mertinz also works as an acting teacher, among others at the Franz Schubert Conservatory (February 1999 to January 2002) and since 1999 in all years at the Performing Arts Center Vienna. She is a member of the Association of Austrian Film Actors (VÖFS). and at the collecting society for filmmakers (VdFS). Mertinz lives in Vienna.

Filmography (selection)

Audio books

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Johanna Mertinz Vita Agency management rehling. Retrieved March 22, 2014.
  2. ↑ a b c d Johanna Mertinz . Vita. Official website of Mono-Verlag. Retrieved March 22, 2014
  3. ↑ VIENNA / Volkstheater: GLORIOUS! . Performance review online marker. Retrieved March 22, 2014.
  4. ↑ A wrong hare in Innsbruck . Performance review in: Der Standard, October 22, 2013. Accessed March 22, 2014
  5. ↑ Basement theater Wrong Hare . TV report in: Tirol heute . Retrieved March 22, 2014
  6. ↑ Lavant! . Production details. Internet presence of the theater in klagenfurt. Retrieved May 14, 2020.
  7. ↑ HAROLD & MAUDE . Production details. Internet presence Neue Bühne Villach. Retrieved May 14, 2020.
  8. ↑ THEATER CLOUDS FLIGHT: Women in double victimization . MeinBezirk.at of June 10, 2019. Retrieved May 14, 2020.
  9. ↑ TATORT: GREED . TV review at Filmstarts.de. Retrieved May 14, 2020.
  10. ↑ Johanna Mertinz ( Memento of the original from March 22, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Database entry Synchrondatenbank.de. Retrieved March 22, 2014 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.synchrondatenbank.de
  11. ↑ Courage, courage - I'm still alive. The receipts of Elfriede Hartmann from Gestapo detention . Official website of the Mandelbaum Verlag. Retrieved March 22, 2014.
  12. ↑ MUT, MUT - STILL I LIVE Review online marker. Retrieved March 22, 2014.
  13. ↑ Exodus of Talents . Book Description at Mandelbaum Verlag. Retrieved May 14, 2020.
  14. ↑ Johanna Mertinz . Vita at the Association of Austrian Film Actors (VÖFS). Retrieved March 22, 2014
personal data
SURNAME Mertinz, Johanna
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian actress and reciter
DATE OF BIRTH November 23, 1945
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna