Karl Markovics

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Karl Markovics at the premiere of Die Fälscher in Berlin, 2007
Karl Markovics and Stefan Ruzowitzky , Viennale 2009

Karl Markovics (born August 29, 1963 in Vienna ) is an Austrian actor , director and screenwriter .

Live and act

The son of a saleswoman and a bus driver did not want to take up a civil profession, but rather to the theater, for which the parents showed understanding. However, he failed the entrance exam for the Max Reinhardt Seminar . He was not deterred by this, however, and began playing at the Serapionstheater Vienna in 1982 . In 1987 he moved to the Vienna Ensemble .

Markovics took over the first film role in 1991 in the movie Dog and Cat by Michael Sturminger . In 1993 he played the Kirchinger landlord in Paul Harathers tragicomic road movie India . He became known to a wider audience as District Inspector Stockinger , first in the Austrian crime series Kommissar Rex , then in the spin-off series Stockinger . Other film roles followed, including in Hinterholz 8 , Late Show and - as the main actor alongside Julia Stemberger - in Born in Absurdistan and in Come, Sweet Death .

In the years that followed, Markovics played in numerous TV and theater productions, including at the Theater in der Josefstadt and at the Vienna Volkstheater , where he himself staged a play for the first time in 2005 with Eugène Ionesco's Die kahle Sängerin . In 2008 he was seen in the two-part television production Die Gustloff , directed by Joseph Vilsmaier, alongside Michael Mendl , Heiner Lauterbach , Francis Fulton-Smith and Dana Vávrová in the lead role of submarine corvette captain Petri.

The leading role of Salomon Sorowitsch in Stefan Ruzowitzky's film Die Fälscher , which was named Best Foreign Language Film at the 80th Academy Awards , remains Markovics' greatest international success to this day.

In 2009 Markovics co-founded the Academy of Austrian Films together with other Austrian filmmakers .

In 2011 he made his debut as a director and screenwriter with the feature film Atmen . The production with Thomas Schubert in the lead role was invited to the Quinzaine des réalisateurs series at the 64th Cannes Film Festival , where it was awarded the Prix ​​Europa Cinemas Label and in 2012 the Austrian Film Prize in six categories .

In 2011 he also played in the film Süskind by the Dutch director Rudolf van den Berg . In it he played Ferdinand from the Fünten , who as SS-Hauptsturmführer was responsible for the central office for Jewish emigration in Amsterdam during the Second World War .

Markovics plays the leading role, Baarova's lover Joseph Goebbels, in the film The Devil's Beloved by the Czech director Filip Renč, about the life of the controversial Czech actress Lída Baarová . The film was shot mainly in the Czech Republic from April to June 2015 and celebrated its world premiere in January 2016 in Prague .

At the Bregenz Festival 2018 he staged the world premiere of the opera Das Jagdgewehr by composer Thomas Larcher , making his debut as an opera director.

Markovics is married to the theater and film actress Stephanie Taussig (* 1967) and has two adopted children. He lives near Vienna.

Filmography (selection)

Television films and series

cinemamovies

As a director and screenwriter

Karl Markovics with Ulrike Beimpold at the Vienna premiere of Superwelt (2015)

Theater engagements

Awards

Web links

Commons : Karl Markovics  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Isabella Reicher: Head of the day: Karl Markovics In: DER STANDARD, print edition, February 26, 2008, accessed on January 7, 2012.
  2. ^ Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität / Cornelia Ganitta: Dutch Film - Beyond Good and Evil: Resistance in Dutch Film
  3. ↑ Trailer for the film The Devil's Lover
  4. ^ Bregenz Festival: The hunting rifle . Retrieved August 16, 2018.
  5. ^ Salzburger Nachrichten: Opera debut: Karl Markovics and the "complex sound scenario" . Article dated June 29, 2018, accessed August 16, 2018.
  6. ↑ Middle East International Film Festival - Abu Dhabi: Black Pearl Winners announced ( Memento of December 10, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) (PDF), October 19, 2007
  7. ↑ Neues Volksblatt : The pursuit of truthfulness. (...) Nestroy-Ring of the city of Bad Ischl to Karl Markovics. Print edition, May 27, 2010, accessed June 2, 2010
  8. ↑ Behind the scenes: Karl Markovics and the creation of his Nestroy Ring  ( page no longer available , search in web archives ), May 18, 2010, accessed on June 2, 2010@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / www.salzi.at
  9. ^ São Paulo International Film Festival 2011: Prêmio do júri
  10. ↑ Wolfgang Swoboda Prize for Humanity in Criminal Proceedings goes to Karl Markovics ( Memento from February 24, 2016 in the Internet Archive )
  11. ↑ Actors honor public broadcasters ( memento from September 23, 2017 in the Internet Archive ). Retrieved September 23, 2017.
  12. ^ Austrian Music Theater Awards to Grigorian and Petrov. Retrieved June 23, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Markovics, Karl
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian actor
DATE OF BIRTH August 29, 1963
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna , Austria