Karl Menrad

Karl Menrad (born July 9, 1944 in Titisee-Neustadt ) is a German actor .

Career

He studied German, history and theater studies until he got his first engagement as an actor at the Westphalian State Theater Castrop-Rauxel in 1968 .

Further contracts followed, including Menrad for 14 years at the Burgtheater Vienna (member of the ensemble from 1985 to 1999).

Karl Menrad reads audio books for children and adults, e.g. B. Peterchens Mondfahrt, dolphin stories, the big children's Bible, as well as texts u. a. by Hans Christian Andersen , Elizabeth George , Elias Canetti . As an audio book speaker he was u. a. from the hr2 audio book best list (e.g. for Kirsten Boie's “Seeräuber-Moses” and Christine Nöstlinger's “The Scary Horror”) and with the German Record Critics' Award (for “Der kleine Ritter Trenk” by Kirsten Boie).

The television audience knows him from the ORF / ZDF series " Schlosshotel Orth ". Most recently he had engagements in the Zimmertheater Tübingen in “ The Hour, As We Didn't Know About Each Other ” by Peter Handke and in the summer of 2007 at Semmering in “ Der Schwierige ” by Hugo von Hofmannsthal (director: Christopher Widauer ).

Today Karl Menrad works as an actor, radio, audio book and voice actor. He lives and works in Vienna , Austria .

theatre

• 2013 254th Burns Night, Vienna, Burns got the Blues
• 2012 253rd Burns Night, Vienna, Tam O´ Shanter
• 2011 Vienna Clarinet Connection (VCC) and Karl Menrad with their musical / literary evening on the topic "Little Vienna am Pruth, in Hartberg, Baden and Berlin
• 2011 252nd Burns Night Burns goes Classic!
• 2010 Ariadne on Naxos, Lisbon
• 2010 Die Möwe, Armes Theater Wien
• 2010 Babette's Festival, Zimmertheater Tübingen
• 2010 251st Burns Night, Vienna
• 2009 250th Burns Night, Reichenau Summer Theater
• 2008 Reichenau summer theater
• 2007 End of engagements in Tübingen , summer theater Reichenau / Semmering
• 2005 State Theater Bregenz : " My Fair Lady "
• 2004 New Viennese Music Theater
• 2003 Tübingen: Zimmertheater u. a .: " Babette's Festival ", " India ", " Bouvard and Pécuchet ", " The hour when we didn't know about each other "
• 2002 Summer theater: "Weinberl"
• 2001 Theater to Fear, Director: " Death and the Maiden "
• 1999 Ensemble theater: " Arturo Ui "
• 1995 Summer theater: "Light"
• 1985 Burgtheater ensemble member (until the end of the Peymann era , 1999)
• 1980 Schauspielhaus Bochum : "Templar Lord"
• 1979 Schauspielhaus: " Hamlet "
• 1979 comedians: "Ella"
• 1973 tour: Arlecchino
• 1970 City Theater St. Gallen
• 1969 City Theater Biel / Solothurn ( Switzerland )

Audiobooks (selection)

• Elizabeth George : Ingratitude is the father's wages , BMG Wort, Cologne 2000, ISBN 389-8300706 , 357 min.
• Cornelia Funke : When Santa Claus fell from the sky , Jumbo Neue Medien & Verlag, Hamburg 2005, ISBN 978-3-8337-1359-0
• Kirsten Boie: The Little Knight Trenk , Jumbo Neue Medien & Verlag, Hamburg 2006, ISBN 978-3-8337-1630-0
• Kirsten Boie: Seeräuber-Moses , Jumbo Neue Medien & Verlag, Hamburg 2009, ISBN 978-3-8337-2400-8
• Juan Ramón Jiménez, Rosa Navarro Durán: Platero and me. The story of a little donkey , Jumbo Neue Medien & Verlag, Hamburg 2009, ISBN 978-3-8337-2292-9
• Christine Nöstlinger: The thing with the horror , Jumbo Neue Medien & Verlag, Hamburg 2010, ISBN 978-3-8337-2559-3
• David McGee: Elmar's Greatest Adventure , Jumbo Neue Medien & Verlag, Hamburg 2011, ISBN 978-3-8337-2828-0
• Christine Nöstlinger: Lumpenloretta , Jumbo Neue Medien & Verlag , Hamburg 2011, ISBN 978-3-8337-2739-9
• Kirsten Boie: Loose, Seeräubermoses , Jumbo Neue Medien & Verlag, Hamburg 2014, ISBN 978-3-8337-3245-4

Awards

• 1979: Kainz-Förderungspreis ("Ella")
• hr2 audio book leaderboard
• German Record Critics' Prize

literature

• Berdel / Drabosenig / Menrad: Burns goes Classic! Robert Burns Society Austria 2011, trilingual, ISBN 978-3-9502886-1-2 .
• Berdel / Drabosenig / Menrad: Tam O'Shanter - A Tale. Robert Burns Society Austria 2012, bilingual, ISBN 978-3-9502886-2-9 .
• Dieter Berdel, Simon Drabosenig, Jasmin Haider and Karl Menrad: Haggis, Whiskey & Co. - With Robert Burns through Scottish cuisine. Mandelbaum Verlag, Vienna 2013, ISBN 978385476-412-0 .
• Jumbo Neue Medien Publisher: Karl Menrad
• “The little knight Trenk” in Berlin-Mitte - Kirsten Boie and Karl Menrad read from an award-winning audio book, press release Berlin, March 29, 2007

Web links

• Karl Menrad in the Internet Movie Database (English)
• Karl Menrad, actor
• Karl Menrad at JUMBO Neue Medien & Verlag
• Karl Menrad, Artistic Director