Leopold Altenburg

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Leopold Altenburg (* 1971 in Graz ) is an Austrian actor .

Life

Leopold Altenburg was born as the grandson of Clemens Salvator of Austria-Tuscany . From 1991 to 1995 he studied acting at the Vienna Conservatory , one of his teachers was Elfriede Ott . He completed speech training with Adelheid Pillmann and singing training with Carol Byers.

In the movie I vow of Murnberger he played in 1994 the role of Tomschitz, in pace of Stefan Ruzowitzky he played in 1996 Jojo's brother. After appearances at the Vienna Volkstheater and the Salzburg Festival , he was a member of the ensemble at the Theaterlabor Bielefeld from 1999 to 2002 , where he staged Macbeth and also played the title role. Other stations included the Hexenkessel Hoftheater in Berlin and the Berliner Compagnie , the fringe ensemble in Bonn and the summer serenades in Graz .

In the documentary film Relationships by Calle Overweg , which premiered at the Berlinale 2012 , he had a leading role as Herrmann. In 2017 he was in the episode Three Angels on the Astray in the ZDF series Weißblaue Wintergeschichten alongside Dieter Fischer and Max Schmidt as circus artist Adalbert Stelzer and in the quiz show Spiel für dein Land - The largest quiz in Europe . In 2018, he played Emperor Karl I of Austria in the Universum History episode The Emperor's betrayal of the Sixtus affair , and he played in the documentary Anton Schmid - The Good Man of Wilna in the ORF contemporary history series Menschen & Mächte (2020) the resistance fighter Anton Schmid .

With Thorsten Wadowski he founded the music cabaret duo Leopold & Wadowski in 1999 . As a hospital clown he worked for the Red Noses in Vienna and since 2003 for the Red Noses Germany in Berlin and also trains hospital clowns.

Filmography (selection)

Programs

  • 2000: Leopold & Wadowski - Back in Mutti's Belly (music cabaret)
  • 2002: Leopold & Wadowski - You are like organic waste in summer (music cabaret)
  • 2003: Leopold & Wadowski and the faint-hearted - Every orgasm passes (music cabaret with band)
  • from 2005: Monday mélange show with guests moderated by Leopold & Wadowski
  • 2005: Leopold and his friends (solo cabaret)
  • 2013: Derstille Zecher (cabaret recital)
  • 2015: Austropold - Schmäh from yesterday , solo with stories and Austropop songs

Fonts

  • The emperor and his sunshine. Stories of my grandfather Archduke Clemens and my father Prince Peter . Vienna 2019, ISBN 978-3-99060-110-5 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Leopold Altenburg at schauspielervideos.de
  2. ↑ a b diepresse.com: "Post for the Prince" . Article dated February 6, 2017, accessed April 3, 2018.
  3. ↑ Sissi has a great-great-grandson in Hermsdorf . Article of January 5, 2016, accessed on April 3, 2018.
  4. ↑ a b Leopold Altenburg: Curriculum Vitae ( Memento from January 11, 2018 in the Internet Archive )
  5. ↑ a b c Leopold Altenburg at filmmakers.de
  6. ^ ZDF: Three Angels on the Astray: White-Blue Winter Stories ( Memento from April 3, 2018 in the Internet Archive ). Retrieved April 3, 2018.
  7. ↑ orf.at: The betrayal of the emperor . Retrieved April 3, 2018.
  8. ↑ ORF documentary “Anton Schmid - The Good Man of Wilna” presented in the Rossauerkaserne Bernardis-Schmid. January 28, 2020, accessed January 29, 2020 .
  9. ↑ Tagesspiegel: The Habsburgs in Hermsdorf: Why a prince works as a hospital clown . Article dated March 17, 2019, accessed March 18, 2019.
personal data
SURNAME Altenburg, Leopold
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian actor
DATE OF BIRTH 1971
PLACE OF BIRTH Graz